Walderstown: Qualifying Analysis – The Lap Times, The Competition, The Super Heroes Feats Chronicled

Walderstown: Qualifying Analysis – The Lap Times, The Competition, The Super Heroes Feats Chronicled

Day 1 of competition at the latest instalment of the hugely popular Walderstown Road Races, saw Irish roads royalty, next gen stars, seasoned campaigners produce an array of tumultuous performances.

Alongside topping the Open/Grand Final qualifying times sheet, 2018 Duke Road Race Rankings champion Derek McGee powered overall to a hat trick of four stroke class pole positions.

Quickest by in excess of half a second in both the Supersport, Super Twin qualifying sessions, the ultra determined Mullingar racer has made a quite remarkable racing return, and there’s no doubt that multiple race wins could be on the horizon tomorrow for the 2018 Bennetts Lightweight TT runner up.

Nearest pursuer to McGee in Supersport qualifying was Derek Sheils, whilst leading challenger in Super Twins timed qualifying was Paton mounted James Chawke.

David Howard topped the Lightweight 400 times sheet as 2nd, 3rd, 4th quickest Darryl Anderson, Stephen Morrison and Brian Loughlin all showed a deft touch on 400 machinery.

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Junior Support qualifying honours went to Vinny Brennan, who went onto claim victory in today’s Junior Support non championship race.

The battle for Senior Support pole position was won by the in form Darren Keys, whilst Junior 350, Senior 500 Classics qualifying spoils were acquired by renowned yesteryear racing exponent, Ed Manly.

Remaining racers to secure pole positions from a safe, enterprising, compelling day of roads action at Walderstown were Richard Ford (Senior 1000 Classics) and Brian Mateer (Junior 250 Classics).

Results per class from today’s qualifying sessions at Walderstown, are as follows:

Super Twins:

1 Derek McGee 1.13.788
2 James Chawke 1.14.294
3 Michael Sweeney 1.14.883
4 Vinny Brennan 1.18.636
5 John Ella 1.19.761
6 Jason Cassells 1.19.997
7 Tommy Henry 1.20.143
8 Ray Sheeran 1.21.009
9 Aron Hatch 1.21.908
10 Brian Loughlin 1.23.358
11 Martin Currams 1.23.523
12 Mark Sheils 1.23.764

Senior 1000 Classics:

1 Richard Ford 1.23.754
2 Ben Rea 1.27.981
3 Ian Thompson 1.29.155
4 Philip Shaw 1.33.495
5 Trevor Stewart 1.52.929

Senior 500 Classics:

1 Ed Manly 1.25.063
2 John Leigh Pemberton 1.28.099
3 Freddie Stewart 1.29.181
4 Sean Leonard 1.33.362
5 Kevin Callan 1.45.576
6 Sean Henry 1.45.761

Junior Support:

1 Vinny Brennan 1.18.988
2 Gary Mccoy 1.19.742
3 John Ella 1.20.278
4 Jason Cassells 1.20.534
5 Noel Smith 1.20.621
6 Ray Sheeran 1.21.042
7 rj woolsey 1.21.639
8 TBC
9 John Cahill 1.22.300
10 Mike Gibbons 1.22.414
11 Aron Hatch 1.23.409
12 Aidan Cleary 1.23.864
13 Martin Currams 1.24.349
14 Gillian McGaw 1.24.426
15 Brendan Flynn 1.25.041
16 Nigel McAuley 1.25.711
17 David Broderick 1.25.819
18 Mark Johnson 1.25.931
19 Francis O’Hara 1.26.437
20 Michael Hoey 1.27.681
21 Alan Fisher

Supersport:

1 Derek McGee 1.09.808
2 Derek Sheils 1.10.606
3 Michael Browne 1.10.752
4 Michael Sweeney 1.11.093
5 Darryl Tweed 1.11.812
6 Dave Butler 1.13.473
7 Liam Chawke 1.15.537
8 Noel Carroll 1.15.933
9 Paul Fallon 1.16.265

Lightweight 400:

1 David Howard 1.20.769
2 Darryl Anderson 1.22.122
3 Stephen Morrison 1.22.982
4 Brian Loughlin 1.24.947
5 Gillian McGaw 1.25.857
6 David Broderick 1.28.060
7 Michael Hoey 1.28.482

Junior 250 Classics:

1 Brian Mateer 1.30.659
2 Richard Ford 1.34.976
3 Philip Shaw 1.35.992
4 Kyle Parkes 1.56.059

Junior 350 Classics:

1 Ed Manly 1.29.777
2 Ian Thompson 1.32.795
3 Ken Parkes 1.32.857
4 Mick Brady 1.33.111
5 Freddie Stewart 1.33.368
6 Andy Kildea 1.33.569
7 Sean Leonard 1.33.653

Senior Support:

1 Darren Keys 1.14.955
2 Tommy Henry 1.15.961
3 Andy McAllister 1.16.324
4 Niall Power 1.16.356
5 Dermot Cleary 1.16.777
6 Darryl Anderson 1.16.791
7 Paul Swords 1.16.902
8 Darragh Trappe 1.16.978
9 John Cahill 1.17.725
10 TBC 1.18.532
11 John Ella 1.19.085
12 Stuart McCann 1.19.720
13 Noel Smith 1.20.035
14 Martin Currams 1.20.274
15 Adrian Hearty 1.20.458
16 Michael Hoey 1.22.758
17 John Byrne 1.23.179
18 Alan Fisher 1.23.537

Words by Stevie Rial

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