Ingham takes comfortable victory in Senior Manx GP

Daniel Ingham led throughout the race, which was reduced to two laps

Daniel Ingham took a comfortable win in the Senior Manx Grand Prix race after the race finally got underway after a series of delays.

The reduced two-lap race saw the Melton Mowbray rider power home to victory more than half a minute ahead of Hawick’s Chris Cook.

Taking his first victory at the meeting, Ingham said he was “over the moon” to be taking the top spot.

Cook, who took his first podium on Mountain Course, finished 17 seconds ahead of third-placed Sam Johnson.

Riding a Yamaha, Ingham had taken an 11-second lead over Cook on lap one of the two-lap contest by the time the leaders on the road reached Ballaugh, with Johnson in third just under two seconds back.

The Melton Mowbray rider had stretched it to 15 seconds by Ramsey, and had pulled out another five seconds by the Bungalow on the mountain section of the 37.73-mile (60km) course.

At the half-way point, Ingham had a comfortable cushion between himself and the Kawasaki-mounted Cook, crossing the line 23 seconds ahead.

Brigg’s Sam Johnson held on to third a further 10 seconds back on his Suzuki, with French rider Julien Cregnoit three seconds behind him.

Ingham had pulled out a further five seconds by Ballaugh on lap two, with Johnston holding in third, by now 12 seconds back but four ahead of Cregnoit.

In the end Ingham sealed victory with a 34-second advantage, completing the race in 38 minutes, and 6.37 seconds.

He told Manx Radio after the race he was “over the moon” to take the top step.

“This means the world to me, I can’t believe it,” he added.

Cregnoit held on to fourth position, with Michael Gahan, Johnny Stewart, Gerald Dath, Jacque Foley, Lancelot Unissart and Ryan Whitehall slotting into the top ten places.

Andrea Majolo was declared winner of Saturday's Junior Manx Grand Prix race

Earlier in the day, race organisers announced that due to the disrupted race schedule for the 2024 event, the Junior MGP would not be restarted as planned and had been declared at the end of lap one.

That gave Italy’s Andrea Majolo victory over San Marino’s Maurizio Bottalico, with Daniel Ingham in third.

On Saturday, starting second on the road, the Majola had built up an eight second lead over leader on the road San Marino’s Bottalico by Ballaugh on the first lap.

The Italian rider had overhauled him on the road and stretched his lead to 16 seconds by the end of the first circuit, when the competitors came in for a mandatory pit stop.

After an initial battle with French rider Julien Cregnoit, Melton Mowbray’s Daniel Ingham moved into the third place position coming into the pits, having built up a 10-second advantage.

The race was red-flagged a short time later.