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TT 2017: Post race week stats, facts and pub ammo

Michael Dunlop gave Suzuki their first ‘big bike’ win since Cameron Donald won the Superbike race in 2008.

It was also Suzuki’s first Senior TT race win since Adrian Archibald won in 2004.

Dunlop’s second lap in the Senior of 132.903mph was the fastest ever lap around the 37.73-mile Mountain Course by a Suzuki.

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Dunlop now has 15 TT wins which makes him the fourth most successful rider of all time behind Joey Dunlop (26), John McGuinness (23) and Ian Hutchinson, whose two wins in the Superbike and Superstock moved him on to 16.

Two new riders joined the 130mph Club – Josh Brookes and Martin Jessopp – which means 20 riders have now achieved the magical figure.

As well as Brookes and Jessopp, Dean Harrison, Michael Rutter and Dan Kneen all set personal best laps around the Mountain Course with Harrison lapping above 132mph for the first time.

Brookes’ final lap of the Senior, 130.883mph, was the quickest ever by a Norton at the TT.

Derek Sheils became the fastest rider in history from Eire with a second lap speed of 128.780mph in the Senior race.

Eight riders have now lapped at more than 132mph – Michael Dunlop, Ian Hutchinson, John McGuinness, Peter Hickman, James Hillier, Guy Martin, Bruce Anstey and Harrison.

Hickman completed more 130mph+ laps than any other rider at TT2017 with nine followed by Harrison (7), Hutchinson and Hillier (6), Rutter (5), Dunlop (4), Brookes and Kneen (2) and Anstey, Jessopp, David Johnson and Conor Cummins (all 1).

Hickman, Dunlop and Harrison all did four racing laps at more than 131mph.

Only Dunlop (twice) and Hickman and Harrison (once) lapped at more than 132mph during the races.

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Ian Hutchinson took his third successive Superstock victory to make it five in total which is the highest in the class. Bruce Anstey is the next highest with four.

BMW recorded their first ever 1-2-3 result in the Superstock race.

Kneen took his first ever podium and became the first Manxman to stand on the podium in a Superstock race since Conor Cummins in 2010.

James Hillier’s retirement in the Superstock race was his first DNF at the TT since the Senior in 2010 and broke a sequence of 36 consecutive finishes.

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Jamie Coward and Horst Saiger recorded their best ever TT finishes with ninth and tenth in the Superstock race.

The fastest newcomer at TT2017 was Adam McLean who lapped at 120.644mph in the first Supersport race. 39 riders have now lapped the Mountain Course at more than 120mph on their debut.

McLean’s lap made him the fifth fastest newcomer on a 600cc machine behind Steve Plater, Keith Amor, Derek McGee and Jimmy Moore.  

Michael Rutter’s victory in the Lightweight was his fifth in total and came 19 years after his last win on a petrol bike, which was the 1998 Junior 600cc race.

As well as setting his first ever 130mph lap, Martin Jessopp took his best ever TT finish with second in the Lightweight race.

Ben and Tom Birchall became the first sidecar outfit to lap the TT Course at more than 117mph when they set a new outright lap record of 117.119mph in the first sidecar race.

Dave Molyneux recorded his 30th TT podium after taking third in the opening sidecar race with John Holden’s brace moving him on to a total of 17.

Lewis Blackstock became the 29th sidecar driver to lap at more than 110mph when, with Patrick Rosney in the chair, he lapped at 110.599mph in race two.

Estelle Leblond strengthened her tag as the fastest female sidecar driver ever with a lap of 109.394mph in the second sidecar race.

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