After the dominance of Manxman Dan Kneen in the opening rounds of the Irish National Road racing season it was Ballyclare’s Jamie Hamilton’s turn to taste victory at the Bush Road races yesterday.

With no wins so far this season he turned the pressure on in style with a fantastic four wins in the Supertwin, Open, Grand Final and Supersport 600 races.

He started the day in great form, winning the Supertwin race by 22 seconds on his Kawasaki ER6 in front of Conor Behan on his Ryan Farquhar-prepared ER6 and Kneen.

In the Open Race it was a similar scenario with Hamilton taking to the front from the start and winning by a similar margin to that of his previous outing from Kneen and Michael Sweeney.

The Grand Final wasn’t such a straightforward encounter with Kneen, still in his rookie season in the Irish Road racing scene, taking the lead off the line. By the end of the opening lap Hamilton was in front opening up a gap of a few seconds.

Kneen was not giving up though and closed right back on Hamilton’s exhaust but try as he might he just could not get past and Hamilton took his third win of the day but this time by only 0.16secs, with Davy Morgan taking the final spot on the podium after Sweeney retired.

Hamilton then went on to make it a sensational four wins by winning the re run Supersport 600 race again taking the flag 22 secs in front of Kneen. The first 600 race was red flagged on the opening lap after a serious crash involving a number of riders.

Nigel Moore won his home race in the 125s from Sam Dunlop and Paul Jordan in third. Sweeney won the 250 race from Seamus Elliott and Neil Kernohan the race was red flagged on the second to last lap and the result declared.