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Michael Dunlop won the Moto3 race at the Cookstown 100 road race on Saturday to make it a double at the Irish national road race meeting.
Dunlop took an emphatic victory in the Open A Invitation Race on Friday and will have further opportunities to add to his wins tally in the second Open race of the weekend and the feature Cookstown 100 race later on Saturday afternoon.
The 37-year-old produced a commanding display to take a start-to-finish success in the nine-lap Moto3 event over the 2.1-mile Orritor circuit.
Riding a Burrows Engineering/RK Racing Honda, Dunlop had 9.8 seconds to spare over runner-up Dan Sayle at the chequered flag, with Chris Meyer in third making up the podium positions.
Meanwhile Paul Jordan romped to victory in the Supersport race on his Jackson Racing V2 Ducati, having previously set the fastest speed in qualifying.
The Magherafelt rider dominated throughout, constantly extending his advantage over nearest challenger Darryl Tweed, who had a deficit of 10.5 seconds to Jordan by the end of the race.
Michael Sweeney was third, a further 6.5 seconds back on Tweed, with Kevin Keyes, Marcus Simpson and Sean Brolly rounding out the top six leaderboard.
Jordan, making a first appearance at the meeting since 2022, repeatedly broke the class lap record as he constantly upped the pace at the front and ended up with a new benchmark of 90.078mph, becoming the first rider to reach the 90mph milestone in the Supersport category.
His lap speed was one minute 23.927 seconds.
Sweeney came out on top in the Supertwins race, the Skerries rider finishing 1.5 seconds ahead of Tweed, with James Chawke third.
Open A Invitation race result (Friday night) - 1 Michael Dunlop; 2 Michael Sweeney; 3 Marcus Simpson; 4 Darryl Tweed; 5 Paul Jordan; 6 Neil Kernohan
Supersport result - 1 Paul Jordan; 2 Darryl Tweed; 3 Michael Sweeney; 4 Kevin Keyes; 5 Marcus Simpson; 6 Sean Brolly
Moto3 result - 1 Michael Dunlop; 2 Dan Sayle; 3 Chris Meyer
Supertwins result - 1 Michael Sweeney; 2 Darryl Tweed; 3 James Chawke
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Dunlop took an emphatic victory in the Open A Invitation Race on Friday and will have further opportunities to add to his wins tally in the second Open race of the weekend and the feature Cookstown 100 race later on Saturday afternoon.
The 37-year-old produced a commanding display to take a start-to-finish success in the nine-lap Moto3 event over the 2.1-mile Orritor circuit.
Riding a Burrows Engineering/RK Racing Honda, Dunlop had 9.8 seconds to spare over runner-up Dan Sayle at the chequered flag, with Chris Meyer in third making up the podium positions.
Meanwhile Paul Jordan romped to victory in the Supersport race on his Jackson Racing V2 Ducati, having previously set the fastest speed in qualifying.
The Magherafelt rider dominated throughout, constantly extending his advantage over nearest challenger Darryl Tweed, who had a deficit of 10.5 seconds to Jordan by the end of the race.
Michael Sweeney was third, a further 6.5 seconds back on Tweed, with Kevin Keyes, Marcus Simpson and Sean Brolly rounding out the top six leaderboard.
Jordan, making a first appearance at the meeting since 2022, repeatedly broke the class lap record as he constantly upped the pace at the front and ended up with a new benchmark of 90.078mph, becoming the first rider to reach the 90mph milestone in the Supersport category.
His lap speed was one minute 23.927 seconds.
Sweeney came out on top in the Supertwins race, the Skerries rider finishing 1.5 seconds ahead of Tweed, with James Chawke third.
Open A Invitation race result (Friday night) - 1 Michael Dunlop; 2 Michael Sweeney; 3 Marcus Simpson; 4 Darryl Tweed; 5 Paul Jordan; 6 Neil Kernohan
Supersport result - 1 Paul Jordan; 2 Darryl Tweed; 3 Michael Sweeney; 4 Kevin Keyes; 5 Marcus Simpson; 6 Sean Brolly
Moto3 result - 1 Michael Dunlop; 2 Dan Sayle; 3 Chris Meyer
Supertwins result - 1 Michael Sweeney; 2 Darryl Tweed; 3 James Chawke
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