Northern Ireland's Michael Dunlop has won his first ever Isle of Man TT in the second Supersport race this afternoon, nine years after his uncle Joey won the family's last in the year 2000.

Dunlop finished the race more than half a minute in front of Bruce Anstey who was in a scrap on corrected time with Manxman Conor Cummins who took his first ever podium in third.
"Brilliant, brilliant, that's the job," said Dunlop as he got off his YZF-R6. "It was my spare bike and all. That's just great. My dad gave me the knowledge and he was there on the last lap. It's unbelievable."

The race was delayed by almost two hours because of bad weather on the west of the Island, some hail falling at Glen Helen, so race director Eddie Nelson was forced to put the race back into the afternoon.

When they were away, reduced adhesion flags were being shown from Appledene all the way to Ballaugh Bridge and the leaders were slow and steady on the first lap through Glen Helen.

Dunlop led for the entire race, opening a three-second gap on Ryan Farquhar and Cummins at Glen Helen with Anstey fourth and Ian Lougher in fifth, another second in arrears.

As Dunlop made the leap at Ballaugh, he was 8.7s in front of Farquhar with Cummins slipping back to ten seconds behind, Anstey nearly 13s and a slow-starting Guy Martin coming through to fifth.

Cummins went past Farquhar on corrected time at Ramsey Hairpin and by the time Martin went through the Bungalow, the Lincolnshire rider was up to third, a little under 18s behind Dunlop as Cummins pegged his gap to the Irishman at 10.32s.

Dunlop's lead at the end of lap one was still ten seconds but he was pulling away from Martin in third and Anstey in fourth as Farquhar began to drop off the pace. But Martin's troubles were beginning again as he lost a stack of time on the run into Glen Helen, dropping ten seconds to Dunlop and found himself back to fifth.

Cummins was 14.93s behind Dunlop going into Ramsey with Anstey 26.22s in arrears as Martin started a comeback, re-passing Farquhar on corrected time as Keith Amor began to reel in the Irishman on his Kawasaki.

As Dunlop crossed the line for the second time and the pitstops began, he was 15.42s in front of Cummins who, in turn, was 13s in front of Anstey with Martin a further 11s behind. Amor went past Farquhar and into fifth place.

Lap three saw Dunlop really put the hammer down, extending his lead to 19.38s at Ballaugh Bridge as the roads began to dry out and Steve Plater  starting his charge, overhauling Amor on corrected time and by the time they went into Ramsey, Martin had slipped back to sixth.

At the grandstand on the third lap, Martin came in with an overheating engine. A similar problem occurred in the first Supersport race yesterday and Martin was vocally unhappy.

Cummins cruised across the line to start his final lap, looking like he had a bike problem but he got his head down as Plater was lapping fast and beginning to reel the Manxman in.

Amor retired at Parliament Square, promoting yesterday's double winner Ian Hutchinson into fifth but there was no catching Dunlop who finished half a minute ahead as Cummins almost caught Anstey, finishing just half a second behind the Kiwi.

Jenny Tinmouth did not start the race and William Dunlop retired after one lap citing poor conditions.
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