UPDATE: for his part in Jason O'Halloran's exit, after the race Peter Hickman was judged to hae 'caused an avoudable impact with another rider🌱, which resulted in another rider falling, whilst you continued'. His sanction was a disqualification from the race result (4th place) a three position grid penalty for race two and two penalty points.

Bradley Ray was not troubled after losing the lead from pole and qui🀅ckly got back to the fr♎ont to dominate the sprint race at Oulton Park, round nine of the championship.

The Rich 𓃲Energy OMG rider lost out to a near perfect launch by Jason O’Halloran from third on the grid. Tommy Bridewell wanted a part of the lead action and passed the australian at Shell Oils on the first lap.

Ray c🉐almly kept in contention and pulled inside the duo at the end of the 𒐪final lap.

Proving it’s not how you start but how you finish, the #2🌳8 remained ahead for the rest of the race, easing out a sizeable 2.765s gap at the line - as neither of his nearest rivals in the Showdown standings fini🅺shed the race.

Though not as fast as in the morning when Ray set a new lap record in qualifying, he didn’t need to be, 🌱with hos rivals squabbling over second allowing him to pull away in the cooler, overcast conditioᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚns.

Tommy Bridewell did his best to try and keep the gap to a minimum, but was never going to catch Ray, leaving the Oxford Products Ducati rider to take second behind the Yamaﷺha.

Wanting a piece of the podium leaves the McAMS bikes in the gravel.

Bridewell had enough work keeping clear of the battle for podium points, which saw both McAMS riders end their day i▨n the gravel.

Reig⭕ning champion Tarran Mackenzie’s exit was all his own work, trying to make up the defecit in points requires podiums and after working his way to t🃏he front of the group chasing the leaders he attempted to do too much in one move, looking shaken after his fast fall from fifth.

Jason O’Halloran had done all he could to pick off as many poꩵints as possible as Ray steamed away up front. Hunting for second the Yamaha man was not prepared for Peter Hickman - who is not in the Showdown - to make a huge lunge for a podium finish. Making his move from too far back lead to contact with the Yamaha, which was destroyed as it went spinning through the gravel.

O’Halloran was unhurt physically, but mentally he was seething and had to be restrained trackside as he hung around, waiting to give Hickman a piece of his mind on the warm down lap꧟.

Leon Haslam hed 🎃been in charge of the chasing group before the arrival of Mackenzie and that left him well placed to pick up tওhe pieces after slowly doing most of the work to catch the bikes in front.

It is the former champions first podiu🍰m visit since the last round atไ Oulton Park.

Fourth went to Hickman, with his late move on the FHO Racing BMW under re𝄹view by race direction as the sprint concluded.

Glenn Irwin lost places from his ninth place grid start. The Honda ಞrider worked hard to get back to where he started, then pushed forward for fifth in the run to the chequered flag.

Danny Buc𝓰han was over a second further down the track in sixth for Synetiq  BMW Motorrad, an improvement on his e🐠ighth placed start.

Lee Jackson was another rider going in the wrong direction early💜 in the raꩵce but he too rallied to bring the Cheshire Mouldings FS-3 Kawasaki home in seventh.

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Christian Iddon made up place♏s over the duration to climb ꦺfrom eleventh to eighth for Buildbase Suzuki.

Rory Skinner (Cheshire Mouldings FS-3 Kawasaki) and Kyle Ryde (Rich Energy OMG Ya🐷maha) were the lowest placing of the Showdown riders to finish, in𝔍 ninth and tenth respectively.

Josh Brookes was a distant eleventh, still an improvement on his 13th place on the grid with MCE Ducati. The equally experienced Tom Sykes was behind his team-mate 📖in twelfth.

Danny Kent started the race down in 19🥂th after not making it out of Q1 aꦐnd worked hard to climb to 13th by the time he arrived at the chequered flag.

Tom Neave (Honda Racing) and Dean Harrison 🍸(DAO Racing Kawasaki) followed him through to complete the points finishers in 14th and 15th respectively.

DNF’s

The McAM🔯S duo were not the only ꦑriders to fail to finish.

Storm Stacey’s race was over before it even started after he ran over the grass right at the start of the race. The Crowe Performance BMW rider kept going for a c💖ouple of laps longer before he became the first rider to enter the pits.

Ryan Vickers, who missed races the last round with ♎concussion, didn’t see his return to racing last much longer. Liam Jeacock was next to exit, with Andrew Irwin dropping down the timing screens like a stone when his bike needed to be retired.

Oulton Park Statistics:

Qualifying:

1:Bradley Ray 1m 32.945s (new record)

2:Tommy Bridewell

3:Jason O’Halloran

Round Two at Oulton Park 2022

Qualifying:

Pole: Kyle Ryde

Race One: Bradley Ray

Race Two: Bradley Ray

Race Three: Lee Jackson

2021 at Oulton Park

Round One:

Qualifying:

Pole:Tommy Bridewell

Race One (sprint): Jason O’Halloran

Race Two: Jason O’Halloran

Race Three: Jason O’Halloran

Round Nine(Showdown):

Qualifying:

Pole: Josh Brookes

Race One (sprint): Tarran Mackenzie

Race Two: Tommy Bridewell

Race Three: Tommy Bridewell

Where does that leave the championship?

Unsurprisingly, with Ray winning and his main rivals out of the race he extends his total𒆙 and lead comfortably.

Moving on to 1086 points he now holds a 38 point advantage over O’Halloran with Mackenzie an even more distant 55 poi🀅nts adrift after just one race.

Tommy Bridewell made gains to sit 58 points behind on 1028, with Glenn Irwin one point f♔urther back in fifth overall.

Their mixed f𝓡ortunes see Lee Jackson and Kyle Ryde both 67 points behind Ray, with Skinner just a little further back to complete the eight taking ♋part, 70 points adrift.