News 30 Apr 2017

Collins dominant for Winton ASBK Supersport sweep

Support category rundown from today's third round.

Image: Keith Muir.

Next Gen Motorsports Suzuki’s Ted Collins has won the Supersport overall at this weekend’s third round of the 2017 Yamaha Motor Finance Australian Superbike Championship (ASBK) presented by Motul Pirelli at Winton.

Collins managed to convert his pole position to the opening 13-lap race victory this morning, sprinting away from the field for a 6.977s victory.

The Victorian also smashed the lap record by two full seconds with a flying 1m22.806s on lap three. While Collins controlled the race from the from, Mark Chiodo (Triumph) was able to bring it home second, with Sam Lambert (Yamaha) recovering from an early off-track excursion for third – edging out Nic Liminton and Sam Muldoon for position.

The top 10 was completed by New Zealand champion Damon Rees (Honda), Wakefield Park winner Tom Toparis (Cube Racing Kawasaki), Cambridge Olivier (Yamaha), Phillip Island victor Mason Coote (Yamaha) and Ryan Taylor (Yamaha).

Another dominant performance from Collins saw him make it the Supersport overall for the round, stretching his points advantage to 26 as a result of his success this weekend at Winton. He built a 3.525s buffer in the 13-lap affair for the double, as Chiodo and Lambert again completed the race podium.

Muldoon was fourth this time out ahead of Rees, while Chris Quinn (Yamaha) crossed the line for sixth, title-contender Coote seventh, Jake Pruiti (Triumph), Toparis and John Hunt (Suzuki) completed the top 10.

Liminton had a brake issue and exited the race, bumping him down to 13th for the weekend. Overall for the round Collins was the victor, leading Chiodo and Lambert. In the standings, Collins has a commanding lead, from Coote and Chiodo.

The Supersport Over 300 win went to Tom Bramich (Yamaha) ahead of Zac Levy (Yamaha) and Jack Mahaffy (Yamaha), while in the Up To 300s it was Reid Battye over Scott Nicholson and Yanni Shaw – all aboard Kawasaki machinery.

Mahaffy managed to clean-sweep the all-Yamaha R3 Cup for the round with two more wins today, getting the overall from Hunter Ford and Jack Passfield on the podium.

In the GP Juniors Cup Tommy Edwards rode his Yamaha to victory – also finishing fifth in his Supersport 300 class – from Joel Kelso and John Lytras.

Round four of the 2017 ASBK series will now move onto Darwin’s Hidden Valley Raceway in the Northern Territory on 7-9 July.

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