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2012 - Ben & Tom Birchall<br />
of 94.79mph that stood for a decade, Ben<br />
and Tom Birchall won the main three-wheel<br />
championship race at the first attempt.<br />
The Mansfield pair, having won the German<br />
GP four days earlier, showed their all-round<br />
versatility by winning the hard-fought eightlap<br />
feature race.<br />
All eyes were initially on current Sidecar<br />
World Championship leader Tim Reeves who<br />
had won his maiden race on the 4.25-mile<br />
course two days earlier with Dan Sayle.<br />
They had a three-second lead after the<br />
opening 10 miles, but the Nick Crowe Racing<br />
LCR Honda suddenly started to cut-out.<br />
By Church Bends on lap three, their<br />
lead had been hacked back to less than two<br />
seconds and their race ended at Castletown<br />
Stadium seconds later with a suspected<br />
electrical malfunction.<br />
Father and son, Ian, and Carl Bell<br />
champions in 2009, took over the reins, but<br />
they were ousted by the Birchalls a lap or<br />
so later.<br />
The two LCR’s were nose-to-tail for the<br />
next couple of circuits before the GP stars<br />
edged their way clear on the Cofain-sponsored<br />
Honda to win by 6.87 seconds at an<br />
average speed of 96.474mph.<br />
Greg Lambert and Dicky Gale were a<br />
lonely, but very happy third, in front of Wayne<br />
Lockey and Kenny Cole.<br />
2013 World Champion Reeves secures<br />
maiden Southern 100 title<br />
Tim Reeves and Dan Sayle won their<br />
first Southern 100 Sidecar Championship<br />
together in a tragedy-hit race on Thursday<br />
afternoon.<br />
The pair initially trailed Ben and Tom<br />
Birchall by 0.3 of a second, but once they got<br />
ahead of the Mansfield brothers, they always<br />
looked favourites to clinch the title.<br />
Reeves and Sayle blasted their LCR Honda<br />
past the similar machine of the Birchalls<br />
early on lap two and were 1.96 s clear by<br />
half-distance in the reduced six-lap event.<br />
Ben and Tom upped their ante in the latter<br />
part, reducing the lead to 0.7 of a second<br />
with one lap remaining.<br />
They got closer still on the final run-in<br />
but were unable to find a way past the SMT<br />
Racing outfit and the defending champions<br />
were forced to settle for second best at the<br />
finish, 0.118s in arrears.<br />
The Manx Gas/Klaffi Racing pair had the<br />
small consolation of setting the fastest lap<br />
of the race on the final tour at a speed of<br />
98.856mph – still some way short of the first<br />
100mph lap by a sidecar.<br />
2014 Twin race decided by 1,000th of a<br />
second<br />
The joint second-closest Southern 100 of all<br />
time saw Dean Harrison beat James Cowton<br />
by 0.001 of a second on Thursday afternoon.<br />
The pair were virtually inseparable for<br />
the whole of the Ocean Ford-sponsored<br />
650/250 race.<br />
The furthest apart they were throughout
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