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World Superbike 2008 - Round Two - Phillip Island

Australian Historics Period 4/5 Race Two (Support Event)

Transcript from our live coverage of the event. Entries are time coded and start from the bottom, please scroll down and read up to follow proceedings as they unfolded.
  • 1246 - Guest the winner, Phillis second and Corpe third. Next best was Webster, Britton, Stack, Tehennepe, Fyffe, Marriner, Higgs, Patterson, Mackne, Cook, Ditchburn, Wallace, Elliott, Scanlon, Crutchley, Potter, Carter, Baird, Hudson, Ross, Grant, Walsh, Smith
  • 1245 - Guest not backing off... A 44.28 on the penultimate lap to the Kawasaki man, Phillis 1.9 seconds adrift of Guest but has half a second on Corpe as they start the last lap...
  • 1244 - Guest the leader and has a second on Corpe and Phillis.  At Siberia Phillis sneaks it up the inside of Corpe for second place in a very nice move after Corpe left the door wide open...
  • 1243 - 44.6 by Guest on that previous lap, a 44.8 to Corpe and a 45.3 to Phillis... This time around the #34 machine of Guest again holding sway at the front and actually looking to be breaking away from Corpe now and Phillis slipstreams Corpe onto the chute  as a great battle for second place starts to unfold...Two laps to run..
  • 1242 - Guest shakes off the advances of Corpe at MG and Guest gets a good run onto the main straight but Corpe's weapon hunts him down later on down the straight... Guest still with the advantage around Southern Loop...  Phillis back on them now too...
  • 1241 - The Kawasakis quick down the chute and they close onto the tail of Phillis. Karl Corpe's Z1 looking especially powerful... Phillis runs wide at turn four, Corpe through to the lead, Corpe then runs a little wide on the exit which allows Guest to sneak past both of them to take the lead...
  • 1240 - Phillis, Corpe and Guest the guys up front in this Period 4/5 encounter and the trio already starting to break away. Phillips with the advantage on the Suzuki while Kawasaki men Guest and Corpe bang bars around Lukey Heights and get stuck into each other around MG...
  • 1236 - Aussie Historics up next...

Australian Historics Period 4/5 Race Two (Support Event)

World Superbike 2008 - Round Two - Phillip Island

Pictorial - Gallery A - Gallery B - Gallery C - Gallery D - Gallery E - Gallery F - Gallery G - Gallery H
Races - SBK Race 1 - SS Race - SBK Race 2
Qualifying - Superpole - SBK FP2 - SBK QP2 - SBK QP1 - SBK FP1 - SS QP2 - SS FP2 - SS QP1 - SS FP1

Australian Support Events

Superbike - Qualifying - Race 1 - Race 2 - Race 3 - Race 4 - Points
Supersport - Qualifying - Race 1 - Race 2 - Race 3 - Race 4 - Points
Historic Period 4/5 - Qualifying - Race 1 - Race 2 - Race 3 - Race 4 - Points

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