Oxford Tag Triumph's Billy McConnell turned his pole position into his first win of the season in the Fuchs-Silkolene British Supersport Championship at Thruxton in race one this saturday afternoon, snatching it away unexpectedly from Alastair Seeley of Relentless Suzuki by and Sam Warren of Seton Yamaha.

It was Gearlink Kawasaki's Ben Wilson who took the lead into the first corner followed by McConnell for the 12 lap race.  Noticeably Seeley had a good start from the second row up to third. Lurking behind was Jack Kennedy of Colin Appleyard who made the first of many impressive attacks to come. After making a dive he leaped to second place, but Wilson already had started to pull away slightly.

Continuing with the pace, lap two Seeley pushed hard to dive ahead of Kennedy for second and it looked like the hote battle was going to be between these two as Kennedy hung on to his back wheel and it wasn't long till Kennedy retrieved the place back before unfortunately crashing out of the race.

Meanwhile McConnell who was now in fourth was leading a pack of riders that included Warren and Dean Hipwell of Bladen Electrical who had now moved ahead of Oxford Tag Triumph's Paul Young, losing out on his front row start.

Back at the front Warren who had got ahead of Seeley had hunted Wilson down and as Warren was visibly planning his attack, Seeley carried out an astonishing outbreaking move passing the both of them to take the lead. With both riders caught out unexpectedly Warren seized the opportunity to move to second ahead of Wilson. Then the fun really began.

Wilson did retrieve his top spot back a little while later but by this time both McConnell and Hipwell had drawn closer making the leading group a pack of five riders. On lap 10 Wilson and Warren got their revenge on Seeley by repeating his attack earlier, they moved ahead of him in one move, pushing him back to third.

As the five riders reached the last overtaking opportunity of the race, immediately it looked liked Warren was going to take Wilson, but then Seeley stepped out to take both of them.  Just as you thought it was all over, McConnell set the moment of the race and breathtakingly went from fourth to first to take the win.

Padgett's Honda's Plater Steve who qualified in 14th and had a crash earlier in the day recovered to take 8th in the race. In the cup series it was T3 Racing's John Simpson who constantly led the cup championship, Matthew Hoyle of Mackrory Racing looked to be comfortable in second before unfortunately having to retire.  This promoted Shaun Winfield of Oxford Tag Triumph ahead of Sam Hornsey of Horsney Steels temporarily to second until Hornsey towards the end of the race stole second place.

Results:

1 75 Billy McCONNELL Triumph - Oxford TAG Triumph 12 15:39.066 108.38 1:17.448 2

2 34 Alastair SEELEY Suzuki - Relentless Suzuki by TAS 12 15:39.179 0.113 0.113 108.36 1:17.251 2

3 15 Ben WILSON Kawasaki - Gearlink Kawasaki 12 15:39.360 0.294 0.181 108.34 1:17.395 3

4 70 Sam WARREN Yamaha - Bike Interceptor Yamaha by Seton 12 15:39.574 0.508 0.214 108.32 1:17.362 3

5 74 Dean HIPWELL Yamaha - Bladen Electrical 12 15:39.764 0.698 0.190 108.30 1:17.528 3

6 96 Paul YOUNG Triumph - Oxford TAG Triumph 12 15:41.587 2.521 1.823 108.09 1:17.838 3

7 21 Christian IDDON Triumph - Oxford TAG Triumph 12 15:43.416 4.350 1.829 107.88 1:17.626 2

8 22 Steve PLATER Honda - www.padgetts-motorcycles.co.uk 12 15:44.420 5.354 1.004 107.76 1:17.818 8

9 12 Luke MOSSEY Triumph - Smiths (Gloucester) Racing 12 15:44.557 5.491 0.137 107.75 1:17.969 3

10 20 Daniel COOPER Triumph - Smiths (Gloucester) Racing 12 15:46.861 7.795 2.304 107.49 1:17.971 6

11 51 Matthew WHITMAN Triumph - Smiths (Gloucester) Racing 12 15:47.108 8.042 0.247 107.46 1:17.756 4

12 77 Marty NUTT Suzuki - Nutt travel.com / Dawn / T+G 12 15:50.289 11.223 3.181 107.10 1:18.328 5

13 8 Luke STAPLEFORD Kawasaki - Profile Bournemouth Kawasaki 12 15:50.440 11.374 0.151 107.08 1:18.006 4

14 39 Allann Jon VENTER Triumph - MAP Triumph 12 15:50.785 11.719 0.345 107.04 1:18.329 6

15 37 Max HUNT Honda - Race Lab Honda 12 15:54.429 15.363 3.644 106.63 1:18.546 4

16 89 David JONES Triumph - Clwyd Heating Racing 12 15:55.055 15.989 0.626 106.56 1:18.431 5

17 11 C John SIMPSON Triumph - T3 Racing 12 15:56.990 17.924 1.935 106.35 1:18.989 12

18 79 Pauli PEKKANEN Triumph - 777 RR Motorsport 12 15:57.301 18.235 0.311 106.31 1:18.729 4

19 17 Jesse TRAYLER Kawasaki - Gearlink Kawasaki 12 16:05.190 26.124 7.889 105.44 1:19.353 4

20 94 C Sam HORNSEY Triumph - Hornsey Steels Racing 12 16:05.328 26.262 0.138 105.43 1:19.479 4

21 41 C Shaun WINFIELD Triumph - Oxford TAG Triumph 12 16:05.441 26.375 0.113 105.42 1:19.313 5

22 65 C David PATON Yamaha - Double 'M' Racing 12 16:14.971 35.905 9.530 104.39 1:19.967 7

23 222 C Jonny BUCKLEY Yamaha - Module Road & Race 12 16:15.564 36.498 0.593 104.32 1:20.058 6

24 14 Josh CAYGILL Triumph - MAP Triumph 12 16:15.646 36.580 0.082 104.31 1:20.041 2

25 16 C Ben PADGETT Honda - www.padgetts-motorcycles.co.uk 12 16:15.857 36.791 0.211 104.29 1:19.960 2

26 9 C Emmet O'GRADY Triupmh - ABSOL Racing 12 16:27.620 48.554 11.763 103.05 1:20.466 2

27 3 C Anthony ROGERS Yamaha - Team Rogers Racing 12 16:55.981 1:16.915 28.361 100.17 1:23.083 2

NOT CLASSIFIED

DNF 88 C Ed SMITH Kawasaki - Ultim8 Racing 10 14:09.853 2 laps 2 laps 99.80 1:23.505 2

DNF 32 C Matthew HOYLE Kawasaki - Mackrory Racing 6 8:07.757 6 laps 4 laps 104.33 1:19.114 4

DNF 4 Jack KENNEDY Yamaha - Colin Appleyard/Macadam Racing 4 5:13.351 8 laps 2 laps 108.26 1:17.136 3

DNF 71 C Jody LEES Honda - Midland VW / JLR 4 5:46.713 8 laps 33.362 97.85 1:22.507 3