ASBK 2025
Spherical Two – SMP – Supersport Race Two
Circumstances had been damp for the opening 11-lap Supersport bout on Saturday afternoon, however the monitor was utterly dry by the point it got here to race underneath lights for the second and last stanza of the SMP weekend at 1950. Jack Mahaffy had resisted a late cost from behind by Will Nassif and Marcus Hamod within the opening race. That latter pair chasing him down on slicks as Mahaffy’s wets went away late within the race. The hole on the flag was a single hundredth of a second…
Poleman Archie McDonald had a poor begin to the primary race, and it didn’t get a lot better for the championship chief from there. A ninth-place end noticed McDonald lose that championship result in Cease & Seal teammate Mahaffy. When the lights went out on Saturday night, he was out to get it again.
On the sighting lap for the second Supersport race, Jake Farnsworth went down on a run of water throughout that a part of the circuit. Farnsworth had been fast all weekend and displayed clear podium tempo. Nonetheless, it had all gone incorrect for him within the opening Supersport bout, and historical past was repeating itself earlier than the second bout even obtained underway!
Will Nassif’s staff couldn’t get the brand new tyre they’d prepared for him behind the bike on the grid, and the race one podium finisher was pushed off the grid consequently.
Regardless of the few damp patches, it was clearly an all-slick affair on this second and last bout of the SMP weekend.
Archie McDonald obtained the bounce this time round and led team-mate Jack Mahaffy by the opening turns forward of Olly Simpson. Mahaffy and Simpson slotted underneath McDonald on the change of path at flip 5, pushing McDonald again to 3rd. Glenn Nelson was fourth at this early juncture forward of Hayden Nelson, Jesus Torres-Cabrera, Tom Bramich and Marcus Hamod.
Mahaffy pulled the pin as soon as out entrance. He left Simpson and McDonald in his wake on lap two. When McDonald noticed his teammate pulling away, he put a transfer on Simpson for a second and set about chasing him down. A 1m33.694 to Mahaffy on the primary flying lap. Archie McDonald responded on the subsequent lap with a 1m33.292 to carry the hole all the way down to underneath seven-tenths because the Cease & Seal boys actually began to drag away from Simpson.
McDonald then decreased Mahaffy’s result in four-tenths after placing in a 1m33.093. With 4 laps full, they had been now greater than four-seconds away from Olly Simpson.
Mahaffy then appeared to float huge a couple of instances; it appeared as if Mahaffy was virtually inviting McDonald to take the lead and purposefully slowing the race. Techniques…
By half-race distance, the Cease & Seal pair had virtually six-seconds over third positioned Olly Simpson. The South Australian then misplaced that third place to Jesus Torres-Cabrera, and Hayden Nelson made that battle for the ultimate step on the podium into a busy three-way affair.
Jack Mahaffy had sufficient of enjoying fox and hare with a couple of laps to run, dropping in a 1m32.980 on lap eight to attempt to break McDonald.
Archie then stated ‘no matter you are able to do I can do higher‘…. A 1m32.784 to McDonald on lap 9 to shut again onto the tail-pipe of his teammate.
Simply when it seemed as if Mahaffy had sufficient up his sleeve to carry McDonald out to the chequered flag for the double to increase his championship lead, Archie obtained a greater drive out of the ultimate flip. He then slipstreamed Jack down the chute earlier than coming out and taking the win by four-hundreths of a second.
Mahaffy was nonetheless the spherical winner and can take a one-point lead over McDonald to QLD Raceway.
Jesus Torres Cabrera ultimately obtained the higher of Hayden Nelson and Olly Simpson to say third place on this bout. That additionally earned him third outright for the spherical forward of Simpson and Nelson.
Supersport Race Two Outcomes
Supersport Spherical Factors
Supersport Championship Standings
2025 Australian Superbike Championship Calendar
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| Spherical | Location | Date |
| 2 | Sydney Motorsport Park, NSW | Mar 28-29 |
| 3 | Queensland Raceway, QLD | Might 2-4 |
| 4 | Morgan Park Raceway, QLD | Jun 13-15 |
| 5 | Queensland Raceway, QLD (Superbike Solely) | Aug 8-10 |
| 6 | Phillip Island GP Circuit, VIC | Sept 6-7 |
| 7 | One Raceway, NSW | Oct 3-5 |
| 8 | The Bend, SA | Nov 7-9 |
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