By Reigning Steve Henshaw international gold cup winner Dean Harrison, dominated the opening superbike race at the Cock Of The North Road Races, at Oliver’s Mount.
The race titled solo open A race first leg, saw the Silicone Engineering Racing rider, continue his excellent form as seen at TT 2016, where he enjoyed three podium finishes, 131 mph laps and fourth place finish in the Pokerstars senior TT.
Devitt RC Express Racing’s Ivan Lintin finished second, over 13 seconds behind his fellow ZX10R Kawasaki mounted rider.
Daley Mathison finalised the top three finishers as Oliver’s Mount specialist Mick Goodings finished a fine fourth.
Fifth place finisher James Cowton battling back to fitness following an incident in the Royal London 360 Quantum superstock TT, lead the supersport 600 challenge on the Cowton Racing by Radcliffe’s CBR 600 Honda.
The top six was completed by Alan Bonner, who continues to gel more and more with the mount.
Barry Evans, runner up in the 2015 newcomers A Manx Grand Prix, impressed in finishing seventh, same notion applied to Tom Weeden seventh, who is tipped by many to enjoy a top draw two weeks of Mountain Course competition at the Manx Grand Prix.
Team York Suzuki backed Mark Goodings and Wayne Humble concluded the top ten finishers.
Additional stand out performances included Jamie Williams 11th plus Oliver’s Mount newcomers Matt Stevenson 12th and Stephen Parsons 16th.
Cock Of The North Road Races – Solo Open A Race 1 Results:
1 Dean Harrison
2 Ivan Lintin
3 Daley Mathison
4 Mick Goodings
5 James Cowton
6 Alan Bonner
7 Barry Evans
8 Tom Weeden
9 Mark Goodings
10 Wayne Humble
11 Jamie Williams
12 Matt Stevenson
13 Andrew Sellars
14 Stephen Degnan
15 Gary Graves
16 Stephen Parsons
17 Brian Greenfield
18 Daryl Campling
Words by Stevie Rial
