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Wednesday 31st August

1015 - Junior MGP Race - 4 laps - Start List

1315 - Supertwin / Lightweight MGP Race - 4 laps - Start List

1515 - 1550 - MGP Senior qualifying - 1 lap

Generally dry and bright with some sunshine and just a small chance of an isolated light shower coming over 

on the mostly moderate west to southwest wind this afternoon or evening. 

Temperatures rising to around 20 Celsius in sheltered places.

Junior MGP Race - 4 laps

Race away at 11:45 hrs

The Isle of Man’s Andrew Dudgeon thrilled the local crowd with a win in today’s Mylchreest Motors Junior Manx Grand Prix, overcoming Maidstone’s Tom Weeden on the last lap and setting a new race record for the class in the process.

Dudgeon, on the Team Slick Performance Racing Suzuki, joined some of the greatest names in Motorcycling history in winning today’s Mylchreests Motors Junior Manx Grand Prix, following previous winners such as Freddie Frith and Bob McIntyre as well as TT rider liaison officer Richard ‘Milky’ Quayle who won the corresponding race in 1999.

After heavy overnight rain on the Isle of Man the race finally got underway at 11.45am after a delay of an hour and a half to allow the roads to dry.  Ahead of the start riders were advised of damp patches all around the course, notably under the trees at Ballacraine, Black Dub, Laurel Bank, Glen Helen, Ramsey Hairpin and Governors Dip.

Guest of Honour Tom Dickie, who was celebrating the 50th anniversary of his 1966 Senior Manx Grand Prix Senior win, started the race.  Andrew Farrell, who finished third in the 2014 Junior MGP Race, was first away followed by 2014 Senior MGP runner up Michael Moulai, on a Des and Dot Collins Kawasaki, from New Zealand. Dudgeon, who was the fastest qualifier, was third away from the start line followed by Weeden.

Farrell on the B&W Racing Honda was first on the road to Glen Helen, and the Skerries man had already established a four second lead over Dudgeon.  However, Weedon, riding a Triumph, was the early race leader less than a second ahead of Farrell at the opening timing point with Northern Ireland’s Dennis Booth in third, narrowly in front of Dudgeon with Moulai completing the top five.

Dudgeon moved ahead of Booth into the top three at Ballaugh and was the fastest through the Sulby speed trap at 171.2mph and the top three remained the same at the Bungalow with Weeden’s lead 2.7 seconds over Farrell with Dudgeon a further five seconds back in third and Moulai edging narrowly ahead of Booth into fourth.

Weeden’s opening lap of 119.060 (19.00.835) gave him a two second lead over Farrell (118.846/ 19:02.886) with Dudgeon (118.295/ 19.08.215) a further five seconds back in third.  Moulai (116.653/ 19:24.379) was in fourth with Barry Lee Evans, on the Percy’s Autos Kawasaki, moving into the top five with 116.619/ 19:24.717).

Dudgeon moved narrowly ahead of Farrell at Ramsey on the second lap and was nine seconds behind race leader Weedon.  However, with Weedon clearly losing time on the last sector from Cronk Ny Mona to the Grandstand, the gap was down to four seconds coming into the pits at the end of the second lap between the leading pair with Farrell a further 8 seconds behind in the final podium place.  Barry Lee Evans maintained fourth place 26 seconds behind Farrell with Knaresborough’s Joe Akroyd, competing on the Oilee Racing Suzuki, moving into the top five at the Grandstand ahead of Moulai.

Although Weedon gained three seconds on Dudgeon in the pits, the deficit was down to 3.7 seconds at Glen Helen on the third lap, and Dudgeon reduced this further to only 1.5 seconds by Ramsey. Farrell was a further 23 seconds behind Dudgeon, which included over six seconds lost to the Manx rider in the pits.

Dudgeon’s third lap of 115.246 (19:38.595) gave him a lead of only 0.1 seconds from Weeden (114.819/ 19:42.974)) going into the final lap with Farrell’s 113.274/ 19:59.113) consolidating third from Akroyd (112.555 (20:06.770) with Evans 111.636/ 20:16.700) completing the top five.

The scene was set for a thrilling last lap and all eyes were on the leading pair at Glen Helen with Dudgeon extending his lead over Weeden, albeit only to 0.5 of a second.

Farrell was reported off at Glen Helen and taken by airmed to Nobles Hospital with arm and shoulder injuries which meant that Akroyd moved into the top three with Evans and Moulai completing the top five at Glen Helen.

The leading pair were enjoying a thrilling battle with Weeden moved back into the lead at Ballaugh, albeit by only half a second, but Dudgeon again moved in front at his home town of Ramsey with a 2.5 second gap to the second man.

Weedon again came back at the Manx rider and the gap was only 2 seconds at the Bungalow but Dudgeon’s last lap (120.212/ 18:49.904) saw him taking the chequered flag in a new race record of 118.311/ 1:16.32.229 from Weeden (118.216/ 1:16.35.936)

Dudgeon also, appropriately, became the 9th rider to join the ‘Tommy Club’ for 120mph Manx Grand Prix riders, named after Tommy Clucas who was the first to break the barrier in the 2004 Junior MGP.

Joe Ackroyd with 115.823/ 1:18.10.872 took the final podium place with Barry Lee Evans (115.344/ 1:18.30.372) and Moulai (115.198/ 1:18.36.319 completing the top five.  Wayne Humble was the best placed newcomer going into the last lap but the Alston man was running in an excellent 7th when he was reported to have come off at Governors on the last lap when running in 7th place, leaving local rider Brendan Fargher in 13th as the highest placed newcomer.

Humble was reported to be complaining of pain in his shoulder and leg following his last lap slide while James Robertson was described as conscious and talking after coming off at Black Dub.  Steve Moody was also described as conscious after an accident at Keppel Gate.

Andrew Dudgeon congratulated by Tom Weeden and Joe Akroyd in the winners' enclosure 
after the Mylchreests Junior MGP. 
Photo credit: Dave Kneen

Junior Manx Grand Prix Race   -  RESULTS  -   LAP-BY-LAP

Race Away on time at 14:30

Dan Sayle wins the Lightweight GP with no stops.

Dan Sayle

Rikki McGovern

Elwyn Fryer

Jamie Hodson

David Lumsden

Andrew Dudgeon

Wigan rider Jamie Hodson emulated his brother Rob by winning the 2016 Manx Grand Prix Supporters Club SuperTwin Race at the IMGold Manx Grand Prix.


A clearly elated Jamie Hodson, whose brother Rob won the 2015 Race, said in the winner’s enclosure:

“I started flapping after the pit stop. Riding behind Andy Dudgeon gave me something to focus on so I just rode to my boards. I’m over the moon for everyone who helped me.  This is all I’ve ever wanted to do and I can’t believe it. The bike has been going really well so we geared it down a bit but it cost me some time over the mountain with the wind.  Finishing a race is an achievement but winning one is something else. The race was as good as perfect.”

Following the delay to the schedule earlier in the day to allow the track to dry, the Manx Grand Prix Supporters Club SuperTwin and Lightweight Race got underway at 2.30pm

With Andrew Farrell injured in the MGP Junior Race following his accident at Glen Helen earlier in the day, 1983 Senior MGP and ’93 Formula 1 TT Race winner Nick Jefferies, who finished third in the corresponding race last year, was first away on the Phil Morris Holdings ER6 Kawasaki followed by Junior race winner Andrew Dudgeon, the fastest qualifier, and Skerries’s Dave Lumsden on the Full Factory Winnerswear Kawasaki.


Jefferies was first on the road to Glen Helen and established a 1.4 lead over Dudgeon who was riding the CBG Contractors Rob Brew Racing Suzuki. However, Hodgson (CMS/SB Tuning Kawasaki) was the race leader on the clock, building a lead of almost three seconds from Darren Cooper (Flue-Stox Kawasaki) with Richard Charlton (Michelin Kawasaki) in third. Lumsden was less than a half a second back in fourth with Spain’s Victor Lopez Santos, who was a newcomer in 2015 on the Team Martimotos Kawasaki completing the top five.  Jonathan Perry Kevin Little Motorsport KLM Kawasaki), fresh from the excitement of his newcomer B runner up place in Tuesday’s Race, was running well in sixth.

Dave Lumsden moved up into second, four seconds behind Hodson and just 0.1 second ahead of Cooper at Ballaugh and that remained the order at the Bungalow with Hodson stretching the lead over the second placed man to almost 8 seconds with the gap between Cooper and Lumsden only 0.2.

That remained the top three on the opening lap with Hodson’s 112.331 / 20:09.174 giving him a lead of almost 12 seconds from Lumsden (111.424/ 20:19.021) with Cooper (111.274/ 20:20.660) third with the gap to the second placed man extended to 1.6 seconds.  Richard Charlton (110.897/ 20:24.807) and Andrew Dudgeon (110.439/ 20:27.036) completed the top five with Perry (110.439/ 20:29.887) maintaining sixth place.

Perry was on a charge on the second lap and moved into fourth at Glen Helen and was up to third by Ramsey, almost four seconds behind Lumsden and less than half a second ahead of Cooper.

Hodson’s second lap of 112.969 gave him a lead of over thirteen seconds from Lumsden with Lumsden, posting the fastest lap of the race 113.423.  However Perry had another problematic pit at the end of the second lap, as he had in Monday’s Newcomer B race, which cost him that race.  This time he lost over thirty seconds to his nearest rivals dropping from third to 6th at Glen Helen on the third lap, now 28 seconds off the final podium place while Dudgeon moved narrowly ahead of third placed man Lumsden by less than a second.

Lumsden and Dudgeon continued their battle over the Mountain section with Lumsden moving in front of the Ramsey rider by almost 2 seconds by the Bungalow but out at the front Hodson’s lead was still a commanding 10.4 seconds, although he’d lost a couple of seconds on the Mountain.

Hodson’s third lap of 108.262 (20:54.620) gave him an eleven second lead from Lumsden with Dudgeon continuing his challenge less than a second further back in third with Cooper (107.606) and Perry (106.099) completing the top five.

Hodson duly held on to take the chequered flag in 111.594/ 1:21.08.664 with Lumsden holding off the challenge from Dudgeon to take second place in 111.212/ 1:21.25.388, just over three seconds ahead of Dudgeon (111.136/ 1:21.28.705).

In the concurrent Lightweight race, 8 time TT sidecar passenger race winner Dan Sayle, the fastest qualifier, dominated from gun to tape to win in a new race record of 1:23.45.501/ 108.111, his third Manx Grand Prix win.

Sayle, riding the 2014 Honda Nsf250r Moto 3 machine dominated the concurrent radansaylestartline.jpgce from the start and later explained how the bike tackled the Mountain Course:

“In some places it wouldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding but it was good to ride. Once I got my first couple of boards I was pretty comfortable.  I set out to win this race years back so I’m glad to have done it again.”

Sayle reached the Glen Helen timing point first on the road and on the clock, establishing a lead of 1.5 seconds over Dave Taylor with Rikki McGovern on the Honda RVF 400 in third. Sayle’s opening lap of 107.663/ 21:01.599 gave him a fifteen second lead from Rikki McGovern (106.439/21:16.116) with Dave Taylor (106.092/ 21:20.287 holding third place.


Sayle continued to dominate the race and extended his lead to over thirty seconds with a second lap of 109.228.  With his nearest rivals McGovern and Taylor both coming in to the pits at the end of the second lap, Sayle’s lead was almost 1 minute and 45 seconds by Glen Helen on the third lap which he extended to almost 2 minutes from McGovern with a third lap of 108.737.

Dan elected not to pit, running through at the end of the third lap, and posted a last lap 106.847 to win by a minute and 46 seconds from McGovern (105.878/ 1:25.31.511). However there was drama for the last podium place in the Lightweight class.  Third placed man Dave Taylor was reported to be pushing in from Governors and Lancelot Unissart in fourth retired at the Bungalow which meant that Elwyn Frier (103.942/ 1;27.07.049) was called back from the race paddock to the winners enclosure to complete the podium.

Supertwin Manx Grand Prix  -  Race Results   -  LAP-BY-LAP

Lightweight Manx Grand Prix  -  Race Results  -  LAP-BY-LAP