A third consecutive Supersport win for Ben Currie
Ben Currie arrived at Cadwell Park on a high after doing the double on his Panigale V2 last time out at Thruxton. And The Oxford Products Racing Ducati rider’s weekend got off to a great start at the Lincolnshire circuit, topping the opening FP1 session, finishing third in FP2 and going on to qualify on pole for the 12-lap Sprint Race.
Ben got good drive as the lights went out to secure the holeshot from pole and by the time he started his second lap he’d created a 0.672s gap over championship contender Rhys Iwrin (Suzuki) in second.
That gap had dropped to 0.4s approaching half race-race distance only for Irwin to crash out unhurt at Barn. This gave Currie a gap of over a second and half over Luke Stapleford and Tom Booth-Amos on their chasing Kawasakis. Ben managed the gap brilliantly starting the twelfth and last lap with a second in hand, and despite a back marker coming into play in the last section of the circuit he took the chequered flag and a third consecutive win, extending his championship lead over Irwin to 39 points.
Ben Currie (Oxford Products Racing Ducati #61) – 1st
“It’s hard around here. You’ve got to try and conserve some energy a little bit because once you start getting ragged, she's a really long lap around here. I caught the lapper at the mountain section, which I thought is not good timing because you cannot pass there. But fortunately enough I nipped inside in the hairpin and brought it home. But then I really lost the front in the last turn, so I nearly had flashbacks of Donington when I had a lead of three and half seconds and crashed on the last lap!
I didn’t know Rhys had crashed out during the race but on the cool down lap I saw him sitting on the hay bales so shame to see Rhys go down like that. Obviously he was the guy behind me pressuring me at the start. I hope he's alright for tomorrow and we can keep going.
Huge credit to the boys, three on the bounce, couldn't be more happy. The boys are just giving me the best bike to ride each weekend now and we can just keep this momentum going to tomorrow and hopefully beyond.
Huge thanks to everyone that stayed up at home and tuning in live and to all my sponsors for helping me out. Roll on tomorrow."