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Part 2 of Highlights from the 2025 road races (Race Of Legends) at Armoy on the 25th-26th July 2025.
02:10 - Supertwin Race 2
12:44 - Senior Support
20:31 - Supersport Race 2
32:39 - Race Of Legends
02:10 - Supertwin Race 2
12:44 - Senior Support
20:31 - Supersport Race 2
32:39 - Race Of Legends
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00:00I'm under the night, riding on the wrong side with the white line
00:04I see an old pig coming just in time
00:07I've got no form of danger, nothing on my mind
00:09But I'll ride around the world, I'll ride on my own
00:14King of the roads, cause I ain't going home
00:30Hello and welcome to Highlight's coverage of the Armoy Road Races in County Antrim in Northern Ireland
00:35We have lots more racing action for you today, including the one they all want to win
00:39The Armoy Race of Legends
00:44But first, let's meet just a few of those who are gunning for victory
00:51I love it, I love it, it's a very bumpy track
00:54Many, many, fast guys, these races, but ten places, I'm happy, yeah
01:02Paul Jordan has already claimed one victory so far in the Supertwin class
01:07Armoy is a real, real good event, you know, it's really the last real Irish road race we have in Ireland as such
01:15So it's near enough, got an international vibe about it now with the calibre of riders come
01:19So yeah, it's really good to be here
01:21And this is where they will be racing
01:24A tight and twisty course lined with trees, fences and the enthusiastic public
01:31Riders must contend with the lumps, bumps and several jumps that make up this course
01:36Mullaney Cross and Robbo's Corner in the village are key overtaking zones across today's racing action
01:43So keep an eye out there
01:45Second outing for the Supertwins
01:51Paul Jordan took the win in race number one for Michael Sweeney and Joe Yurdsley
01:55Barry Furber and Joey Thompson, your top five
01:57And it's Jordan Sweeney and Furber on the front row
02:00Franco Ball and Joey Thompson on row two
02:02Could be a belter this one
02:03Jamie Coward on row three
02:05Joe Yurdsley, Neil Kernaghan and Manxman Marcus Simpson rounds out row four
02:09Slightly iffy conditions Chris Boyd and Paul Jordan on that pole position with Michael Sweeney next to him
02:15And number 80 Barry Furber who gets the hole shot
02:17It's Sweeney again
02:18Yeah, Jordan had the bike angled across to try and cut off Sweeney
02:22But it didn't work
02:23Sweeney's taken the hole shot from Barry Furber and then Paul Jordan
02:26Then Joe Yurdsley who was on the podium in race one
02:28Marcus Simpson just behind him
02:30And then of course it is Joey Thompson in there too
02:33But this man Sean Broly on the Aprilia
02:35He's riding well in the junior and the senior support
02:37He's got Dean McMaster 2-1-2 right next to him
02:40But up at the front there now
02:41It's lap number one into the village
02:42It's Sweeney that leads from Furber
02:44Then it's Jordan
02:45And then it's Joe Yurdsley with the hole there
02:46Doctors Dangle
02:47A la Rossi style number 21
02:49Scott racing Aprilia in fourth
02:51Then it's Simpson and Joey Thompson
02:53Really wet conditions into the village
02:54You can see already drying little bits there on the way out through the cuttings
02:58Yeah, it does dry up really quick like we said
03:00It really, really does
03:01But Sean Broly just going up the inside of Dean McMaster
03:04Into the village and out of the village
03:05Hopefully we'll stay with this
03:07We'll watch him through there
03:08Look at it, it's like a tunnel
03:09That's like the tunnel at the Scaries that is
03:11But Joe Yurdsley, the Scott racing apprentice
03:13Oh, problem
03:14Oh dear
03:14It's pulled off to the right-hand side of the circuit
03:17So a problem for the number 21 by Joe Yurdsley
03:19After a podium in race number one
03:21Is he continuing on?
03:22No, he's just waiting for traffic to go through
03:24So Joe Yurdsley, the laxie man
03:25From the Isle of Man, a retirement
03:27What a shame after his performance on the opening night
03:30On Friday night here
03:31But up at the front
03:32We are watching the battle for Sweeney, Ferber and Jordan
03:36All over the jump on the opening lap
03:38Marcus Simpson on 2-3-1
03:39Then it's 74
03:40Thompson, bang, bang like that
03:41To KMR Kawasaki's basically as what they are
03:44But at the front
03:45Bellini cross
03:45Oh, Barry Ferber with a tank slapper
03:48And a half
03:48But settles it up there
03:49Barry Ferber gets up the inside
03:51And here's Mikko Sweeney
03:52Oh my word
03:53Is he wanting to get on that bike with him?
03:55It's not sidecar racing, is it Paul Jordan?
03:56Goodness me
03:57They must have touched there
03:59Wow, that must just force Jordan wide as well
04:02Might just cost him
04:03I've never seen anything that close
04:06That is quite incredible
04:07Hey, what did somebody say once?
04:09Ruben is racing
04:10As long as it's fair
04:11Something like that
04:13Ferber there
04:13Now leading the way from Sweeney
04:15So Ferber's got to the front
04:16Then Sweeney
04:17Then Paul Jordan
04:18Who does look really racy
04:20Having won last night
04:21Yeah, lap paces around about
04:2293, 94 at the moment
04:24So the pace is right down
04:25So here we go
04:26So there's Mikko Sweeney on 65
04:27And there's Barry Ferber
04:28Getting that tank slapper
04:29And getting up the inside
04:30And then Paul Jordan
04:31Here we go
04:32Oh, go around the outside
04:33Oh, actually
04:34Now, with Mikko Sweeney
04:36Satter up a bit
04:37It actually sat Paul Jordan up
04:38And cut him back a little bit
04:39I'm sure they'll have a chat about that afterwards
04:41But it's all fair
04:42Saw the shake of the head there
04:43From Paul Jordan
04:44He was like
04:44He wasn't expecting that at all
04:46Now he's got some work to do
04:48On corrected time
04:49Sean Broly, number 99
04:50Look at that from the second wave
04:52Only 0.6 back off Barry Ferber
04:54I told you
04:54You've got to watch out
04:55For all the different groups
04:56Sean Broly's on a charge
04:58The Derryman on the Aprilia
05:00Coming from the second row
05:01Getting that time adjustment
05:02So while these three
05:03Are scrapping
05:04And taking time out of each other
05:06Broly's making the run
05:07In towards the podium
05:08Places here
05:09And more importantly
05:10Chris Boyd
05:10He's got clear track
05:12Let's go back on board
05:13As you drop into the village
05:14Dropping down
05:15Dean's rise to Rommo's corner
05:16Paul Jordan on the move
05:18Getting ahead of Mikko Sweeney
05:19I said you've got to watch out
05:20For those grids
05:21And it's so, so slippy
05:22In these slightly iffy conditions
05:24Yeah, he was bold there
05:25Wasn't he on the run down
05:26But now can Jordan
05:27Get the drive
05:28On the run up the hill
05:29Behind the Yamaha
05:30Looks like it
05:30Yeah, I think he's got into him
05:32Yeah, he's got him
05:32Just to go past Taggart's barn
05:33Just AC
05:34All the camper vans
05:35And the people
05:35Kennedy's corner there
05:37New race leader
05:37It's 22 Paul Jordan
05:39Ahead of number 80
05:39Barry Furber
05:40Who will stick in
05:41And look, you still see
05:42The damp patches here
05:43Pass the start and finish line
05:44And Michael Sweeney
05:44Probably glad to
05:46Slightly be further back
05:47Off this
05:47With bigger things
05:48Coming up with the
05:49Manx Grand Prix
05:49And the Classic TT
05:50In a few weeks
05:51Plenty of action
05:52Still to come
05:52And that was a great shot
05:53Over the line
05:54Of Jordan and Furber
05:55Total commitment
05:56The pair of them
05:57Over the line
05:58In these none
05:59Far from perfect conditions
06:00But it's Jordan now
06:01He's got to the front
06:02On the Jackson Racing
06:03By Prosper 2
06:04Aprilia
06:05Number 80 then
06:06Furber
06:06Easy on the brakes
06:07Looks like
06:07For that grid there
06:08Just on the right hand side
06:10Of your screen
06:10Left hand side
06:11Sorry
06:11Of your screen there now
06:12We mention about the grids
06:13All the time
06:14And this is one thing
06:15As a rider
06:15They've got to watch for
06:16All the time
06:16Because you could come
06:17Around one lap
06:18But it could have dried
06:18You've seen how quick
06:19This track drives Chris
06:20It's quite incredible
06:21How quick it does
06:22Yeah you've got to watch
06:23All your markers
06:23On every lap
06:24It's really
06:25And certainly
06:26From the start of the race
06:27To the finish of the race
06:27Will be quite a significant difference
06:29Even though there are only
06:30Seven lap races
06:31Of a three mile course
06:32The impact will be there
06:34Certainly across the race distance
06:35And the tyres
06:36Even though it's only
06:37That seven lap distance
06:38As you say
06:38They should last through here
06:39On these wet tyres
06:40They're not the super small machines
06:41They're not the super bikes
06:42But they'll still be moving around a lot
06:43As Barry Furber
06:44Gets the Yamaha
06:45Air rated
06:46Over the laggy jump
06:47And there you go
06:48Left hand side of the tyre
06:49Over the Dunlop
06:50Sleep
06:50Oh that's Stylus
06:51And Barry Furber
06:52And that's even more Stylus
06:54And Michael Sweeney
06:54That's Jordan
06:55Furber
06:56And Sweeney
06:56Your top three
06:57We're in fourth place
06:58At the moment
06:58In fact we've got to get this
07:00On corrected time
07:00We've got to keep an eye
07:01And where's Sean Broly
07:02Yeah we need to try
07:03And factor him in
07:04At the moment
07:05I think he is still around
07:06About those podium places
07:07Obviously the pace is increasing
07:09At the front here
07:10Really increasing
07:11But Broly
07:12We still have to watch out for
07:14Michael Sweeney
07:15He's took a long look
07:15Over his shoulder
07:16Sean Broly
07:17Of course they start
07:17The second wave
07:18Quite a distance back
07:19From the first wave
07:20There is a set gap
07:20And then what they do
07:21Is the timekeepers
07:22As we go past the timekeeper
07:23Right there
07:24They correct the times
07:25To do it manually
07:26Like you're good at
07:27And they also do it
07:28Computerised as well
07:29Jordan definitely pushing on
07:31Out front here now
07:32Really trying to have a go
07:33With the Aprilia
07:34To build that lead
07:35If he can't
07:36Broly's just outside
07:37The podiums
07:38Sitting in fourth place
07:39After four laps
07:40Yeah only two seconds
07:41Back off Michael Sweeney
07:42Dean McMaster on 2-1-2
07:43He's going well
07:44Also 1-2-3
07:45Johnny Stewart
07:46Joey Thompson's also in there
07:47Sixth and seventh
07:48And Liam Chalk
07:49Sam Johnson
07:50Lee Harer
07:50Nigel Moore
07:51The evergreen Nigel Moore
07:52And Mikey Allen
07:53Ashley Robson
07:54The Scottish rider
07:54Going well
07:55And Lee McAvick
07:56And John O'Donovan
07:57All riding well
07:58Jordan then
08:00We're with the race leader there
08:01As he heads out on town
08:02To Turner Robert
08:03And then into Church
08:05Where there is quite an elevation
08:06Change at Church
08:07Isn't it drops down
08:08A long way
08:09As it runs down
08:10Around the Church
08:11There's a big elevation change
08:13From getting to the top of there
08:13Down to here
08:14One of the lowest parts
08:15Of the circuit
08:15That little left-hander
08:17As he kind of
08:18Just watch out for that kerb
08:19And straighten the bike up
08:20And then they start to
08:21Climb, climb, climb
08:22And at the top of it
08:23Is the leap
08:24And the jump
08:25Two big spots
08:26There you go
08:26There's the leap there
08:27There we go
08:28There's the jump there
08:28Sorry should I say
08:29That's the laggy jump
08:30And Barry Furber
08:31As stylish ever
08:32On that red and white machine
08:33But back on board
08:34With number 2-3-1
08:35Marcus Simpson
08:36The LMR by John Kuffel
08:37Electrical Kawasaki
08:38But he's got Sean Broly
08:39On his Aprilia
08:40He's right behind them
08:41The Derryman
08:42So Broly is making his way
08:43Into the first wave ride
08:45Oh hang on a minute
08:45Now we've got over time
08:46And I think Simpson's out
08:47Yeah Marcus Simpson
08:49That machine
08:49The Kawasaki
08:50Crying enough
08:51And looks like the Manxman
08:52Is out
08:53So Joe Yerge
08:53The Manxman out
08:54And now Marcus Simpson out
08:56Not a great race
08:57For the Manxman
08:58But plenty of action
08:58Still happening out there
09:00And Broly
09:00There he is
09:01We have to watch out for him
09:02On 99
09:03He's not going to go up
09:04The inside of Joey Thompson
09:05In the chicane
09:06He is
09:06And he's pulling
09:072-1-2
09:08Dean McMaster along with him
09:09As well
09:10He came off the second wave
09:11With him off the front row
09:12Of the second wave
09:13So the pair of them
09:14Needing to be factored in
09:15They're both running
09:16In the top six
09:17Yeah going really well
09:18We're back at the front
09:18Paul Jordan and Barry Ferber
09:20They're the men
09:21We're going to look out for
09:22With this battle going on
09:23Dean McMaster's looking
09:24Really really racy
09:25On his Kawasaki
09:26Air Northern Ireland machine
09:27He's scrabbling for grip
09:29As to go into there
09:30But Joey Thompson
09:31A lot of experience
09:32Do you know what Joey's thinking
09:33Go on lads
09:34Off you go
09:35Yeah you have it boys
09:36Away you go
09:37Those two are in battles
09:38Potentially for the podium
09:39Broly's got himself
09:39Back into the podium places
09:41After six of the seven laps
09:43One to go
09:44He's holding on
09:44By four tenths of a second
09:46From Sweeney
09:46Sweeney probably
09:47Isn't even aware
09:48No that's about
09:49Two and a half seconds
09:50He's got back on him
09:51On one lap
09:52Absolutely incredible
09:53And he's in a scrap
09:54As it's happening
09:55With McMaster
09:56Absolutely brilliant
09:57Really good stuff
09:58But there's Sean Broly
09:59There now
09:59There's McMaster
10:00On 2-1-2
10:01Just behind them
10:02The wide bike of 74
10:03Thompson
10:03But Paul Jordan
10:04At the front
10:05He's extended that lead
10:06Now to about
10:07Eight or so seconds
10:07And PJ
10:08The man from McAveld
10:09He's in control of this
10:10Looking for
10:11The super twin double
10:12As he crosses past
10:13Number 136
10:14There John O'Donovan
10:15On his Kawasaki
10:15With 22 Paul Jordan
10:17Into Bellaney Cross
10:18In control
10:19Totally in control
10:21The super twin double
10:22Awaits
10:23He's just got to get
10:23The run out of the crossroads
10:24Up the hill
10:25Up through Kennedy's
10:26And then the checkered flag
10:27Awaits
10:28And it will be
10:29The super twin double
10:30Here at Armoy
10:31In 2025
10:32Only other people
10:33That won twins races
10:34Round here
10:35We've got Ryan Farquhar
10:36People out
10:36Michael Dunlap
10:37Andy Farrell's
10:38Won one in the past
10:39But now Paul Jordan's
10:40Got two
10:40Well done to Paul
10:41Across the line
10:42He goes
10:42His quickest lap
10:43Was on lap number five
10:45And a 93.542
10:46There's number one
10:47Three six across the line
10:48John O'Donovan
10:49Again
10:49Who's going to get
10:50That second place
10:51Is it going to be
10:51The red machine
10:52Of Barry Furber
10:53It is
10:53So the number 80
10:54The Yamaha
10:54Gets himself in second place
10:56But who is going to get third
10:58It was four hundredths
10:59Between Sweeney and Broly
11:00There's Sweeney across the line
11:01But now we have to wait
11:03For Sean Broly
11:04It's going to be
11:05A nail biting thing
11:06For Sean Broly
11:06How good it be for him
11:07A junior and senior support rider
11:09To get a third place
11:10In the super twins
11:11And there it is
11:12It's confirmed
11:13Fantastic
11:13All down to the timekeepers
11:16The 28-year-old
11:17From Derry
11:17Sean Broly
11:18Gets himself on the podium
11:19Behind Jordan and Furber
11:21Michael Sweeney
11:21Fourteen at master fifth
11:23And it's Joey Thompson
11:24Johnny Stewart
11:24Liam Chalk
11:25Sam Johnson
11:26And Lee Hara
11:26Your top ten
11:27The conditions are awful
11:30You know
11:30They're really and really
11:31Not ideal for racing
11:32Not racing and such
11:33But it's just not
11:34You can't push on
11:35And you can't really do
11:36Everything you want to do
11:37On the motorbike
11:37You know
11:37It's basically just trying
11:39To stay intact
11:40And such
11:40But yeah
11:41I'm happy again
11:41The bike was phenomenal
11:43Two from two
11:50For Paul Jordan
11:51In the super twin class
11:52That's sure to egg him on
11:54For the race of legends
11:55Later on
11:55There's lots more
11:57To come before that though
11:58After the break
12:09Welcome back
12:10To the coverage of the
12:11Armoy road races
12:12Still to come
12:13Is the race of legends
12:14But first
12:15It's the senior support
12:17We go back to 2022
12:21For the lap record for the
12:23Senior support
12:24Marcus Simpson holds that
12:25But on pole position
12:26For this one
12:26Well it is that man
12:28Great great debut here
12:29Kevin Lavery
12:29Indeed with Sean Brawley
12:31And Lee Hara
12:31Alongside and then
12:32James Walsh
12:33And James Doi
12:33On row two
12:34Row number three
12:35We've got John O'Donovan
12:36Bailey Harker
12:37Gary Jordan
12:37And row four
12:38Completed by
12:39Michael Clyde
12:40Difference in machines
12:43In here though
12:43Brawley's on the
12:44955
12:45Ducati
12:45Kevin Lavery
12:46On the 36 machines
12:47On the Yamaha
12:48600
12:48So a whole mix of
12:50Machines here now
12:51But number 15
12:51Bailey Harker's got a good start
12:53He's up to third
12:54On his GSXR Suzuki
12:55Brawley away at the front
12:57From Lavery
12:57The newcomer
12:5899 Brawley
12:5936 for Lavery
13:01The numbers we're looking out for
13:02Those two have got themselves
13:03Away at the front
13:04Ducati and Yamaha
13:05Good start for 899
13:06Michael Clyde
13:07James Walsh
13:08On 87 as well
13:091-3-6
13:10John O'Donovan
13:10Ronnie Taylor
13:11Stuart McCann
13:12Liam Traynor
13:13All go well in the top 10
13:14899
13:15Just with a little bit of a problem
13:16Oh goodness me
13:17Somebody right out
13:19Onto the rumble strips
13:20There on the exit
13:21Of the first corner
13:22At the village
13:23Using all of the road
13:24Bailey Harker's got himself
13:25Into a fantastic third place
13:27Here from row three
13:28Really pushed on
13:29At the start
13:30At the front though
13:31Sean Broly
13:32On that 955
13:33Ducati
13:34He's a good little rider
13:35He is really going well
13:36Under junior support
13:37And the senior support
13:38And the super twin class
13:39In the Irish road season
13:41For 2025
13:42But there we go
13:43Over the jumps
13:43For the very first time
13:44There's Bailey Harker
13:45On the 15
13:46Lee Haar in there as well
13:47899
13:48Michael Clyde
13:48They are your top five
13:50Dropping down into the village
13:51Here now
13:52Just watch the kerb there
13:53On the right hand side
13:54Oh my goodness
13:56Heaven's a puff
13:57Backing it in
13:58Does he know he's got
13:59A couple of seconds lead
14:00Sean Broly
14:00I don't think he does
14:02There's Bailey Harker
14:03In third
14:03Lavery in between them
14:05It is literally
14:05Two and a half seconds
14:06Broly leads Lavery
14:07By then another two
14:08Three seconds or so
14:10Between Lavery and Harker
14:12And it's Lee Harker
14:13In there as well
14:13He's gone well
14:14So Sean Broly
14:15Running into the church bend section
14:17Over the crown of the road
14:18Flicking the bike
14:19To the left hand side
14:20There's Lavery on 36
14:21And them two
14:22Have kind of stolen a march
14:23On the rest of them
14:24They're showing the class
14:25At the front of the field
14:26It's the Ducati
14:27That leads a Yamaha
14:28Great names
14:29That we're going to be able
14:29To follow really
14:30Over the next few years
14:31Potentially here
14:32Because we've got
14:32Newcomer Lavery
14:33We've got Sean Broly
14:34Coming to the fore
14:35We've got youngsters
14:36Like Lee Hara
14:36From Belfast
14:37Who's only 19 as well
14:38All starting to shine
14:40In this senior support class
14:42As they go out
14:44In lap number five
14:44Just ahead of the GSXR
14:46But here's Sean Broly
14:47On that Ducati
14:48He's all action isn't he
14:50Really is
14:50You can see it's still
14:51Really damp under the trees
14:53You've just got to be
14:53So careful here
14:54You can see
14:55The damp patches
14:56Are everywhere
14:57And you've just got to be
14:58So aware of it
14:58And now
14:59It looks like Lavery
15:00Is closing back in
15:01On that two and a half
15:02Second lead
15:02That doesn't look like
15:03Two and a half seconds
15:04No three quarters
15:05Of a second there now
15:06They've only got a lap
15:07And a little bit
15:07To go there now
15:08So there's not going
15:08To be much routine
15:09Those guys
15:09Lavery's just on
15:10The quickest lap
15:11Of the race
15:11A 151.1
15:1297.42
15:14Goodness me
15:16Tank slapper central
15:17He's still doing it
15:17Oh goodness me
15:19Has he got to Dunlop's Leaps
15:20How he held that together
15:21I don't know
15:21That's 11
15:22John Cahill
15:23On his GSXR
15:24751 of the stalwarts
15:26Of the Irish scene
15:26Have they both got passed
15:27Yes they have
15:28So Sean Broly passed
15:29And Kevin Lavery
15:30Both passed John Cahill
15:31Where would Lavery be
15:33If he can get
15:33The actual riding
15:34Ride height
15:35Of this bike
15:36Sorted out
15:36Because it is
15:37All over the place
15:38It was
15:38That was the biggest
15:39Tank slapper
15:40I've seen in all my life
15:41Nearly a Darren Lindsay
15:42One at the mid-antrum
15:43Many many moons ago
15:44I'm sure
15:45We've all seen that before
15:46Haven't we Chris
15:46Wow wow wow
15:47What a race meeting that was
15:48But here we go
15:49A couple of laps to go
15:50It was two and a half seconds
15:51It's three quarters of a second
15:53It's half a second now
15:54Isn't it
15:54Back to that tank slapper
15:55Oh my word
15:56Broly we saw
15:59Backing it into the chicane
16:00On the start finish as well
16:02So he's giving it
16:02Full tenth
16:03He is
16:05Point four now
16:05That's all it is
16:06We've got Lee Harris
16:07Still in third
16:07Bailey Harker
16:08In fourth
16:09Michael Clyde
16:10In fifth
16:10So Sean Broly at the front
16:12That lead
16:12Has come right down
16:13There now
16:14This is striking distance
16:15Kevin Lavery on the Yamaha
16:17The Lavery racing 600
16:18On a charge
16:19And he sneaks out
16:20But I think the Ducati
16:21Should just have
16:22The straight line speed
16:22On the Yamaha
16:23I think
16:23Close your eyes
16:24And get ready to wince
16:25As Lavery attacks the jumps again
16:26I'll say for that time
16:28Landing the front wheel
16:28Which always isn't advisable
16:30But he did it
16:31Steady the bike up
16:32Maybe he should do that
16:32Every lap
16:33Oh you say that
16:34But my word
16:35Oh look at it
16:36Look at it
16:37Oh blimey
16:38That's over Dunlop's leaps
16:39And that's dropping down
16:40Towards Bellini Cross
16:41I was keeping an eye
16:42On Dean Graham
16:43They've got a slower rider
16:43Just ahead of them
16:44They're going to have to
16:45Try and negotiate him
16:46How has Kevin Lavery
16:47Got away with those two
16:48In one lap
16:49That was absolutely incredible
16:51Fair play to the young man
16:52For just keeping hold of it
16:53The Dungannan rider
16:54Oh there's traffic
16:56Getting in the way
16:56Is it going to impact it
16:58He's coming
16:58Oh look at that
16:59Lavery's got past him
17:00Because Broly got held up
17:01By 3-2-4
17:02Dean Graham
17:03As he went through
17:03The Kennedy's corner
17:04But Sean Broly's got him back
17:06On the brakes
17:07Into the chicane there
17:08Brilliant
17:09Brilliant stuff
17:09Fantastic
17:10What a race this is
17:12Absolutely tremendous
17:13Broly and Lavery
17:14Putting on massive entertainment
17:16Wow
17:17I've seen guys have
17:18Tank slappers
17:18And have dislocated shoulders
17:20He'll be sore tonight
17:21After that one
17:22Will Kevin I think
17:22Even on the run down
17:24Into the village here
17:25Oh blimey me
17:26Look at that
17:27You have to watch
17:27Those damn spots
17:28He's up on the curb
17:29Oh they've nearly collided
17:30Lavery and Broly
17:31Goodness me
17:32Going up towards
17:33Etchison's leap
17:35And towards Turner-Rober
17:36These two are bumping fairings
17:37It's not BSB boys
17:39Steady now
17:39They are throwing
17:40Everything at this
17:41This is unbelievable
17:42Look at Broly
17:43Lose it under the brakes
17:44Here
17:44Oh just desperate
17:45To try and get it closed off
17:46And then he's up
17:47Over the kerbs on the exit
17:49Yeah on those little
17:50Good job he didn't
17:51Spin the rear wheel up
17:52And we might see Lavery
17:53There we go
17:53I think you might have
17:54Contacted there
17:55Going up the hill
17:56Here there now
17:56Incredible racing at Armoy
17:58Lavery had the front wheel
18:00In the air
18:00And just had to back that off
18:01I think just to make sure
18:02They stayed on the road
18:03As they continue to come across
18:04More traffic
18:05Yeah 7-1
18:06Nine there is
18:06Grant Etchison
18:07On his Yamaha 600
18:08He's going to be safely passed
18:10In a reasonable safe spot
18:11Just
18:12Sean Broly gets passed
18:13And Kevin Lavery gets passed
18:14But here we go
18:15Final time
18:16Up towards the laggy dams
18:17And now on the jump
18:18There we go
18:19That's better from Kevin
18:20Isn't it
18:20Oh yeah
18:21We were able to watch
18:22That one wide eyed
18:24But look at this
18:25Oh once again
18:26Over the top
18:27Of Dunlop's leap
18:27More slower riders
18:28To obviously contend with
18:30Oh my word
18:30They're going to have to watch here
18:31They're going to have to get past
18:32These boys into Bellany Cross
18:34They're not going to get them
18:35I think they could be alright
18:36As we pan out for the next shot
18:38Yeah I think they've got enough space now
18:40That is good
18:40But Sean Broly
18:41He's made that stick there now
18:42But he's still fighting the machine
18:44On the exit of Bellany
18:45Can Lavery get the drive up
18:46Over to the star finish
18:47To take the chequered flag
18:48He's closing
18:49He's closing
18:50Broly is there
18:51Lavery's closing
18:52No
18:53No
18:53Only just
18:540.060
18:56Of a second
18:57From Broly
18:58From Lavery
18:59Then Lee Hara
19:00The young girl fast rider
19:01In third
19:01Bailey Harker
19:02Michael Clyde
19:03And James Walsh
19:04Round out the top six
19:05Then John O'Donovan
19:06Roddy Taylor
19:06Stuart McCann
19:07And Liam Traynor
19:08Round out the top ten
19:09We're going for a sit down
19:10What a race
19:11I think I maybe made
19:15The wrong tyre choice
19:16Had a wet rear on
19:17In some places it was
19:19But most of the track it wasn't
19:20I was getting very squirmy out there
19:22And me and Kate
19:23With a good battle
19:23I was good
19:23Caught up behind a back
19:25Backmarker lost my run
19:26To that last corner
19:27And got him nubbed again
19:28Got into the chicane
19:29So it worked out good
19:30What a thrilling conclusion
19:32As Sean Broly takes to win
19:33But only just
19:35After the break
19:36The Supersports
19:36Get another run at it
19:41Welcome back
19:51The Supersports
19:51Have already raced
19:52The first time
19:53On the Armoy course
19:54And it was Mike Brown
19:55That claimed the top step
19:56On the podium
19:57But it's a competitive class
19:59It's all to play for
20:00In race two
20:01Time for the Supersport machinery
20:06To get onto the grid
20:07Supersport
20:08And of course
20:08Next generation
20:09We could have 750 Suzukis
20:11In there
20:11We could also have
20:12The odd Ducati
20:13In there as well
20:13And it's sponsored
20:14By Ducati Antrim as well
20:15But on pole
20:16Mike Brown on pole
20:17The Cork man
20:18From Connor Cummins
20:19From the Isle of Man
20:20Then Paul Jordan
20:21Row two
20:21Dominic Hurlitz
20:22And Michael Sweeney
20:22Yeah Dominic
20:23Only one bike this weekend
20:24Jamie Coward
20:25Franco Bourne
20:26Barry Ferber
20:26Row three
20:27And row four
20:28Headed off by
20:28Manx man
20:29Joe Yerdsley
20:30Mike Brown on pole
20:32Position
20:32The BPE by
20:33Russell Racing
20:34R6
20:34Gets a good start
20:35Off the line
20:35But Connor Cummins
20:36On the RK Racing
20:37Burrows engineering machine
20:39He gets a belter
20:40Into the chicane
20:41Lap number one of seven
20:42Fantastic start
20:43For Cummins
20:44But Brown's right behind him
20:45And that man Jordan
20:46Is there again in third
20:47Yeah Paul's had a great year
20:49So far
20:49As has Connor
20:50Building up that confidence
20:51Slowly with the
20:52John Burrows team
20:52And good to see
20:53John out and about
20:54In the paddock this weekend
20:55Always good to have
20:56John Burrows
20:57Around racing
20:58As Connor leads the way
20:59Down into the village
21:00For the first time
21:01Mike Brown right behind him
21:02Had a little bit of a look
21:03But decides better off it there
21:04Conditions drier than we might have thought
21:06Actually because there have been showers about
21:07Oh and now he makes the move immediately
21:09Yeah I think Connor made a little bit of a mistake
21:11Just coming out of the village
21:12Through Robbo's corner
21:14So it allowed Paul Jordan
21:15To get past him
21:15And also in there
21:16Number one five four
21:17Franco Bourne
21:18He'll go well
21:19And it's Duviket
21:20He's a newcomer
21:21Riding a course for the
21:22Cowton Racing team
21:23Newcomer to road racing
21:24Essentially everywhere he goes
21:25This season
21:26Going well on the Kawasaki
21:27So up front
21:28Brown has got to the lead
21:29From Jordan
21:29Connor Cummins
21:30Has been shuffled back
21:31From the lead to third
21:32And a little bit of a gap already
21:33Between the front two and him
21:35Michael Sweeney in there
21:36Has all got Barry Furber
21:37We've got Jamie Coward
21:38All in the mix
21:39And keep an eye out
21:40For row number two
21:41Had a great TT
21:42Kevin Keyes
21:43He did
21:44A newcomer again
21:45Always going well
21:47Impressing wherever he goes
21:48This race
21:49This road is just superb
21:51Oh Mike Brown
21:53Absolutely out of his seat there
21:54Just seeing the spectator
21:55Sat on the
21:56How shall I see
21:56The camping seat
21:57Kind of jumped out of it
21:58Just as he went past him there
21:59But Mike Brown
22:00All in control
22:01I'm sure if you asked him
22:02All in control
22:03Totally under control
22:04Obviously
22:05Look at the crowds
22:06Look at the crowds
22:07And across they go
22:08They're heading towards
22:09Kennedy's corner now
22:10Just past the barn there
22:11On the left hand side
22:12But Westmuff's start again
22:13On the Spinner Arena
22:14Dotnet Yamaha
22:15That's Joe Yerge
22:16A good start by the young Manx man
22:18I think he's just slotting in behind
22:20Possibly just going to work it out
22:22Yeah Jamie Coward
22:23Just in behind the Triumph there
22:24And Jamie Coward
22:25On the 36
22:26It's not a bad place to be
22:27But he'll want to try and get up from there
22:28If he can
22:29As Mike Brown already tries to extend away
22:31At the Frontier
22:32We know the pedigree
22:33Of that Russell Racing Machine
22:35Absolutely rapid Supersport Machine
22:38But the Jackson Machine
22:39Has been coming on as well
22:40Just watch this
22:41Just watch how Michael Sweeney's head
22:42Bounces around there
22:43So go through now
22:44This is the drop down
22:45Towards the village
22:46That's called McCooken's corner
22:47And this is Dean's rise
22:48Hard on the brakes
22:49One grid, two grid, three grid
22:50Four grid
22:51Five greets you've got to watch out for
22:53All the way into there
22:54And they're all marked
22:54And they're all quite griffy actually
22:56Until they get wet
22:57And he makes the move
22:58On Connor Cummins
22:59On the run down into the village
23:01So Sweeney upper place
23:02Upper place as they're red
23:03Towards Atchison's leap
23:04And heading now towards
23:05Turner-Robert
23:06The bike will go light
23:07Over the top of the hill
23:08And then they'll head
23:09To the Church Bend section
23:10Mike Brown leads Paul Jordan
23:12And then Maxman
23:13Connor Cummins
23:13Going well
23:14On that 9.55 Ducati
23:16The front two though
23:18Are breaking away here
23:19And really looking
23:20At a really pacey race
23:22Jordan is desperate
23:23To stick with Brown
23:24For sure
23:25He's not wanting
23:25The Russell race
23:26And Yamaha
23:26To get too far ahead
23:28Yeah and I think
23:28You called it as well
23:29Michael Sweeney
23:29Has now got ahead
23:30Of Connor Cummins
23:32So Michael Sweeney
23:33Finding a little bit of form
23:34There you go
23:34Over the top of the leap
23:36And watch the
23:36Oh I wish they would have
23:37Stayed on that
23:38You can just see
23:38It's just like a motocross
23:39It's like a BMX track
23:41But with 140 brake
23:42House power
23:43Super sport machines
23:44Jordan then
23:45Into Bellamy
23:46Cross as well
23:47Right behind
23:48Brown wants to stick with
23:49And now get on the power
23:50All the way up the hill
23:52And that Russell racing machine
23:53Just flies
23:54It's Yamaha
23:55Against the Honda then
23:56As they head down
23:57Towards that
23:58There's Kennedy's corner
23:59So so fast
24:00Past the entrance
24:01To the paddock
24:02And they'll go across
24:03The start line
24:03Just about there
24:04There it is
24:05So Mike Brown
24:05Across the line
24:06Ahead of Paul Jordan
24:0716
24:08He's 22
24:08Then it's 65
24:09Sweeney
24:10Then it's 11
24:11Cummins
24:11That's your top four
24:12Sweeney of course
24:13It's Andrew
24:14Gearview are with us
24:14For sticking with
24:15Michael Dunlop
24:16On the super sport
24:17Machines all the way
24:17So that gives you
24:18An indication of the
24:19Pace of Brown
24:20And Jordan here
24:21Absolutely
24:21And it's such a shame
24:22Not to have Michael
24:23Here this weekend
24:23And of course
24:24The current champion
24:25Davey Todd
24:25So we will have
24:26Later on
24:27A new name on the
24:28Armory Race
24:28The Legends trophy
24:29We will
24:30But the serious
24:31Business to go
24:31Before then
24:32Connor's got it
24:33Crossed up a bit
24:34Franco Bourne there
24:35In the breaking as well
24:36He's past Coward
24:37He's running some
24:38Good pace isn't he
24:39Franco Bourne
24:40For a young man
24:40Who hasn't seen
24:41This place before
24:41Dyson with Michael
24:42Sweeney
24:43Dancing with Connor
24:43Cummins
24:44Dancing
24:44Dyson with Connor
24:45Cummins
24:46And Dyson with
24:46Jamie Coward
24:47Oh it's Kevin
24:49Keyes
24:50That's Kevin
24:51Keyes
24:51Has gone straight on
24:52That's down in the
24:52Village that is
24:53On the number five
24:54Machine
24:54On the Daracore
24:55Machine
24:55That is a shame
24:56For Kevin
24:56Keyes
24:57Who normally goes
24:57Well it's
24:58Oh goodness me
24:59That was Michael
25:00Sweeney
25:00Completely sideways
25:02On landing
25:02At the laggy jump
25:03Wow
25:04Absolutely sensational
25:06Jordan looks to have
25:07Closed in on
25:07Brown up at the
25:09Front here as well
25:10So we'll just have to
25:10Keep an eye on that
25:11Because there is our
25:12Third place man
25:13Then fourth and fifth
25:13Cummins and Coward
25:15Right behind
25:16And Coward's looking
25:17Like he wants to
25:17Try and get past
25:18Connor if he can
25:18Here
25:19How big does
25:20Connor look on that
25:20Ducati
25:21Again he's struggling
25:21For gears
25:22Did you see that there
25:23Just on the exit
25:23Of Bellini Cross
25:24He tried to hook a gear
25:25And he wasn't having it
25:26So here we go
25:2721 Joe Yurt
25:28He cuts the machine
25:29To the left hand side
25:30On board
25:31Power on
25:31Exiting Bellini Cross
25:33Now
25:33Heading back towards
25:34And at the front though
25:35Oh Mike Brown
25:36That is backing it
25:37In and a half
25:37Isn't it
25:38Goodness me
25:39This is lap number four
25:40Mike Brown
25:4016 leads
25:4122 Paul Jordan
25:42It's a cracker
25:44These two are
25:45Absolutely dicing
25:46At the front
25:47Brown knows
25:48Jordan is right there
25:49With him
25:49That is for sure
25:50You can see that
25:51You can see that in
25:51Brown's riding style
25:52It is 11 tenths already
25:54Looking them over
25:54The jump there now
25:55Over towards Turner
25:56Robert
25:56That is
25:57You've got to watch out
25:58Because the hedge
25:58Comes back towards you
25:59And you're going to
26:00Fling the bike
26:00Over to the left hand side
26:01Again
26:02And cut it to the right
26:03Then cut it to the left
26:04Again to the church bend
26:05Exit
26:05And this is important
26:06Once that kerb just jumps out
26:08You can see the extra bit of kerb there
26:09Just to stop them cutting it
26:11Because this
26:11Is so so fast
26:12On the Supersport
26:13Can't wait for the big bikes later
26:15Oh blimey
26:15It gets narrow down here
26:17Doesn't it
26:17We're watching these ones
26:18Through our fingers
26:19God knows
26:19What were we like
26:20With the bigger bikes
26:21I watched there one year
26:22A long time ago
26:23When the super bikes
26:23Go past there
26:24As Mike Brown
26:25Gets the rear wheel sideways
26:26When they go over
26:27The laggy dams
26:27And the jumps
26:28And the bikes land next to
26:29170 miles an hour
26:30The whole road shapes
26:31The whole thing's shaped
26:32It's incredible
26:33Can't even imagine
26:35Absolutely sensation
26:36Jordan then
26:37Has closed right back in again
26:38Oh
26:38Paul Jordan
26:39That rear wheel
26:40Trying to snap away
26:42From itself
26:42That Honda
26:43The Jackson Racing Honda
26:44Trying to fuck him off
26:45That's twice
26:46That's done that
26:46But I think there
26:47Mike Brown
26:48Has gapped them a little bit
26:49Second or so
26:49I would say
26:50Yamaha just seems to have
26:52That little bit of a pull out
26:53Of the lane
26:53Across all the way up
26:54Over the start finish line
26:55We're with third place Sweeney
26:57Oh no we're not
26:58It's not third place Sweeney anymore
26:59It is of course
27:00Jamie Coward
27:01He's got the KTS Triumph
27:03Up to that third position now
27:04Ahead of Sweeney
27:05And just in behind him
27:06Should be the 11
27:07Of Connor Cummins
27:08Brilliant overtake there
27:10By Coward
27:10Over the start finish
27:11And into the
27:12Armoy home chicane
27:13But out front
27:14These two are still
27:15While Brown maybe
27:16Has just got a bike length
27:17For two more
27:18Michael Sweeney's good
27:19On the brakes
27:19Oh see what I mean
27:20About that kerb
27:21See what I mean
27:22About that kerb
27:22You've got to watch it
27:23And then there's a little
27:24Cut through where you can
27:25Park your car
27:25You have to watch that kerb
27:27It's really really high
27:28And then up through the cuttings
27:29Here where the noise
27:30Bounces off these stone walls
27:32Must be tremendous feeling
27:34Up through there
27:35Coward though
27:35Looking really composed
27:36Here in third
27:37Said it to him
27:38Before the start of the meeting
27:39I said I was watching
27:40In the 700
27:40As the week went on
27:41You could see
27:42He was getting quicker
27:43And quicker
27:43And more in touch
27:45With his riding again
27:46Yeah it's great to see
27:48Isn't it
27:48He came on through the 700
27:49And we're seeing here
27:50Bang
27:51He's back to form
27:52He's back in the top threes
27:53And chasing for those top threes
27:55See if he gets on the podium
27:56As the weekend progresses
27:57See if he can hold the podium
27:58In this particular race
27:59Let's hope he does
28:00But one man who wants to get
28:01On the podium
28:02Is this man
28:02Michael Sweeney
28:03Nearly pulls alongside him
28:04Looks nice and planted
28:05That time does the Yamaha
28:07Of Sweeney
28:07But Connor Cummins
28:08In behind again
28:09All nice and steady
28:10And Connor
28:11Getting that Ducati air rate
28:13And just lifts his backside
28:14Off the back of the seat there
28:15Just to steady the machine up
28:16As you go over the jumps
28:17And the bumps
28:18Standing to Bellany Cross
28:19Joe Yeasley
28:19Just in the back of the shot
28:21As well
28:21In fifth place
28:23Got to watch into there
28:24As all Connor Cummins
28:25Now he found the gears
28:27That time
28:27He's got a good drive out there
28:28As Connor
28:29On the RK Racing Borough
28:30Ducati
28:30So it is Mike Brown
28:32Still at the front
28:33Going into the village
28:34Going to watch that little grid there
28:36And on the exit
28:36Paul Jordan
28:37See the way he goes
28:38Round that grid
28:38Every time
28:39That's the same mark
28:40Put Tempe down
28:41I bet you he'd hit it
28:42Every time
28:43Sensational
28:44Paul Jordan then
28:45On the Jackson
28:46Racing Honda
28:47Sitting in second place
28:49Behind Brown
28:50Not sure what he can do
28:51Brown just seems to be
28:52That little bit quicker
28:53In a couple of places
28:54It just seems that
28:55Yamaha just seems to have
28:56A little bit more pull
28:57Out of the slower corners
28:58Doesn't it
28:58Into Churchbends
28:59Fantastic
29:00You look at the crowds there
29:0116 Brown
29:0222 Jordan
29:03Yamaha
29:04Against the Honda
29:05Now they go
29:06Onto the part of the circuit
29:07Where power is king
29:08Out through the lagger road
29:11Over the jumps
29:12Through lagger dams
29:13And then onto the jumps
29:14And then Dunlop's leap
29:15There's so much contained
29:16In this one mile
29:17You don't get a rest
29:18You don't get a rest
29:19Absolutely incredible
29:20And then you've got to
29:20Get on the brakes down
29:21To Blaine Cross
29:22When we get there as well
29:23Sweeney's having a look
29:24Isn't he
29:24Wow that's at 140 odd mile
29:26An hour that is
29:27He nearly had a look
29:28At himself
29:28Over the Dunlop's leap
29:29Watch Jamie's backside
29:30Come off the seat
29:31There it is there
29:32Just to settle the bike
29:33See the way he lifted
29:33Himself up
29:34Pushed himself down
29:35On the pench
29:35Just to steady
29:36The bike up
29:37But he just
29:38Making Sweeney
29:39He's getting a good view
29:39Of it
29:39But he's not getting past
29:40Coward's looking
29:41Really impressive though
29:42Here
29:42He's as we say
29:43Coming back from this crash
29:44Earlier in the year
29:45And he's looking
29:46Really really solid
29:47We go out onto the final lap
29:49That lap was the fastest lap
29:51Of the race for Paul Jordan
29:52It has allowed him
29:53To just close in
29:54Ever so slightly
29:54On Mike Brown
29:56Yeah Mike Brown
29:57Seems away with it
29:58At the moment
29:58So Mike Brown's
29:59Gone round at 104.074
30:02So Mike's gone well also
30:03With that good pace
30:04At the front
30:04I'm going to say
30:05What three quarters of a second
30:06Half a second
30:07It's still losable though
30:08Isn't it
30:09Yeah a little mistake
30:10Anywhere
30:11You just get on the overrun there
30:12On the run out
30:12Through the village
30:13Jordan is sitting there
30:14Waiting for any opportunity
30:16Will he get one
30:17Watch the way he moves
30:18Trying to get
30:19Oh look at that
30:19They've got slower riders
30:20Coming up on a slower rider there
30:22Now I'm not sure who that is
30:23We'll find out
30:23Possibly in a second
30:24It's 43
30:25Stevie Degnan
30:25Goodness
30:27Goodness me
30:28Through the top
30:29Of Turner Robert
30:29And into Church Benz
30:31Goodness me
30:31Stevie Degnan
30:32He got to wake up
30:33Didn't he
30:33Yeah the pair of them
30:34Have managed to get past though
30:35So no impact on the race
30:37For that later
30:38Paul Jordan's closer
30:39I would say he is
30:40I reckon he's closer
30:41So possibility of a chance
30:43On the breaking zone
30:44Stevie Degnan
30:44Got to wake up there
30:45Did Degas unfortunately
30:46But here we go
30:47Flat to the mat
30:48On these 600
30:49Super Sport machines
30:50Mike Brown over the jump
30:51Paul Jordan over the jump
30:52Not much between them at all
30:54Here we go
30:54Final time
30:55We're on board
30:55With Michael Sweeney
30:56Is he going to pull through
30:57Past Jamie Coward
30:59On the triumphant
30:59Looks like he might have him
31:00This time
31:01Is he going to see him
31:01To the left hand side
31:02He's got him
31:03I think Michael Sweeney's up to third
31:05He tried on the last lap
31:06As you said
31:06And just couldn't
31:07Didn't quite have it
31:08But that time he did
31:09There's the race win though
31:11That was
31:12Brown taking victory
31:13From Jordan
31:14But the battle for third
31:15Here between Sweeney
31:16And Coward
31:17Who's going to take that
31:18Sweeney does
31:19Well done to Sweeney
31:20Well done to Michael Sweeney
31:21With the win
31:21Jamie Coward coming home
31:23In a great fourth place
31:24Connor Cummins in fifth
31:26Sick for Joe Yardsley
31:27Seventh in a customer
31:28Then Joey Thompson
31:29Barry Ferber
31:30And Sam West
31:31That's three wins so far
31:35For Mike Brown
31:36With just one to go
31:37The race of legends
31:38We'll have that for you
31:39After the break
31:40Don't go anywhere
31:41It's the one we've all
31:54Been waiting for
31:55The reason these riders
31:56Are here
31:57And the only one
31:57That truly matters
31:58It's the race of legends
32:00At Armoy
32:01But who will stand
32:02On the top step
32:03Of the podium
32:03This is the big one
32:06The Bayview Hotel
32:07Race of legends
32:08Ryan Farquhar
32:09Michael Dunlop
32:10And David Todd
32:10The only people
32:11To have the hand
32:11On this trophy
32:12In years gone by
32:13Who's going to add their name
32:14Will it be Paul Jordan
32:15Mike Brown
32:16And Connor Cummins
32:16Off the front row
32:17Michael Sweeney
32:18And Jamie Coward
32:19On row two
32:19To row three
32:20It's Philip Crow
32:21Marcus Simpson
32:22And the very impressive
32:23Franco Bourne
32:23Rounding out row four
32:24It's Erno Costimo
32:25Paul Jordan
32:27Now on the Jackson
32:28Racing
32:28The super stock machine
32:29The Honda on pole position
32:30Away
32:30We go
32:31It's a seven lap race
32:32Here for the race of legends
32:34And he's got to the front
32:34With Mike Brown
32:35Slotting in
32:36But I think another good start
32:37Yeah
32:37Michael Sweeney
32:38But that's Marcus Simpson
32:39Marcus Simpson
32:40With a great start
32:41Up to fourth
32:41Indeed
32:42With Jamie Coward
32:43Just behind him
32:43This time Jordan
32:44Is using the big bike
32:46He rode the super sport machine
32:47In the earlier open race
32:49I think that's quite clever
32:50Now conditions are looking
32:51Pretty good
32:51So here we go
32:52Into the village
32:53For the first time
32:53Jamie Coward in fifth
32:54Then it's Costimo
32:55Phil Crow
32:56I can see in there as well
32:57And I just haven't caught
32:59Connor Cummins yet
33:00Where's Connor?
33:01Yeah not sure where he is
33:02A little bit further back
33:03But out the front here
33:04There's Jordan
33:04On the Jackson racing machine
33:06And we're right with him
33:07Sweeney
33:08And Brown
33:09Right with him
33:09They are the three men
33:10Who've been all over the podium
33:11All weekend long
33:12Who
33:13Right over the edge of the road there
33:15For Jordan
33:16Using every inch of the asphalt
33:18So Jamie Coward
33:19On board with him
33:20As Marcus Simpson
33:20He gets a great start
33:21Ah that's why Connor's
33:22Gone backward again
33:23Gear selection problems
33:24On the BMW this time
33:26Possibly
33:26And Jamie Coward
33:27And Erno Costimo
33:28Nearly coming to blows
33:29Into the chicane
33:30We saw that earlier
33:31Erno Costimo
33:32Doesn't mind getting close
33:33Does he?
33:34Real close quarters action
33:35From the finish rider
33:36Really good to see
33:37Marcus Simpson
33:37Up at the front
33:38Running with Jamie Coward
33:39And Mike Brown
33:40And then Mike Brown's
33:41Got a little bit of work to do
33:42Of course
33:42Won the first superbike race
33:43Earlier on in the day
33:45But at the front
33:45It's Paul Jordan
33:46Sweeney and Brown
33:47Brown was absolutely sideways
33:49And Connor Cummins
33:50Just getting on the back
33:51Of Phil Crow there now
33:52Starting to get on the pace
33:53As you say
33:54With Phil Crow
33:54And Erno Costimo
33:55But up at the front
33:56We're going past Sweeney
33:58Oh at least going to try
33:59Have a look up the inside
34:01No
34:02Do you know what
34:02I reckon they've just touched
34:03Really
34:04I hope we see that again
34:05Because I think
34:05They have just touched
34:06Sweeney and Brown
34:07We saw it earlier
34:08On the Super Twins
34:09I think it was with Paul Jordan
34:10That was close
34:11Wasn't it
34:12Really really close
34:13With Marcus Simpson now
34:14Can he get the drive
34:15Up the hill
34:16After that issue
34:17Down at Bellaney
34:18Cross for the riders
34:18Oh that's Mike Brown
34:20So so wide
34:21Through Kennedy's
34:21He is trying
34:22Absolutely trying
34:24Across the line
34:24To go
34:25But how we
34:26Goodness me Mike Brown
34:27But he's got that position
34:28Back for Marcus Simpson
34:29Right
34:29Calm down Mike
34:30He's a bit bit scruffy
34:31Through the chicane there
34:32As well
34:33On the exeter there
34:34Now McGuckin's corner
34:35That's called
34:35And then dropping down
34:36To Dean Thrice
34:37But let's watch a replay of this
34:38So here's Sweeney
34:39He's leaning on him
34:40Oh Mike
34:41Nearly tagged him
34:42On the back
34:43That kind of lost Mike
34:44A little bit of time
34:45And gave Marcus Simpson
34:46A chance to try
34:47And catch up on him
34:48And then of course
34:48He ran wide again
34:49But Jamie Coward
34:50Into fifth
34:51Then it's Marcus Simpson
34:52Fourth
34:52And Connor Cummins
34:53He's coming back into it now
34:55On the 11 bike
34:55After that poor start
34:57What an opening lap
34:58Wow
34:59Just amazing
35:00We're with Philip Crowe
35:01As well
35:01It's great to have Philip
35:02Back at Armoy
35:03As well
35:04And making his way
35:04Back into the Irish roads
35:06On the BMW
35:07Yeah Phil
35:08He is of course
35:09A big big guy
35:10He's handling that BMW
35:11Really really well
35:13He normally runs 71
35:14But he changes number
35:15To 18 for this
35:16But Mike Brown
35:16He's got to look ahead of him
35:18As you can just still see
35:19One or two little damp spots
35:20Here and there
35:21The sun is shining though
35:22Which is a good good sign
35:23You can just see the hill
35:24In the background there
35:25As you go across
35:26The laggy dams
35:27Into the jump there
35:27The big hill
35:28That you will see in front of you
35:30On the right hand side
35:31In a minute
35:31That's actually a mountain
35:32Called Nocklaid
35:33But there you go
35:34He's got past Michael Sweeney
35:35Michael Sweeney's been passed now
35:37By Mike Brown
35:38Who's up to second place
35:39Almost right out onto the gravel
35:41On the left hand side of the road
35:42As he went over Dunlop
35:43The sleeps as well
35:44Wow
35:45Paul Jordan
35:46Better look out
35:46Because Mike Brown
35:47Is a coming
35:48He's got past him clean
35:49That time
35:50That was so close
35:51To this corner
35:52On the previous lap
35:52Wasn't it
35:53Looking at lap pace
35:54They're kind of on about
35:55The 104s
35:55105s
35:56At the moment
35:57It's getting there
35:57Isn't it
35:58Pace is really coming on
36:00The huge crowds
36:01Watching this race
36:02Of legends
36:02The meeting's only been in existence
36:03Since 2009
36:05But this race
36:06Means an awful lot
36:07Within the Irish road racing community
36:09It does
36:10And like you said
36:10It's the hotbed of Irish road racing
36:12Michael Dunlop of course
36:13And the Dunlop family
36:14The Kennedy family
36:15All these people
36:16They are Moy Armada
36:17There's history in these roads up here
36:19But at the front
36:20Paul Jordan
36:20The man from Macrofelt
36:21He's leading against the man
36:23From down in Cork
36:24Mike Brown with Michael Sweeney
36:25The scariest man
36:26In third
36:26LA man Cork
36:28Yep
36:28These two have been battling
36:29All weekend
36:30Across the classes
36:31Sweeney's been right there
36:32With them as well
36:33Now behind that
36:33Marcus Simpson and Jamie Coward
36:35And Connor Cummins
36:36All having a scrap for four
36:37Yeah Connor must be
36:38Kind of kicking himself
36:39Because he's running
36:40Pretty similar pace
36:41To what the top three
36:41Are doing there
36:42But you can't really
36:43Say how good Marcus Simpson
36:44Is riding there now
36:45On the W-H racing team
36:47But at the front
36:48Paul Jordan
36:48Getting the Jackson
36:49Racing machine sideways
36:50You've got to see
36:51How technical this is
36:52Left hand side
36:53Right hand side
36:54As quick as that
36:54Then they're going to
36:55Flip to the right hand side
36:56Here now
36:56Into Church
36:57Look out for the kerb
36:58On the inside
36:59It'll push you further on
37:00There we go
37:01Flick the bike
37:01To the left hand side
37:02And now
37:03Flat out
37:03On a 200 plus
37:04Brake horsepower
37:05Superbike
37:06Across the lagging
37:07Absolutely incredible
37:08The amount of
37:09Work that is in a lap
37:11Of this course
37:11Is amazing
37:12Because you've just
37:13Got everything
37:13You've got tight little turns
37:14You've got curves
37:15You've got huge jumps
37:16Then you've got the blinding
37:17Straight up over the start
37:18Finish
37:19It's got just about
37:20Everything
37:20But at the moment
37:21It's 34 year old
37:22Jordan holding off
37:2335 year old
37:24Brown at the front
37:26Yeah not much
37:26Between him and age
37:27And not much
37:27Between him on the track
37:28Paul Jordan
37:29Looks like he's got
37:30Possibly an intermediate
37:31Front on there
37:32We'll have to wait
37:32Till he get into the village
37:33To see if I can see
37:34Exactly what he has got on
37:35But he's got good drive
37:36On that Honda
37:37Two Hondas
37:38First and second
37:39At the moment
37:39Here comes Mike Brown
37:40Though he's getting on a charge
37:42He's heading up
37:42Towards Kennedy's corner
37:43Which is just about there
37:45He ran really wide there
37:46The last couple of
37:47That being a goal
37:47Goodness me
37:48Nearly clattered
37:49Into the back of him
37:50Goodness me
37:51But we have
37:51A new race leader
37:52Wow
37:53Got the drive
37:54Up over Kennedy's
37:55And out through the start
37:56Finish
37:56Mike Brown
37:57Surges to the front
37:58From Paul Jordan
37:59Through the Armoy
38:00Home chicane
38:01Out onto the next lap
38:02And the run down
38:03Into the village
38:04We're already on
38:04Block four of seven
38:06This is going through
38:06In the blink of an eye
38:07It certainly is
38:08In third place
38:09Keeping a steady
38:09Third place
38:10At the moment
38:10Is Michael Sweeney
38:11On the 65
38:12Connor Cummins
38:13Jamie Coward
38:14Phil Crow
38:14Marcus Simpson
38:15Kevin Keyes
38:16In the second group
38:16As well
38:17We'll just keep an eye
38:18On Kevin Keyes
38:18And Erno Costomo
38:19Sort of just inside
38:21The top ten
38:21But at the front
38:22I think Mike Brown
38:23Is just gapping him
38:23A little bit isn't he
38:24He is
38:25He's pulling it out
38:25Ever so slightly
38:26Is Brown
38:27Just getting a
38:28Sort of
38:29Few lengths away
38:30But they are pushing
38:30Aren't they
38:31They really are pushing
38:32What a spectacle
38:33They're putting on
38:34For the huge crowd
38:34Out here
38:35Still damp under
38:36Those trees
38:36As they go through
38:37Turner Robert
38:38And into Church
38:38Benz
38:39There's Sweeney
38:39There's Simpson
38:41There's Coward
38:41There's Cummins
38:42And just in behind
38:43Them
38:43I think that will be
38:44Big Phil Crow
38:45On the 18 machine
38:46But here he comes
38:47On the BMW
38:48The RK Racing
38:49Burrows Racing
38:50Machine
38:50Of John Burrows
38:51With Connor Cummins
38:52On board
38:53Just going to come
38:54Alongside
38:54You see the front
38:55Wheel move
38:55Has he got him
38:56He's got him
38:57Up into the inside
38:58Of the KTS BMW
38:59That's a great move
39:00Into Dunlop
39:00Leap by Connor
39:01Connor moves up
39:02The fourth
39:02Brilliant move
39:03Really good place
39:04To do it
39:05I don't think we've
39:05Really seen any
39:06Overtakes work there
39:07All weekend
39:07But he's managed
39:08To make it work
39:09On the final race
39:10Well I'll just
39:10Correct myself there
39:11Connor up to fifth
39:12Because how can I forget
39:13Oh goodness me
39:15Marcus Simpson
39:17Absolutely sideways
39:19As for power
39:20And his tyre was going
39:20No
39:21Not a chance
39:22But at the front
39:23Oh goodness me
39:24Paul Jordan's got a lot
39:25Of work to get
39:26Mike Brown on that
39:27But Connor Cummins
39:27Starting to show the form
39:28Again
39:28Just that bad start
39:30Cost him Chris
39:30Yeah and one or two
39:31Bike problems we've seen
39:32In earlier races on the day
39:33So he'll be keen
39:34To try and push on here
39:35He hasn't made the podium
39:36So far this weekend
39:37Can he do it
39:38In this final race
39:39Yeah let's hope he can
39:40He's got a lot of work
39:41To do to get up to
39:42Michael Sweeney
39:42He's said he's just
39:43In behind Marcus Simpson
39:44But maybe
39:45Not for long there now
39:46You've got to get
39:46To the centre of the road
39:47The front wheeler
39:48Marcus Simpson
39:49Just juddering a little bit
39:50There now
39:51But Connor Cummins
39:51He is up to that
39:53Fourth position now
39:54Confirmed
39:55And pushing on up
39:56Through the cuttings
39:57What can he do
39:57About the three
39:58Ahead of him
39:59You can see the road
40:00Still damp in places
40:01So riding these super stops
40:03Is no mean feat
40:04In these conditions
40:05Over the top of the hill
40:06They go
40:07Then they drop down now
40:08Into Turner Robert
40:09Then they're going to
40:09Flick the bike
40:10To the right hand side
40:11Then I can look
40:12For the mud
40:12That's been splattered
40:13Off the track
40:13Head towards that big tree
40:15And cut it into
40:15The right hand side
40:16Don't run too wide there
40:18Perfect line
40:19From all four riders
40:20In the shop there as well
40:21And then get the tyre
40:22On the fat part of the tyre
40:23And drive
40:24Look at the way
40:24The tyre marks
40:26Have been left there now
40:26The bike has been compressing
40:28They've been asking for things
40:29The wheels spinning
40:30As you go through there
40:30Third, fourth, fifth
40:31Kick
40:31Oh, Conor
40:32Sideways
40:33The things are spinning up
40:34In fifth and sixth gear
40:35Incredible action
40:37Absolutely sensational action
40:39Conor Cummins
40:40Then he's on an absolute charge here
40:41But what can he do about those ahead
40:42We're on with Phil Crow
40:44Very briefly
40:44He's behind this train
40:46Of Cummins
40:46Simpson
40:47Coward
40:47And then Crow
40:48I think I mentioned the fact
40:50That he's got a lot of way
40:50To get back on Mikko Sweeney
40:52But he's not too far behind
40:53Only a second or so there now
40:54Back in the front though
40:55It is Mike Brown
40:56Who does lead
40:57Mike Brown leads
40:58Paul Jordan
40:58And he's extending it as well
41:00Tell you what
41:01They'll know where they are at
41:02With this Russell Racing Honda
41:03That they're developing
41:04If they can get through
41:05And pass the Jackson Honda
41:07And pull away from it
41:09Then they'll know
41:09They've got some real machine
41:11Under their legs
41:12To work with
41:12As they carry on from here
41:13Yeah, working on to 2026
41:15Already
41:16Thinking about that
41:16We're only in the middle of 2025
41:18Say time will go quick
41:20Won't they?
41:20This is such a great part
41:21Of the circuit there now
41:22Dean's Rise
41:23Dropping down the hill
41:24They're on lap number 6
41:25And at the front
41:25Mike Brown has this
41:27In the bag
41:27But I don't think
41:28Third place is just done yet
41:29With Mikko Sweeney
41:30Connor Cummins
41:30And Jamie Coward
41:31Looking for that
41:32Third position
41:33But we are going to have
41:34A new name on the
41:35Race of Legends trophy
41:36This year
41:37We are
41:37It probably won't be Sweeney
41:38Who is sat in this third place
41:40Behind Brown
41:40And Jordan
41:41There's Connor Cummins
41:42Behind that
41:43He was telling me
41:44In the week
41:45That the bike
41:46Just doesn't feel the same
41:47As what it was
41:47Just doesn't feel as sharp
41:50Look at the lead
41:51That race leader
41:52Brown has got
41:52Suddenly
41:53He's pulled that out
41:54To what
41:54Two, two and a half seconds
41:55At least
41:56Yeah
41:56On lap number 6
41:57I think they are
41:58The fastest lap there
41:59Brown
41:59Oh yes
42:00106.398
42:02106.898
42:04For Brown
42:05Should I say
42:05Just need the extra strong
42:06Glasses on Chris
42:07106.898
42:09And the clay man
42:09Once he got to the front
42:10The rear tyre
42:11Of that machine
42:12Is still breaking up
42:13And here we go
42:13Last that time now
42:14Can he make it
42:15A four-timer
42:16What a new weekend
42:17That would be
42:18For the Corkman
42:19He's about
42:20Two and a quarter seconds
42:21Outside of Davey Todd's
42:22Outright lap record pace
42:24Which just shows
42:25Where the conditions are
42:26Just a little bit damp
42:27There's a drop
42:27And through the way
42:28The trees were
42:29Just in the deans rising
42:30And he's all action
42:31Into there isn't he
42:32He's not backing off
42:34Is he with a big lead here
42:35Not at all
42:36We're on board
42:36With Marcus Simpson
42:37Oh look at that
42:38That's Phil Crow
42:39That's Phil Crow
42:39Going up the inside
42:40Of Marcus Simpson
42:41On the brakes
42:42To the two
42:42With the Honda rider
42:44For Simpson
42:44And the BMW
42:45For Crow
42:46Big Phil gets past Marcus
42:47That will be up
42:48Into sixth place
42:50I think for Phil Crow
42:50With Marcus Simpson
42:51Dropping into seventh
42:52Great though
42:53If Phil Crow
42:54Can get a top six
42:54Out of this
42:55Because the pace
42:56At the front
42:57Has been pretty high
42:58Kevin Keyes
42:59Also in there
42:59Roundabout eighth
43:00At the moment
43:00Erno Costomo
43:01Ninth
43:01James Short
43:02Going well
43:02Sam West
43:02Barry Furber
43:03Neil Kernan
43:04Ryan Whitehall
43:05New machine for Ryan
43:06This week
43:07Ryan's changed to the R1
43:08He's gone to the R1
43:09The Honda
43:10For this day
43:11But look at this man
43:12It is Mike Brown's day
43:13Isn't it
43:14He's looking good in the sun
43:15On his way to victory
43:16Here down into
43:17Mullaney Cross
43:18For the final time
43:19This bike has got
43:20Plenty of potential
43:21So much more
43:22To come from it as well
43:23And look at that
43:23Brown away
43:24Off up the hill
43:25Just get on the power
43:26Tap it all the way
43:27Up the hill
43:28Past the flag
43:29Marshall Air
43:30Who gets a great spot
43:31Coming out of
43:31Mullaney Cross
43:32And into Kennedy's
43:32Corner
43:33And ladies and gentlemen
43:34A brand new name
43:35On the Race of Legends
43:36Trophy
43:36It is Mike Brown
43:37He takes four wins
43:39At Armory for 2025
43:40In pretty commanding style
43:42Second place
43:42Is going to be
43:43Paul Jordan
43:44Paul Jordan
43:45Will go across the line
43:46To take second
43:47And third place
43:47Will be this man
43:48It's Michael Sweeney
43:49But only just
43:51From Connor Cummins
43:52The gap at the end
43:53Chris Boyd
43:53Was so so tight
43:54Two tenths of a second
43:56Sweeney holds on
43:57By from Cummins
43:58And Coward
43:59Only another two tenths
44:00Behind that
44:00Four race wins
44:01For Mike Brown
44:02Across the event
44:03Six podiums
44:03To Jordan
44:04Five for Sweeney
44:05Some great racing
44:06At Armory for 2025
44:07The event's main
44:09Protagonist in first
44:11And second
44:11After a thrilling race
44:12But it's Mike Brown
44:14That takes the win
44:14And with it
44:15The Race of Legends
44:16Crown
44:16It is special
44:18Because I had to work
44:19Hard for it at the start
44:20Just wasn't really
44:22Getting into it
44:23And there was a bit of
44:23Hair actually
44:24In my eye the whole time
44:25I was trying to blow it away
44:25It went away
44:27After the third lap
44:28And no
44:29I just
44:29Read the defensive race
44:31For a little bit
44:31But saw my pit boards
44:32And just enjoyed
44:33The few laps
44:34Home then
44:34We came with good
44:36Expectations
44:37And it's what we came to do
44:38To be honest
44:39Not sounding cocky
44:40But we wanted to do this
44:42And we've done it
44:42So we're happy
44:43And with a pair of
44:47King of the Roads wins
44:48Across the event
44:48That leapfrogs Mike Brown
44:50In the sixth place
44:51In the standings
44:51He sits behind
44:52Costamo
44:53Harrison Sweeney
44:54Todd
44:54And Michael Dunlop
44:56With that
45:02The Armory road races
45:03Are complete for another year
45:05The King of the Road series
45:06Continues with the
45:07Oliver's Mount Gold book
45:08From Scarborough
45:09But until then
45:10It's bye for now
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