Sweeney picks up Cookstown Man Of The Meeting

Michael Sweeney is celebrating being named man of the meeting after three wins at Saturday’s Cookstown 100 road races.

He had wins in the two superbike races and the super twin race all of which were red flagged and restarted.

He opened his account in the open race which was restarted after an incident in the opening lap involving Mike Browne and Paul Jordan, both riders were taken to hospital but neither sustained any serious injuries. Sweeney won the restarted race taking the flag just over 3.5 seconds ahead of Adam McLean and Thomas Maxwell in third who was a further 7.38 seconds in areas.

The Skerries man followed this up with a win in the second running of the Supertwin class, this race was also red flagged when Adam Mclean crashed out on lap three at Craigmount while battling with Sweeney. Dominic Herberston was promoted into the runner up spot and Paul Williams was third.

Sweeney closed the day off with a win in the final outing of the meeting, the feature Superbike race. This started out with Adam McLean and Sweeney fighting for the lead over the opening laps, but mid distance McLean had his second off of the day which once again brought out the red flags. With Browne out due to his earlier off and McLean now out it was a reasonably easy win for Sweeney beating Thomas Maxwell in the shortened five lap restart by over three seconds and Richard Charlton taking the final place on the podium.

Mclean was a lights to flag winner of the supersport race, the pole man never looked hassled as he took the win six seconds in front of Mike Browne after yet another red flag incident on the seventh lap of the nine lap race involving Tommy Henry. The result being declared giving Paul Jordan third place.

Browne also had an