The Auto Cycle Union with regret announce that Martin Loicht, 48, from Vienna, Austria, was killed during the Supersport 2 race at the TT Races in an incident at Quarry Bends.

The news follows the death of Paul Dobbs, which was announced yesterday, after the 39-year-old crashed at Ballagarey during the same race.

Martin was competing in the TT for the first time since 1996 and also had experience of competing on the Isle of Man Sourthern 100 TT last year.

He was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Institute of Technology, Vienna.