Source: ASC.

Wagner Soil Testing Yamaha pilot Aiden Wagner has had the perfect day out at Sydney Motorsport Park, winning all three Supersport races to be crowned champion at the 2014 Swann Insurance Australasian Superbike Championship.

Wagner finished eight points clear of his on-track rival Aaron Morris (Maxima Yamaha), who had to settle for second after three races where he finished in second spot. Allsite Concrete Cutting Yamaha’s Callum Spriggs claimed third outright in the championship series.

With one point separating Wagner and Morris in the championship standings leading into the opening race, the action in the Supersport class was expected to be fierce.

In the opening race of the day, Michael Blair (Yamaha) took an early lead from Wagner, Spriggs and Morris. By the end of the first lap, Wagner had moved into the lead, and while Blair was running second in the race he was issued with a 15-second jump-start penalty pushing him back to the rear of the field.

Morris was effectively second outright before being passed by Spriggs at the halfway point of the race and moving back into third. On the sixth lap, Morris produced a stunning move to get past both Spriggs and Blair to take a strong hold on second.

But this race was all about the show put on by Wagner; comfortably working his way through the final laps to take a well-earned win, finishing 6.613 seconds ahead of Morris.

The result put Wagner two points ahead in the outright standings with two races left to be run. Spriggs finished the race in third, with Brayden Elliott (Suzuki) claiming fourth and Luke Mitchell (Yamaha) taking fifth.

The battle at the top continued in race two, as Morris shot out to an early race lead from Wagner, with Spriggs, Blair and Elliot behind them. The gap between the top pair and the rest of the field widened over the first few laps, with Wagner and Morris both taking turns in the lead, and less than half a second separating them at any point in time.

Spriggs battled hard in third, and had put a handy eight-second gap on Elliott in fourth place at the half-way mark of the race, while Blair’s race ended prematurely when he entered the pits on lap six.

At that point, despite the close proximity of Morris, Wagner had spent a fair amount of time in the lead, and he looked comfortable taking on the role of pace-setter. And heading into the final lap, it was always going to come down to the wire.

On the second turn of the final lap Morris made his move, passing Wagner before running wide and letting his rival regain the lead. There was not much more Morris could do as Wagner picked the best lines and negotiated a back-rider perfectly in the remainder of the race, to make it two-on-the-trot and take a five-point lead heading into the final race.

With everything on the line, it was Wagner taking the early race lead in the final outing, while Morris had to settle for third spot, tucked in behind Spriggs.

Wagner held onto the lead coming into the third lap with Spriggs and Morris both within a second of the leader. It felt like the story of the day, and indeed the weekend, where Morris had a good showing of early pace, but once Wagner got in front there was just no stopping him.

Morris did manage to get himself into second spot in the latter stages of the race, but it was Wagner’s race and Wagner’s day, making it three from three to clinch a well-earned championship.

2014 Swann Insurance Australasian Superbike Championship
Round six – Sydney Motorsport Park, NSW

Supersport overall results:
1. Aiden WAGNER 75
2. Aaron MORRIS 66
3. Callum SPRIGGS 60
4. Brayden ELLIOTT 51
5. Aaiden COOTE 45
6. Luke MITCHELL 45
7. Jay PRESEPIO 34
8. Michael BLAIR 33
9. Thomas BRYDEN 33
10. Cambridge OLIVIER 30
11. Paul YOUNG 27
12. Geoff CRANFIELD 27
13. Jordan CARLSSON 27
14. David ROUGHLEY 22
15. Michael KNIGHT 18

Supersport championship standings:
1. Aiden WAGNER 379
2. Aaron MORRIS 371
3. Callum SPRIGGS 300
4. Aaiden COOTE 221
5. Jay PRESEPIO 196
6. Luke MITCHELL 191
7. Brayden ELLIOTT 169
8. Daniel FALZON 165
9. Cambridge OLIVIER 135
10. Thomas BRYDEN 131
11. William DAVIDSON 125
12. Mason COOTE 123
13. Michael BLAIR 121
14. Justin DI GIANDOMENICO 112
15. Patrick MEDCALF 80
16. Jordan CARLSSON 69
17. Mitch LEVY 63
18. Matt DAVIES 49
19. Michael KNIGHT 48
20. Ben BLYTH 43

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