Dunlop Tyres press release:

Yamaha Racing Team duo Wayne Maxwell and Glenn Allerton went 1-2 in Sydney Motorsport Park’s third round of the 2016 Australian Superbike Championship on Sunday, the Dunlop riders dominating in changeable conditions across the round.

Maxwell claimed Superpole and won both races in a perfect weekend on board the YZF-R1M for the former ASBK champion. Race one was held in dry conditions, before the second was contested in the wet when rain lashed the 3.93km Grand Prix Circuit.

He was closely followed home by three-time series champion Allerton to clinch first and second overall for Dunlop tyres. Allerton now leads the standings at the halfway stage, with Maxwell two points behind in position two.

There was yet more to celebrate for Dunlop and Allerton, who claimed a new race lap record at Sydney Motorsport Park after posting a flying 1m30.366s on lap two of race one. Maxwell’s pole position time came in at 1m29.905s.

Four more Dunlop-equipped riders finished inside the top 10 overall, with Matt Walters (Kawasaki Connection Repsol) sixth, Cru Halliday (Yamaha Racing Team) eighth, Simon Galloway (Yamaha) ninth and Michael Blair (Yamaha) 10th.

Halliday just missed out on a Yamaha/Dunlop podium sweep in the opening affair, finishing fourth, while seventh in the opening race was the high point for Daniel Falzon (JD Racing). He was a non-finisher in the second.

“My congratulations to Wayne and Glenn for their fantastic results,” said Sebastian Mincone, Dunlop national motorcycle manager. “It was obvious from the beginning of the weekend that Dunlop slicks were strong, with three of the top four qualifiers and seven of the top 10 using Dunlop. In both dry and wet conditions, Dunlop tyres had the speed and durability to dominate the results.”

The Supersport round saw Cambridge Olivier ride his privateer Yamaha to a career-first pole position on Saturday, while overall for the round Chris Quinn (Yamaha) was eighth and Luke Mitchell (Yamaha) ninth. The latter was third in the dry opening race on Sunday morning.

Dunlop rider Brandon Demmery extended his Production championship advantage with another overall round victory, while in the Moto3 division it was Locky Taylor with the round win and Tom Edwards who eclipsed the lap record at 1m39.871s with two race wins for the round.

“We also had strong results in other classes with Cambridge Olivier qualifying fastest in the 600 class and Dunlop tyres dominating the Moto3 class with Locky Taylor coming out overall winner in this third round,” Mincone added. “Also Brandon Demmery was the overall winner in the 300 Production class using Dunlop’s new a-13SP production racing tyre.

“This was also the first opportunity to try out our new KR189 and KR389 wets for Production bikes and our results were fantastic once again with a 1-2 finish in the wet. A special mention must also go to 14-year-old Tom Edwards, who set new best lap and race lap records for the Moto3 class, both times on Dunlop tyres.”

The fourth round of the 2016 Australian Superbike Championship will take place on 3-5 June at Barbagallo Raceway in Western Australia, commencing the second half of the six-round series.

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