Saturday’s initial attempt to run the Supersport race was halted by a red flag incident in which the rider involved is understood not to have been seriously injured.<\/p>\n
The restart was then delayed for a lengthy period in excess of an hour because of an oil spillage on the track, culminating in the race distance being reduced from seven laps to five.<\/p>\n
Browne ran out a comfortable victor on his BPE by Russell Racing Yamaha, building up a healthy lead throughout and enjoying a six-second cushion over race one winner Paul Jordan at the finish, with Cooper a further half a second adrift in third.<\/p>\n
Cooper set the fastest lap of the race, which was held in wet conditions, on his final circuit at 96.580mph.<\/p>\n
Derek McGee, Conor Cummins and Shaun Buckle made up the top six, while Dominic Herbertson slipped off unhurt at Church Bends.<\/p>\n
Browne followed that up with an emphatic success in the Open race on board his Honda Fireblade.<\/p>\n
On still damp but slightly drying roads, the Cork man pulled clear of his challengers in the seven-lapper, winning by a margin of 16.3 seconds from runner-up Cummins, with Herbertson 3.5 seconds further back in the final rostrum position.<\/p>\n
Jordan, McGee and David Datzer were next across the line, with Browne recording the best lap at 98.131.<\/p>\n
Supertwin race two turned into a thrilling three-way battle at the front between Browne, Cooper and Jordan, with four-time British champion Cooper emerging the victor.<\/p>\n
The Nottingham rider managed to pull away a little from the pursuing duo in the latter stages and had one second to spare over Paton-mounted Browne by the end of the race, with Jordan third on his Jackson Racing Aprilia, a mere 0.7 seconds behind the rider in front of him, with Herbertson fourth.<\/p>\n
Browne dominated the ‘Race of Legends’, held over six laps after the first running had been halted after Marcus Simpson slid off unhurt.<\/p>\n
The Irish rider won by half a second from Jordan, with Phil Crowe third, then Cummins, Herbertson and Michael Sweeney rounding out the leading six.<\/p>\n
James Doy won the Lightweight race after leader Cooper came off unhurt at Church Bends, with Chris Meyer taking the honours in the Moto3 class.<\/p>\n
Manxman Simpson edged out Phil Crowe to win the Classic Superbike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday’s initial attempt to run the Supersport race was halted by a red flag incident in which the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-824508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}