The fourth spherical of the British Superbike Championship (BSB) season befell at Knockhill this weekend, with three completely different winners in three races: Chris Iddon, Rory Skinner and Tommy Bridewell.
Bridewell (Honda Racing UK) got here out on high in qualifying and led the primary race on Saturday. The monitor was drying out after heavy rain earlier. Whereas the chief was stable, different riders had been preventing for positions: together with Skinner (Cheshire Mouldings BMW Motorrad), who needed to make a restoration to succeed in the rostrum locations. Bridewell had no rivals and reduce the hole to 2.572s to Skinner – whose decisive overtake on Andrew Irwin (Honda Racing UK) got here on lap 16.
On Sunday, the rain was additionally current at Knockhill. This time, Bridwell led on the first nook of the second race, whereas Irwin crashed on the primary lap. Skinner shortly took the lead, then started to tug away whereas the positions behind him had been hotly contested. Iddon (Oxford Merchandise Racing Ducati) crossed the road in second at 4.895s, after a detailed struggle with Bridewell through which he led by simply 0.014s. Danny Kent (McAMS Yamaha) was within the group preventing for the highest two till he fell on the Hairpin.
Race three introduced the programme to an finish at Knockhill. Kent began from pole place for this race, however was quickly attacked by Skinner, who was in first place by flip three. Iddon turned the brand new chief on the second lap, whereas Kent dropped to fifth. As soon as on the high, Iddon stayed there till the race was stopped with a crimson flag on lap 22 because of a heavy crash by Leon Haslam (ROKiT Haslam Racing BMW Motorrad). The race was not restarted and Iddon received, with Bridewell second at 0.635s. Kent recovered to fourth after overtaking Skinner on lap 20.
After 4 rounds, Bridewell is the BSB chief with 141 factors, towards 130 factors for Glenn Irwin (Hager PBM Ducati) who had his worst spherical of the season up to now. Kent is third, 16 factors off the highest.
