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Oulton BSB: Bridewell comes out on top in race three

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Tommy Bridewell claimed his first win of the season at Oulton Park on Sunday, the Oxford Products Ducati rider taking a narrow victory over Honda’s Glenn Irwin and Cheshire Mouldings FS-3 Kawasaki’s Lee Jackson in the final Bennetts British Superbike race of the weekend.Championship leader Bradley Ray (Rich Energy OMG Yamaha) again ran into difficulties as the race wore, after leading for the first half of the race, and slipped back to fifth which meant his lead was cut back to 40 points.

Irwin grabbed the lead from pole position, but Ray moved ahead at Lodge at the end of the opening lap and led over the line from Irwin, Jackson, Bridewell, Danny Buchan (Synetiq BMW) and Tom Sykes (MCE Ducati).

Leon Haslam (VisionTrack Kawasaki) was running in seventh with Josh Brookes on the second MCE machine one place further back in eighth.

By lap three, Ray was already beginning to pull away and his lead was up to 0.6s as he started lap four, Irwin a similar distance ahead of new third-placed rider Bridewell, the Ducati man having overhauled Jackson at Hizzy’s.

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