By Mixed, damp, wet conditions remained for tonight’s second race at Armoy, the Hilton Car Sales Supersport contest.
As with the prior Super Twins encounter, the race distance was reduced to six-laps.
Davey Todd who earlier in the afternoon, had set an unofficial new outright lap-record, took pole-position reigns.
Todd and the Powertoolmate Ducati maintained P1 towards lap ones’ optimisation, leading Michael Browne astride the Boyce Precision Engineering/Russell Racing Yamaha by below 0.1 of a second, 0.056 to be exact.
Not letting the disappointment of the Twins race cloud his judgement, race-craft, determination, Browne a race winner earlier this month at the Southern 100, got the better of Todd on lap-two, moving 0.720 clear at the laps’ end of his well decorated, counterpart.
Browne’s grip on first place gradually built-up on laps three, four and with one lap remaining he had the race virtually banked.
The only rider lapping below 1 minute 50 seconds, the Irishman decisively sprinted past the chequered flag on the sixth, final lap, finishing victorious by 7.63 (7.632) seconds.
Todd, the 2022 ‘Race of Legends’ winner finished second but only via the slender margin of 0.174 over a charging Paul Jordan.
Jordan in turn was just 0.056 ahead of Cookstown 100 Grand Final winner, Dominic Herbertson.
Super Twins Race 1 victor Coward took fifth, Barry Furber attained a very creditable sixth as Jacque Foley (P7), Andy McAllister (P8), Jay Bellers Smith (P9), Michael Gahan (P10) swooped top-ten leaderboard finishes.
Eleven further racers finished race proceedings, Sam West (P11), Gareth Arnold (P12), Michael Sweeney (P13), Graham McAleese (P14), James Chawke (P15), Dermot Cleary (P16).
Keelim Ryan (P17), Paul Marley (P18), Paul Cranston (P19), Alan Johnston (P20) and Roddy Taylor (P21) aboard his distinctive sounding MV Agusta.
Photo credit: Tommy Vennard
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
