By The ‘Race of The South,’ the Walderstown Road Races is officially back!
This afternoon’s sun-drenched qualifying sessions, saw Michael Sweeney beat Michael Dunlop MBE to Open race pole position, Dunlop MBE blast to Supersport times sheet glory.
Sweeney dominate the Super Twins class, Jason Whelan lead both the Senior Support and Junior Support fields.
Aidan Cleary, Robert McCrum, Richard Ford, Andy Kildea, Andrew McCrum, Andy Farrell respectively top Supersport 400, Junior 350 Classics, Junior 250 Classics, Senior 1000 Classics, Senior 500 Classics, Classic Superbike categories.
Walderstown 2026 – qualifying results per category, are-outlined underneath:
Open:
1 – Michael Sweeney – 1.07.647
2 – Michael Dunlop MBE – 1.08.080
3 – Kevin Keyes – 1.09.913
4 – James Chawke – 1.10.107
5 – Derek McGee – 1.10.125
6 – Brian McCormack – 1.10.445
7 – Sean Brolly – 1.11.634
8 – Darryl Anderson – 1.12.070
9 – Andy Farrell – 1.12.477
10 – Richard McLoughlin – 1.13.318
11 – Liam Chawke – 1.15.795
12 – Paul Fallon – 1.16.853
13 – Noel Carroll – 1.17.979
14 – Jonathan Gormley – 1.19.713
Supersport:
1 – Michael Dunlop MBE – 1.09.370
2 – Michael Sweeney – 1.10.284
3 – Kevin Keyes – 1.10.559
4 – Derek McGee – 1.10.647
5 – Sean Brolly – 1.11.453
6 – Brian McCormack – 1.11.761
7 – Andy Farrell – 1.12.377
8 – Liam Chawke – 1.14.940
9 – Noel Carroll – 1.16.852
10 – Paul Fallon – 1.17.016
11 – Richard McLoughlin – 1.17.989
12 – Jonathan Gormley – 1.19.765
Super Twins:
1 – Michael Sweeney – 1.13.055
2 – Sean Brolly – 1.15.489
3 – James Chawke – 1.15.769
4 – Jason Whelan – 1.17.184
5 – Brandon Kavanagh – 1.19.131
6 – Dallas Reynolds – 1.21.627
7 – Mark Johnson – 1.22.633
8 – Ben Mullane – 1.24.039
9 – Sean Leonard – 1.24.563
10 – Des Butler – 1.25.201
Supermono:
1 – Andy Farrell – 1.20.296
Supersport 400:
1 – Aidan Cleary – 1.21.118
2 – David Broderick – 1.27.237
3 – Ben Mullane – 1.28.771
4 – Stephen Walsh – 1.33.943
Senior Support:
1 – Jason Whelan – 1.17.159
2 – Brandon Kavanagh – 1.17.792
3 – Tommy Heaphy – 1.17.906
4 – Aidan Cleary – 1.18.019
5 – Liam Trainor – 1.18.270
6 – Conor Curtis – 1.19.003
7 – Robert O’Neill – 1.19.443
8 – Aaron McCann – 1.19.925
9 – Paul O’Rourke – 1.19.946
10 – William Young – 1.20.871
11 – Albert Pender – 1.22.966
12 – William Grealy – 1.23.057
13 – Ross Quinn – 1.31.115
Junior Support:
1 – Jason Whelan – 1.17.579
2 – Brandon Kavanagh – 1.18.939
3 – Shane Carroll – 1.20.880
4 – Owen Everard – 1.21.130
5 – Dallas Reynolds – 1.22.075
6 – Aidan Cleary – 1.22.934
7 – David Broderick – 1.24.669
8 – Ben Mullane – 1.25.621
9 – Stuart Hession – 1.25.933
10 – Albert Pender – 1.26.153
11 – Liam Crotty – 1.26.732
12 – Wayne Gaffney – 1.27.315
13 – William Grealy – 1.27.460
14 – Sean Leonard – 1.28.866
15 – Ross Quinn – 1.29.408
16 – Brendan Flynn – 1.33.285
Classic Superbike:
1 – Andy Farrell – 1.15.899
2 – Richard McLoughlin – 1.16.682
3 – Noel Carroll – 1.18.239
4 – Richard Ford – 1.18.305
5 – Liam Crotty – 1.24.478
Senior 1000 Classics:
1 – Andy Kildea – 1.26.503
2 – Robert McCrum – 1.26.972
3 – Liam Crotty – 1.29.769
Senior 500 Classics:
1 – Andrew McCrum – 1.32.487
Junior 350 Classics:
1 – Robert McCrum – 1.31.254
2 – Stephen Walsh – 1.34.362
3 – Wattie Brown – 1.34.374
4 – Conor Curtis – 1.34.973
5 – Andy Kildea – 1.36.672
6 – Mark Johnson – 1.37.549
7 – Sean Henry – 1.41.685
Junior 250 Classics:
1 – Richard Ford – 1.33.345
Photo credit: Derek Wilson
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
