Bailey Harker wins both Junior and Senior Support races at Armoy 2026
Bailey Harker collected both Junior Support and Senior Support victories at the 2026 Armoy road races in County Antrim. The results published for Saturday 25 July show Harker first ahead of Michael Clyde and William Grant in Junior Support, and first again ahead of Scott Aitkin and Kristian Didelot in the Senior Support classification. Two wins in separate support contests provided a notable achievement outside the high-profile Race of Legends and Supersport battles.
Junior Support: a different field from Senior
The Junior Support result had a sizeable finishing order. Clyde and Grant joined Harker on the podium, with Owen Everard fourth, Ashley Robson fifth and Lloyd Morris sixth. Scott Aitkin, Ian Lynch, James Dutton, Dave Walsh and Chris Meyer followed, while the classification continued beyond those front runners. The mixture of names is a reminder that support racing is not necessarily a shallow contest, and success there has its own value within the domestic NI racing calendar.
Senior Support: Harker repeats the result
Harker also headed the Senior Support list. Aitkin improved to second compared with his seventh place in Junior Support, Didelot took third and Brandon Kavanagh fourth. Nicholas Round and Brad Burn completed the top six. The positions changed across the categories, so this was not a race replay with an identical top three. Harker was the common winner, but the supporting order tells us the second victory involved a distinct group of close rivals.
The earlier season gives the result perspective
At Cookstown in April, Brandon Kavanagh had won Senior Support A ahead of James Walsh and Aidan Cleary, while Harker had won the Junior Support A classification. The standings after Tandragee then listed Harker on 45 points atop Junior Support, ahead of Walsh on 36 and Grant on 32. Those published results put his Armoy Junior success into a progression through multiple Northern Ireland meetings rather than leaving it as a one-off result without a season.
What else happened at Armoy
The main Armoy headlines centred on Michael Browne taking the Race of Legends win ahead of Paul Jordan and Phil Crowe. In other categories, James Doy beat Leon Murphy and Ashley Robson in Lightweight Supersport, Chris Meyer topped 125/Moto3, and William Grant won Supersport 300. Harker’s support-class double therefore formed part of a full programme where competitors could earn results and recognition in categories removed from the major superbike machinery.
Why these classifications matter to the event
Support classes are often the place where riders build experience on closed public roads, compete with more accessible machinery and establish rivalries that extend across the Ulster calendar. Armoy’s published Senior Support list ran beyond twenty riders, while Junior Support likewise contained a large field. The evidence supports describing the categories as competitive, but not inventing a lap-by-lap charge, because the accessible classification gives finishers rather than a complete race timing record.
