SuperBike Magazine July 2020
The July issue is packed with awesome content to keep you busy over the remaining days of July. We are hard at work putting our August issue to bed!
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Little more than metres<br />
separated Ryan Farquhar, Guy<br />
Martin, Conor Cummins, and<br />
Michael Dunlop over the entire<br />
race, but it was Martin who had<br />
the all-important edge on the<br />
others when it mattered most.<br />
And boy was he a happy guy!<br />
After six years of trying to<br />
win the big one, the popular<br />
Lincolnshire ace was overflowing<br />
with joy, embracing his<br />
fellow podium men Farquhar<br />
and Cummins and blurting out<br />
his usual priceless comments<br />
to everyone in earshot: “I was<br />
pretty gutted after finishing<br />
second in the other two big<br />
races so I sat down with the<br />
lads over a couple of shandies<br />
last night and we came up with<br />
a few changes.<br />
“We’ve not exactly reinvented<br />
the wheel, just a few<br />
tweaks here and there.<br />
” I’m really pleased for the<br />
Hydrex team; they’ve worked<br />
really hard for this.”<br />
Ian and Carl Bell became<br />
the first father and son combination<br />
to win the Sidecar<br />
Championship when they led<br />
the main three-wheel event<br />
virtually from start-to-finish,<br />
with Ian becoming the first<br />
Southern 100 competitor to<br />
win both the Solo and Sidecar<br />
Championships, having won<br />
the solo championship in 1987.<br />
2009 Guy Martin<br />
for the 55th annual event on the<br />
outskirts of Castletown in the<br />
south of the Isle of Man.<br />
It was a complete turnaround of<br />
fortune for the tough youngster<br />
of the best-known family dynasty<br />
in road racing, who crashed<br />
heavily in the early stages of the<br />
2010 race at Iron Gate.<br />
There were no such worries on<br />
this occasion and Dunlop’s riding<br />
improved as the week wore<br />
on as his general strength and<br />
fitness recovered from a bout of<br />
shingles.<br />
2012 Birchall bros bag Sidecar<br />
feature win…<br />
Hot foot from the Sachsenring,<br />
three former world champions<br />
made a lasting impression on<br />
the Southern 100.<br />
In the 50th year of sidecar<br />
racing at the Billown Course and<br />
30 years after a certain Steve<br />
Webster (in his only appearance<br />
at the event) set a lap record<br />
2011 Michael Dunlop Follows<br />
in Uncle Joey’s Winning<br />
Wheel Tracks<br />
Michael Dunlop put his name<br />
on the Southern 100 Solo<br />
Championship title precisely<br />
35-years after his illustrious<br />
uncle Joey first did in 1976.<br />
Joey went on to win the feature<br />
race at the annual Billown<br />
event a record six times and<br />
there is no reason to suggest<br />
that Michael won’t achieve<br />
similar success if he displays<br />
similar skill and determination<br />
over the coming decade or<br />
more to that which he showed<br />
in the latest edition.<br />
Up against stiff opposition<br />
from the likes of former winners<br />
Guy Martin, Ryan Farquhar,<br />
Ian Lougher and Cameron<br />
Donald, 23-year-old Dunlop<br />
showed them all a clean pair<br />
of heels in perfect conditions<br />
2011 - Michael Dunlop
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