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Plater storms to Isle of Man TT win
Friday, 4.40pm. Steve Plater of Woodhall Spa powered to victory in a record breaking Senior TT at the Isle of Man festival today.
The race was run over six laps of the 37.73-mile course and Plater took the win, the race record and the Joey Dunlop Trophy in just his third year of racing at the legendary public roads course.
The world famous race was delayed by half an hour because of some light rain around the course but it soon dried out and the feature race of the week was started by Murray Walker OBE in bright sunshine and perfect conditions.
When the riders arrived at the first check point of Glen Helen Plater slotted straight into second place behind his HM Plant Honda teammate John McGuinness and the pair steadily pulled clear of the rest of the field.
But events took a dramatic change on lap four when McGuinness retired at Crookshanks with a broken chain. That left Plater with a clear lead over Manxman Conor Cummins and although Cummins did pull back a couple of seconds on the penultimate lap, Plater upped the anti and made sure of the win, extending his advantage to 19.54 seconds at the chequered flag.
As well as the race win, Plater posted his fastest lap of the two week festival with a flying lap of 130.490mph, bettering the record from last year set by McGuinness - although before he retired from the race McGuinness recorded a new lap record of 1m 31.578s.
Steve also picked up the inaugural Joey Dunlop Trophy for the rider with the best overall results of the week with 84 points.
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