By Smiths Racing’s Peter Hickman has been declared winner of the 2019 RST Superbike TT, following red flags entering the horizon on lap three, following an incident at Snugborough.
Prior to the race been red flagged, it was shaping up to be a gripping final laps duel between Superstock BMW mounted Hickman and Dean Harrison, with just 1.7 seconds covering the pace setters at the completion of lap two.
Photo by Mark Corlett
Completing the top 3 finishers behind now three times TT winner Hickman, Harrison is Milenco by Padgetts Conor Cummins, who throughout kept close proximity with the two quickest competitors in TT history, ultimately finishing just over eight seconds behind the declared race victor.
Photo by Nick Wheeler
Confirmed fourth, fifth, sixth place finishers are James Hillier (Quattro Plant Wicked Coatings Kawasaki), Michael Rutter (Bathams-Aspire Ho) and Michael Dunlop (Tyco BMW).
Honda Racing’s David Johnson finishes seventh, PreZ Racing’s Jamie Coward clinches eighth, Gary Johnson takes ninth, Davey Todd rounds out the top ten finishers.
RST Superbike TT race result, is as follows:
1 Peter Hickman
2 Dean Harrison
3 Conor Cummins
4 James Hillier
5 Michael Rutter
6 Michael Dunlop
7 David Johnson
8 Jamie Coward
9 Gary Johnson
10 Davey Todd
11 Brian McCormack
12 Sam West
13 Ian Hutchinson
14 Phil Crowe
15 Lee Johnston
16 Derek Sheils
17 Dominic Herbertson
18 Paul Jordan
19 Stefano Bonetti
20 Shaun Anderson
21 Rob Hodson
22 Jay Lawrence
23 Ryan Kneen
24 Horst Saiger
25 Michael Sweeney
26 Michael Booth
27 Forest Dunn
28 Barry Evans
29 David Jackson
30 Xavier Denis
31 James Chawke
32 Mark Parrett
33 Marc Ironside
34 Michael Russell
35 Richard Wilson
36 Richard Charlton
37 Matt Stevenson
38 Davy Morgan
39 Julian Trummer
40 Mark Goodings
41 Raul Torras Martinez
42 Dave Hewson
43 Adrian Harrison
44 Jim Hodson
45 Josh Daley
46 Lukas Maurer
47 Anthony Redmond
48 Paul Williams
49 Thomas Maxwell
50 Dean Osborne
51 George Spence
52 Morgan Govignon
Words by Stevie Rial
