Michael Dunlop shock DNF allows Peter Hickman to win Isle of Man TT Supertwin race
Dunlop was leading on the first lap when he shockingly pulled up with a mechan🌳ical issue to his Paton. Moments later, his race was over.
It means Dunlop could no🃏t equal the all-time record of 26 TT wins that his uncle Joey holds, as the crowd perhaps expected on Friday afternoon.
He will have just one more chance at this year’s 🌌event to claim the one win needed to equal the record - the Senior TT on Saturday.
Mike Browne profited from Dunlop’s retiremen𝓀t to take the lead and he loo🎃ked set for his first-ever TT win.
But, 16.599s clear at the front, he retired at the e📖nd of the second lap with a problem to h♐is Paton.
“The clutch was gone - I w🍨as nursing it but it got worse and worse and w♛orse,” Browne reacted.
Hickman then cruised home for his se💮cond victory of Friday - having won the Superstock race earlier in the same day - and his 12th career TT wi💮n.
Pierre Yves Bian was second, Josh Bro🍸okes was third.
Dominic Herbertson was set for the podium until he pulled up earl꧑y.
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