Tourist Trophy – Southern 100 2019: big highside of Dunlop, grand slam of Harrison –

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Southern 100 2019: Dunlop’s big highside, Harrison’s grand slam

Tourist Trophy - Southern 100 2019: big highside of Dunlop, grand slam of Harrison -

Two months after the Tourist Trophy, the road racers gathered in the south of the Isle of Man to compete in the Southern 100. Dean Harrison won all his races and pushed Michael Dunlop to the fault ! Note, the Supertwin podium of the "Frenchie" and "newcomer" Xavier Denis…

Definitely, when it doesn’t want to. Michael Dunlop hesitated, however, before confirming his participation in the Southern 100 (S100), a sort of mini Tourist Trophy which, as its name suggests, is run in the southern part of the Isle of Man, unexplored during the real " TiTi "early June…

Three weeks ago, in fact, the North Irish pilot injured his shoulder and wrist during a road trip in handlebar driving his car during the Donegal Rally … His injuries had also forced him to draw a line on what was to be his first Pikes Peak.

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By lining up in the Southern 100, Michael Dunlop wanted to revive: in TT 2019, Joey’s nephew and Robert’s son had succeeded in winning the Lightweight, but had been unable to follow in the higher categories. (SSP, STK and SBK) the rhythm of the two new "Kings" of Snaeffel Moutain, Dean Harrison and Peter Hickman.

Luckily for Dunlop, Hickman would not compete in the S100 this week: the official BMW rider took part in the English round of the 2019 World Superbike last weekend, replacing Markus Reiterberger, suffering.

Tourist Trophy - Southern 100 2019: big highside of Dunlop, grand slam of Harrison -

On the other hand and unfortunately for the BMW rider n ° 3, Harrison and his Kawasaki n ° 1 were there. On Wednesday evening, Dean and his Ninja largely dominated the first Superbike round, relegating the second, Michael and his RR, to just over 10 seconds..

So yesterday for the second Superbike race, Michael Dunlop was counting on giving everything. Now in the second lap (of seven) out of Castletown Bridge, "MD" was a little too generous with the throttle. The sanction was immediate…

Tourist Trophy - Southern 100 2019: big highside of Dunlop, grand slam of Harrison -

As can be seen from the video published by the Northern Irish BBC (at the end of the article), the rear of the S1000RR suddenly slipped under Michael’s buttocks, then just as quickly hung up the tarmac, ejecting the unhappy pilot by a big highside.

With him vanished all hope of victory in the second SBK round, as well as the simple possibility of starting the third scheduled four hours later. Supported by the medical team, Dunlop did not get up right away … but almost !

Tourist Trophy - Southern 100 2019: big highside of Dunlop, grand slam of Harrison -

"After having broken my pelvis (the pelvis, editor’s note), multiple fractures and bruises, I’m back on my feet again", the pilot was already tweeting this – Friday – noon on Twitter the usually silent and always tough guy. . and still record holder of the tour on the Billown Circuit (2 ‘12,231 in 2017).

Thus rid of his main rival, Dean Harrison easily completed his series of victories in Superbike. The Kawa rider also dominated in Supersport, despite fierce opposition from Jamie Coward: four tenths of a second separated them in the first heat !

Thanks to his six victories in this one edition of 2019 therefore, Harrison cumulates 24 successes in the Southern 100 … Dean steals from Michael Dunlop the third place he occupied in the classification of the most victorious drivers (21 victories). Uncle Joey Dunlop remains second with 31 wins, Ian Lougher first with 32.

Tourist Trophy - Southern 100 2019: big highside of Dunlop, grand slam of Harrison -

To conclude, we salute the formidable results of Xavier Denis who finally discovered the Southern 100 this year (a bad fall had made him miss the 2018 meeting). On Wednesday evening, the "newcomer" finished twelfth in his very first race, in Supersport, then climbed an hour later to fourth place in Supertwin, leaving the other rookies far behind..

Even stronger, the fastest "Frenchie" of the Tourist Trophy 2019 – Julien Toniutti was absent, so what? – managed to get on the podium of the second Supertwin round yesterday (Thursday), after having twice finished ninth in Supersport a little earlier in the day. Hat !

Michael Dunlop’s big highside

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