Report

The six races delayed from Monday due to the atrocious weather conditions finally got underway on Tuesday afternoon, with a total of four races being run concurrently under the banner of the Newcomers’ Race with classes A & B, along side the new event for 2009, Post Classics, again with two classes two-stroke and four-stroke.
With the forecast far from being encouraging with the possibility of showers all around the course around from around midday, the race had been cut from four to three laps.

The race got underway at the scheduled time of 1215 with Derek Shiels and Benny Smith setting off in the Newcomers A race.

However from the first timing point, Glen Helen it was Sean Murphy on the Martin Bullock 600 Honda that was in the lead on time by 5 seconds; by Ramsey it was 10 seconds and this set the pattern for the three lap race, with the Douglas man coming home over two minutes ahead of first man away Dubliner Derek Shiels, who in turn was just under two minutes in front of third placeman David Mulligan from Portadown. There were 19 finishes of which nine received replicas.

Sean Murphy (Dave Kneen, ManxPhotosOnline)

In Newcomers B Stockport’s Adrian Kershaw took the victory from Andy Lawson (Arbroath) and Skerries Andrew Farrell. The winning margin this time, 57 seconds. Twelve completed the course and eight reps were awarded.

Adrian Kershaw (Dave Kneen, ManxPhotosOnline)

Results Click links below..

Newcomers A
Newcomers B

Lap by Lap Click links below..

Newcomers A
Newcomers B

Special Awards:Click here

Race Entries: Click here.....

Full Gallery for Newcomers' Race: Click here..

Incident Report
 
There were a number of incidents during today's combined Newcomers and Post Classic Races.
 
Roy Richardson, Leo Fitzgerald and Chris Moore were all Air Med to Nobles after separate incidents. Roy was off at Glen Tramman and is in ward one, under observation for the night. Leo Fitzgerald has arm injuries and Chris Moore has a broken collar bone and has been treated and discharged.
 
Michael Ellis was off at Windy, whilst Roger Hurst came off at the Gooseneck. Both are OK, as were Darren Hughes (Sulby Bridge), Phil McGurk and Peter Hindley (Gooseneck).