Jack Kennedy took the Quattro Group British Supersport Feature race at Snetterton on Sunday afternoon, the HEL Performance/Bournemouth Kawasaki rider getting the better of Gearlink Kawasaki’s Ben Currie to extend his championship lead to seven points.

Saturday’s winner Lee Johnston (Ashcourt Racing Yamaha) led off the line into Riches but as they went into Montreal, Currie took the lead and in the bumping and barging that took place behind, Championship contender Bradley Perie crashed out. Just half a lap, Appleyard Macadam Yamaha team-mate Rhys Irwin went down too.

Currie led across the line at the end of the first lap from Kyle Smith (Dynavolt Triumph), Johnston, Kennedy and leading GP2 runner Jack Scott with Currie’s team-mate Eunan McGlinchey in sixth. The next GP2 riders – Charlie Nesbitt, Mason Law and Cameron Horsman – occupied seventh to ninth.

By the end of lap two, Currie and Smith had opened up a one-second gap over Johnston and Kennedy but Donington and Cadwell winner Harry Truelove was out after crashing at Wilson’s. Scott also crashed out on the second lap, this time at Agostini’s.

Smith hit the front going into Riches at the start of the fourth lap and the front four riders were bunching back up together, now just a second splitting them. With Scott’s demise, Nesbitt was now the first of the GP2 riders in sixth although Law, Horsman and Jones were right in his wheel tracks.

Kennedy took third towards the end of the lap, and a lap later he moved into second at the end of the back straight as he eased by Currie. The front three had also begun to drop Johnston.

Former double champion Kennedy then took the lead at Montreal on the sixth lap but there was still only half a second covering the leading three riders although Currie moved back into second at the beginning of lap seven.

Kennedy was doing his best to pull away from his rivals and at half race distance, his advantage over Currie was up to three quarters of a second with Smith a further half second back. Johnston was having a lonely ride in fourth but Nesbitt, McGlinchey, Law and Horsman were having a good battle for fifth overall.

As the race wore on, Kennedy continued to keep Currie at arms length but by lap 12 the Australian was right back in contention and he duly took the lead, the duo almost rubbing shoulders as they went round Montreal.

Kennedy briefly got back to the front at the end of the back straight only for Currie to nose ahead again as they went into the Bomb Hole but the positions again changed as they went into Riches at the beginning of the following lap.

However, as they started the final lap, Currie hit the front at Riches but Kennedy timed his move to perfection at the end of the back straight, pulling out the slipstream to take the lead which he duly held on to for his third win of the season.

Smith took a distant third in the end with Nesbitt coming through for fourth and the maximum points, again, in the GP2 category. Horsman and Law followed him home to complete the GP2 podium with seventh to ninth occupied by Supersport runners Johnston, McGlinchey and Sam Munro. GP2 rider Conor Wheeler completed the top-10.

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