YMF Australian Superbike 2005 - Round Five

Unedited on-the-fly notes from our live coverage of the event

1804 - Got to catch a plane so I'm off now... Hope you enjoyed the coverage... Until Queensland in a few weeks, same bat channel etc. etc.
1803 - Provisional Results from Superbike Race 2 - Superbike Championship Points
1740 - Superbike results - Bugden, Fergusson, Brookes, D Stauffer, J Stauffer, Holland, Greedy, Allerton, Giles, Coote, Rees, Charlton, Etheridge, Maxwell, Roe, Ellis
1737 - Last lap still Bugden in front but looking messy, lappers are going to figure, Krusty looking for an opportunity, they go round the back of the circuit, Bugden has an edge on acceleration and that could be what counts, Krusty trying under brakes, down to the final tow turns but no Bugden's Yamaha pulls away again, they drive on to the straight and Bugden gets it. A fantastic ride and then both of them head off to the grass and fall over on the entrance to turn 1 after they get the chequered flag to give a comedic ending to a great battle. And that was right in front of the crowd on the hill who voiced their appreciation. A great end to the day
1735 - Bugden protecting well in the corners and Krusty can't get off the race line as he will find the damp patches... Krusty will be getting very frustrated.. 2 to run
1734 - Bugden and Fergusson trying hard but it must be said that Bugden's Yamaha YZF-R1 looks to have a mumbo advantage over the Joe Rocket Honda... Krusty looks to have the handling but there is certainly no shortage of neddies finding their way to Bugden's rear Dunlop
1733 - Johnson went grass tracking to lose that 3rd place to Brookes. Krusty put in a new fastest lap that time around to be on Bugden's tailpipe again with 4 laps to run
1731 - Brookesy has pulled away from Dan Stauffer and closed right onto the tailpipe of Johnson to challenge for 3rd place but that battle unfolding 10 seconds behind the leading duo of Bugden and Fergusson
1730 - Bugden responds to Krusty's challenge and managed to extend the gap again a little. Hendo again ends this race in the kitty litter to put a cap on one of the worst weekends ever for the Shepparton privateer
1729 - 7 to run and Fergusson all over Bugden now... Brookesy up to 4th after getting the better of Dan Stauffer
1727 - Brookesy got the better of Gilesy for 5th and a lap later Gilesy ran off the circuit but somehow remained upright while splashing through some puddles slow time. He rejoined the circuit in 9th place 3 seconds ahead of his team-mate. 8 laps to run and Krusty has reduced Bugden's lead to only half a second
1726 - 9 laps to run and Krusty is on it now to lower the new fastest mark of this race down to a 1m24.05 to pull 7-tenths out of Bugden to reduce the gap to a single second. Shannon 4 seconds behind them with 4 seconds on the battle for 4th which is shaping up as a ripper
1725 - The battle for 4th really hotting up now as Brookesy has joined the fun good and proper
1724 - Krusty up to 2nd and pulling away from Johnson. Bugden has a 1.7 second lead but there is 10 laps to run... Brookesy has closed up to the back of the Dan Stauffer / Shawn Giles battle over 4th
1723 - Fergusson being held up by Johnson, the Yamaha looks faster in a straight line but Krusty all over him in the corners...
1721 - Bugden leading by more than a second now after putting in a new fastest lap, 1m24.492. Fergusson climbing all over the back of Johnson. Dan Stauffer ahead of Giles. Brookesy running 6th. Gobert started up the front but must have had some sort of early problem
1720 - Gilesy and Dan Stauffer running 1m25s on road rubber. Fergusson the fastest man on the circuit on that last time around with a 1m24.98
1719 - Still Bugden with 14 laps to run he has half a second on Johnson, the same gap back to Fergusson in 3rd while Dan Stauffer and Shawn Giles battle over 4th place
1717 - Johnson has a slick on the rear and a 209 GP on the front while Dan Stauffer, Shawn Giles and Glenn Allerton shod with 209 GPs at both ends
1716 - Pretty much all the Dunlop men on road rubber while the Michelin shod Honda boys on slicks and Bugden also on slicks but in his case they are Dunlop hoops
1716 - Bugden leading and looking good. We had a privateer win the Supersport race could we see a privateer take out the Superbike race...?
1715 - Shannon very wide but remains upright but the mistake lets Bugden through and Fergusson all over him
1714 - Away they go and again Johnson gets the jump, Bugden in 2nd this time around ahead of Krusty and Giles with Dan Stauffer and Anthony Gobert following
1713 - On the grid now getting ready to go, a fair amount of the field seems to be on road tyres..
1712 - Solid dry line out there now and most of the field I guess will be on slicks or very lightly cut slicks
1711 - Darren Naughton is being carted off to Wangaratta Hospital now for some x-rays and he will probably remain there for observation overnight as he took a good knock in the fall. Superbikes heading out of pitlane again now for their formation lap
1656 - The race will be fully restarted. Dan Stauffer was well down in the field after going in to change his machine prior to the race start so he will be glad of the re-start as long as the riders down are all okay
1653 - Red flag out, a number of riders down a the start of the pit straight. Medical staff attending to them. One of the riders down we believe is Darren Naughton
1652 - Johnson leads them across the stripe to start lap two with 4-tenths on Krusty, Gobert a further half a second behind in 3rd place, Brookesy 4th, Giles 5th, Bugden 6th, Maxwell 7th, Etheridge 8th
1651 - Johnson on wets front and rear... Gobert wet front, intermediate rear... Others on various... Johnson gets the jump off the line to take the lead with Fergusson and Gobert, very much a dry line out there now
1650 - Superbikes completing their warm up lap now...
1640 - Superbikes will be heading out of pit lane for their formation lap shortly. No rain falling, wet track off line and only slightly damp track on the racing line... Just what you want on a near 200 horsepower Superbike... It's times like this I'm not jealous of these boys at all
1632 - Henry takes the win by 14 seconds on combined time over Stephen Liddicoat who finished with an equal gap of 14 seconds over 3rd placed Aaron Phillips. Ingram 4th followed by Webster, Higgins, Christie, Burns, Hay and Andrews... Superbikes out next and the track has a dry line forming but is still very wet off the racing line
1630 - As they start the last lap it is Henry by more than 12 seconds on combined time with Liddicoat in 2nd place with a similar gap over 3rd placed Aaron Phillips
1626 - Riders heading off the circuit every which way at various turns with yellow flags being waved all over the place but things progress with Ben Henry leading on combined time by 7 seconds over Stephen Liddicoat with 3 laps to run
1624 - Superstockers away again for their final five laps and Ben Henry sat on the line as the field pulled away but he has more than 4 seconds on the field on combined time so he can take his time working up to speed
1613 - The race will be restarted with five laps to go and the results decided on combined time...
1611 - Ben Henry pulling away out in front while Clarke trying to find a way past Drew Bennett until Clarke dumped it under brakes which took out Bennett also but then the race was then red flagged with only half the race distance down...
1607 - Ben Henry took the lead on the second lap and Clint Clarke moved up to 3rd place behind Drew Bennett
1606 - Superstock final race underway with them teetering around on 208RR Dunlop control tyres that saw the slithering around on the wet Winton surface. Drew Bennett the leader at the end of the first lap ahead of Darren Edwards, Ben Henry, Clint Clarke ad Aaron Phillips
1554 - Twins race just wrapped up, Superstock on next and then we have the Superbikes.
1543 - Final Pro Twins race on now and Anderson leads the way from Johnston, Collins, Clark, Johnston, McMartin, Snowden and Fripp. Looks like only 8 started the race, 5 laps to run
1541 - Supersport Round and Series Overall Championship Standings
1530 - Brookes still leads the overall series with 225 from Fergusson on 222 then Staring is now 3rd overall on 170 points which is the equal tally to Aitchison who is 4th, Waters 5th on 153 points
1526 - Provisional Supersport Race 2 Results
1523 - Staring takes the win an cruises across the line with his fist in the air to pitlane. Stanley takes 2nd place 4.3 seconds behind, Aitchison 3rd, Fergusson 4th, Davies 5th and Seaton worked his way up to an incredible 6th place and took the fastest lap of the race on his way through the field. Clarke 7th, Jones 8th, Waters 9th, Coote 10th then it was Fitzgerald, Quinn, O'Halloran,
1522 - Last lap now and Staring the clear leader, he just has to bring it home...
1520 - 2 laps to go and Staring now 4 seconds ahead, Aitchison still a clear 3rd place and Krusty a clear 4th. Waters is going to have to fight Davies if he wants to keep 5th
1518 - 3 laps to run and the race order is - Staring with nearly 3 seconds on Stanley who in turns has a similar gap to third placed Aitchison. Krusty now 4 seconds further down and he has so little rear end grip that it looks like having a knobbly with 5 psi air pressure in it
1516 - Staring now has a 1.5 second lead over Stanley. Aitchison a further couple of seconds down in 3rd but now with a full second over Fergusson. Then 8 seconds further down it is Waters from Davies, Clarke, Coote, Jones, Fitzgerald and the Seaton still the fastest man on the circuit and up to 11th
1515 - Krusty back to 4th now, his Michelins completely rooted now by the looks of it. Staring and Aitchison now have 1.5 seconds on their pursuers
1514 - Seaton again the quickest man but still only up to 14th, he just went a couple of seconds quicker on that lap than the leaders...!
1513 - Stanley up the inside of Krusty for 2nd place with 6 to run. Staring now has a lead of 7-tenths of a second but the top four still covered by less than a second. Staring has clear track, can he pull away....?
1512 - Staring all over the back of Fergusson, only a matter of time before he makes a challenge... Stanley there also still. There it is Staring to the lead, the WA teenager hits the lead
1511 - Staring got the better of Aitchison for 3rd and then touched Stanley challenging for 2nd but had to pull out of the move and lost some ground but quickly he was back up there and with 7 laps to run Staring moved past Stanley to take that second place
1510 - Seaton down in 18th place but just set a new fastest lap of the race. It seems as though as the track dries out the Bridgestone wets are holding together better and offering their riders better performance. Fergusson of course on Michelin but I believe Stanley runs Bridgestone and we have Aitchison running Dunlop, Staring on Bridgestone and the fastest man on the track all that way back is also a Bridgestone runner
1509 - Staring just set a new fastest lap of the race and was half a second quicker than the race leader that lap but more importantly he more than half a second quicker than third placed Aitchison to narrow the gap down to only a couple of bike lengths
1507 - Krusty takes the lead again with 10 laps to run as the track starts to dry out a little and the wets squirm away under power
1506 - Staring just put in the fastest lap of the race to pull a couple of tenths out of Aitchison but he has a lot of work to do as the Yamaha man has over a second on him.
1504 - Stanley now 7-tenths ahead of Krusty. Aitchison only a couple of lengths behind Krusty in 3rd place while Staring has promoted himself to 4th place after getting the better of Waters. Brookesy 2 seconds off the pace in this encounter and running in 8th position
1502 - Stanley back to the front late on that lap, less than a second covering the top four which with 13 laps to run is Stanley, Fergusson, Aitchison while Staring is another half a second behind in 5th place
1500 - Stanley up to 2nd place now and on the back of Fergusson and Stanley was 7-tenths quicker than Fergusson on that last lap. Stanley got Fergusson under brakes then Krusty got him back a couple of corners later after shooting up the inside and nudged him a bit wide to let him know he is now playing with the big boys
1459 - Stanley got the better of Staring for 4th place then went underneath Waters to take 3rd position and slot in behind Aitchison. Stanley 1.5 seconds faster than everyone on that lap...
1458 - Only a second covering the leading quartet after that first lap with Mark Stanley not too much further behind and closing
1457 - Krusty leads them through turn 1 with Aitchison in behind him while Brookes again got a shocker off the line. Josh Waters up to 3rd place ahead of fellow young gun Bryan Staring who is riding in quite a deal of discomfort after having a very big off at Wanneroo last weekend.
1455 - On the grid now, no rain falling but all the top runners on full wets due to the very wet track
1452 - The Supersport boys are away for their warm up lap and again Krusty pulled into the pits after the formation lap to switch bikes before starting the warm up from pit lane along with a number of other riders
1439 - Blake Leigh-Smith ends up taking the win by 5 seconds over Rigoli, Galvin the veteran takes 3rd place, Andrew Willy 4th, Tim Inkster 5th, Rhys Moller 6th and Jordan Coleman remounted to work his way back up to 7th just ahead of Paul Campbell. Thompson 9th while Gleave rounded out the top ten.
1434 - Blake Leigh-Smith leading now by nearly a full second as Rigoli tries to hold on. Coleman in front of Galvin through the corners but he can then seemingly easily blast past on the straights. Coleman put up a good fight before rolling off into the sand after losing it under brakes trying to make up for his lack of straight line speed
1430 - Smith went through the left hander what must have been 10kph faster than Rigoli that time around to take the lead. WA youngster Jordan Coleman climbing all over the back of Galvin
1429 - 6 laps to run and Leigh-Smith all over the back of Rigoli as they start lap three. Hatton and Panayi went for a slide down the road together
1428 - Have the pace looks to be an understatement as he went past Galvo around the outside as though he was standing still and was on the back of Rigoli only a couple of corners later.
1427 - Blake Leigh-Smith working his way forward and up to 3rd place as they start lap two, he looks to have the pace to close down Galvin and Rigoli also if he remains upright
1426 - Tom Hatton bogged down on the line terribly but no such dramas for Brent Rigoli who started to pull away from the field almost immediately from Peter Galvin and Chris Panayi
1424 - No rain falling right now but track very wet. The 125 race might become a case of last man standing...
1423 - 125 GP bikes leaving pit lane now on their formation lap. We really need to make up some time on the schedule here today or we are going to be racing in the dark by the time the final Superbike race comes up
1416 - Pictorial - Gallery H
1414 - Nakedbike Race 3 - Rattenbury wins from David Anderson on the very wet track while Graeme Wilshaw fell off and remounted for third place some 44 seconds behind the race winner. Jon Collins got 4th and was followed home by Smith, Mills, Marukic, Cartwright and Olm. Only 9 starts in that race. 125 GP out next then Supersport race 2
1350 - Racing should be underway again at 1400 when the Nakedbikes will splash around for their last race of the weekend followed by 125 GP, Supersport, Twins, Superstock, Superbike and C&D will round out the day if we have any light left by the time we get that far. Rain has stopped again but the track is drenched
1343 - Rain really falling here now
1330 - Way behind schedule here today so we will now have a shortened lunch break before getting back into it
1320 - Provisional Superbike Race 1 Results (Stopped early due to increasing rain)
1315 - Red Flag due to the increasing rain, just in time for Dan Stauffer as he ran off into the grass at the end of the pit straight. I believe they have completed the required number of laps for the race to be declared with the race results deciding on the race order at the end of the previous lap which will see Krusty take the win from Dan Stauffer. I also believe Brookes will not get the 3rd place he crossed the line with as with the race counted back to the lap previous to that move Shannon might retain his 3rd place. Bugden 5th, Gobert 6th, Giles 7th, Allerton 8th then it is Charlton, Jamie Stauffer rounds out the top ten.
1314 - The race pace has dropped off only a couple of seconds due to the moisture, Brookesy the one to benefit, they will slow more now though as the rain starting to pick up a little. Bugden coming under attack from Gobert who is liking the conditions
1313 - Krusty comes across the stripe again as the rain drizzles down lightly. Brookesy made a liar of me and slipped past Johnson for 3rd as the Yamaha men must have buttoned right off because of the moisture
1312 - Krusty was making some hand signals to his team in pit lane as he came past that time around, indicating that there could be some moisture falling around the circuit. Yes it is coming in now, the boys out on slicks and a few drops of rain starting to fall
1311 - Brookesy up to 4th now but that is realistically as high as he can hope to get with only 6 laps to run. Krusty now has 2 seconds on Dan who in turn has over a second on Shannon
1309 - Krusty now 1.7 seconds ahead of Dan Stauffer who in turn has managed to gap Shannon by a few tenths. Bugden in 4th but starting to come under attack from Brookes who is quickening his pace, that battle taking place a full 10 seconds behind the race leader though
1308 - Lapped riders becoming a factor already and both Yamaha men got baulked a little on that lap
1307 - Krusty has pulled away from the Yamaha men a little now. Dan just went underneath Shannon for 2nd place after deciding it is his turn to try and chase down Krusty to try and make a challenge but the gap between them is now out to 1.2 seconds with 8 laps to run
1306 - Brookesy underneath Gobert for 5th place. Gilesy running 7th after getting the better of his Suzuki team-mate
1305 - Robert Bugden up to 4th place after getting Gobert out of the esses, Brookes all over the back of Gobert now also. Only 4-tenths covering the top trio still but they are 8 seconds ahead of that battle for 4th
1304 - Brookes up to 6th place after dispensing with the two Suzuki men. Anthony still 4th but having to get a little sideways to stay there
1303 - 12 laps to run and now less than half a second covering the top trio. Then it is Gobert a full 5 seconds further behind and Dan the fastest man on that last lap once again, will be challenging Shannon for 2nd any time now
1302 - Anthony Gobert still in 4th place and benefiting a little from the heady battle just behind him between Allerton, Bugden, Giles and Brookes
1301 - Fergusson, Johnson and Dan Stauffer the pacesetters and the only men in the 1m23s, Dan the fastest lap thus far with a 1m23.50
1300 - Bugden up to 6th place after making a move on Giles, now harassing Allerton for 5th
1259 - 15 laps to run and Fergusson still with 4-tenths over Johnson who in turn has half a second on Dan Stauffer. Anthony Gobert now more than a second behind Dan and being closed down by Glenn Allerton, Shawn Giles, Robert Bugden and Josh Brookes.
1258 - Fergusson put down a 1m28.7 from a standing start to pull out 4-tenths over Shannon on that first lap while Dan Stauffer promoted himself up to 3rd after passing Gobert. Henderson went down softly on the second lap. 1256 - Superbikes away! Krusty gets a good run but Brookesy didn't so it is Krusty leading them through the first turns with Shannon Johnson right up his clacker and Anthony Gobert quickly up to 3rd place ahead of Dan Stauffer and Glenn Allerton
1245 - Just went and had a word with Brookesy about the knee he damaged in that crash yesterday. He said it certainly hurts but won't hold him back at all in the races which is good news
1239 - Richard Manning just took out the C&D race from Richard Moore and Richard Liminton, Riko Partoosh scored 4th on the smaller bike. Superbike race 1 up next, drizzle has stopped, track is dry, but no telling what will happen in the next 15 minutes or so...
1225 - Results thus far today - Nakedbike Race 2 - 125 GP Race 2 - Supersport Race 1 - Twins Race 2 - Superstock Race 2 - C&D riders on their warm up lap now and just after officials had declared the track 'dry' a little light drizzle blew in just to get the Superbike boys a bit more nervous as they are out after the C&D race is run and won
1212 - Superstock Race 2 Results - Phillips, Ingram, Hay, Andrews, Bartlome, Edwards, Casella, Figueiredo, Quinn, Higgins, Dowell, Webster, Griffin, Vogel, Cowie, Bennett, Brewster, Baker, Christie, Ready
1210 - Hay enjoying a remarkable ride after having to start from the back of the grid after getting penalised for an infringement yesterday, up to 4th with a lap to go and only 4-tenths behind the leader...
1207 - The field managed to close on Phillips and with 3 laps to run his lead had been shaved to only 8-tenths of a second from Ingram who was riding in close company with Damon Bartlome and Ian Andrews. Grant Hay was running 5th ahead of Edwards, Figueiredo, Dowell, Casella, Quinn, Watson, Clarke
1204 - Late on that lap Doddrell went down and also Bonthorne
1203 - Aaron Phillips with more than 2 seconds on the field with 6 laps to run, Damon Bartlome 2nd, Shane Ingram 3rd while Ian Andrews and Dean Bonthorne fight a battle over 4th place
1200 - Superstockers are off the line on the now completely dry track and it is Aaron Phillips leading them around for the first time with Ducati rider Ben Henry following close behind until he got spat off around the tight back section
1150 - McMartin took the Pro Twins race win from Fripp
1140 - Pictorial - Gallery G
1139 - Stuart Fripp currently leading the Pro Twins race from Craig McMartin
1132 - Provisional Results from Australian Supersport Race 1
1130 - Krusty the only man to get down to the 1m26s after putting in a 1m26.789 on the final lap
1127 - Krusty takes the win after lapping the whole field up to I believe 6th place. Jordan Coote does get 3rd place, Seaton 4th, Gareth Jones takes an excellent 5th place, Mark Stanley 6th, Bryan Staring 7th
1126 - Krusty now has 2 seconds on Brookes. Coote all over the back of Seaton as they negotiate the last lap
1124 - The Honda men now have more than 30 seconds on the rest of the field. Seaton still holding down third place but the gap back to Coote in 4th now only 1.7 seconds as he slithers his way around Winton on some severely shagged out wets
1122 - By the way the only reporters from a print magazine again here today is KW from AMCN. Again the other major print magazines don't bother sending any reporters to our national superbike series. Instead some actually just blag what they can from our live notes and other areas to make up the story later...
1121 - Both Krusty and Brookes down to 1m27s now and Krusty holds a 4-tenth advantage over his team-mate with 4 laps to run
1120 - The Honda men now 22 seconds ahead of the field with 5 laps to run. Seaton still a clear second place but being caught by Coote but the Yamaha man has 6 seconds to make up and only 5 laps to do it but he looks to have the pace to be able to pull it off
1119 - Lapped traffic could end up deciding the outcome and Brookesy might benefit from being second on the track so Krusty has to wake them up first
1118 - Krusty into the lead late on that lap and kept the advantage as they crossed the stripe to mark 6 laps to run
1117 - Krusty not letting him have it however as he retaliates with a 1m28.0 to pull a few tenths back out of Brookesy's lead which was now down to half a second with 7 laps to run. Seaton was 15 seconds adrift in a clear third place, 8 seconds ahead of Coote.
1116 - Brookesy the first man down to the 1m28s after pulling 7-tenths out of Krusty on that lap
1115 - Past the halfway mark now, 8 laps to run and the order; Brookes, Fergusson, then a country mile to Seaton, Coote, Stanley, Jones, Staring, Clarke, Stalder, Davies
1114 - Brookesy pulled alongside Krusty with nine laps to run and took the lead into turn one. Aitchison stayed with them until the old turn one which was the corner his wet front decided to cry enough and pitch him into the dirt.
1112 - Passing is not an easy task at Winton today as while the race line is nice and dry once the bikes wander off the race line they are afforded only little grip
1111 - Seaton starting to lose though with the leading trio now as his wets start to destroy themselves. Aitchison still hanging on to the front men however with his wet front Dunlop looking to be holding in okay
1110 - The race line is nearly completely dry now which should play into Honda's hands. Fergusson takes the lead with 12 laps to run
1109 - Mark Stanley has lost though with the leading quartet and is being closed down by Jordan Coote. The injured Bryan Staring holding down 7th place just ahead of Brendan Clarke
1108 - Aitchison immediately closed on the Honda men and started to challenge, don't think his front wet will stay with him over the whole race distance however
1107 - Seaton made a liar out of me by taking second place from Krusty but the #1 plate holder was back through again a few corners later while Seaton started to come under increasing attack from Aitchison who got the better of him with 13 laps to run.
1106 - 14 laps to run and it is Brookesy and Krusty running 1-2 after getting the better of Seaton. I expect the two Honda men to disappear now and have their own battle for the win. Aitchison was the quickest man on that last lap though
1105 - Aitchison got the better of Stanley to push his way back up to 4th place. Seaton is on full wets, Aitchison has a wet front, the Honda men are running normal Supersport rubber, Stanley on full wets
1104 - The leading five looked fairly well set with 16 laps to run as they had broke away from the field already. Stanley had pushed his way up to 4th place after passing Aitchison while Seaton continued to lead from Brookesy
1103 - Through the tight section around the back of the circuit Aitchison got the better of Fergusson momentarily before the order reversed again while Chris Seaton took the lead from Josh Brookes. Mark Stanley looking strong in 5th
1102 - Away they go, Brookesy and Krusty get away well and it is Brookesy that leads the field through turn 1, Aitchison 3rd and looking ready to get aggressive, Chris Seaton 4th
1101 - On the grid now, getting ready to go...
1059 - The Supersport men did their warm up lap and Adam Fergusson then promptly pitted to change bikes, presumably he went out to try the feel of one tyre on the formation lap and then shot into pitlane to grab his other bike and then started the warm up lap from pitlane
1049 - Supersport men out next for their first race of the weekend. Even though the drizzle has stopped I expect to see just about the whole field running full wets in this 17 lap race
1046 - The race win goes to Blake Leigh-Smith by 10 seconds while Andrew Willy pipped Chris Panayi on the line for second place. Peter Galvin put in a last lap charge to get the better of Jordan Coleman for 4th place, Peter Scott 6th, Tom Hatton 7th, Tim Inkster 8th then it was Gleave, Rigoli, Moller, Campbell, Wilkinson, Metcher and Thompson
1044 - Something went down on the penultimate lap as Blake Leigh-Smith suddenly had a lead of more than ten seconds as Vincent Bell seemed to have slipped off somewhere and Chris Panayi and Andrew Willy had managed to push young Jordan Coleman back to 4th place
1041 - 3 laps to run and Panayi just pushed Galvin back to 5th but young Blake Leigh-Smith still the quickest man out in front with a 2 second gap over Bell, Coleman still 3rd
1038 - Young Blake Leigh Smith the leader with five laps to run and pulling away from Vincent Bell while Jordan Coleman had also got the better of Galvin to take 3rd place with 4 laps to run as the drizzle continued to fall at Winton
1037 - 125 GP race underway now and it was Brent Rigoli and Chris Panayi the early protagonists out in front before both men went down on the entry to the pit straight before even getting to start the second lap. Vincent Bell inherited the lead with a 1.5 second gap over the now second placed Peter Galvin who in turn had more than 2 seconds on WA youngster Tom Hatton. The even younger Blake Leigh Smith was having a good battle over 5th place with the equally young Jordan Coleman but after Cath Thompson fell from 4th place with six laps to run that battle became a tussle over 4th place and then a battle for 3rd place after the pair got the better of Tom Hatton to push the Allect Racing rider back to 5th. Chris Panayi was busy working his way forward after that crash late on the first lap and with six laps to run had promoted himself back up to 6th place ahead of Peter Scott and Andrew Willy.
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1022 - I wouldn't read anything into them but for those that get excited about such things here are the results from the wet morning warm up. Some riders on wets some on intermediates which generally are normal road tyres such as 208 GP Dunlops although there seem to be some new 209 GP hoops getting around also while the Michelin boys would be running treaded Pilot Race tyres possibly with the addition of some more cuts strategically placed at various points on the carcass - Superbike Warm up - Supersport Warm up
1020 - Simon Rattenbury took the Nakedbike race win from Jon Cartwright who funnily enough crashed on the warm down lap. However there is talk that Cartwright may have passed Van Rooyen under a yellow flag so the second place result is under question although it is safe to say that Rattenbury is the winner. As they crossed the line Anderson was 4th followed home by Wilshaw, Hoare, Collins, Smith, Marukic and Olm
1010 - The first race of the day just kicked off with James Van Rooyen leading the Nakedbike field around on the first lap ahead of Simon Rattenbury and Jon Cartwright on a very wet Winton Motor Raceway even though the drizzle had stopped prior to the race start the track is soaked