Honda TT Legend John McGuinness held off Michael Dunlop to take his 20th career TT win in this afternoon's delayed Senior and to take the record for the most ever podiums with 41 and a new race record of 1hr45mins 20s.

The Morecambe Missile finished 10 seconds in front of team-mate Dunlop with Bruce Anstey nicking third place from James Hillier in the final few miles with the fastest lap of the race (131.529) after the Bournemouth man held on to McGuinness' coat-tails on the road from the start of lap two and set his own personal best of 131.128mph.

McGuinness's win also denied Dunlop his fifth win of the week and means he wasn't able to match Ian Hutchinson's five-wins-in-a-week record set in 2010 but still equalled Phillip McCallen's four-in-a-week from 1996.

When the race got underway for the second time after Jonathan Howarth's Bray Hill crash (click here) Gary Johnson was ahead at Glen Helen on lap one with a half-second advantage over William Dunlop, Michael Dunlop a further tenth behind with Michael Rutter and McGuinness in fifth.

Michael was leading at Ballaugh by three-tenths from Johnson with McGuinness in third a second in arrears while William Dunlop dropped two seconds on the run to the bridge. Michael extended his lead over Johnson to 1.131 at Ramsey but by the Bungalow, McGuinness had taken second place with Johnson in third.

At the Grandstand, Dunlop hit 130.965mph from a standing start with McGuinness on a 130.790, Johnson 130.349 and the rest of the top six also doing 130mph laps, right down to William Dunlop on a 130.028. Tyco Suzuki's Josh Brookes retired at the end of lap one.

By Glen Helen on lap two, Dunlop's lead was at one second with Johnson and Michael Rutter in third and fourth but at Ballaugh, McGuinness had pulled it back to 0.051s as Guy Martin leapt into third place but nearly eight seconds in arrears with Johnson in fourth.

McGuinness took the lead by 0.232 at Ramsey when Cameron Donald pulled over with a technical issue but continued on. Martin was still 7.843s down as Anstey demoted Rutter to sixth place.

McGuinness flashed over the line at the end of lap two with a 131.272mph lap and Dunlop wasn't able to do anything about the 41-year-old's pace while Martin upped his speed to lap at 131.074 to climb into third place. Donald retired as did Johnson, who broke a footrest hanger.

On lap three, Hillier began to climb back up the order as he bravely held on to the rear Dunlop of McGuinness's Honda Fireblade and was right on the pace of Martin at the end of lap three while the gap at the front was two seconds.

By Glen Helen, the lead was 3.301s while Hillier went into fourth ahead of Martin and began to reel in Anstey on corrected time. At Ramsey, Anstey's lead was down to six seconds and then it was three seconds at the Grandstand with the Bournemouth Kawasaki man lapping in 131.114 compared to Anstey's 130.524.

McGuinness then got the hammer down on laps five and six to just extend his lead to eight seconds while Hillier went back past Anstey at the end of lap five by less than a tenth of a second for third place while Martin faded away.

As his 20th win loomed, McGuinness throttled back and let Dunlop pull the lead back from 12.046s at the Bungalow to 10.982s at the Grandstand while Anstey's lap was just enough to take the last podium spot. Hillier was fourth while Martin was 53s in arrears for fifth.