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British SuperStock 2000 - Oulton 2 - July 16
| Glen Richards finished third in today’s seventh round British
Superstock championship race at a sun-drenched Oulton Park in Cheshire today, crossing the
line three seconds behind race winner David Jefferies. Series leader Matt Llewellyn was
second. Richards’ Sanyo First National team-mate and fellow Australian, Chris Vermeulen, was fourth in the 11-lap encounter after the race was run in two parts and the results based on aggregate times. When Gary Mason crashed his Kawasaki into the tyre wall at Oulton’s Foulston chicane on lap four, the race was stopped. Richards had closed on early leaders Jefferies and Llewellyn but the restart was based on positions at the end of lap two, putting Richards 0.8s off the pace. The second part was stopped four laps early after another crash at Cascades corner. "It was always going to be a struggle to make up that gap," said the 26-year-old from Adelaide. "I was trying desperately to pull the leaders back and I could see their tyres were beginning to go off. I’m sure if the race had gone full distance I would have been with them." Vermeulen, who qualified with his team-mate on the front row of the grid, had problems in putting his Honda FireBlade’s power on the track but retains third place in the series, eight points ahead of Richards. "Qualifying went really well," explained the 18-year-old, "but we struggled with drive throughout the race. The bike was fine through corners, as it always is, but I was losing a little on the straights and that dropped me back." Results (Oulton Park – 2.7 miles, 11 laps): Championship points after seven of 12 rounds: |
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