Scott Redding has closed the gap in the British Superbike Championship after securing his third victory of the season in a dramatic Sprint race at Snetterton.
Kyle Ryde was penalised following a controversial clash with Bradley Ray at turn one on lap 10. The latter went down the inside of Ryde at the final corner, however Ryde used the strengths of the Ducati to pull back alongside and then narrowly ahead of Ray as the pair headed into turn one.
However, as they entered the corner, their bikes touched, causing Ray to crash. Whilst a furious Ray sat by the side of the circuit, Ryde was deemed by Race Direction to have caused the collision and was handed a long lap penalty.
However, Ryde, who only had one lap to take his punishment, didn’t enter the long lap penalty route and and as a result the penalty was converted to a time penalty. Ryde crossed the line in second behind Redding, however dropped behind Max Cook following his three-second penalty.
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It’s Redding’s 21 st BSB victory and his 40 th podium from just 63 race starts. The Hager PBM Ducati rider is now just 15 points behind Ryde in the championship.
Behind the leading trio, Rory Skinner produced an unbelievable performance as he went from 19 th on the grid to fourth for Cheshire Mouldings Yamaha .
Christian Iddon completed the top five ahead of Joe Talbot, who equals his result from Race One on Saturday. Danny Kent and Jason O’Halloran finished seventh and eighth respectfully.
Lee Jackson was pushed off the grid by his DAO Racing Honda team prior to the warm-up lap due to an issue with the bike. The team were able to solve the issue, and he started the race from pitlane. In a great performance, Jackson recovered to ninth.
Eugene McManus secured his best-ever BSB result in 10 th ahead of Fraser Rogers and Rhys Irwin, with the latter also claiming his best superbike result to date. Graeme Irwin and Richard Kerr were the final classified riders.
Storm Stacey retired on lap nine with his second technical fault of the weekend.
For the second consecutive race there was an incident at turn two on the opening lap. Ilya Mikhalchik, Josh Brookes, Leon Haslam and Ryan Vickers were involved in the collision.
Haslam was stretched away from the scene of the crash, whilst Vickers suffered damaged to the rear of his Honda and returned to the pit-lane for repairs before rejoining the race on lap six.
The third and final BSB race at Snetterton is scheduled to take place at 16:30.
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