Harry Truelove (Truelove Brothers Racing Yamaha) claimed a first ever win in the Quattro Group British Supersport Championship when he got the better of Ben Currie (Gearlink Kawasaki) at Donington Park on Sunday by just 0.041s.

But there was drama further back as championship leader Bradley Perie (Appleyard Macadam Yamaha) crashed at McLeans on the 19th of 24 laps taking main rival Jack Kennedy (HEL Performance/Bournemouth Kawasaki) and Lee Johnston (Ashcourt Racing Yamaha) with him, all three thankfully escaping injury.

It was Currie who took the lead on the opening lap from Johnston, the Dynavolt Triumph pairing of Kyle Smith and Brandon Paasch, Charlie Nesbitt (RS Racing Kalex) and Kennedy with Nesbitt taking over fourth place next time around.

The leading four eked out a small gap in the early stages with Currie and Johnston nose to tail as Kennedy finally got ahead of Paasch on lap five and promptly tried to close the two second gap to third placed Smith.

Johnston took the lead on the same lap, albeit by just 0.082s, and a lap later Nesbitt was up into third overall as he overhauled Smith. Kennedy, meanwhile, was back in sixth after Truelove found a way by on lap six.

The front two soon became a front three with Nesbitt quickly bridging the gap as Smith found himself just over a second adrift in fourth but 1.5s clear of Kennedy who had got back into fifth on the seventh lap.

That didn’t last long though as a lap later he was pushed back to seventh as both Truelove and Paasch responded. Their dicing was allowing the leaders to get away even further though and the gap at the end of lap eight was more than four seconds.

There continued to be little to choose between the leading three riders, Johnston’s advantage over Currie only 0.07s at the end of lap ten and such was the closeness of the racing, he was back in third a lap later as Currie regained control at the head of the field.

By half race distance, Currie and Nesbitt had broken clear of Johnston by almost a second with the Ulsterman a similar gap ahead of the four-rider battle for fourth which Truelove was now leading from Smith, Paasch and Kennedy.

Lap 13 saw Nesbitt hit the front for the first time and Currie then had a scare when he had a coming together with a back-marker along the straight which could have had disastrous consequences.

The hard work the front pair had done to pull away was then cancelled as the safety car came out on lap 14 and with the field all coming together once more, it was all to play for over the closing seven laps. That was good news for, amongst others, Perie who had found himself almost eight-seconds adrift in eighth.

Currie re-claimed the lead as racing resumed with Nesbitt in second and Truelove taking over third from Johnston. There was also changes further back with Paasch up into fourth ahead of Perie, Kennedy and McGreevy, Smith the big loser as he dropped back to ninth.

The leading seven riders had now broken clear but the crash at McLeans brought it down to four riders with numerous changes of the lead on the final lap, truelove eventually making a pass stick at the final chicane.

Currie, Nesbitt and Paasch followed him over the line in quick succession with Mason Law (Spirit Motocorsa) taking fifth overall and twenty points for the second GP2 Cup machine home. Eunan McGlinchey, Jack Scott, Cameron Horsman, Dan Jones and Smith completed the top ten.

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