2022 British Superbike Donington Park - Race Results (3)

Jason O’Halloran doubled up with another win on Sunday in the third race of the weekend at Donington Park for round three of the British Superbike Championship.

The McAMS Yamaha rider had arrived to start the weekend without a podium visit to his name, with the same going for his title winning team-mate Mackenzie after his injury absence.

The Australian completed the turnaround for both himself and his team with back-to-back wins after deciding to take over at the front after again reeling in Bradley Ray in a race that echoed the previous one, with the same rostrum finishers.

His charge back to the front was aided by several laps behind the safety car following a huge crash for Leon Haslam. His highside left his bike in three pieces and Glenn Irwin with nowhere to go. Both riders walked away but it allowed the gaps to diminish in the lead group.

It is O’Halloran’s seventeenth career win and the victory moves him up to second in the championship.

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After being passed on lap seventeen Ray made sure he was not dropped and stayed in contention until the closing stages, finishing 1.735s behind on the Rich Energy OMG Yamaha.

Ray himself had burst into the lead early on taking over from pole man Kyle Ryde with a huge move off line, which resulted in a block pass which moved him from third to first, where he stayed until pressured by the number 22.

The podium was again completed by Lee Jackson for for Cheshire Moulding FS-3 Kawasaki, who felt more confident on the bike on the second time out today after making some small alterations with his mechanics.

Both sides of the Rich Energy OMG garage helped to frantically rebuild Kyle Ryde’s Yamaha after it was destroyed in it’s spinning fall in race two.

Ryde has set a new lap record to sit on pole before he tumbled, and after an initial strong start he faded back, culminating in being passed by a flying Rory Skinner in the drive to the line, right at the end of the race on the second FS-3 Kawasaki, which was also worked on hard by his mechanics after a crash earlier in the weekend.

Christian Iddon was a solid and very solo sixth for Buildbase Suzuki, well clear of the next rider to see the chequered flag, Tom Sykes, who lead the race long battle for seventh over the line in front for MCE Ducati.

Also involved was Team-mate Josh Brookes, who, like Sykes made up seven places in the race to be the nest to reach the line in eighth.

Danny Buchan (Synetiq BMW Motorrad took the flag in ninth, with Chrissy Rouse (Crowe Performance BMW) performing well again to place tenth - a seasons best, denying Tarran Mackenzie a top ten finish.

Mackenzie Battles to eleventh as pain takes over

Tarran Mackenzie threw everything at his sixth place finish in round two. 

The reigning champion was having to compensate for the lack of strength in his legs and that was causing arm pump symptoms as his upper body worked harder. Temptation to quit at the safety car was quickly overruled with time on the bike and points precious.

With everything hurting the McAMS Yamaha rider pushed though the pain barrier as he lost places, bringing home his bike eleventh after a late move from Rouse that he was unable to answer saw him drop out of the top ten.

Also injured, Andrew Irwin picked up places to claim twelfth for Synteiq BMW Motorrad.

The fight for the final points was frantic once again. Honda’s Ryo Mizuno took 13th, Strom Stacey (Team LKQ Euro Car Parts Kawasaki) stayed upright for 14th nd Takumi Takahashi was 15th , also for Honda Racing UK.

The only other rider to finish the race was Dan Jones in 16th for IForce Lloyd & Joones BMW.

Official British Superbike Donington Park records:

Previous BSB lap record: Peter Hickman (BMW) 1m 06.081s (2021)
New BSB fastest lap: Bradley Ray (Yamaha) 1m 05.497s (2022 - FP2)

Race One Result:
1:Kyle Ryde
2:Jason O’Halloran
3:Bradley Ray

Race Two Result:
1: Jason O’Halloran
2: Bradley Ray
3: Lee Jackson

2021 Race winners:
Round Five -
Race 1: Jason O’Halloran
Race 2: Tarran Mackenzie 
Race 3: Tommy Bridewell

Round Ten (The Showdown)-
 Race 1:Gino Rea
 Race 2: Tarran Mackenzie
 Race 3: Gino Rea

 Where  does that leave the championship standings?

Coming into the race with a 29 point advantage over Lee Jackson after race two, which saw both previous close rivals - team-mate Kyle Ryde and Glenn Irwin fail to finish, Bradley Ray was guaranteed to be heading to Knockhill in June at the head of the title standings.

Jason O’Halloran’s double win pulls him up to second 28 points short of Ray’s total of 158.

The Yamaha rider accumulated that with an impressive 8 podiums from the nine races so far - the only race where Ray did not score points was when he crashed out of the lead in Silverstone.

Jackson sits third,  33 points his deficit. Kyle Ryde is now fourth overall, just ahead of Rory Skinner, with Glenn Irwin dropping to sixth after his DNF’s despite a clean sweep in the opening round.

Andrew Irwin, Ryo Mizuno and Dan Jones were all awarded the Fast Forward award for picking up the most places in the race jointly, all making up eight positions.

Bradley Ray was awarded the Milwaukee Spring Summer Slam trophy after a third and two second places.