Glenn Irwin's BSB title hopes ended after set-up changes backfire in penultimate race of season at Brands Hatch

Glenn Irwin’s hopes of winning the British Superbike title at Brands Hatch are over after the Honda Racing rider finished 12th in race two on Sunday.
By Kyle White
Published 18th Oct 2020, 13:38 BST
Updated 18th Oct 2020, 13:42 BST
Glenn Irwin finished 12th in race two at Brands Hatch as his hopes of winning the British Superbike title came to an end.Glenn Irwin finished 12th in race two at Brands Hatch as his hopes of winning the British Superbike title came to an end.
Glenn Irwin finished 12th in race two at Brands Hatch as his hopes of winning the British Superbike title came to an end.

Irwin, sixth in Saturday’s first race, was never able to get into contention in the front group after making some set-up changes to his Fireblade machine, which failed to pay off.

Australian rider Josh Brookes claimed a vital victory on the VisionTrack Ducati after leading all the way to beat Saturday’s winner Jason O’Halloran (McAMS Yamaha) by one second.

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Fellow title contender Christian Iddon made it two VisionTrack Ducatis on the rostrum for Paul Bird’s team as he took third, over 10 seconds down on former champion Brookes.

With one final race of the truncated 2020 series remaining at the Kent circuit (16:05 BST), Brookes holds a 12-point advantage over O’Halloran, with Iddon in third, 18 points down.

Carrickfergus man Irwin is fourth in the standings but can no longer mathematically win the title after slipping 42 points behind with a maximum of 25 points left on the table.

Andrew Irwin finished in a solid fourth place for Honda Racing ahead of Lee Jackson (FS-3 Kawasaki) and Luke Mossey (Rich Energy OMG BMW).

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