Dunlop completes Cookstown double as Jordan wins Supersport

Michael Dunlop won the Moto3 race at the Cookstown 100 road race on Saturday to make it a double at the Irish national road race meeting.

Dunlop took an emphatic victory in the Open A Invitation Race on Friday and will have further opportunities to add to his wins tally in the second Open race of the weekend and the feature Cookstown 100 race later on Saturday afternoon.

The 37-year-old produced a commanding display to take a start-to-finish success in the nine-lap Moto3 event over the 2.1-mile Orritor circuit.

Riding a Burrows Engineering/RK Racing Honda, Dunlop had 9.8 seconds to spare over runner-up Dan Sayle at the chequered flag, with Chris Meyer in third making up the podium positions.

Meanwhile Paul Jordan romped to victory in the Supersport race on his Jackson Racing V2 Ducati, having previously set the fastest speed in qualifying.

The Magherafelt rider dominated throughout, constantly extending his advantage over nearest challenger Darryl Tweed, who had a deficit of 10.5 seconds to Jordan by the end of the race.

Michael Sweeney was third, with Kevin Keyes, Marcus Simpson and Sean Brolly rounding out the top six leaderboard.

Jordan repeatedly broke the class lap record as he constantly upped the pace at the front and ended up with a new benchmark in excess of 90mph, becoming the first rider to reach that landmark in the Supersport category.

His lap speed was one minute 23.927 seconds.