By Gordon Williams
ROUND eight of the S.B.T. Ulster Superbike Championship took place last Saturday at Bishopscourt Racing Circuit, promoted by the Motorcycle Road Racing Club of Ireland.
After a mainly dry morning of qualifying sessions, the forecast rain arrived and two races were completed before the organisers called an early lunch break.
The weather failed to improve and following course inspections, the club were left with no option but to abandon the remainder of the meeting.
In the opening Supersport race, Mike Browne took the lead on the Russell Racing Yamaha, ahead of Korie McGreevey on the McAdoo Kawasaki and Christian Elkin on the Dyno Centre N.I. Yamaha. They were followed by Ross Moore, Rab McAuley, William Donnelly, and Marc Conlin, who were locked in a fierce fight for fourth.
On lap two, McGreevey moved into the lead, with Browne glued to his wheel tracks. Elkin, meanwhile, began to lose ground in third. Going into the final lap, McGreevey and Browne encountered backmarkers, but McGreevey threaded through more cleanly and held on to win by just 0.197 of a second. Browne had to settle for second, with Elkin holding third. The battle for fourth went to Donnelly, ahead of Moore, while Robert Waddell came through strongly to take sixth.
Race two for the Moto 1 class saw Hubert Tomaszewski prove the rain master as he took victory. David Scott snatched second on the last lap from Oisin Walsh, who finished third. Ciara Cahoon was fourth, while Harley Smyth, unlucky to be hit with a 20-second jump-start penalty, ended up fifth.
