Mike Jones completed a perfect weekend to take two wins from two races, along with pole position in qualifying on Saturday at Round Two of the mi-bike Australian Superbike Championship presented by Motul (ASBK) at Queensland Raceway. Photos: BiteSizePics..
Mike Jones completed a perfect weekend to take two wins from two races, along with pole position in qualifying on Saturday at Round Two.
Australian Superbike Round Results (Full Results Here )
1 Mike Jones – Yamaha YZF-R1
2 Wayne Maxwell – Ducati V4R
3 Josh Waters – BMW M RR
Ant will be looking to climb the championship roster a bit more this round as he settles down on the Yamaha YZF-R1M in 2022.
Maxwell.
The cancellation is required due to a newly occurring national motorsport calendar shake-up affecting the Tasmanian round, including the announcement of WorldSBK returning to Phillip Island in November.
Wayne Maxwell rounded out the top three on Friday after. Unusually, not in first place despite his blistering pace at Phillip Island.
Mike Jones completed a perfect weekend to take two wins from two races, along with pole position in qualifying on Saturday at Round Two.
The BMW’s showed good form all weekend.
Outstanding work in Queensland has Mike Jones at the top of the class and while there is plenty of racing to come!
Though quiet at Phillip Island, Mike Jones was able to impress himself upon the Championship via outstanding results at Queensland Raceway (two wins plus an extra point for pole).
Hometown hero, Mike Jones took pole position for Round Two of the mi-bike Motorcycle Insurance Australian Superbike Championship presented by Motul (ASBK) at Queensland Raceway.
Glenn Allerton.
Bryan Staring.
“I actually love coming to Goulburn. It’s a great town and a really friendly community, especially towards motorcycle and bicycle riders.” said Staring.
Tom Edwards was later found with illegal modifications, handing the round win to John Lytras.
Supersport 600 Round Results (Full Results Here )
1 Tom Edwards – Yamaha YZF-R6 (prior to disqualification) Post Race – John Lytras.
2 Scott Nicholson – Yamaha YZF-R6
3 Olly Simpson – Yamaha YZF-R6
Early season form from Tom Bramich, Tom Drane, Olly Simpson and Tarbon Walker was somewhat collectively brought undone with DNS/DNFs at Wakefield.
Tom Bramich.
Tom Edwards, Olly Simpson and Tom Drane completed the front row for the Supersport 600 class.
Tom Edwards was later found with illegal modifications, handing the round win to John Lytras.
Friday was an exciting day for the Supersport class with the field being quite bunched up in terms of times…
Dunlop Supersport 300 Round Results (Full Results Here )
1 Glenn Nelson – Yamaha YZF-R3
2 Cameron Dunker – Yamaha YZF-R3
3 James Jacobs – Kawasaki Ninja
Yamaha R3 Cup Round Results (Full Results Here )
1 Cameron Dunker – Yamaha YZF-R3
2 Glenn Nelson – Yamaha YZF-R3
3 Hayden Nelson – Yamaha YZF-R3
After two riders went down at turn two (including Saturday front-runner Taiyo Asksu), the Dunlop Supersport 300 Race Two was restarted with five laps remaining.
Some of the times in Supersport 300 couldn’t transfer over into the R3 Cup as a new order was found in Practice.
It was raceday for the 300’s. With the track being so quick, falling away from the slipstream meant you had to work twice as hard to catch up with the field.
The 300 riders worked together through practice to make the most of the slipstreams down the long straights.
In this class, Glenn Nelson has been fast- and critically- consistently attending the podium.
They news broke after ASBK only recently announced the series’ return to Tasmania…
Oceania Junior Cup Round Results (Full Results Here )
1 Harrison Watts – Yamaha YZF-R15
2 Ryan Larkin – Yamaha YZF-R15
3 Hunter Corney – Yamaha YZF-R15
It was seriously close all weekend for the OJC. With all the top riders using the long straights to their advantage.
James has been having plenty of fun racing this year, saying ” On track I get to race really aggressively and off track every one is mates!”
It was a close race for OJC with less than a second separating the top nine riders…