TT 2017 Friday night times

More bad weather hindered the progress of practice and qualifying last night but, many riders improved their times and pace. Huge improvements from the Supersport riders, including Adam McLean’s 119 and Paul Jordan taking almost 2 minutes off his previous time with a 114. 

Qualifying finishes this evening with the first race being pushed out until tomorrow as Superbike Race 1 kicks off at 2pm.

Friday night times are below; today’s qualifying will be posted later.

Superbikes

21 43 Brian McCormack BMW/Vanfleet Transport 1 18:23.241 123.117

23 28 Derek Sheils Suzuki/Burrows Engineering Racing 1 18:23.981 123.035

26 26 Alan Bonner BMW/NW Racing 2 18:28.565 122.526

29 33 Michael Sweeney BMW/MJR Racing 1 18:38.581 121.429

Superstock

10 28 Derek Sheils Suzuki/Burrows Engineering Racing 1 18:05.781 125.097

Supersport

17 83 Adam Mclean* Kawasaki/MSS Colechester Kawasaki 2 19:00.814 119.062

26 45 Brian McCormack Yamaha/Wogan Proformance 1 19:14.709 117.630

44 82 Paul Jordan* Kawasaki/ThePeoplesBike.com / B&W Site sealant 1 19:42.369 114.878

50 68 Ben Rea Suzuki/Rea-Racing 1 19:51.424 114.005

Bennetts Lightweight

7 60 Adam Mclean* Kawasaki/Hanna Performance/ MJ Palmer 2 20:03.561 112.855

9 16 Derek Sheils Kawasaki/Burrows Engineering Racing 1 20:05.802 112.645

25 59 Paul Jordan* Kawasaki/B&W Site sealant 1 21:10.579 106.902

34 61 Ben Rea VRS Racing Kawasaki/VRS Racing 1 22:57.147 98.630

Words: Andy Quinn

Images: Treacy’s photography, RC photos.