Anstey storms to Superbike Race win

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New Zealander Bruce Anstey took a hugely popular win in today’s RST Superbike TT Race.

Riding for the Valvoline Racing by Padgetts Motorcycles, Bruce took the chequered flag with a margin of just over ten seconds from PBM Kawasaki’s Ian Hutchinson.

Bruce Anstey, winner of the 2015 RST Superbike TT - Credit Pacemaker Press International

Hutchy made the early running in the race, leading for most of the first three laps before Anstey seized the initiative with a speedy pitstop to start the fifth lap as leader.

James Hillier was another earlier contender, leading the field at Glen Helen on the first lap and swapping first position back and forth with Ian Hutchinson.

As Michael Dunlop pushed up the rankings Hillier fell back, seemingly out of contention until the very final lap. He reported a number of scares during the race, including narrowly missing a pheasant on the course at Kirk Michael.

Dunlop had closed the gap to second placed Ian Hutchinson to just 12.8 seconds at the Bungalow on the last circuit and seemed to be on for lap record and a solid third place until an incident at the Nook.

That left the podium positions as Bruce Anstey from Ian Hutchinson with James Hillier in third.