Ryan and Callum Crowe continued their build-up to the TT and the start of the British Sidecar Championship with another runaway double at Jurby the Sunday before Easter.
And it was a similar story for Jamie Cringle, who completed an unbeaten run in the solo Centre championship class in the countdown to his North West 200 debut.
Cringle grabbed control of both eight-lappers quite early on, winning race one from Rory Parker by a margin of 1.724sec and race two by a similar 1.671s from the same. Both men were astride 1,000cc Honda Fireblades, with Ryan Cringle third in each on his 675cc Triumph and first cousin Kyle Casement fourth both times on his slightly newer 765 Triumph triple.
The fastest lap of the day on the clockwise track was Jamie Cringle’s 1m 05.362s (93.632mph) in race two.
The Crowe brothers are working on several chassis changes with their LCR Honda in advance of the TT and showed a great turn of speed in both of the three-wheel events.
With only three outfits coming to the line for both races, the Crowes won the first from returnee Stu Bainborough and young Jake Roberts by a margin of 33.472 over eight laps, and the second by 35.978s from the same pair over a shorter six laps.
Third in each were David Marshall and Luke Galligan of County Tipperary, whom the Crowes sportingly sat behind for their sixth and final lap to ensure the later pair went the distance to ensure they gained the ACU signature they made the costly journey to the island specifically for.
There was considerably closer racing in most of the solo support races, and the main talking point came in race 12, the Lightweight/CB500 and Singles, class where impressive junior Sean Crone broke the Lightweight lap record on his 400 Kawasaki with a time of 1m 13.873s. A short time later, Paul Cassidy shaved another 0.361 of a second off that record with an improved course record for the class of 1:13.512 to grab first in class and second in the combined class behind the FR GP Single of Francesco Faraldo.
Earlier, Faraldo also won race one but Crone edged the Lightweight honours by 0.654s from Cassidy’s Yamaha 400.
The CB500s were entertaining as ever, Fraser Heginson taking race one from Matt Davies and Will Corkill, while Davies too race two from his first cousin Corkill by over three seconds.
Mikey Evans was also in record-breaking form in the Post-Classic event where he rode Graham Thomas’s 750 SRAD Suzuki to runaway wins in both events. Race one was the quicker, and straight out of the traps he clocked a 1:08.66 and an average lap just short of 90mph to win by more than 20s from Faraldo’s Aprilia 660 twin - the leading Single, Twin Triple cylinder machine.
Race two as similar with Evans winning by 25.876s from Faraldo, with Darran Creer third (second of the Single, Twin, Triples) on Rob Brew’s 890cc KTM twin.
The Supersport class was a bit of a two-horse race between first cousins Ryan Cringle and Kyle Casement, the latter enjoying his third day of motorsport in succession having finished top-half in the Manx Rally the previous afternoon in his Citroen C2.
Ryan won race won by 1.968s and then led home Kyle by a marginally wider 2.43s in race two after the latter had led for the first half of the race on his 765 Triumph.
Grant Thomson was third on each occasion astride his new Kawasaki 600, but he came to the fore in the Pre-injection 600 class with a brace of wins over Faraldo.
The stylish Alex Galloway, 18, won both of the Clubman races on a bike of similar vintage to himself. He is a very impressive young rider.
Report and pictures by John Watterson