Ireland's Ryan Farquhar dominated at Oliver's Mount, Scarborough at the weekend with the Dungannon rider winning all 18 of the Barry Sheene Festival races he entered.
In what was a record-breaking weekend for Farquhar, he recorded the most number of wins in one weekend by a rider ever, broke Bob Heath's 13-year old 500cc Classic bike lap record and also took the Classic Superbike lap record.
The meeting combined modern day machines with classic bikes and, riding his 600cc KMR Kawasaki, Farquhar won all four Supersport 600cc races and the four Superbike races. Switching to Roger Winfield's 350cc Honda, he then added three more wins to his tally in the 350cc Classic races.
He then rode Winfield's 500cc Paton, the bike on which he has won the last two Senior Classic Manx GP races on, to take four 500cc Classic bike victories and the 3 Classic Superbike races. Only an oil leak in practice with the GS1000 Suzuki prevented him from racing on four different types of machinery.
The victories also saw him pick up a haul of silverware including the Barry Sheene and Denis Parkinson Trophies.
"I can't quite believe I've won 18 races this weekend but what a fantastic two days of racing! It's been pretty tough through both qualifying and racing as I've been out in practically every session and it's not easy to jump from one bike to another, particularly as they're all so different," said Farquhar.
"Oliver's Mount is a physically demanding circuit and the Classic bikes are fairly hard work around here with all the vibrations and gear changes but I couldn't have hoped for a better weekend."
"None of the races were easy and I had to work hard for all of the wins. Olie Linsdell was pushing me really hard in the 500cc Classic races and I had to break one of the oldest circuit lap records to hold him off. It was the same in the 350cc races where Paul Coward was pushing me all the way and in the modern races where both Richard Gibson and Keith Pringle were riding really well.
"To win 18 races is simply superb and it's been a real honour to have multiple world champion Jim Redman and Roger Marshall come over and congratulate me. The weather's been great and a good crowd turned out so I hope everyone's enjoyed it like I have. Finally, a big thank you to Roger Winfield for the use of his machines."
Farquhar now heads off to the Isle of Man TT Races with opening practice getting underway this Saturday, May 30th.
