Mike Jones the favourite heading into Morgan Park

ASBK 2022 – Round Five
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The ASBK Championship is there for the taking but will Mike Jones solidify his claim to the 2022 ASBK title? Or will someone – anyone – else be able to stop his seemingly inexorable run to the Championship?

Every round that has seen Mike Jones pull further ahead in the standings has been one less round to catch him, and as the available points pool starts to run out, we’re at the point of the season, where the title is starting to look like it is now his to lose.

Thanks to a handy 40-point lead over main rival Wayne Maxwell and coming into Morgan Park, the overwhelming feeling is that could be where he will seal the deal and extend his advantage further.

Maxwell will be fast and up the front at The Island for round six and a likely repeat winner at The Bend in November, however that might cound for nowt, if Jones can extend his lead enough at a track he has worn his own groove around.

Leadership of the Championship aside, there’s plenty happening elsewhere and while Jones might have a 40-point lead, there’s just 31 points from second through sixth, with three riders in equal fourth on 136 points and two riders in equal fifth.

Jones extended his lead by 17-points in Darwin, and with six races left in the three remaining rounds, Jones doesn’t need to win a single race to be crowned 2022 Champion. Three seconds and three thirds are enough.

For Maxwell to win he would need to win every race and take every pole with Jones placing third or worse at least four times.

For Staring to claim the Championship he’d need pole plus the double win every round, while Jones would need to finish fourth three times and third three times, leaving Staring claiming the win by a single point.

The 136 club of Herfoss, Halliday and Waters theoretically could still win the championship, however a lot needs to go right for any of the 136 club to win, alongside plenty going wrong for their competition…

There are still plenty of glory for race victories up for grabs though, and a few round wins, and well this is racing, and anything can happen…

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It’s been a few months between races for the Supersport 600 fraternity and some might need a quick look at the points before they roll out of pit lane this Friday to remind themselves; this is close!

Early season form from Tom Bramich, Tom Drane, Olly Simpson and Tarbon Walker was somewhat collectively brought undone with DNS/DNFs at Wakefield, and further mistakes will be extremely punishing.

Championship leader John Lytras has slowly but surely risen to the top after an ordinary round one (21 points). From there, his points hauls have risen to 46 at round two and a near-perfect 50 points at round three. He now leads the Championship by a healthy 17 points.

Always mindful that in 2022, we’ve had a number of leaders fall off or fall away in Supersport, so Morgan Park will be a very good test of whether Lytras is ready to run away with things or offer up some sort of hope to the likes of second placed Ty Lynch who is perhaps the only rider within genuine striking distance.

Like those outside the top few spots in Superbike, there is a log jam in Supersport as well with just 11 points separating third placed Scott Nicholson (82) and eighth placed Tom Bramich (71). So while the battle at the top is warm, the battle for the remaining spots is white-hot.

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Cameron Dunker arrived at Wakefield third overall, 12 points adrift of then leader Henry Snell, but left the Goulburn region a seemingly impossible 25 points in the lead in a perfect display of 300 racing, bagging the maximum 76 points on offer.

With Snell unable to put his Yamaha anywhere near the front, he slipped to fourth overall, Jacobs stayed put in second and Glenn Nelson stepped up one spot into third overall.

Taiyo Akso showed plenty of newfound pace at Wakefield and was second overall for the weekend, but from fifth in the championship race, it’s a big task to bridge the 58-point deficit to Dunker.

And so on to Morgan Park.

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While there’s a lot of form carry over from the Supersport 300 Championship, Glenn Nelson and Liam Waters were able to take wins at Wakefield Park, however Dunker took the overall R3 Cup honours and cut series leader Glenn Nelson’s overall lead to just 10 points.

With a sizeable gap back to third placed Hayden Nelson, the series looks likely to come down to a Glenn Nelson/Dunker battle.

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After the exciting announcement of the OJC crew being a support category at the MotoGP event it would be easy to gloss over the importance of the current standings.

Harrison Watts and Hudson Thompson have been in an arm wrestle all season and after receiving equal points at Wakefield after three races, they are looking more like Siamese twins than fierce rivals.

Round one winner Cameron Rende is still well in the hunt, and this round will again be very close as the OJC riders shape up for the back half of season 2022.

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