Dean Harrison earns clean sweep at 80th Anniversary Gold Cup meeting at Oliver’s Mount

Dean Harrison won everything he entered. Four HMH Civils SuperSport A races and the Visit North Yorkshire Gold Cup itself: five starts, five wins, and a 1:44.833 lap at 83.447mph on Saturday afternoon that nobody else came close to.

It was the Yorkshireman's first appearance at the Mount since 2023, and this year's TT Superbike and Senior winner picked up exactly where he left off.

The margins tell the story of how the weekend developed, Harrison beat Peter Hickman by 12.966 seconds in Saturday's opener and by 12.422 in the afternoon.

By Sunday morning the field had found him – Hickman was only 3.447 seconds adrift in race three, and in the final SuperSport race of the weekend Tom Weeden split the pair, finishing 3.198 behind Harrison with Hickman a further four tenths back after a race-long scrap between the two Triumph riders.

The Gold Cup feature was held up by a rain shower on Sunday afternoon and eventually run on a wet track, which changed the pecking order behind the winner but not the winner himself.

Harrison led home Mike Browne by 4.609 seconds over the eight laps, the Cork rider taking second on the BPE by Russell Racing Yamaha having won the 2025 Gold Cup.

Hickman was third, 14.717 seconds back, and had to work for it – Rob Hodson closed to within 0.312 seconds of the final podium place on the SMT Racing Ducati by the flag.

Four-times 2026 Manx GP winner Johnny Stewart was fifth, Ryan Dixon sixth, and Weeden – comfortably quicker than that in the dry – could manage only seventh in the conditions. Joey Lambden was tenth and the leading Stock SuperSport machine.

Harrison's fastest lap in the wet, a 1:54.528 at 76.383mph, was 10 seconds slower than his Saturday best – a fair measure of what the conditions took away.

In attendance to wave the chequered flag and present trophies was Alison Hume, MP for Scarborough & Whitby, showing her support for the legacy of road racing at Oliver’s Mount.

The Stock SuperSport class went the way of Lambden, who took class wins in three of the four SuperSport A races and the Gold Cup on the Kawasaki ZX636, his best of 1:49.731 the quickest by a Stock bike all weekend.

John Marsh won the class in Saturday's opener and finished second in class in races two and three before a non-finish on Sunday afternoon.

Aaron Cooke, Fred McMullan and Scott Aitkin filled the places behind.

Cooke's weekend was one of the more satisfying of the meeting. He won both SuperSport B races on Saturday – the first by 15.412 seconds – before stepping up into the A grid on Sunday and finishing 14th and 10th against the TT men.

Shaun Buckle took the two Sunday SuperSport B races, the second of them by just 0.982 seconds from Jack Sim after David Brook made it a three-way fight covered by under three seconds.

The Pub & Kitchen SuperTwins produced the closest racing, Joey Thompson and Rob Hodson took two wins apiece and never gave each other an inch.

Thompson won Saturday's opener by 0.513 seconds, Hodson answered in the restarted four-lap second race, and Sunday morning's third race was closer still – Thompson home by 0.290 seconds with Hickman third, just 1.601 seconds covering the podium. Hodson's 1:49.560 was the fastest Twins lap of the weekend at 79.847mph on the Paton.

The rain settled it in the final race, Hodson winning by 15.171 seconds from Dixon with Hickman third, Thompson failing to complete a lap. Shaun Anderson brought the Moto Twelve CF Moto 675 home fourth.

Tom Weeden won three of the four Potter Plant Classic Superbike races on the Suzuki GSXR. Joey Thompson was 0.199 seconds behind him in race one, 0.794 in race two and 1.025 in race three, and set the fastest lap in the opener.

Johnny Stewart had the last word, winning the fourth race on a drying track by 10.400 seconds from Weeden, with Paul Moir third.

Barry Furber's Ducati 916 had been the quickest bike in Friday practice and took third in three of the four races.

Alex Tufnall won the SuperTwins class in the Classic races, Chris Meyer the 2-Strokes.

Kieran Clarke and Rob Coppock made it four from four in the J. Hughes Plant Sidecars, and were never headed.

Stephen and Matty Ramsden were second in three of them, closest in the opener at 4.707 seconds, with Mark Hegarty and Jack Knapton third twice.

Michael Russell and Alice Smith took second in the wet finale, and Greg Lambert and Andrew Haynes won the Pre-Injection class throughout.

If the sidecars were a procession, the Road Racing News Lightweights were anything but.

Stephen Gorton beat Daniel Frear by 0.493 seconds, then 0.433, then 0.267 across the first three races on near-identical Kawasaki ZXRs, before Frear broke the pattern with a 16.540-second win in the last.

William Grant was third in every one of them on the Kawasaki Ninja. In the class awards, Chris Meyer took the 125cc/Moto3 honours, Steven Allan the CB500s and Jimmy Buchanan the MiniTwins.

Andy Hayes, Oliver's Mount Racing MD, said: “Our 80th anniversary Gold Cup meeting was very special indeed.

"We had a top, top line-up of road racing royalty, great racing, two amazing chat shows and fantastic crowds, with the car park full to capacity on Sunday for the first time we have ever known.

"This meeting was a vindication of everyone's incredibly hard work to turn this circuit around since it collapsed in 2018, and shows we are back in good health now and how important it is for the local tourism economy.

"Thanks to the amazing generosity of the crowd, we also raised over £6,000 to help Garry Broughton, a regular rider of ours seriously injured in the Isle of Man in 2025.”

Oliver’s Mount will return with a full programme of seven events in 2027, details will be available at oliversmount.com.