Harrison fastest in Friday afternoon TT qualifying

Dean Harrison set the fastest lap speed in Friday afternoon's qualifying session for the Isle of Man TT.

The Yorkshire rider sped round the 37.73-mile Mountain Course at 132.853mph on his Honda Superstock machine.

Peter Hickman and Davey Todd were second and third quickest in that class for the 8TEN Racing BMW team at speeds of 132.290 and 132.195mph respectively.

Todd, a two-time winner last year, led the Superbike times with a lap at 132.673 but that fell just short of Harrison's quickest time of the week to date set in Wednesday evening's session - 133.069.

High winds in some section made for conditions which were not ideal but most riders upped their pace from the first qualifying run on Wednesday, with Hickman now third on the Superbike leaderboard with 131.326 and Manxman Conor Cummins fourth at 131.027.

Harrison topped the Supersport times with a flying lap of 128.093 on the Honda on which he competes regularly in the British championship.

Michael Dunlop, who has dominated the Supersport class in recent years, winning the past six races, was second fastest on his Ducati V2, circulating at 127.739 from a standing start to sit 2.9 seconds slower than Harrison.

Dunlop led the way in the Supertwins category as he put in a late lap of 122.159 on his Paton. The Northern Ireland rider's lap record for the Twins stands at 122.750 from 2018.

Sidecar pairing, brothers Ryan and Callum Crowe, dominated that class with the fastest lap ever recorded in qualifying by any crew.

Their lap of 120.202 was just outside their personal best and only five seconds in arrears of the lap record of 120.645 set by Ben and Tom Birchall in 2023.

Further qualifying is scheduled for Friday evening from 18:30 BST, with more sessions now to take place on Saturday, before the six-lap Superbike race on Sunday.

Supersport race one and sidecar race one, which were to be staged on Saturday, have now been rescheduled for Monday.

Superbikes - 1 Dean Harrison (Honda) 133.069mph; 2 Davey Todd (BMW) 132.673; 3 Peter Hickman (BMW) 131.326; 4 Conor Cummins (BMW) 131.027; 5 Nathan Harrison (Honda) 130.172; 6 Michael Dunlop (BMW) 129.975

Superstocks - 1 Dean Harrison (Honda) 132.853mph; 2 Peter Hickman (BMW) 132.290; 3 Davey Todd (BMW); 4 Michael Dunlop (BMW) 130.387; 5 Ian Hutchinson (BMW) 129.756; 6 Mike Browne (BMW) 129.585

Supersports - 1 Dean Harrison (Honda); 2 Michael Dunlop (Ducati) 127.739; 3 Peter Hickman (Triumph) 127.543; 4 Davey Todd (Honda) 126.852; 5 Josh Brookes (Honda) 125.892; 6 James Hillier (Kawasaki) 125.510

Supertwins - 1 Michael Dunlop (Paton) 122.159mph; 2 Michael Evans (Kawasaki) 121.426; 3 Dominic Herbertson 121.194; 4 Mike Browne (Kawasaki) 120.816; 5 Davey Todd (Paton) 120.309; 6 Rob Hodson (Paton) 119.521

Sidecars - 1 Ryan/Callum Crowe (Honda) 120.202mph; 2 Pete Founds/Jevan Walmsley (Honda) 116.638; 3 Ben Birchall/Patrick Rosney (Honda) 115.129