Brookes leads at Brands Hatch ahead of BSB finale

Full BSB FP2 results at Brands Hatch

Josh Brookes has topped Friday practice in mixed conditions at Brands Hatch with Bennetts British Superbike championship leader Scott 𒀰Redding keeping within tജouching distance in fourth place.

Josh Brookes - Be Wiser Ducati
Josh Brookes - Be Wiser Ducati
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Full BSB FP2 results at Brands Hatch

Josh Brookes has topped Friday practice in mixed conditions at Brands Hatch with Bennetts British Superbike championship leader Scott Redding keepin🌠g within touching distance in fourth place.

The 2015 BSB champion needs to ♚overhaul a 28-point gap to Redding at the three-race finale and has duly started strongly at the Ken✱t track by going fastest on Friday.

Rain showers swirled around Brands Hatch throughout Friday’s running, with Christian Iddon initially leading the times on꧙ a damp but drying circuit at🍃 the start of FP2.

A five-minute red flag was triggered to alloꦗw BSB trackside marshals to recover bikes after Sam Coventry and Ryan Vickers both crashed in quick succession unhurt at Clearways.

With 20 minutes remaining the best of the conditions presented themselves to the BSB riders which saw Be Wiser Ducati’s Brookes jump up to tꦇhe top of times narrowly ahead of B🌠uchan.

Rain then returned with five minutes to go in FP2 ✱to curtail the rest of the running before this weeke🌞nd’s triple-header.

With Brookes topping Friday practice with a 1m 28.873s he edged out FS-3 Racing Kawasaki’s Buchan by just 0.03ꦅ8s but w🏅as almost four-tenths of a second clear of Iddon on the Tyco BMW.

Redding h𒐪ad to settle for fourth place on the FP2 timesheet for Be Wiser Ducati before the rain returned late on, with James Ellison impressing for OMG Racing Suzuki in fifth place.

Peter Hickmaꦐn claimed sixth place for Smiths Racing BMW ahead of final BSB title contender Tommy Bridewell who ended FP2 in s🍃eventh place for Oxford Racing Ducati.

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