Michael Dunlop wrapped up a third victory of this week’s Classic TT with a dominant win in Tuesday’s four-lap Senior race.

The 37 year old followed up Sunday’s Formula One victory with an 11.680s victory over Jamie Coward after four laps of hard racing round the Mountain Course. It was Dunlop’s seventh victory in the island this year after clinching four at June’s TT.

Coward’s team-mate Nathan Harrison finished third, a further 13.190 seconds down.

Dunlop admitted he’d had to nurse home the Team Classic Suzuki GSX-R750, after flirting with a 130mph lap at the weekend.

Speaking to Radio TT in the winner’s enclosure he said: ‘The bike was nervous for a lap or two there and we had a wee leak. We were protested the other day so we had to strip it and rebuild it, which has caused a couple of issues.

‘We had no pit limiter, so I was probably a bit slow through them as well.

‘Once I had the boys in sight I nursed it home.’

Dunlop’s fastest lap of 17 minutes 36.238 seconds (128.596mph) was four seconds down on his rapid pace from the weekend and indeed, he was initially behind Greenall Racing Kawasaki ZXR750-mounted Coward on the corrected timing charts.

Dunlop, however, soon moved to his familiar place at the top of the leaderboard where he managed his lead to keep Coward at bay.

Coward, who was also second on Saturday, said he was delighted with his result. He said: ‘I absolutely loved that. The Greenall team have put an amazing package underneath me. I went as hard as I could. I couldn’t ask for much more.’

The Yorkshireman also admitted he was happy to keep Dunlop behind him on the road, adding: ‘He usually gets past me, so it’s nice to finish first on the road for once!’

Manxman Harrison was also pleased to claim a podium place: ‘I needed that after a rough few years at the TT and Classic TT. Greenall have put a great bike under me and I caused them a bit of extra work after high-siding it at Quarterbridge the other day [in qualifying].

‘Third place is better than nothing and I rode to my boards over the last couple of laps.’

Despite struggling with a heavy cold, Shaun Anderson brought the SRAD Suzuki home in fourth, 39.559 seconds down on Harrison.

Laxey’s Joe Yeardsley rounded off a strong Classic TT showing in fifth spot aided by a rapid pit stop.

This helped him pip Mistral Racing team-mate Michael Sweeney by 3.530, as the latter man finished sixth.

Paul Williams, Joey Thompson, Ryan Whitehall and Kevin Keyes rounded out the top 10.

Ramsey’s Conor Cummins was 11th despite a nightmare pitstop in which the Steadplan Racing Kawasaki took an age to restart. He was also slapped with a 30-second penalty by organisers for getting outside assistance to get the ZXR750 going again.

Cummins’s fellow Manxmen Michael Evans and Paul Cassidy were next on corrected timing in 12th and 13th respectively.

Tom Robinson was the first 600cc machine home in 14th of the 19th finishers.

Virginia City’s Stuart Clotworthy was last across the line, having had to push in his Kawasaki ZXR750 after running out of fuel.

There were a number of retirees because of mechanical issues including Rob Hodson, Mike Browne, Dominic Herbertson, Julian Trummer, Chris Moore, Peter Hickman, Baz Furber and Jorge Halliday.

Hickman again had problems with the WizNorton Rotary machine and was forced to pull into the pits at the end of lap two.