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a crash involving veteran Davy
Morgan.
Race two of the Supersport
class was the head-to-head fight
the masses came to see, with
Hickman and Dunlop squaring
off in a shortened two-lap sprint
race run two days after originally
planned due to inclement weather.
Dunlop would eventually better
Hickman by 3.2 seconds with
Harrison taking third for his fourth
podium on the week so far.
The Super Twins race also
looked to be a fight between
Paton-mounted Hickman and
Dunlop until Dunlop's machine
expired on the third lap at the
Laurel Bank section. Hickman
went on to take a massive 1:40
margin of victory over Aprilia's
Lee Johnston and Kawasaki's
Paul Jordan in third, taking his
first TT podium.
In the Sidecar category, both
races were won by the dominant
brothers Tom and Ben Birchall,
however, neither races ran their
full distance after separate acci-
dents at the Ago's Leap section of
track. In race one, French sidecar
passenger Cesar Chanal lost his
life with driver Oliver Lavorel taken
to hospital in critical condition.
Race two of the sidecars saw
another tragic accident at Ago's
Leap, this time involving father
and son pairing of Roger and
Bradley Stockton, in which both
protagonists perished.
It was a tough year for the TT
as, along with the three sidecar
deaths, Davy Morgan and Mark
Purslow lost their lives in sepa-
rate incidents in the Supersport
category, bringing the total to five
riders who perished in the worst
year since 1989.
Cycle News' own Rennie
Scaysbrook competed in the Su-
persport TTs at the 2022 Isle of
Man TT and he will be compiling
a two-part feature on the event,
with the first installment coming
next week in Cycle News.
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Conor Cummins leads
long-time TT rival
James Hillier during the
Senior TT.
