BSB Thrillers
At Donington
Park
T
he British Superbike Cham-
pionship served up another
stunner at Donington Park with
one of the fiercest four-way
battles ever seen in the series in
race three (check out the video
below of the last lap).
Following on from race one in
which Kyle Ryde (OMG Grilla Ya
-
maha Racing) beat current BSB
number-one Tommy Bridewell
(Honda Racing UK) and veteran
Leon Haslam (ROKiT Haslam
Racing BMW Motorrad) and race
two, where Glenn Irwin (Hager
PBM Ducati) bested Haslam and
Bridewell, race three was a bar
brawl of a match between Irwin,
Bridewell, former Moto3 World
Champion Danny Kent (Mc
-
Camish Yamaha) and Australian
Jason O'Halloran (Completely
Motorbikes Kawasaki).
For 20 laps, the quartet raced
bar-to-bar, no one able to break
away until O'Halloran made the
decisive break on the last lap
when Bridewell and former team
-
mate Irwin ran each other wide at
the Foggy Chicane.
In the end, Bridewell would get
his own back, divebombing Irwin
at the final corner and allowing
Kent through for third place, with
Irwin relegated to fourth.
"To go out and win is incred
-
ible," O'Halloran said. "It's nice to
get up here and win for the team.
They haven't won in a couple of
years, so hopefully, it's the first of
many. I didn't want to be making
my move on the last lap because
I knew it was going to be a bit
scruffy; I knew I had plus zero on
the board, so I knew there were
four of us as well, and I didn't
want to miss out on the podium.
"I knew where I was fast on
the track and where I could make
a clean pass, and I just had to
get close enough to do it. We all
had strong points on the track,
so it was a bit of a yo-yo effect.
But I got close enough with a
lap to go. On the last lap, I just
put my head down, tried to hit
every apex, and didn't make any
mistakes.
CN
SUPERBIKE
Race One
1. Kyle Ryde (Yam)
2. Tommy Bridewell (Hon)
3. Leon Haslam (BMW)
4. Danny Kent (Yam)
5. Glenn Irwin (Duc)
Race Two
1. Glenn Irwin (Duc)
2. Leon Haslam (BMW)
3. Tommy Bridwell (Hon)
4. Danny Kent (Yam)
5. Kyle Ryde (Yam)
Race Three
1. Jason O'Halloran (Kaw)
2. Tommy Bridewell (Hon)
3. Danny Kent (Yam)
4. Glenn Irwin (Duc)
5. Kyle Ryde (Yam)
WIND
IN THE
P46
Jason O'Halloran
capped off the BSB
weekend with a win
for Kawasaki.
