{"id":2570,"date":"2020-01-08T21:59:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T21:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belfastanddistrictmotorclub.co.uk\/bandd\/?page_id=2570"},"modified":"2025-09-09T02:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:58:02","slug":"crown-prince-of-kirkistown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.belfastanddistrictmotorclub.co.uk\/bandd\/?page_id=2570","title":{"rendered":"CROWN PRINCE OF KIRKISTOWN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The first rider to become the Crown Prince of Kirkistown<\/strong> was John Johnston in 1978. Richard Hewitt took the Crown in 1979 followed by Wilson Lynn in 1980 and Johnny Rea in 1981. Sammy Henry took the honours in 1983, Ricky Wilson in 1985 and Tommy Douglas in 1987. Then after a break of 23 years the Crown Prince of Kirkistown<\/strong> was reintroduced in 2011 when the victor was Carl Phillips having taken the race win in the second Clubmans Supersport Race.\u00a0Robert Kennedy was the victor the following year.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A change of class was made from 2013 to 2018 with the Crown<\/strong> and Trophy awarded to the winner of the second Pre-Injection\/250cc GP Race.\u00a0Andrew Brady was really successful winning in 2014, \u201816, \u201817 and ’18. The other two winners were Thomas Lawlor in 2013 and Steven Titterington in 2015.<\/p>\n

In 2019 the title returned to the Supersport class.<\/p>\n

Awarded to the winner of Invitation Handicap up to 250cc
\n<\/strong>1978 John Johnston
\n<\/strong>1979 Richard Hewitt
\n<\/strong>1980 Wilson Lynn
\n<\/strong>1981 Johnny Rea
\n<\/strong>1982 not held
\n1983 Sammy Henry
\n<\/strong>1984 not held
\n1985 Ricky Wilson
\n<\/strong>1986 not held
\n1987 Tommy Douglas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Awarded to the winner of the second Clubmans Supersport race<\/strong> (September meeting)
\n2011 Carl Phillips<\/strong> Yamaha 600
\n2012 Robert Kennedy<\/strong> Yamaha 600<\/p>\n

Awarded to the winner of the second Pre-Injection\/250cc GP race<\/strong> (September meeting)
\n2013 Thomas Lawlor<\/strong> Honda 250
\n2014 Andrew Brady<\/strong> Yamaha 600
\n2015 Steven Titterington<\/strong> Yamaha 600
\n2016 Andrew Brady<\/strong> Yamaha 600
\n2017 Andrew Brady<\/strong> Yamaha 600
\n2018\u00a0Andrew Brady<\/strong> Yamaha 600<\/p>\n

2019 Jason Lynn<\/strong> Yamaha (Awarded to the winner of the second Supersport race Sept meeting)
\n<\/em>2020 Michael Dunlop\u00a0<\/strong>Yamaha (Awarded to the aggregate winner both Supersport races Sept meeting)
\n<\/em>2021 Alastair Seeley\u00a0<\/strong>Yamaha (Awarded for first Supersport race Sept meeting, Race 2 cancelled)
\n<\/em>2022 Alastair Seeley<\/strong> Yamaha (Awarded to the overall winner of the Supersport ‘Big 3 Series’<\/strong> 6 races)
\n<\/em>2023 Jason Lynn<\/strong> Yamaha (Awarded to the overall winner of the Supersport ‘Big 3 Series’<\/strong> 6 races)<\/em>
\n2024 Korie McGreevy<\/b> Kawasaki (Awarded to the overall winner of the Supersport ‘Big 3 Series’<\/strong> 5 races)
\n<\/em>2025 Mark Conlin<\/b> Ducati (Awarded to the overall winner of the Supersport ‘Big 3 Series’<\/strong> 5 races)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first rider to become the Crown Prince of Kirkistown was John Johnston in 1978. Richard Hewitt took the Crown in 1979 followed by Wilson Lynn in 1980 and Johnny Rea in 1981. Sammy Henry took the honours in 1983, Ricky Wilson in 1985 and Tommy Douglas in 1987. Then\u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belfastanddistrictmotorclub.co.uk\/bandd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belfastanddistrictmotorclub.co.uk\/bandd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belfastanddistrictmotorclub.co.uk\/bandd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.belfastanddistrictmotorclub.co.uk\/bandd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.belfastanddistrictmotorclub.co.uk\/bandd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.belfastanddistrictmotorclub.co.uk\/bandd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4297,"href":"https:\/\/www.belfastanddistrictmotorclub.co.uk\/bandd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2570\/revisions\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belfastanddistrictmotorclub.co.uk\/bandd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}