After a tight Race One between Rob Guiver and Philip Atkinson the tables were turned in the Triumph Triple Challenge’s (TTC)  final race of the day at Oulton Park and Guiver claimed the win. Third across the line was Piers Hutchins who also took home the win for the TTC’s Premier Class.

Guiver overtook Aktinson off the line but the South African was unwilling to concede battling hard to remain in contention. Guiver, however, looked unbeatable, but by lap seven Atkinson was side-by-side with the Championship leader and had regained the lead by lap eight.

Essex rider Guiver was able to out-brake Atkinson after the two battled alongside one another through the next lap. Atkinson looked as though he had the advantage through the final sector of the last lap but Guiver retained the position and brought home the win.

A jubilant Guiver commented: “I’m over the moon with that. I do love races like that where there’s loads of pressure. Phil pushed me all the way, he was riding just as well as me. We swapped places on the last couple of laps. I had some trouble with my visor one lap, it misted up so badly because of the conditions – I couldn’t see! But that’s no excuse, Phil rode well, we had a great race”

Atkinson thought the win was in sight but was still pleased with the result saying: “A couple of times I thought I could do it, but it was so evenly matched that at the end I had a moment, and so did Rob. But at least I’ve won one, he’s won one and I’m starting to close the gap.”

Piers Hutchins had a great end to the day winning the Premier Class and coming third in the Elite. This was great news after a disappointing first race where he came off the bike on the warm up lap.

Hutchins jumped from eleventh to fifth off the line and by the end of the first lap he had moved into third. Towards the end of the race it looked as if Christian Elkin was catching him but at this point he placed his fastest lap of the weekend.

Hutchins commented: “I couldn’t believe it because I said to myself as I was sat on the grid ‘get those next two rows off the line’ and, amazingly enough, I managed to get from eleventh to fifth into the first corner just because I thought, after this morning’s race, I have nothing to lose I just want to go as quickly as possible.”

James Egan had problems with his bike setup again in Race Two but was still able to hold his position finishing fifth overall after Elkin and second in the Premier Class. Egan was pleased with the spot on the podium but disappointed with his performance this weekend saying: “Obviously I’m a lot happier now that I’ve got some dry laps in, but unfortunately they were my practice laps which I should have got on Friday. At least we got some championship points and we take away some points from both races which is better than nothing – a lot better than crashing or anything like that!”

Meanwhile, another race was taking place between Tom Ward, Tom Weeden and Valter Patronen for 6th place. Although Ward was unable to pass the two Elite riders he was still able to claim third in the Premier Class.

Tom commented: “The race was really good but I was suffering from arm pump right at the end so that slowed me down quite a bit. I got a pretty rubbish start, and I think I was in ninth or tenth place, and then made a couple of places back up. Then I was behind Valter and Tom Weeden, I tried to keep getting past Valter but he was doing really good block passes, then Tom managed to get passed and sort of gap him, so I made a move going up into shell, and then keep it for a while, looked for Tommy, started slowly catching it up but then my arm pump started kicking in!”