Image: Keith Muir.

Michael Blair has taken out race two and emphatically claimed overall hounours in the Supersport class at the opening 2015 Australian Superbike Championship (ASBK) round held at Phillip Island.

Blair added to his opening race win on Saturday with an equally impressive win in race two on Sunday, to finish the round with 50 points, 10 points clear of second placed Callum Spriggs.

In the second race for the round, Spriggs retained pole position on the grid, but Blair stormed past off the line to take the lead.

Spiggs had to be content with second as Paul Young settled into third from Kane Burns and Mitchell Levy. Burns made a move at the end of the opening lap to get past Young, and the pair touched a few seconds later forcing Young onto the brakes.

Young wasn’t having any of it, and a few corners later edged past Burns, and coming through Lukey Heights he pulled another top move to get past Spriggs and into second position.

Only 0.569 of a second separated the top four riders, and while Blair seemed to have control of the race up front, pole winner Spriggs was clearly struggling as he dropped back to fourth.

Lap three saw Young and Burns swap positions multiple times, while behind the top-four, Levy, Aiden Coote and Ryan Taylor were locked in a battle of their own.

Young moved up to Blair and looked set to tackle the front-runner on lap four, before he crashed out of the race at turn two.

That left Blair in a strong position, and by the end of the lap he had a clear gap to Spriggs, who had moved into second and Burns in third.

With Levy in fourth it looked as though he would be set to capitalise on Young’s misfortune and move towards a podium finish for the round. But on lap six, he went wide at turn one and re-entered the race in 26th position.

It was then Taylor’s turn to move into fourth spot and with a fifth place in the opening race, looked set to claim third overall for the round.

Ahead of him, Spriggs turned up the heat on Blair, and by the end of the eighth lap he had moved right on top of Blair’s rear tyre.

But it was to no avail, Blair keeping a measured head and controlling the tempo from start to finish, taking the race win and making it a round sweep for the class.

Spriggs’ pair of second placings for the weekend handed him second overall, while Taylor’s fourth place was enough to give him third overall for the weekend.

South Australian youngster Olly Simpson put in a dominant display of racing in the third and final Moto3/ 125GP race at Phillip Island.

Simpson added to his two race wins on Saturday with a clinical third race victoy on Sunday to clean sweep the round and take first overall, ahead of Victorian Matt Barton.

Barton finished the round second overall after finishing second in all three races, while Ted Collins finished third overall after a consistent weekend of racing.

2015 Australian Superbike Championship
Round one – Phillip Island, VIC

Supersport overall results:
1. Michael BLAIR 50
2. Callum SPRIGGS 40
3. Ryan TAYLOR 33
4. Thyron VAN VUUREN 30
5. Ben BLYTH 29
6. Kane BURNS 27
7. Aaiden COOTE 26
8. Luke MITCHELL 24
9. Mason COOTE 24
10. Hudson PITT 20

Moto3/125GP overall results:
1. Olly SIMPSON 75
2. Matt BARTON 60
3. Ted COLLINS 50
4. Tom BRAMICH 50
5. Lachlan KAVNEY 49
6. Brian HOUGHTON 44
7. Benjamin LEONARD 39
8. Tayla STREET 30
9. Tayla RELPH 28
10. Jacob STREET 26

Junior 80cc two-stroke overall results:
1 Jack MAHAFFY 75
2 Dallas SKEER 60
3 Scott NICHOLSON 54
4 Jack COUSENS 50
5 Adam HAINES 49

Junior 150cc four-stroke overall results:
1. Dylan WHITESIDE 75
2. Ben BRAMICH 56
3. Hunter FORD 52
4. Zane FORD 52
5. Reid BATTYE 45
6. Nicholas CLAIR 41
7. Tyler FERRARI 37
8. Jonah Griffin SITA 37
9. Scott TOPPING 30
10. Joel BELL 13

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