Gary Johnson achieved his first Isle of Man TT Races victory when he clinched the second Monster Energy Supersport race on Thursday afternoon winning by 8.4 seconds from fellow Honda rider John McGuinness.

Johnson was in control throughout the race, leading from start to finish. He was already three seconds clear of McGuinness by the first checkpoint at Glen Helen on the opening lap, a lead he’d hold throughout for his first TT win.

Race favourite Michael Dunlop was forced out on lap one, the Street Sweep Yamaha rider having stopped at Ballacraine although he later proceeded after making lengthy adjustments – his opening lap almost 46 minutes.

Australia’s Cameron Donald was in second until just two miles from the finish, as his CBR600RR expired and ruled him out of the race.

The results mean that McGuinness now has 76pts at the top of the TT Championship, 17 clear of Keith Amor.

Isle of Man TT star Michael Rutter narrowly missed out on cracking the prestigious 100mph mark for an electric bike for the first time in the SES TT Zero Race.

He took his Segway MotoCzysz machine to an electric bike record 99.64mph lap, breaking the record that his teammate Mark Miller set last year, but narrowly missing out on the £10,000 prize fund allocated by the Isle of Man Government for the first electric bike team to achieve a 100mph around the course.