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Milwaukee Yamaha’s Josh Brookes could clinch his first British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch’s final round this weekend, but insists he will still be trying to win all three races to cap off the season.

Brookes arrives in the strongest position he has ever been to secure a first MCE BSB crown for the Milwaukee Yamaha team and if he pulls of the feat this weekend he will become the first Australian rider since Troy Bayliss in 1999 to celebrate title victory.

“I think that I am looking at this weekend as I have in any other year of coming into the final round,” Brookes stated. “I feel pretty much the same, the only difference is in previous years I have gone into the event with the belief that I can win the title and then I have had the acceptance stage of not winning and thinking about how I could the next time.

“I am still in that same mental space right now; it is just that on paper I am in a more favourable position this year. The last visit to Brands Hatch was where it all came to the stage we are at now with the Milwaukee Yamaha and since then it has been fine tuning because the ideas we had worked with had come to fruition.

“I am just focusing on the racing this weekend. In my head I could try and work out the maths and the different scenarios, but to hell with it! I just want to win all three races!”

Brookes currently holds a commanding 47-point advantage over arch-rival and defending champion Shane Byrne entering this weekend’s final races at Brands Hatch.