Ferm♑anagh's Lee Johnston made a breakthrough to secure his maiden victory in the Superstock class at the North West 200 on Saturday, halting Alastair Seeley's vict꧙ory 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 popular victory.

Seeley had led into Metropole on the final l𒁃ap 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 challenge from Michael Dunlop (MD Rac𒁏ing Yamaha) to seal the final place on the podium.

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

A delighted Johnston said: "Alastair got me down into Metropole but I got a good ru🃏n out of Black Hill and I just made𒁃 it on the brakes into Juniper.

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

William Dunlop took fifth on the Tyco BMW behi🥀nd his brother Michael, with 🐼Martin Jessopp a close sixth on the Riders Motorcycles BMW.

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