The Lightweight lap record was smashed several times in this highly dramatic 2018 race, with various riders taking the lead throughout. After a high-profile retirement, the winner took home his 18th TT win, the third rider in the TT’s history to do so.
Derek McGee led the opening lap, the Irishman flying on his KMR Kawasaki, although it was close as his lead over Ivan Lintin and Michael Dunlop was just seconds.
As the race progressed, Lintin took the lead, to be overtaken by Dunlop only several miles later. Both Lintin and Dunlop smashing the old lap record in the process.
After one unfortunate retirement, the race became a two-way battle between McGee who was now exceling at the front, and Dunlop, who called on his additional experience around the Mountain Course to take the lead back once again.
The chase ensued to the very end, with McGee slashing the margin to just half a second in the final few miles! The finale saw the victor fly home, beating the old race time record by well over a minute. Second place wasn’t to be denied his own victory though, taking his first TT podium.
Up Next in 2018
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2018 Sidecar TT Race 1
Mansfield brothers, Ben and Tom Birchall, broke their own lap record in every lap of this incredible opening Sidecar Race at the 2018 Isle of Man TT Races.
Claiming an astonishing 118mph+ lap record, the brothers worked hard in this quick-firing race and were locked in a titanic battle with long...
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2018 Sidecar TT Race 2
History was made in this thrilling second Sidecar Race of the 2018 Isle of Man TT races, which saw the first ever sidecar crew lap the Mountain Course in under 19 minutes.
As with the first sidecar race of 2018, this became a race of three pairs – Ben and Tom Birchall, who had won the earlier ra...
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2018 Supersport TT Race 2
As he had done for most of the 2018 TT Races, Dean Harrison took the lead from the start, in another record-breaking race. He was up against strong competition though, with the likes of Michael Dunlop, Peter Hickman, and James Hillier in strong contention to take the second Monster Energy Supersp...
