Josh Waters leads Maxwell on Friday morning at Phillip Island

ASBK Friday Morning Follow

2022 Spherical Six – Phillip Island

This weekend’s opening observe session for the Alpinestars Superbike class acquired underway beneath stunning blue skies this morning at Phillip Island. Issues are trying prone to change tomorrow although with 20-40 mm of rain forecast! Fortunately it isn’t anticipated to reach till later within the day on Saturday, then on Sunday we predict windy circumstances with showers.

Immediately although we’re heading for a high round 23 levels and nearly excellent circumstances, the calm earlier than the storm so to talk… When the Superbikes hit the monitor for his or her opening 30-minute observe session the temperature was nuding previous 16-degrees at 0945 this morning.

Penrite Honda Superbike debutante Senna Agius was one of many first riders out of the blocks whereas team-mate Troy Herfoss was sizzling to trot early on with a 1m33.299 however then pink sectors have been lighting up in all places.

It didn’t take lengthy although for it to be a Enhance Cell Ducati 1-2 with Josh Waters and Wayne Maxwell the primary males within the 1m32s. Waters dropped in a 1m32.515 on his fifth lap then lowered the benchmark to 1m32.356 on his subsequent lap. Waters had been greater than half-a-second faster than Maxwell till just below ten-minutes remaining when the defending champ ramped his recreation up with a 1m32.395.

Josh Waters lowered the marker to 1m32.297 with seven-minutes left within the 30-minute session. With 5 minutes remaining it was nonetheless solely Enhance Cell Ducati riders within the 1m32s. Cru Halliday was third quickest on 1m33.208, Troy Herfoss fourth on that 1m33.299 he set on his second lap out and Glenn Allerton fifth forward of Bryan Staring, Mike Jones, Anthony West and Broc Pearson whereas Senna Agius rounded out the highest ten on 1m34.117.

With four-minutes to run Anthony West then joined the 1m32 membership, a 1m32.822 selling him into P3. It has been a very long time since Westy has been in a position to muster that type of tempo and signifies that they should have made some huge leaps ahead with that machine.

There have been no extra actual enhancements within the remaining minutes of the session thus Josh Waters begins the weekend on high forward of team-mate Wayne Maxwell and Anthony West third quickest and high Yamaha forward of Cru Halliday.

The second 30-minute observe session for Superbike, which is the one help class to get two observe periods, is slated to begin at 1405 this afternoon. Then it will likely be a cool qualifying session early on Saturday morning, a 30-minute qualifying session scheduled to begin at 0850.  The opening 12-lap Australian Superbike race is predicted to happen at 1140 on Saturday. Race Two is scheduled for 0950 Sunday morning earlier than the ultimate third bout simply after the WorldSBK Superpole race, with ASBK Race Three anticipated to begin at 1340. A full weekend schedule might be discovered on the backside of this web page.

Mike Jones goes into this penultimate spherical of the championship with a 29-point buffer over defending champ Wayne Maxwell.

Superbike FP1

1. Josh Waters 1m32.297
2. Wayne Maxwell 1m32.395
3. Anthony West 1m32.822
4. Cru Halliday 1m33.183
5. Troy Herfoss 1m33.299
6. Glenn Allerton 1m33.309
7. Bryan Staring 1m33.513
8. Mike Jones 1m33.556
9. Broc Pearson 1m33.949
10. Senna Agius 1m33.964
11. Arthur Sissis 1m33.964
12. Jed Metcher 1m34.431
13. Daniel Falzon 1m34.466
14. Matt Walters 1m34.617
15. Ted Collins 1m34.818
16. Beau Beaton 1m35.560
17. Max Stauffer 1m35.627
18. Ben Burke 1m35.890
19. Billy McConnell 1m36.146
20. Alastair Hoogenboezem 1m37.009
21. Sloan Frost 1m38.405
22. Travis Wyman 1m38.760
23. Trent Binaisse 1m39.275
24. Nathan Spiteri 1m39.613

mi-bike Bike Insurance coverage
Alpinestars Superbike Championship Factors Standings

Supersport

As for the Superbike class, there are additionally three Supersport races this weekend which may make or break the highest contenders within the Michelin Supersport Championship.  John Lytras brings a six-point lead over Ty Lynch in to this penultimate weekend for the sequence. With so many factors nonetheless up for grabs although Scott Nicholson, Tom Bramich and Tom Drane are actually not out of the chase.

Jack Passfield acquired out of the correct facet of the mattress to set the tempo early on and began reeling off 1m37s, getting faster with every lap, placing in a five-lap stint early on with a better of 1m37.029. Midway by the session that was the benchmark forward of Tom Bramich on 1m37.717 and John Lytras on 1m37.887 whereas Ty Lynch was fourth on 1m38.098.

For the latter half of the 25-minute session many riders went out on brisker rubber.  Lytras went as much as P2 then with 5 minutes to run Scott Nicholson pushed Ty Lynch all the way down to fifth.

Tom Bramich then pushed Lytras all the way down to P3 and moved nearer to the main tempo nonetheless being set by Passfield. Bramich was frequently doing very properly by the primary sector, however then shedding time to Passfield by the remaining sectors, nevertheless his eleventh lap was nonetheless robust sufficient to high the time-sheets with the primary 1m36s of the weekend, a 1m36.905.

That was ok for Bramich to take morning honours forward of Passfield, Lytras third, Nicholson fourth and Ty Lynch fifth when the chequered flag got here out.

A 20-minute Supersport qualifying session is scheduled to begin at 1335 and the subsequent time they are going to be on monitor after that’s at 1015 Saturday morning for his or her opening 10-lap bout of the weekend.  A full weekend schedule might be discovered on the backside of this web page.

Supersport FP1

The Supersport 300 class was the primary to take to the monitor this morning for a 20-minute FP1 session that noticed 24 riders on monitor.

Championship chief Cam Dunker was the primary rider to sneak underneath the 1m50s barrier this morning, a 1m49.905 giving Dunker high spot forward of Cam Swain, who returns from worldwide duties to affix the home ranks as soon as once more.  Sam Pezzetta was third forward of Peter Nerlich and Hayden Nelson.

Within the latter half of the session although Peter Nerlich went to the highest of the time-sheets with a 1m49.488 forward of Hayden Nelson and Cam Dunker and Taiyo Aksu moved as much as declare fourth forward of Cam Swain.

Supersport 300 rivals shall be again on monitor at 1305 this afternoon for a 20-minute qualifying session forward of their opening race of the weekend, an eight-lap contest that’s scheduled to start at 1705. A full weekend schedule might be discovered on the backside of this web page.

Stay Broadcast Info

On Sunday, each SBS and Stan Sport will air a highlights package deal from 1300-1500 that may present the opening two Australian Superbike and Supersport races in replay, earlier than then airing the ultimate Superbike encounter of the weekend reside.  We imagine that the Supersport 300 class won’t get TV air-time.

Phillip Island WSBK/ASBK Spherical Schedule