Profile Triumph’s Luke Stapleford bagged his third consecutive Motorpoint British Supersport win in dominant style, taking a lights to flag victory from pole position.

Stapleford grabbed the holeshot and didn’t look back from then. He constantly lapped beneath the previous lap record and quite simply, nobody could live with the diminutive rider’s pace.

Behind, however, a battle for the final podium places raged between Kyle Ryde, James Rispoli and Sam Hornsey.

All three took their turn at leading the pack and holding second place but it quickly changed lap after lap due to the slipstream nature of Thruxton.

On the last lap Rispoli held second place but Ryde drafted his way past the Floridian to take second place.

This allowed Ryde to limit Stapleford’s growing championship advantage. The gap is now 13 points between the two title protagonists.

Hornsey pushed hard to pick up his debut Supersport podium but finished 0.080 shy with Rispoli managing to end up on the podium for the second time this year.

Traction Control’s Andy Reid caught the battling trio on the final lap but it was too little too late and he had to settle for fifth place.

Glenn Irwin lead home a Gearlink Kawasaki precession, with the Northern Irishman finishing in sixth ahead of his teammates Luke Hedger and Ben Wilson.

Appleyard Macadam’s Danny Webb struggled with rear grip in the closing stages and finished ninth, but his fastest lap sees him on the second row for tomorrow’s feature race.

Rounding out the top ten was Smiths Triumph’s Jake Dixon.

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