Michael Rutter took his first TT win since 2013, and his fifth in total, when he won Wednesday afternoon's Bennetts Lightweight TT race at the 2017 Isle of Man TT races, giving the Italian Paton manufacturer their first-ever win around the Mountain Course. He set a new lap record of 118.645mph (1:16.19.324), beating Ivan Lintin's time for the four-lap race from last year.
Rutter took the lead from the beginning of the race and never looked back , eventually beating Martin Jessopp (Riders Motorcycles Kawasaki) by 8.8s with Peter Hickman taking yet another TT podium this week in third, this time on the KMR/IEG Kawasaki.
Ian Hutchinson made it three RL360 Quantum Superstock wins in a row, and his second victory of this year's Isle of Man TT Races fuelled by Monster Energy, when he dominated Wednesday's race. The win gave him his 16th TT wins in total.
The Tyco BMW rider led from start to finish to take the win from Peter Hickman by 22.4s while there was joy for the Manx fans with Dan Kneen taking his first TT podium in third.
Heading into the final lap, Hutchinson’s lead over Hickman was down slightly to 12.4s with Kneen holding onto a comfortable third but Rutter had gone back ahead of Dunlop by 3.5s.
There was to be no final lap drama for Hutchinson though and with the fastest lap of the race on the final lap, 131.639mph, he swept to yet another TT win from Hickman by a commanding 22.4s with Kneen making it an all BMW podium in third.
