Four wins on the bounce for Ben Currie at Cadwell Park
Australian Ben Currie stormed to a consecutive double win on his Oxford Products Racing Ducati Panigale V2 today to take a commanding lead in the British Supersport championship.
A really good start from the front of row two saw Ben Currie immediately up the third behind championship contenders Luke Stapleford and Tom Booth-Amos as the trio went on to pull a gap.
But there was drama on lap six as Stapleford lost the front of his Kawasaki and crashed out from the lead at Charlies promoting Ben up to second behind Booth-Amos.
Currie kept the pressure on Booth-Amos, only for the Kawasaki rider to crash out on lap 11 at the same spot as Stapleford, promoting Currie to the lead.
With a 5.6s advantage over the rest of the field, Currie was able to manage the gap for the final quarter of the race take a double consecutive win to the delight of his team.
Ben's four wins in a row sees his gap at the top of the Supersport championship table now extend to 44 points ahead of Rhys Irwin (Suzuki) in second place.
Ben Currie (Oxford Products Racing Ducati #61) - 1st
"You get the win on the previous day, and you’ve got to sleep on that win, and you know you gotta do it again. I was just trying to stay focused and really work on myself, just trying to focus and hit my marks. It's a long championship so you don't want to make mistakes.
That race was geeing up to be a big one. I could tell the boys were really up for that one and pushing the pace from lap one. Luke was trying to break us, and we all went away from the rest of the pack. Unfortunately, I saw so Luke goes down just in front of us and then a few laps later Tom did the exact same thing, and I couldn't believe my luck. I was like well I'm just gonna bring it home.
It's unbelievable, four wins on in a row just out of nowhere. No, not out of nowhere, out of hard work. We've got ourselves an absolute weapon now and feeling super confident so I’m really, really happy.”