King of the Mountain McGuinness Takes TT 22 In Electric Race
- Jun 11, 2015
- 1 min read
John McGuinness took his 22nd Isle of Man TT after victory in the TT Zero race for electric bikes. The Mugen rider set a new lap record of 119.279mph, but a mistake at the start with power mapping cost the Morecambe Missile the 120mph lap the team wanted.
Bruce Anstey led at the start, but only by a few hundredths of a second. The Kiwi couldn't quite keep the pace of his Mugen team-mate as the lap progressed and Anstey dropped four-seconds behind McGuinness by race-end.
Lee Johnston took the Parker Racing Victory bike to its first TT podium in the team's first visit to the island with a lap of 111.620. One-time team-mate Guy Martin, who replaced William Dunlop after he crashed earlier in the week and was ruled out for the remaining races, was a decent 4th on a bike he's only had one lap on. The Lincolnshire rider was only 0.3mph off of the 110mph lap that he wanted, so expect Guy to secure himself a Zero TT rider for next year.
Robert Wilson on the Sarolea Racing machine and Michael Sweeney on the University of Nottingham machine completed the race-runners.
Full results can be found here:
http://www.iomtt.com/~/media/Files/2015/Race-results/SES-TT-Zero/Zero%20resulT.pdf
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