News 6 Mar 2017

Dunlop riders land on Phillip Island ASBK podium

Dunlop Tyres press release:

It was a successful start to the 2017 Australian Superbike Championship (ASBK) at Phillip Island for Dunlop-equipped racers, securing podiums across the board alongside round one of the Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK).

Top of the Dunlop runners in the ASBK Superbikes was Kawasaki BCperformance’s Robbie Bugden, who battled to 5-3-2 finishes across three hard-fought races for second overall. He was joined inside the top five by Cru Halliday (IPONE/YMF/YMI Yamaha) and factory Yamaha Racing Team’s Wayne Maxwell in fourth and fifth, respectively. Second of the YRT entries, Glenn Allerton, was eighth.

Both Maxwell and Allerton were far more competitive than the final result suggests, however. A minor error cost Maxwell in the opening race, causing him to limp home in 17th, but he recovered to second and fourth in the final outings – crossing the line first in the final, two-part affair. Meanwhile, Allerton scored 2-DNF-6 finishes, also particularly strong in the second part of race three.

Much of the Australian Supersport Championship round was dominated by blazing-fast Victorian Mark Chiodo (Repsol GAS Racing Triumph), soaring to pole position with a 1m35.899s – a full 1.6s quicker than second position. A mistake in race one dropped him to P9, but he bounced back to win race two and take second in race three, placing him third overall.

Young gun Tom Edwards (Steelline/Alpinestars/Repsol/Dunlop/Bell Kawasaki) proved the class of the new-look Australian Supersport 300 Championship, taking out the category overall and Up To 300 victories to stand atop the podium. In the combined results he went 2-1-3, while in-class he logged an impressive 2-1-1 scorecard.
The 2017 Australian Superbike Championship (ASBK) will now travel north to Wakefield Park in New South Wales for round two – the first standalone event on this year’s calendar – on 17-19 March.

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