By Once prize presentations for opening four-stroke, yesteryear races finished, the countdown ramped up towards the second IRRC Horice Supersport encounter.
A ten-lap distance laid in prospect for riders and fastest out the blocks was Ulster Grand Prix winner, top ten finisher from TT 2024, Adam McLean. Soon afterwards the race was red flagged.
At near 1:25 PM (UK time), racing re-started with Performance Racing Achterhoek’s McLean again speediest off the line.
Dramatically towards lap one’s finalisation, IRRC Supersport Championship leader Marek Cerveny retired!
Cerveny went into this race with an 18-point Championship lead over 56-plate holder McLean, who now had a prime opportunity to attain Championship leaders’ position.
Passed towards lap three’s conclusion by race pole-sitter Petr Najman, McLean in second was by lap five, 0.9 in arrears but almost seven seconds in front of third-place occupier Wolfgang ‘Wolfi’ Schuster.
Although set to enhance his Championship placing, McLean wasn’t giving up victory aspirations, keeping new Supersport lap-record holder Najman (Lap 7 – 2.15.877 seconds) extremely honest.
Going onto the eighth, last lap, Najman had a modest below 0.8 of a second race lead.
Ultimately, the Czech ace would acquire race honours by 2.657 seconds, setting on lap eight, another new record Supersport lap record (2.15.636).
McLean second, as earlier forecast in this article, is into the lead of this year’s IRRC Supersport Championship.
Late race issues dropped Wolfgang Schuster back to sixth as Ilja Caljouw edged Karel Brandtner for the final spot on the sun-drenched podium.
Gary Johnson placed fifth as Michal Dokoupil, Mauro Poncini, Matous Ondrusz, Thomas Wendel claimed remaining top ten leader-board positions.
IRRC Horice – Supersport Race 2 Result:
1st – Petr Najman
2nd – Adam McLean
3rd – Ilja Caljouw
4th – Karel Brandtner
5th – Gary Johnson
6th – Wolfgang Schuster
7th – Michal Dokoupil
8th – Mauro Poncini
9th – Matous Ondrusz
10th – Thomas Wendel
11th – Miroslav Sloboda
12th – Karel Pesek
13th – Matej Vit
14th – Jamie Williams
15th – Tomas Toth
16th – Sebastian Frotscher
17th – Matthieu Pauchard
18th – Maxim Zanaska
19th – Nicolas Therouin
20th – Frantisek Loucka
21st – Mike Mace
22nd – Gregory Botty
23rd – Lukas Vaclavovic
24th – Veronika Hankocyova
25th – Peter Lionel
26th – Brian Fuidge
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
