Wigan rider Jamie Hodson emulated his brother Rob by winning the 2016 Manx Grand Prix Supporters Club SuperTwin Race at the IMGold Manx Grand Prix today.

A clearly elated Jamie, whose brother Rob won the 2015 Race, said in the winner’s enclosure: “I started flapping after the pit stop. Riding behind Andy Dudgeon gave me something to focus on so I just rode to my boards. I’m over the moon for everyone who helped me.  This is all I’ve ever wanted to do and I can’t believe it. The bike has been going really well so we geared it down a bit but it cost me some time over the mountain with the wind.  Finishing a race is an achievement but winning one is something else. The race was as good as perfect.”

1983 Senior MGP and ’93 Formula 1 TT Race winner Nick Jefferies, who finished third in the corresponding race last year, was first away on the Phil Morris Holdings ER6 Kawasaki followed by Junior race winner Andrew Dudgeon, the fastest qualifier, and Skerries’s Dave Lumsden on the Full Factory Winnerswear Kawasaki.

Jefferies was first on the road to Glen Helen and established a 1.4 lead over Dudgeon who was riding the CBG Contractors Rob Brew Racing Suzuki. However, Hodgson (CMS/SB Tuning Kawasaki) was the race leader on the clock, building a lead of almost three seconds from Darren Cooper (Flue-Stox Kawasaki) with Richard Charlton (Michelin Kawasaki) in third. Lumsden was less than a half a second back in fourth with Spain’s Victor Lopez Santos, who was a newcomer in 2015 on the Team Martimotos Kawasaki completing the top five.  Jonathan Perry Kevin Little Motorsport KLM Kawasaki), fresh from the excitement of his newcomer B runner up place in Tuesday’s Race, was running well in sixth.

Dave Lumsden moved up into second, four seconds behind Hodson and just 0.1 second ahead of Cooper at Ballaugh and that remained the order at the Bungalow with Hodson stretching the lead over the second placed man to almost 8 seconds with the gap between Cooper and Lumsden only 0.2.

That remained the top three on the opening lap with Hodson’s 112.331 / 20:09.174 giving him a lead of almost 12 seconds from Lumsden (111.424/ 20:19.021) with Cooper (111.274/ 20:20.660) third with the gap to the second placed man extended to 1.6 seconds.  Richard Charlton (110.897/ 20:24.807) and Andrew Dudgeon (110.439/ 20:27.036) completed the top five with Perry (110.439/ 20:29.887) maintaining sixth place.

Perry was on a charge on the second lap and moved into fourth at Glen Helen and was up to third by Ramsey, almost four seconds behind Lumsden and less than half a second ahead of Cooper.

Hodson’s second lap of 112.969 gave him a lead of over thirteen seconds from Lumsden with Lumsden, posting the fastest lap of the race 113.423.  However Perry had another problematic pit at the end of the second lap, as he had in Monday’s Newcomer B race, which cost him that race.  This time he lost over thirty seconds to his nearest rivals dropping from third to 6th at Glen Helen on the third lap, now 28 seconds off the final podium place while Dudgeon moved narrowly ahead of third placed man Lumsden by less than a second.

Lumsden and Dudgeon continued their battle over the Mountain section with Lumsden moving in front of the Ramsey rider by almost 2 seconds by the Bungalow but out at the front Hodson’s lead was still a commanding 10.4 seconds, although he’d lost a couple of seconds on the Mountain.

Hodson’s third lap of 108.262 (20:54.620) gave him an eleven second lead from Lumsden with Dudgeon continuing his challenge less than a second further back in third with Cooper (107.606) and Perry (106.099) completing the top five.

Hodson duly held on to take the chequered flag in 111.594/ 1:21.08.664 with Lumsden holding off the challenge from Dudgeon to take second place in 111.212/ 1:21.25.388, just over three seconds ahead of Dudgeon (111.136/ 1:21.28.705).

In the concurrent Lightweight race, 8 time TT sidecar passenger race winner Dan Sayle, the fastest qualifier, dominated from gun to tape to win in a new race record of 1:23.45.501/ 108.111, his third Manx Grand Prix win.

Sayle, riding the 2014 Honda Nsf250r Moto 3 machine dominated the concurrent race from the start and later explained how the bike tackled the Mountain Course: “In some places it wouldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding but it was good to ride. Once I got my first couple of boards I was pretty comfortable.  I set out to win this race years back so I’m glad to have done it again.”

Sayle reached the Glen Helen timing point first on the road and on the clock, establishing a lead of 1.5 seconds over Dave Taylor with Rikki McGovern on the Honda RVF 400 in third. Sayle’s opening lap of 107.663/ 21:01.599 gave him a fifteen second lead from Rikki McGovern (106.439/21:16.116) with Dave Taylor (106.092/ 21:20.287 holding third place.  

Sayle continued to dominate the race and extended his lead to over thirty seconds with a second lap of 109.228.  With his nearest rivals McGovern and Taylor both coming in to the pits at the end of the second lap, Sayle’s lead was almost 1 minute and 45 seconds by Glen Helen on the third lap which he extended to almost 2 minutes from McGovern with a third lap of 108.737.

Dan elected not to pit, running through at the end of the third lap, and posted a last lap 106.847 to win by a minute and 46 seconds from McGovern (105.878/ 1:25.31.511). However there was drama for the last podium place in the Lightweight class.  Third placed man Dave Taylor was reported to be pushing in from Governors and Lancelot Unissart in fourth retired at the Bungalow which meant that Elwyn Frier (103.942/ 1;27.07.049) was called back from the race paddock to the winners enclosure to complete the podium.  

2016 Manx GP Supertwin results

1 5 Jamie Hodson Kawasaki / CMS/SB Tuning 01:21:08.644 111.594 Replica
2 4 David Lumsden Kawasaki / Full Factory Winnerswear 01:21:25.388 111.212 Replica
3 3 Andrew Dudgeon Suzuki / CBG Contractors - Rob Brew Raci 01:21:28.705 111.136 Replica
4 7 Darren Cooper Kawasaki / Flue-stox 01:21:38.292 110.919 Replica
5 14 Jonathan Perry* Kawasaki / Kevin Liddle Motorsport KLM 01:21:53.204 110.582 Replica
6 21 Richard Charlton Kawasaki / michelin 01:22:00.532 110.417 Replica
7 11 Royce Rowe Ducati / BJR Racing Products 01:22:29.854 109.763 Replica
8 12 Victor Lopez Santos Kawasaki / Team Martimotos 01:22:45.479 109.418 Replica
9 2 Nick Jefferies Kawasaki / Phil Morris Holdings 01:22:59.002 109.121 Replica
10 8 Dean Osborne Suzuki / Slick performance 01:23:18.434 108.696 Replica
11 25 Paul van der Heiden* Ducati / ROWE Racing 01:23:42.533 108.175 Replica
12 31 Marc Ironside* Kawasaki / shirlaws 01:23:45.738 108.106 Replica
13 10 Barry Lee Evans Kawasaki / PAUL BLAND MOTORSPORT 01:23:53.868 107.931 Replica
14 24 Eddie Venn Kawasaki / TC Racing 01:24:01.971 107.758 Replica
15 29 James Chawke Kawasaki / Chawkie Racing 01:24:16.439 107.450 Replica
16 38 Robert Whittall Suzuki / Moto-Design 01:24:37.484 107.004 Replica
17 18 Radley Hughes Kawasaki / Royal Air Force 01:25:03.056 106.468 Replica
18 9 Tom Robinson Suzuki / Robinson Racing 01:25:11.449 106.293 Replica
19 17 Murray McConnachie Kawasaki / cabot tyres 01:26:07.314 105.144 Replica
20 28 Ian Gardner Kawasaki / UTILERGY 01:26:08.834 105.113 Replica
21 26 Pete Murray VRS Kawasaki / Arizona Speed Engineerin 01:26:44.415 104.394 Replica
22 15 Jason Markham Suzuki / British Army Motorsports Associati 01:27:03.959 104.004 Replica
23 23 Carsten Svendsen* Yamaha / CS-M.DK 01:29:10.598 101.542 Replica
24 42 Brian Appleton Suzuki 01:29:58.614 100.639
25 48 Trevor Matthewson Kawasaki / strangford holiday park 01:30:45.517 99.772
26 54 Ali Foster Kawasaki / Hazel Carroon 01:31:01.341 99.483
27 41 Martin Harrison Kawasaki 01:31:03.256 99.448
28 46 Ron Soar Suzuki / Dave Staples 01:31:14.212 99.249
29 56 David Bone Suzuki / Yvonne and Heather Bone 01:31:22.715 99.095
30 53 Tommy Heaphy Suzuki / Ballyneal Stonemasons Ltd 01:32:44.387 97.641
31 30 Michael Brookes* Suzuki / smuk 01:34:03.693 96.269
32 58 Paul Williams Suzuki / Ace Motorcycles, Bude 01:35:23.039 94.934

2016 Manx GP Lightweight results

1 60 Daniel Sayle Honda / Falcon electrical 01:23:45.501 108.111 Replica
2 65 Rikki McGovern Honda / Caztech Developments 01:25:31.511 105.878 Replica
3 68 Elwyn Fryer Kawasaki / Gray & Adams Ltd 01:27:07.049 103.942 Replica
4 67 Mike Carter Honda 01:28:22.519 102.463 Replica
5 79 Daniel Ingham* Honda / Derek Jones Butchers 01:29:38.199 101.021 Replica
6 70 Robert Smith Kawasaki / railway inn union mills 01:30:23.605 100.175 Replica
7 75 Tom Snow Honda 01:31:00.753 99.494 Replica
8 64 Dave Taylor Yamaha / MC Locks/Agrimark 01:31:13.093 99.270 Replica
9 74 Andrew Cowie Kawasaki / Neil Wood Painting 01:31:37.563 98.828 Replica
10 84 Marek Wieckowski Honda / B and C Racing / Tim Carrington 01:31:43.183 98.727 Replica
11 78 Jason Lamb Honda 01:32:04.226 98.351 Replica
12 73 Shelley Pike Honda / SPARK 01:32:05.393 98.330 Replica
13 86 Kevin Murphy Kawasaki / Irish Ago Racing . ACU Licence 01:32:54.313 97.467
14 81 John Turner Kawasaki 01:32:55.100 97.453
15 82 Philip Munday Honda / Shropshire Electrical Maintenance 01:33:27.387 96.892
16 83 Wayne Martin* Honda / Geoff Martin Racing / Shebdon Cra 01:34:24.062 95.923
17 89 Sarah Boyes Honda 01:34:25.859 95.892
18 80 Derek Wilson Kawasaki 01:34:37.446 95.697
19 88 Adrian Morris Yamaha 01:13:30.505 92.389
20 90 Yuri Barrigan Kawasaki / IRISH AGO RACING 01:17:29.646 87.638