Phillip Island – Day One
Troy Bayliss had been setting the pace for most of the opening day of the two-day 2019 ASBK Test session staged by Motorcycling Australia at Phillip Island, but late in the final session Wayne Maxwell knocked TB out of top spot by just under a tenth-of-a-second to finish day one on top of the charts.
Maxwell recently broke his collarbone in a bicycle crash and underwent shoulder surgery only nine days ago, but that didn’t stop the freshly signed Ecstar Suzuki putting in 40 laps on the GSX-R1000R and being the only rider to dip in to the 1m32s on the opening day of testing.
Bryan Staring is looking very competitive on the new ZX-10RR and finished the day third fastest ahead of Josh Waters.
Privateer Aiden Wagner upstaged the Factory Yamaha squad to finish as top Yamaha in fifth, fractionally ahead of defending champion Troy Herfoss.
The YRT duo of Daniel Falzon and Cru Halliday were seventh and eighth respectively ahead of Glenn Allerton while Mark Chiodo rounded out the top ten in front of Mike Jones and Ted Collins. Only a second covers a fairly close top ten.
Tom Toparis dominated the Supersport rankings on his new Yamaha while Tom Bramich debuted the Kawasaki Ninja 400 on top spot in the Supersport 300 results.
Lucas Quinn looks like the early one to beat in the bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup.
Kawasaki Superbike Times
- Wayne Maxwell – Suzuki 1m32.913
- Troy Bayliss – Ducati 1299 1m33.011
- Bryan Staring – Kawasaki 1m33.181
- Josh Waters – Suzuki 1m33.334
- Aiden Wagner – Yamaha 1m33.452
- Troy Herfoss – Honda 1m33.500
- Daniel Falzon – Yamaha 1m33.541
- Cru Halliday – Yamaha 1m33.565
- Glenn Allerton – BMW 1m33.614
- Mark Chiodo – Honda 1m33.934
- Mike Jones – Honda 1m34.356
- Ted Collins – BMW 1m34.494
- Alex Phillis – Suzuki 1m34.863
- Arthur Sissis – Suzuki 1m35.067
- Glenn Scott – Kawasaki 1m35.128
- Max Croker – Suzuki 1m35.188
- Lachlan Epis – Kawasaki 1m35.272
- Sloan Frost – Suzuki 1m35.339
- Ryan Yanko – Ducati 1m36.468
- Patrick Li – Yamaha 1m37.891
- Phil Czaj – Aprilia 1m38.134
- Heath Griffin – Suzuki 1m39.166
- Scott Tuddenham – Suzuki 1m39.467
- Will Davidson – Yamaha 1m40.123
- Murray Clark – BMW 1m40.598
Supersport 600 Times
- Tom Toparis – Yamaha 1m36.149
- Nic Liminton – Yamaha 1m37.329
- Broc Pearson – Yamaha 1m37.588
- Oli Bayliss – Yamaha 1m37.840
- Reid Battye – Suzuki 1m38.264
- Sam Lambert – MV Agusta 1m38.807
- Aidan Hayes – Yamaha 1m39.030
- Ty Lynch – Yamaha 1m39.426
- Jack Passfield – Yamaha 1m39.657
- Chris Quinn – Yamaha 1m39.872
- Luke Mitchell – Yamaha 1m40.020
- Scott Nicholson – Suzuki 1m40.592
- Luke Sanders – Yamaha 1m40.723
- Rhys Belling – Yamaha 1m40.969
- Dallas Skeer – Suzuki 1m41.012
YMI Supersport 300 / YMF R3 Cup Times
- Tom Bramich – Kawasaki 1m48.804
- Locky Taylor – Yamaha 1m49.429
- Seth Crump – KTM 1m49.768
- Callum O’Brien – Kawasaki 1m49.939
- Zac Levy – Yamaha 1m50.109
- Luke Power – Yamaha 1m50.423
- Max Stauffer – Yamaha 1m50.537
- Ben Baker – Kawasaki 1m50.823
- Senna Agius – Kawasaki 1m50.875
- Harry Khouri – Yamaha 1m51.306
- Zylas Bunting – Yamaha 1m52.439
- Peter Nerlich – Kawasaki 1m51.441
- Bronson Pickett – Yamaha 1m53.167
- Kyle O’Connell – Yamaha 1m53.378
- Tayla Relph – Kawasaki 1m53.409
bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup Times
- Lucas Quinn 2m15.669
- Angus Grenfell 2m16.253
- Carter Thompson 2m16.303
- Cormac Buchanan 2m16.493
- Reece Oughtred 2m16.560
- Tom Drane 2m16.654
- Jamie Port 2m16.802
- Jacob Hatch 2m17.116
- Glenn Nelson 2m17.382
- Hunter Diplock 2m17.680
- Max Gibbons 2m17.720
- Cros Francis 2m17.726
- Marianos Nikolis 2m17.751
- Zak Pettendy 2m18.255
- Jai Russo 2m18.414
Source: MCNews.com.au