Todd dominates 2022 Southern 100

Davey Todd dominated this week’s Southern 100 road races on the Isle of Man with five wins from his seven starts including Thursday’s feature Solo Championship race.

In just his second appearance on the 4.25-mile Billown Course, the Milenco by Padgetts Honda rider opened his account with a win in Tuesday evening’s first 1000cc race which was made easier after DAO Racing’s Dean Harrison retired. With good weather each day, there was little to choose between the two riders in the remaining three ‘big bike’ races with Harrison turning the tables on Todd in Wednesday’s race albeit by just 0.094s. Todd’s consolation was a new lap record of 116.141mph. Thursday saw Todd come out on top once more but it was even closer this time with Harrison just 0.032s adrift at the end of the seven laps. The Kawasaki man upped the lap record to 116.452mph with Michael Dunlop third on the Buildbase Suzuki, just as he had been the previous day. The feature Solo Championship race, held over nine laps, saw Todd and Harrison again go head to head but although Harrison claimed the new outright lap record with a stunning lap of 116.941mph, it was Todd who got the verdict by of 0.061s as they flashed across the line. Dunlop had no answer to the flying duo and had to settle for third once more with Jamie Coward (KTS Racing by Steadplan Yamaha), Nathan Harrison (Quayside Garage Honda) and Ryan Kneen (BMW) rounding out the top six. The three 600cc races were even closer with Todd, Harrison, Dunlop and Coward disputing victory in each race, Todd taking victory in Wednesday’s race as just 1.775s covered the quartet at the chequered flag. Thursday’s two encounters followed a similar pattern but it was Dunlop who took the opener with the four riders again