Michael Dunlop makes it ten consecutive Supersport TT victories with 35th Mountain Course win
Michael Dunlop extended his Isle of Man TT record to 35 career victories on Friday 5 June 2026, winning the second Supersport race of the meeting and achieving ten consecutive wins in the class. The Ballymoney rider finished 26.126 seconds ahead of Dean Harrison, with Peter Hickman third on a Triumph, approximately a further thirteen seconds behind. It was the second time during race week that the same trio occupied the podium, but the manner of Dunlop's win included a significant pit-stop development rather than a simple repeat of Tuesday's event.
A quick stop turned the contest
Harrison had been narrowly ahead approaching the first pit stops. Dunlop's team completed its work faster, with the winning rider recorded as spending 31.483 seconds in the pit lane—the quickest stop of the race and the only one below 32 seconds in the contemporary report. He emerged ahead of Harrison and never surrendered the position. Across a three-lap Mountain Course contest, a few seconds saved in the pits can be as important as extracting them on the road. The clean stop provided an advantage that Dunlop then increased with his riding.
The final winning margin was slightly larger than his 24.470-second lead in the opening Supersport race on 2 June. On that earlier occasion he had overtaken Harrison on corrected time by the end of lap one and accumulated the advantage over the next two laps. The second victory repeated the headline names but developed differently. Harrison's early pace again made the contest credible; the difference was that Dunlop's pit crew contributed a particularly strong stop at the important moment. Reducing both races to the phrase 'dominant win' loses those distinctions.
The classification and the disrupted week
Hickman completed the podium for the second time in Supersport, while Paul Jordan and Josh Brookes were prominent among the riders chasing the top three. The wider official and media results list included Shaun Anderson, Jamie Coward, Dominic Herbertson and Ian Hutchinson among the leading finishers. Different contemporary result summaries disagree on some intermediate placements, so the central podium and the clearly recorded victory margin are the safest figures to foreground until a formal classification is consulted for every lower position.
Poor weather had significantly rearranged the 2026 TT timetable. The first Superstock race had been cancelled from its planned slot and several contests were rescheduled. Friday's packed programme included the second Supersport race and the Sportbike contest. In this setting, a competitor had to move from preparation for one class into a demanding sequence of races over the 37.73-mile course. Dunlop's week combined equipment changes, weather interruptions and race results, not a straightforward sequence of starts unaffected by scheduling decisions.
Ten in succession since 2022
The result made Dunlop's consecutive Supersport winning sequence ten races, stretching back to 2022, and raised his career tally in that class to seventeen. His overall TT record reached 35 at the Supersport chequered flag, but it did not stop there: he won the Sportbike race later the same day, extending the total to 36. Those milestones should be reported in chronological order rather than using the final total to mislabel the Supersport finish.
