Lee Johnston won the Quattro British Supersport Championship Sprint race at Donington Park on Saturday afternoon, the Ashcourt Racing Yamaha rider getting the better of GP2 runner Mason Law (Spirit Motocorsa) by just under a second.

 
Scott Swann (IFS Racing Yamaha) took second in the Supersport category with Jack Kennedy extending his championship lead in third. It could have been a different story though had Ben Currie (Gearlink Kawasaki) not crashed out of second on the eighth lap.
 
It was Currie who grabbed the holeshot into Redgate and he led Gearlink Kawasaki team-mate Eunan McGlinchey by 0.283s at the completion of the opening lap with Johnston a close third and Law two seconds back in fourth. Pole man Kennedy had slipped to fifth with Swann up to sixth from 17th on the grid.
 
McGlinchey nosed ahead next time around before having a moment going into the Esses and that handed the lead back to Currie with Johnston continuing to keep a watching brief in third. Kennedy, meanwhile, had slipped back to sixth behind Swann.
 
Lap four saw McGlinchey get back into the lead but Currie reasserted his authority a lap later although only a second covered the leading four riders, Johnston and Law remaining in third and fourth.
 
However, McGlinchey then crashed on the way into the Esses, almost taking out Currie in the process, whilst Kennedy was slipping further back, the former double champion now running in ninth overall and the seventh highest placed Supersport machine.
 
At half race distance, Johnston had got to the front of the leading group with Currie and Law following and Swann slipping back in fourth. They’d opened up a gap of more than seven seconds though over GP2 Champion Charlie Nesbitt who was leading the following group that also included Kennedy and Bradley Perie.
 
Going into lap eight, Johnston’s advantage over Currie was just under half a second but the latter’s race and, perhaps, championship hopes, ended half a lap later as he crashed out at Coppice.
 
That meant Johnston was now leading from Law, Swann, Nesbitt, Sam Munro and Kennedy but Munro’s strong ride ended with a crash coming into Goddards on the tenth lap. That promoted Kennedy up the order and he was now the third highest placed Supersport runner and back on the podium.
 
Johnston duly took the chequered flag - his third win of the season - by 0.909s from Law with Swann taking third overall but second in the Supersport class. Nesbitt took fourth, the second GP2 machine home with Kennedy in fifth overall completing the Supersport podium.
 
Appleyard Macadam Yamaha team-mates Perie and Rhys Irwin took sixth and seventh overall ahead of Barry Burrell, Cameron Horsman and Phil Wakefield.

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