A dominant show in Supersport Race 2 on the Isle of Man TT was not with out its “nervy” moments for Michael Dunlop.
The MD Racing Ducati rider led from the beginning as he pushed on to win by over 20 seconds over Honda’s Dean Harrison, profitable the second Supersport race of the week to finish his fourth consecutive sweep of the TT’s middleweight solo class.
“It wasn’t so dangerous,” Dunlop summarised in his post-race TV interview.
“It was going to be tough, I knew Dean [Harrison] was going to come back out the blocks, however I kind of obtained my act collectively firstly of the race.
“I used to be proper on the entrance firstly so I gave myself a bit bit much less work to do”
However the Ducati was sluggish to fireplace within the pit cease on lap two, Dunlop admitting to feeling “nervy” as he watched two seconds slip away to Harrison, and 4 seconds to Davey Todd.
“We had a little bit of a nervy pit cease, she wouldn’t hearth once more,” Dunlop stated.
“However the bike was mint, because of all of the group, they labored late final night time to get it going and honest play to them. It was nice.
“I’d similar to to thank the group and the sponsors – it’s not attainable with out them. O
“Clearly for Ducati as properly it’s good to be again on high and doing the double once more.”
Dunlop stated he had a small entrance finish difficulty however he wasn’t positive if it was brought on by the blustery situations.
“We had a wee little bit of a entrance finish difficulty,” he stated, “however I knew what we had been going to attempt which was going to kind of work, and it was windy on the market so I didn’t know if it was a wind factor [or something else].
“However we simply saved going, and joyful to do the double for the Ducati group, for my very own group, and for everyone else.”
