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Brands BSB: First win of 2018 for Brookes

McAMS Yamaha’s Josh Brookes has taken his first Bennetts British Superbike win of the 2018 season, fending off a race-long challenge from Glenn Irwin to nab 25 points while a late crash from Tarran Mackenzie promoted Leon Haslam to the final podium spot.

Aside from a one-corner spell in second, Brookes led from lights to flag and didn’t put a foot wrong to beat Irwin by two-tenths of a second while Haslam - who doesn’t have a great relationship with Brands Hatch - was three seconds in arrears.

Mackenzie, Brookes’ team-mate, was on for by far his best finish of the season after starting from the second row and managed to get himself into third place ahead Christian Iddon on lap nine, passing the Tyco BMW man at Hawthorn but it was the fast left-hander which proved his undoing as he lost the front and crashed unhurt.

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Brookes moves to fifth in the championship chase and his points push Shane Byrne out of the Showdown six It also means he is only one win away from shaving off his handlebar moustache.

Haslam’s third place means he extends his championship lead over Jake Dixon and adds another podium credit to a not insignificant tally. Dixon took fourth after a late pass on Iddon while Peter Hickman bagged sixth place in a season where he has struggled with the new rear Pirelli.

Richard Cooper was the leading Buildbase Suzuki in seventh with Danny Buchan passing both Andrew Irwin and Michael Laverty for eighth place.

Halsall Suzuki’s Chrissy Rouse worked his way forward with some solid laps to take 11th place while Tommy Bridewell, new to the Moto Rapido Ducati this weekend, fought his way back from the rear of the grid to take 12th place.

Bradley Ray is struggling for front-end feel on his Buildbase Suzuki and could only muster 13th, one ahead of still-injured Jason O’Halloran with Mason Law completing the top 15.

Dan Linfoot and Luke Mossey were both taken to the medical centre after separate crashes, while James Ellison retired early doors.

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