British SuperBike Championship - Round 9 - Cadwell Park

SuperBike 

Race 1
  1. Hislop
  2. Haydon
  3. Reynolds
  4. Emmett
  5. Crawford
  6. Rutter
  7. Byrne
  8. Plater
  9. Jackson
  10. Wood
    11.
Race 1
  1. Hislop
  2. Reynolds
  3. Emmett
  4. Haydon
  5. Rutter
  6. Brown
  7. Jackson
  8. Plater
  9. Davis
  10. Ellison
    11.
Championship Points
  1. Hislop - 389 pts.
  2. Reynolds - 369
  3. Haydon - 230
  4. Emmett - 206
  5. Rutter - 166
  6. Brown - 155

 

SuperSport

John McGuinness finished in second place in today’s ninth round British Supersport encounter at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire. Karl Harris won the 16-lap race with Rob Frost third. McGuinness’s Castrol Honda team-mate and series leader, Kirk McCarthy, retired with clutch problems in the early stages.

Starting from pole position, McGuinness led for the opening six laps before a heavy crash involving Simon Andrews at Mansfield corner brought out the Pace Car for four laps. When the race resumed, Harris muscled his way past McGuinness along the ultra-fast Park Straight on lap 12 and the Castrol Honda rider was forced to settle for second place.

“I had a gear selection problem going into Hall bends,” said the 27-year-old, “but I was happy with the way I was able to get away at the front. I was comfortable while leading and the CBR has been working well all weekend. It sets me up nicely for Brands Hatch.”

McCarthy saw his championship lead reduced to seven points as a result of his non-finish but the Australian was philosophical about the result. “I was struggling to find a decent set-up to be honest,” he said afterwards, “and the clutch problem is just one of those things that happen from time to time. We’ll regroup this week and go all out for a result next weekend.”

Llewellyn had this to say - "We spent a lot of laps behind the pace car, and the tyre temperature dropped dramatically, once the pace car had gone back in and we got back up to speed, the bike was sliding about all over the place. I had a couple of big moments, which knocked my confidence a bit and forced me to slow the pace. I'm very disappointed because Kirk didn't finish the race and I could have made up more ground at the top of the table."

Another Australian, Kim Ashkenazi, got off to a bad start and slipped back to 9th position on the first lap. Things then seemed to be going well as he slipped into a faster race pace before the pace car came out.  After 3 odd laps following the pace car, the race resumed and with little confidence in his cold tyres, Ashkenazi slipped from 7th back to 9th again. By race end, Ashkenazi had worked his way back up to 6th place, and was challenging for 5th place as they crossed the line.

“I am quite pleased with the weekend’s results as I equalled my qualifying time in the race on race tyres. I knew it would be a tough race here as the track is very technical and I honestly thought I would have struggled a little more. And, yet again, for all of us (Team E.T.I. Elec-Track / MSS Performance) it (the result) is another boost going into the latter part of the season.”, said Ashkenazi.
 
Supersport Result:
  1. Harris
  2. McGuinness
  3. Frost
  4. Llewellyn
  5. Richards
  6. Ashkenazi
  7. McCulloch
  8. Quigley
  9. Beaumont
  10. Norris
 SuperSport championship points:
  1. McCarthy - 147 pts.
  2. Harris - 140
  3. Llewellyn - 135
  4. McGuinness - 125
  5. Young - 99
  6. Frost - 64
  7. Smart - 61
  8. Richards - 55
  9. Mason - 46
  10. Coulter - 44

SuperStock 


In front of a bumper 33,500 strong crowd, Yorkshire's David Jefferies forced his V&M Racing R1 Yamaha to the front of the field to push his championship rivals throughout the entire sixteen-lap race, before the outcome was decided at the penultimate corner of the final lap.

After losing out in the drag race away from the line, Jefferies moved up to fourth place on lap two before taking third a lap later. Then on lap six he forced his way through into second position to hound race leader, Suzuki mounted John Crockford.

"I pushed and pressured him for the remainder of the race, but I didn't want to rush past because I didn't have the power to pull away," said Jefferies. "I had a plan to make a move at the hairpin on the last lap, but he ran in real hot, and lost control right in front of me, I gratefully nipped past to take the win."
 
SuperStock Result:
  1. Jefferies
  2. Young
  3. Morley
  4. Johnson
  5. Quigley
  6. Mason
  7. Scott
  8. Burns
  9. Mitchell
  10. Allan
 SuperStock championship points:
  1. Young - 177 pts.
  2. Jefferies - 137
  3. Crockford - 106
  4. Morley - 94
  5. Mason - 90
  6. Richards - 80
  7. Burns - 68

NB: Casey Stoner won the 125 race by 9 seconds and now has a 60 point lead in the championship.

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