VOLUME 58 ISSUE 30 JULY 27, 2021 P55
Three Different Winners At Brands
Hatch BSB
T
hree different riders claimed
victories in the third round of
the Bennetts British Superbike
Championship at Brands Hatch,
July 24-25, with wins for Tar-
ran Mackenzie (Yamaha), Jason
O'Halloran (Yamaha) and Chris-
tian Iddon (Ducati). Mackenzie
was also crowned as the Mon-
ster Energy King of Brands on
account of his 1-3-2 results.
"I got a get-out-of-jail-free card
in the third race with the stop [after
Gino Rea's Suzuki expired] be-
cause I was nowhere, 13th or 14th
before that, way behind everyone!
I was lucky with that. I knew I was
starting 12th and slicks was the
way forward and whether it was a
good or bad thing I had the men-
tality just to go for it.
"I had a really good first lap
and good start and just picked off
pretty much one rider a lap then
got behind Danny and Chris-
tian with a couple laps to go. I
couldn't quite get past Danny but
on the last lap I got a really good
run onto the back straight and I
just didn't shut off until he did.
"I got it stopped then chased
Christian to the last few corners,
it's hard to pass on the last part
of the circuit and Christian rode
a great last lap so it was always
going to be tough to pass him.
"So, to turn it around from
almost not even scoring points
to a podium and getting the
Bennetts Rider of the Weekend
Award and the Monster Energy
King of Brands—that is really
cool. I turned my day around this
last race so I'm looking forward
to Thruxton now."
In the championship, Iddon
is sitting on 163 points from
O'Halloran's 157 with Mackenzie
up to third on 137.
Brandon Paasch had a tough
weekend in the British Super-
sport Championship on the
Dynavolt Triumph Daytona 765
with a DNF in race one and
ninth in race two in races won by
teammate Kyle Smith and Jack
Kennedy.
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Christian Iddon (21) held on for a tight
race-three win but it was Tarran Mackenzie
(95) who took the King of Brands title.
