Bradley Ray delivered a knockout blow to his Bennetts British Superbike Championship rivals in SUPERPICKS Qualifying, setting the fastest ever lap of Oulton Park by 0.672s to claim the pole position for Rich Energy OMG Racing Yamaha.
Ray set his sensational flying lap towards the beginning of Q2 and then his rivals were pushing to close the deficit. Tommy Bridewell was the closest as the Oxford Products Racing Ducati rider posted the second fastest time of the session, 0.796s adrift of Ray ahead of him.
Jason O'Halloran had a last lap flier that put him up the order into third to complete the front row for McAMS Yamaha, with Peter Hickman on the FHO Racing BMW splitting the teammates to head the second row.
Tarran Mackenzie had a surge into fifth in the closing stages of Q2, just ahead of Leon Haslam who completes the second row of the grid for the eBay Sprint Race.
Andrew Irwin starts seventh for SYNETIQ BMW just 0.007s ahead of his teammate Danny Buchan with Title Fighters Glenn Irwin and Rory Skinner completing the top ten.
Lee Jackson and Kyle Ryde complete row four of the grid ahead of this afternoon’s opening race of the Showdown.
Bennetts British Superbike Championship, Oulton Park, SUPERPICKS Qualifying:
- Bradley Ray (Rich Energy OMG Racing Yamaha) 1m:32.948s
- Tommy Bridewell (Oxford Products Racing Ducati) +0.796s
- Jason O'Halloran (McAMS Yamaha) +0.919s
- Peter Hickman (FHO Racing BMW) +1.054s
- Tarran Mackenzie (McAMS Yamaha) +1.055s
- Leon Haslam (VisionTrack Kawasaki) +1.063s
- Andrew Irwin (SYNETIQ BMW) +1.111s
- Danny Buchan (SYNETIQ BMW BMW) +1.118s
- Glenn Irwin (Honda Racing UK) +1.136s
- Rory Skinner (Cheshire Mouldings FS-3 Racing Kawasaki) +1.178s
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