Dean Harrison has secured the prestigious Duke Road Race Rankings Championship for 2016 becoming only the second Englishman to win the title since the series commenced in 2002.

The twenty-three round series which commenced at the Mid Antrim 150 National Road Races in Northern Ireland in early April and concluded at the recent Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix saw Dean making a cautious start to his 2016 season, his first with the Silkolene Engineering Yamaha Team, before dominating the Duke Road Race Rankings from late June.

The twenty-seven year old Yorkshireman joined the rankings at the second round at the Bob Smith Spring National held at Oliver's Mount slotting into third place slipping to ninth prior to the first International, the North West 200, recovering to eighth, then climbing back to third after the TT, topping the table after the Cock o'the North Road Races at Oliver's Mount, round 10 of thisyear's series.

From then on Dean headed the Rankings with Lincolnshire rider Ivan Lintin chasing hard to catch his Yorkshire neighbour, which was somewhat thwarted after a racing incident at the Southern 100, which left Ivan missing a number of rounds and him ending up second for the third year running.

The top 20 are:1 Dean Harrison 26902 Ivan Lintin 17903 Michael Dunlop 17354 Derek Sheils 12695 Ian Hutchinson 12076 James Cowton 11467 William Dunlop 11278 Dan Kneen 9289 Jamie Coward 89710 Michael Sweeney 85111 Brad Vicars 74412 Daley Mathison 73713 Mick Goodings 73314 Paul Jordan 73315 Derek McGee 72116 Dan Hegarty 65017 Malachi Mitchell-Thomas 64318 Paul Owen 63619 Davy Morgan 62820 Adam McLean 622