Jason O’Halloran made it a hat-trick of wins at Oulton Park on Sunday afternoon when he took his third Bennetts British Superbike Championship victory of the weekend.

The McAMS Yamaha rider again shadowed Christian Iddon (VisionTrack Ducati) for the majority of the race before making his move on the final lap to complete a memorable weekend. Tommy Bridewell brought the Oxford Products Ducati home in third.

The FS-3 Racing pairing of Lee Jackson and Rory Skinner again went for the harder compound tyre as did Honda’s Glenn Irwin but they were the only three and it was O’Halloran who took an early lead although Bradley Ray was an early retirement on the Rich Energy OMG Racing BMW.

Just like the race earlier in the day, it was Iddon who ended the first lap in the lead with O’Halloran back in second and the BMWs of Hickman and Kyle Ryde in third and fourth. Tarran Mackenzie (McAMS Yamaha) and Ryan Vickers (RAF Regular & Reserve Kawasaki) completed the top six with Bridewell on the edge of the top ten and determined to get back on the podium after his second race retirement.

Lap three and the running order was Iddon, O’Halloran, Hickman, Mackenzie, Ryde and Vickers but Bridewell was up to seventh and making rapid progress at the expense of Jackson, Danny Buchan (Synetiq BMW) and Josh Brookes on the second VisionTrack Ducati.

A similar pattern to the previous two races was quickly emerging with Iddon and O’Halloran disputing the lead with Hickman close behind in third but this time Mackenzie was going with them as Bridewell overhauled Vickers for sixth.

The two Irwins were having disappointing races though with Glenn taking to the grass and dropping down the order on the opening lap and Andrew retiring three laps later to end the weekend with just one point to his name. Danny Kent was another to fall by the wayside, the Buildbase Suzuki man crashing at Shell.

That was of little concern to the riders at the head of the field though and the leading four were covered by less than three quarters of a second with Mackenzie the quickest of the four. Bridewell was closing all the time though and by lap seven was just 1.5s behind Iddon.

At half race distance, the running order was Iddon, O’Halloran, Hickman, Mackenzie and Bridewell and it was now a leading pack of five with the latter having worked hard to haul himself into contention. Vickers was still running well in sixth but had Jackson, Buchan and Brookes close behind.

Mackenzie moved ahead of Hickman on lap ten to slot into third and Bridewell followed him a lap later, the BMW rider now at the back of the quintet and beginning to lose some ground.

As the race entered its final third, the front four were still running nose to tale, just 0.733s covering them but Hickman was now more than two seconds adrift of fourth place as he again ran into arm pump issues.

Further back changes were taking place in the battle for sixth too and it was now reigning Champion Brookes at the head of group with Vickers pushed back to ninth with Jackson and Buchan sandwiched in between.

With two laps to go, Iddon continued to lead and it was anyone’s race with Bridewell now having relegated Mackenzie to fourth but double race victor O’Halloran was still well placed in second.

Indeed, the Australian move made his move early on the final lap at Island Bend and eventually came home more than half a second clear of Iddon to make it a clean sweep from the three races and leave with a maximum haul of 75 points.

Bridewell held Mackenzie off to take third with Hickman having a lonely ride into fifth as Brookes finished his weekend with sixth ahead of Jackson, Buchan, Vickers and the recovering Glenn Irwin.

Gino Rea, Ryde, Skinner, Luke Hopkins and Dan Linfoot were the remaining points scorers.