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World Superbike 2008 - Round Two - Phillip Island

Australian Supersport Race Three (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.
  • 1752 - Stauffer takes the win by 2.6 seconds over Crowe after backing off on the final laps. Staring makes it a Yamaha 1-2-3, Greedy fourth ahead of Charlton, Keevers, Maxwell and Curran
  • 1750 - Jamie gets the last lap board with a near four second buffer over Crowe who in turn has two seconds on Staring. Greedy had got the better of Charlton for fourth place. Keevers and Curran tussling over sixth place but Maxwell closing back up on that duo...
  • 1749 - Greedy closing on Charlton to challenge for fourth place... Two to run...
  • 1748 - New lap record to Jamie, a 35.82
  • 1747 - Jamie running away with this one.. 2 seconds his advantage with four laps to run, he pushes that out to over 3 seconds the next time around as Crowe can only watch his teammate disappear into the distance in front of him... Maxwell out of the picture, not sure why, but fourth place is Charlton. Yamaha looking certain for a 1-2-3.  Maxwell back to ninth...
  • 1746 - A good battle for sixth being waged between Keevers, Greedy and Curran. Geronimi has drifted back to ninth..
  • 1745 - Yamaha 1-2-3, Wayne Maxwell looking the most likely to spoil an all Yamaha podium as he tries to chase down Staring...
  • 1744 - A couple down at turn four, a couple more at MG... All riders a-okay though... Up front it is Jamie Stauffer away to a scorching opening lap to pull out 1.1 seconds on his pursuers. Crowe second followed by Staring, Maxwell, Charlton and Geronimi
  • 1742 - Aussie Supersports away now and it is the familiar sight of a swag of R6s up front but Wayne Maxwell on the Honda and Kawasaki men Scott Charlton and Shaun Geronimi doing their best to spoil Yamaha's party...
  • 1729 - Next up is Aussie Supersport Race Three, the final event on today's card...

Australian Supersport Race Three (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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