Glenn Irwin looked unstoppable in the first race and the sprint, but his third victory of the Oult💜on Park meeting was all the more sweeter as he had to time his move for the lead and soak up pressure from fellow Ducati rider Christian Iddon.

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It is a first for PBM 2.0 as twins Fran𒐪k and Jordan, who have taken over the Hagar sponsored team previou𒐪sly run by their late father Paul, with Irwin opting to stay in the fold for 2024. Irwin described the success as ‘a dream’:

“It’s been a dream - it was nice to be in a diffe🦋rent position in that race. I do prefer leading but I got to have a look at Christian and, you know, the championship is long, to understand wꦏhere we need to improve our bike and where he is strong”.

With the Ducati seemingl🌌y the bike to be on at the Cheshire track, any advantage was welcome. Sitting in behind gave the #2 a chance, not only to see what Iddon was doing❀, but to save his own tyres for an attack:

“I knew he was very good at Druids, but studying him, I can s🎃ee he was using a little bit of tyre - I’m not going to say - he certainly wasn’t going bananas or anything - but I was very neat”.

Irwin was able to keep up and wait patiently in be🌃hind for Iddon to s𝓀lip up, ready to pounce:

“He just kept setting an incredible pace, so we closed in a bit, then had a lap where, maybe a messy lap, closed in a bit again, and he just made a little mistake in the f🐠irs𝓰t chicane”.

Irwin knew he had to push then adding: “one mistake and I ౠsaid if I want the treble, I need ♊to go!”

The Northern Irish rider capitalised, pulled ahead and then ran defensive lines to capitalise and pick up the triple - and the championship lead in the proce൩ss heading to round three at Donington Park in two weeks' time.