{"id":711129,"date":"2026-06-02T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711129\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:00:11","slug":"michael-dunlop-comfortable-in-isle-of-man-tt-supersport-great-to-have-another-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711129\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Dunlop \u201ccomfortable\u201d in Isle of Man TT Supersport: \u201cGreat to have another win\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">After a frustrating Superbike TT, Michael Dunlop expressed some relief to take the victory in Supersport Race 1 at the 2026 Isle of Man TT.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dunlop entered the Supersport race in much finer fashion than that in which he entered the Superbike race, having topped qualifying last week by around 2mph, or 20 seconds.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It was little surprise, then, to see him leading at the end of the first lap, even if Dean Harrison had gotten off to a marginally better start in the first half of lap one.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dunlop-tt-26-ssp_0.png\"   type=\"image\/png\" alt=\"Michael Dunlop, 2026 Isle of Man TT, Supersport. Credit: Isle of Man TT.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Michael Dunlop, 2026 Isle of Man TT, Supersport. Credit: Isle of Man TT.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Isle of Man TT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After taking the lead, Dunlop extended his margin over Harrison relentlessly and finished almost 25 seconds clear for this 34th TT win in total, ninth in succession in the Supersport class, and third from three races on the Ducati Panigale V2.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt was good,\u201d Dunlop told the TT+ broadcast after the Supersport race.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe bike\u2019s been good all week, we\u2019ve been really comfortable, so the main thing was to try and put it [on the podium] today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe conditions were a bit strange today, but the bike never missed a beat, the boys worked really hard, and it was nice to be back in here winning again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780427651_731_dunlop-tt-26-ssp.png\"   type=\"image\/png\" alt=\"Michael Dunlop, 2026 Isle of Man TT, Supersport. Credit: Isle of Man TT.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.53\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Michael Dunlop, 2026 Isle of Man TT, Supersport. Credit: Isle of Man TT.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Isle of Man TT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On the Ducati, Dunlop added: \u201cIt\u2019s been good all week, it was good last year. It\u2019s like everyone else\u2019s bike, it\u2019s a next generation bike, and the bike\u2019s good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been working well with the bike, the team\u2019s working really good. So, it\u2019s great to have another win under my belt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It was put to Dunlop that he may have had an influence on the growing number of Ducatis on the TT grid.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cTo be honest, I really couldn\u2019t care,\u201d he responded. \u201cAs long as I\u2019m looking after it myself, that\u2019s all I\u2019m worried about.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe job\u2019s good, the bike\u2019s good. Thanks to all the team, everybody that\u2019s making the project settle. It\u2019s good to repay them today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dunlop was due to head out in the Sportbike race after the Supersport outing, at 18:30, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/rr\/news\/1096757\/1\/sportbike-race-1-cancelled-isle-man-tt-latest-weather-disruption\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but it was cancelled due to rain coming in from the west during the evening<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a frustrating Superbike TT, Michael Dunlop expressed some relief to take the victory in Supersport Race 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,28425,85],"class_list":["post-711129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-road-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}