BSB: Currie and Allingham share Supersport spoils as Ryde does GP2 double

The British Supersport championship race came alive at round six, with series leader Jack Kennedy missing the races due to a testing injury, making way for what everyone thought would be a Ben Currie whitewash. In race one, that was the case but race two took a dramatic twist and David Allingham for EHA Racing took the victory.

Race one got underway and Ben Currie – unsurprisingly – took the lead, ahead of David Allingham, EHA Racing teammate Ross Twyman and Jamie Perrin. Alastair Seeley was also running at the front for a lap or so before pulling out with a mechanical issue – not the way he anticipated his British Supersport return to go.

Soon enough, Currie and Allingham tried making a break for it, both of them lapping within a tenth of each other as they built up a small but meaningful gap at the front. In the GP2 race, Kyle Ryde was having a phenomenal comeback ride, leading that class from Josh Owens as the pair battled for much of the race.

Further down field, the Everquip Racing Yamaha of James Rispoli was making rapid progress when he hit 7th place (5th in the Supersport), having come from 13th on the grid for the Hornsea-based team. He was ahead of James Westmoreland, Sam Wilford and Brad Jones.

Unfortunately, the red flag came out a lap from the end, denying us a great last lap between Currie and Allingham. Currie won for the first time since the start of the season, whilst Allingham achieved his first podium of the season. Ross Twyman made it to the podium too, making it both EHA Racing Yamahas alongside the Gearlink Kawasaki of Currie.

Race two and it was a similar story, with Ben Currie going away at the front of the race, this time building his own gap and streaking away from the opposition. Kyle Ryde and Josh Owens were 2nd and 3rd on the track, whereas David Allingham was fourth. It was a cracking ride by Sam Wilford, who was well in the top five in the Supersport category, running third in class.

Onto the final lap and Ben Currie started to slow, I believed initially that he had started celebrating a lap too soon, however it was mechanical gremlins that prevented the popular Australian from taking the double. This meant that Kyle Ryde and Josh Owens took 1st and 2nd in the on-track race but David Allingham won the Supersport race, as Currie dropped back. Sam Wilford on the IDWe Yamaha took a sensational 2nd place in the Supersport class, with James Westmoreland in 3rd. Currie was 6th on the road and 4th in the class.

Despite Currie not completing the double, the gap in the championship is back down to just 16 points, as Kennedy holds on to the lead. 90 points back from Currie is Ross Twyman, as James Westmoreland and James Rispoli chase after the third place position in the championship, with 3rd to 5th covered by just 8 points. David Allingham moves close too, with him now being just 12 points off teammate Twyman in 6th.