Jeremy McWilliams took his second North West 200 victory in three years when he won Saturday afternoon’s Supertwins race by half a second from team-mate and SGS International KMR Kawasaki boss Ryan Farquhar.
Despite a heavily depleted field, that included James Hillier, Martin Jessopp and Glenn Irwin all being non-starters, McWilliams, Farquhar and Jamie Hamilton ensured it was well worth watching as they exchanged places and continually slipstreamed each other throughout the four laps.
At one stage, Farquhar and McWilliams were doing 150mph less than two feet apart and giving each other the thumbs up but all that did was allow Hamilton to take the lead!. However, on the final lap, McWilliams made a break and although he had a major moment both coming into and exiting the Metropole he had enough of a lead to hold on despite Farquhar being the stronger along the coast road.
It gave the team their second successive one-two and although Hamilton made a mistake on the final lap at Magherabuoy and lost the tow, he was well clear in third with Christian Elkin taking fourth ahead of Jamie Coward and Michael Russell.
