Fermanagh's Lee Johnston made a breakthrough to secure his maiden victory in the Superstock class at the North Wes♒t 200 on Saturday, halting Alastair Seeley's victory🎃 streak.

Johnston, who clinched a double in last year's Supertwins races at the North West, forced his way past Tyco BMW rider Alastair Seeley on the final lap to clinch a ജpopular victory.

Seeley had led into Metropole on the final lap but Johnston refused to give in and squeezed ahead🍷 on the Coast Road on his ECC/Burdens BMW, holding on to 🦄win by only 0.1 seconds.

Ian Hutchinson continued to impress on the PBM Kawasaki as the rejuvenated 🐈Yorkshire rider fended off a chal꧑lenge from Michael Dunlop (MD Racing Yamaha) to seal the final place on the podium.

The Bingley rider set a new lap record of 121.680☂mph as the top three all bettered Austrian Horst Saiger's previous benchmark in a red-hot race.

A delighted Johnston said: "Alastai🀅r got me down into Metropole but Iꩵ got a good run out of Black Hill and I just made it on the brakes into Juniper.

"I gave uꦆp the Supertwin to focus on thꦡe big bikes so I'd have looked pretty stupid if I didn't get a result."

William Dunlop took fifth on the Tyco BMW behind his brother Michael, with Martin Jessopp a close sixth on t💯he Riders Motorcycles BMW.

Quattro Plant Kawasaki's James Hillier came out on top of his battle with Scotsman Keℱith Amor for seventh, with Conor Cummins (Jackson Honda) and David Johnston (BMW) completing the top ten.