A victory for Michael Dunlop in Supersport Race 1 at the 2025 North West 200 was his first in nine years at the Northern Irish 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:road race, b🌠ut it was the MD ♐Racing Ducati Panigale V2 that caught the attention of his rivals.

Dunlop, who said after that 𝓀race that it felt🐼 "different" to win on a Ducati,  had been sitting behind the leading trio of Richard Cooper, Davey Todd, and Dean Harrison for the first three laps of the 🍸four-lap Supersport Race 1, but was able to pass forꦆ the lead on the run to Magherabuoy on the final lap.

The speed with which the Ducati came by both Cooper on t📖he last lap caught the Russell Racing Yamaha rider off-guard, he admitted.

“I could hear the Ducati at the roundabout and in a few places𓆏,”🅰 Cooper told BBC Sport NI during his post-race interview.

“𝕴I knew he was there but I wasn’t quite prepared for the speed that it passed me into the Magherabuoy chicane, before we even got to the brakes, really, it was quite something special – almost like he was on a Superbike at that point.

“He [Dunlop] rode fant🥃astic, he too🍒k advantage of the last lap.”

Cooper was pleased enough with his podium, though, and dedicated it to Shane Richardson who died at the Oulton Park BSB round🐬 on Monday.

“We’re on the podium🐲, the Russell Racing Yamaha R6 performed fantastic, I can’t complain about being in here, it’s fantastܫic,” he said.

“I really need to mention the boys that passed away at BSB at the weekend, especially Shane Richardson, I worked with him,𓆏 [his family] at home. This one, I’d love to have won it for you, but hopefully second is good enough.”

Davey Todd: “I couldn’t even get in the slipstream”

Davey Todd, victorious for the first time in the Superbꩵike class at the North West 200 in the opening race of Thurs🅘day, had similar thoughts to Cooper on the speed of Dunlop’s Ducati, saying he “couldn’t even get in the slipstream” of❀ the MD Racing Panigale V2.

ꦚ“I gave it everything I’d got,” Todd said, speaking post-racℱe to BBC Sport NI.

“Trying my best out there,𒆙 it’s not easy. A couple of those bikes are pretty quick out there.

“I can manage to just about sit in the slipstream of Coops [Richard Cooper] and do something with that, but when that Ducati came past – no way, I couldn’t even get in the slipstre💜am.

“I tried my best, and I’ve got to give it up to the M🍸ilenco by Padgett’s team, they’ve put a great bike 𓆏underneath me.

“I’ll try꧑ my best in🥂 the second race and see what we can do.”