Nick Crowe and Darren Hope ensured the recent run of Manx victories in the sidecar TT continued, with a comfortable win in today's A race.

Following the withdrawal of Dave Molyneux and Craig Hallam it was always likely to be a close affair, and the crews didn't disappoint.

Crowe and Hope led Steve Norbury and Scott Parnell by less than a second at the end of the first lap, but had increased their advantage to 16 seconds as they started their third and final circuit of the course.

Crowe, who had his first TT win last year, completed his second lap at 113.57 miles an hour, which was his fastest ever.

The Manx pairing pulled further ahead on their last lap, and had a winning margin of 47.11 seconds (audio file attached):

Norbury and Parnel were second with John Holden and Andrew Winkle occuping third place on the podium.

(Picture: Nick Crowe and Darren Hope at the TT Grandstand, from iomguide.com).