British SuperBike Championship - Round 6 - Thruxton

SuperBike 

Race 1 Race 2
  1. Hislop
  2. Plater
  3. Emmett
  4. Reynolds
  5. Hayden
  6. Brown
  7. Rutter
  8. Byrne
  9. Crawford
  10. Jackson
  1. Reynolds
  2. Haydon
  3. Rutter
  4. Emmett
  5. Byrne
  6. Hislop
  7. Brown
  8. Crawford
  9. Robinson
  10. Jackson

SuperBike Championship points after 5 of 13 rounds: Hislop 253, Reynolds 243, Haydon 152, Rutter 121, Crawford 115, Byrne 115, Emmett 115

SuperSport

Suzuki’s Karl Harris won the 18-lap race at the 2.35-mile Hampshire track, winning from Yamaha-mounted Matt Llewellyn and third placed Glen Richards on a Honda CBR600F Sport.

In a race run at lap record pace, Llewellyn challenged Suzuki rider Karl Harris for the entire eighteen-lap distance, and planned to make his move for the win on the final lap. "I got a big slide at Seagrave corner on the final lap, and it cost me any chance of the win," he said. "It was a hot pace and I didn't want to be leading on the last lap, but after the slide I couldn't get close enough at the final chicane to make a pass."

Llewellyn's second place also moves him back into second place in the championship, just twenty-one points behind championship leader Kirk McCarthy. "The main thing is I've got my championship challenge back on course. That was our priority this weekend," he added.

Starting from the front row of the grid, McCarthy tangled with the Yamaha of Rob Frost at the Club Chicane, losing touch with the leading five riders, which included McGuinness.

It was a pretty rough race,” said McCarthy, examining tyre marks on the seat unit of his Castrol Honda CBR. “I got bumped twice pretty heavily and thought something might have been damaged on the bike. By the time I’d had a look down to check, the guys out front had gone.”

McGuinness, last round winner at Brands Hatch, was disappointed with his result after qualifying second fastest. “I was riding as hard as I could,” said the 27-year-old, “but couldn’t seem to hang on to the draft. I was hoping for at least another podium today but I’ll just have to wait until the next round.

Supersport Result:
1 Karl Harris (Suzuki) 23m55.521s, 2 Matt Llewellyn (Yamaha) +0.330s, 3 Glen Richards (Honda) +1.069, 4 Paul Young (Suzuki) +2.758, 5 John McGuinness (Castrol Honda) +5.048, 6 Kirk McCarthy (Castrol Honda) +14.789, 7 Scott Smart (Suzuki) +29.022, 8 Woolsey Coulter (Suzuki) +30.848, 9 Gary May (Yamaha) +31.027, 10 Simon Andrews (Honda) +31.595.

SuperSport championship points after five of 13 rounds:
McCarthy 116, Llewellyn 95, McGuinness 92, Harris 70, Young 58, Smart 53, Coulter 44, Rob Frost (Yamaha) 38, Richards 35, Luke Quigley (Yamaha) 28.

SuperStock

Yorkshireman David Jefferies signalled his intention during Saturday qualifying, when he scorched into pole position on his V&M R1 Yamaha. But it was in Sunday's race that the reigning British Superstock champion gave the performance of his life.

For the whole of the eighteen lap race, Jefferies battled at the front of the field, with championship leader Paul Young and John Crockford and in the closing stages with all three riders side by side going into the final chicane a race victory looked like it could be on the cards. But Crockford had other ideas and muscled his way to the front when it mattered and Jefferies crossed the line just four tenths of a second behind.

"I can't be unhappy with that," said Jefferies. "At the start of the weekend we expected to at a disadvantage here, but the high speed circuit suited the V&M R1 Yamaha and I quickly found out that if I really committed myself to the corners I could carry more speed onto the straights and stay with them. It's nice to have been in a race again!"

The result moves Jefferies back into second place in the British Superstock championship, and moved him one step closer to achieving a race win. "It's been a good weekend for both myself and the V&M Team, and proved that contrary to paddock belief the Suzuki's are beatable. I'm still aiming to win one this season," he said.

SuperStock Results
1. John Crockford (Suzuki); 2. David Jefferies (V&M Racing); 3. Paul Young (Suzuki); 4. Glen Richards (Honda); 5. Dave Heal (Suzuki); 6. Jago Chapman (Yamaha); 7. Dave Johnson (Suzuki); 8. Kieran Murphy (Suzuki); 9. Chris Burns (Suzuki); 10. Jamie Morley (Suzuki).

SuperStock championship points after 5 of 13 rounds:
1. Paul Young 141; 2. David Jefferies 76; 3. Jamie Morley 68; 4. John Crockford 65; 5. Chris Burns 60; 6. Gary Mason 51; 7. Glen Richards 44; 8. Kim Ashkenazi 31; 9. Gus Scott 31; 10. Howard Whitby 30.

NB:  Casey Stoner did not race in this round of 125 but still leads the championship.

Next round: Oulton Park, 22 July

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