John McGuinness wins Senior Classic TT

2019 Classic Senior TT


John McGuinness delivered a Mountain Course masterclass – winning a restarted three lap Bennetts Senior Classic TT Race after the original race was red flagged following an incident at Ballaugh.

The win was the third in the class for McGuinness following his victories in 2016 and 2018 and the fourth in a row for Roger Winfield’s outfit. It meant that McGuinness has now won 26 races around the Mountain Course.

Senior R McGuinness
John McGuinness

The frustrations of the weather affected qualifying week were swept away with perfect racing conditions on the Isle of Man for the opening race day of the 2019 Classic TT Races presented by Bennetts.

Senior R McGuinness Podium
John McGuinness

Italian marques have dominated the Class, winning every year since the Classic TT’s inception in 2013, with only Dean Harrison – on an MV Agusta – interrupting Paton’s winning streak and that trend looked set to continue with John McGuinness and Italian Stefano Bonetti, both riding Patons, the two fastest qualifiers.

Senior R Stefano Bonetti
Stefano Bonetti

Any fuel capacity advantage that the lower speed single-cylinder bikes held was negated with the reduction of the race to three laps which meant that the thirstier Patons could complete full race distance without refuelling.

Senior R McGuinness
John McGuinness

McGuinness, who won the race in 2016 and on his comeback to the Mountain Course last year, lead the race from the opening sector. He held a lead of six seconds over second placed man Stefano Bonetti at Glen Helen on the opening lap with Maria Costello, also on a Paton for Team Beugger Racing, a further five seconds back in third place. Jamie Coward (Ted Woof/ Craven Manx Norton) and Alan Oversby (Ireland Honda) completed the top five.

Senior R Jamie Coward
Jamie Coward

McGuinness’s opening lap (111.679mph) gave him a lead of 17 seconds from Bonetti with Costello (107.98) third a further 25 seconds behind the Italian. However there was a battle emerging for the final podium place with Jamie Coward (107.89) less than a second behind Costello. Oversby completed the top five with his opening lap of 106.73mph.

McGuinness maintained his lead over Bonetti on the second lap but behind the leading pair, Coward moved into the final podium place by Ramsey. McGuinness’s second lap (111.59mph) put him 24 seconds ahead of Bonetti (110.95) with Coward (109.15) retaining the final podium place, five seconds ahead of Maria Costello (108.30) with Oversby (107.46) completing the top five.

Senior R McGuinness Podium
John McGuinness

Michael Rutter, who was running sixth, was reported as a retirement at Glen Tramman with a seized engine and new sixth placed man Derek Sheils, riding a Greenall Racing Honda, came into the pits for a quick ‘splash and dash’ refuelling stop at the end of the second lap.

Senior R McGuinness
Classic Senior TT podium

McGuinness took the chequered flag with a final lap of 110.45 to win from Bonetti (110.13), who secured his first Mountain Course podium with Coward (108.55) clinching the final podium place. Costello duly finished fourth (108.17) with Oversby (107.92) fifth and Sheils (104.28) holding sixth place after his earlier pit stop.


Senior Classic TT Race 1

Pos Rider Best Lap Total Time
1

John McGuinness

111.68 mph 20m16.240

01h01m03.252
2

Stefano Bonetti

110.95 mph 20m24.203

01h01m31.045
3

Jamie Coward

109.15 mph 20m44.470

01h02m34.672
4

Maria Costello

108.30 mph 20m4.162

01h02m47.760
5

Alan Oversby

107.92 mph 20m58.565

01h03m15.199
6

Derek Sheils

106.75 mph 21m12.369

01h04m10.266
7

Chris McGahan

104.96 mph 21m34.082

01h05m20.573
8

Hefyn Owen

102.52 mph 22m04.842

01h06m28.891
9

Dave Matravers

100.54 mph 22m30.945

01h08m11.523
10

100.98 mph 22m25.110

01h08m12.988
11

Will Loder

99.95 mph 22m38.941

01h08m38.365
12

Keith Clarke

98.28 mph 23m02.074

01h09m21.629
13

David Madsen-Mygdal

98.25 mph 23m02.486

01h09m45.642
14

Colin Stockdale

95.14 mph 23m47.672

01h11m52.551
15

Alec Whitwell

95.08 mph 23m48.495

01h12m51.748
16

Arthur Browning

92.87 mph 24m22.542

01h13m32.456
17

Grant Sellars

90.92 mph 24m53.935

01h15m07.302
18

Ian Bainbridge

89.40 mph 25m19.383

01h16m18.247
19

Gary Freeman

87.48 mph 25m52.595

01h18m01.023
DNF

Michael Sweeney

100.45 mph 22m32.242

22m32.242
DNF

Michael Rutter

106.55 mph 21m14.809

21m14.809
DNF

Lee Johnston

104.81 mph 21m36.006

21m36.006
DNF

James Hillier

105.33 mph 21m29.562

43m01.957
DNF

John Barton

96.57 mph 23m26.577

47m11.170
DNF

Richard Stott

87.29 mph 25m56.036

25m56.036

 

 

 

 

Superbike Classic TT Final Qualifying (24th)

Friday Qualifying

Pos Rider Best Lap Gap
1

Michael Dunlop

125.75 mph 18m00.136

00m00.000
2

David Johnson

125.04 mph 18m06.265

00m06.129
3

Horst Saiger

122.39 mph 18m29.825

00m29.689
4

Philip Crowe

122.06 mph 18m32.820

00m22.995
5

Rob Hodson

120.90 mph 18m43.436

00m33.611
6

Jamie Coward

120.82 mph 18m44.234

00m44.098
7

Gary Johnson

120.70 mph 18m45.353

00m45.217
8

Michael Sweeney

120.20 mph 18m50.031

00m49.895
9

Joey Thompson

118.94 mph 19m02.021

01m01.885
10

Craig Neve

118.46 mph 19m06.663

01m06.527
11

Michael Rutter

118.12 mph 19m09.891

01m09.755
12

Forest Dunn

117.50 mph 19m15.935

01m15.799
13

Josh Daley

116.98 mph 19m21.165

01m21.029
14

Michal Dokoupil

116.93 mph 19m21.646

01m21.510
15

Richard Wilson

116.67 mph 19m24.256

01m24.120
16

115.27 mph 19m38.305

01m38.169
17

Adrian Harrison

115.26 mph 19m38.475

01m38.339
18

Brian McCormack

115.16 mph 19m39.434

01m39.298
19

Darren Cooper

115.15 mph 19m39.537

01m39.401
20

Paul Potchy Williams

114.81 mph 19m43.023

01m42.887
21

Mike Booth

114.12 mph 19m50.192

01m50.056
22

Danny Webb

113.50 mph 19m56.762

01m56.626
23

David Hewson

113.33 mph 19m58.535

01m58.399
24

Charles Rhys Hardisty

112.69 mph 20m05.341

02m05.205
25

Mark Parrett

112.15 mph 20m11.151

02m11.015
26

Dave Moffitt

112.02 mph 20m12.559

02m12.423
27

Robert Barber

112.01 mph 20m12.656

02m12.520
28

Lancelot Unissart

108.52 mph 20m51.618

02m51.482
29

Richard Vuillermet

104.79 mph 21m36.246

03m36.110
30

Steve Moody

103.82 mph 21m48.287

03m48.151

 

 

 

 

 

Junior Classic TT Final Qualifying (24th)

Friday Qualifying

Pos Rider Best Lap Gap
1

Richard Wilson

100.75 mph 22m28.158

00m00.000
2

Derek Sheils

99.81 mph 22m40.893

00m12.735
3

Alex Sinclair

98.03 mph 23m05.545

00m37.387
4

Paul Jordan

97.74 mph 23m09.672

00m41.514
5

Ewan Hamilton

95.19 mph 23m46.919

01m18.761
6

Tom Weeden

94.38 mph 23m59.215

01m31.057
7

Dave Moffitt

93.81 mph 24m07.944

01m39.786
8

91.97 mph 24m36.907

02m08.749
9

Dave Matravers

91.34 mph 24m47.000

02m18.842
10

Jeff Smith

90.24 mph 25m05.184

02m37.026
11

Ken Parkes*

90.18 mph 25m06.171

02m38.013
12

Simon Collins*

89.64 mph 25m15.308

02m47.150
13

88.72 mph 25m30.977

02m34.881
14

Jason Lamb

88.46 mph 25m35.485

03m07.327
15

Gary Hutton

86.70 mph 26m06.671

03m38.513
16

Jason Burrill*

86.64 mph 26m07.716

03m39.558
17

Terence Sansom

86.50 mph 26m10.226

03m42.068
18

Edward Poole

81.17 mph 27m53.417

05m25.259

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