Fermanagh's Lee Johnston made a breakthrough to secure his maiden victory in the S🌊uperstock class at the North West 200 on Saturday, halting Alastair Seeley's victor♌y streak.

Johnston, who clinched a double in last year's Supertwins r🧸aces at the North West, forced his way past Tyco BMW r🐷ider Alastair Seeley on the final lap to clinch a popular victory.

Sꦦeeley had led into Metropole on the final lap but Johnston refused to give in and squeezed ahead on the Coast Road on his ECC/Burdens BMW, holding on to win by only 0.1 seconds.

Ian Hutchinson continued to impress on the PBM Kawasaki as the re🎐juvenated Yorkshire rider fended off a chall💫enge from Michael Dunlop (MD Racing Yamaha) to seal the final place on the podium.

The Bingley rider set a nꦑew lapꦜ record of 121.680mph as the top three all bettered Austrian Horst Saiger's previous benchmark in a red-hot race.

A delighted Johnston said: "Alastair got me down into Metropole bu🀅t I got a good run out of Black Hill and I jus𓄧t made it on the brakes into Juniper.

"I gave up the Supertwin to focus on the big bikes so I'd have looked pretty stupid if I didn't get a resul𓄧t."

William Dunlop took fifth on the Tyco BMW behind his brother Michael, with Martin Jessopp a close sixth on the Riders Motorcycles BMW𒅌.

Quattro Plant Kawasaki's James Hillier came out on top of his battle with Scotsman Keith Amor for seventh, with Conor Cummins (🌃Jackson Honda) and David Johnston (BMW) completing the top ten.