McMartin Racing Ducati teammates Josh Waters and Harrison Voight dominated round two of the 2026 Penrite Australian Superbike Championship presented by Pirelli (ASBK) under lights at Sydney Motorsport Park (SMSP) on Saturday, March 28. Press: ASBK Media Photos: RbMotoLens

Polesitter Waters won the opening SW-Motech Superbike race – his fourth in a row at SMSP dating back to 2024 – before Voight executed brilliantly in the second to maintain his lead in the 2026 championship after 2 of 5 rounds.

The two-day event at SMSP saw precipitation on Friday make way for sublime weather on Saturday and the bulk of the race program, with other winners including a blistering clean sweep by Jake Farnsworth (Yamaha) in Kawasaki Supersport and more teammate heroics – this time from BCperformance Kawasaki duo Tom Edwards and Hayden Nelson in Supersport Next Gen.

Meanwhile, New Zealander Tyler King (Kawasaki) extended his lead in the Race and Road Supersport 300 class despite a stunning double from Orlando Peovitis (Champions Ride Days Kawasaki), and Oscar Lewis edged out his younger brother Connor in the BLU CRU R3 Cup opener.

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SW-Motech Superbike

All the pre-round talk about the SW-Motech ‘changing of the guard’ was just a minor distraction for the veteran Waters, who powered to a 20th pole position and then victory in race one – his ninth at SMSP and the 45th in a storied career at the top level in Australia.

Voight led early before Waters took over the running, while hard-charging pair Cru Halliday (Stop and Seal Ducati, second) and SMSP lap record holder Jonathan Nahlous (Yamaha Racing Team, third) also slid their way into podium positions during the 13-lapper.

Voight was fourth from Jacob Roulstone (Motocity Honda), Glenn Allerton (Superbike Advocates Racing Ducati), Jack Favelle (Addicted to Track Yamaha) and Marcus Hamod (Motocity Honda), while Mike Jones (Yamaha Racing Team) recovered to finish ninth after an off-track excursion on lap one. Cameron Dunker (Blue Marlin Pools Racing Yamaha) also ran off  before crashing moments later.

There was an air of inevitability who would be the fastest on track for race two, and that’s what transpired as Voight was a clear winner from Waters and Halliday – while Nahlous was also in the mix before he crashed out of second place on lap four while trying to break Voight’s resolve. The battle for fourth was a cracker, with Roulstone coming up trumps from Anthony West (DesmoSport Ducati), Dunker, Allerton and Jones. Hamod and Favelle completed the top 10.

Voight’s race two rebound saw him extend his championship lead to 14pts (110 to 96) over new second place man, Waters, with Roulstone (95pts) in third from Halliday (73pts), West (72pts), Dunker (71pts) and Allerton (71pts).

Kawasaki Supersport and Supersport Next Gen

Two championships under one umbrella, and with similar levels of performance to produce scintillating racing. That was the playbook in the second half of 2025 and the 2026 season opener at Phillip Island for Supersport and Supersport Next Gen, but at SMSP no-one told Farnsworth who produced two clinical victories. And in one memorable evening, the Sydneysider doubled his previous win tally in Kawasaki Supersport from two to four.

Farnsworth (1-1) was the overall Supersport winner at SMSP, taking over the championship lead from Valentino Knezovic (Addicted to Track Yamaha, 2-2). Thai visitor Anupab Sarmoon (MotoGo Racing Yamaha, 3-3) was third, while in Supersport Next Gen it was Nelson (1-2) from Edwards (3-1) and Olly Simpson (DesmoSport Ducati, 2-3). Simpson remains the Next Gen leader, but it’s been trimmed by Edwards to just 4pts.

In the over-arching battle, Farnsworth was first home in the opening 11-lapper from Nelson, Simpson, Edwards, Knezovic and Sarmoon, and in the second Farnsworth completed his whitewash from Edwards, Nelson, Knezovic, Simpson and Sarmoon.

Meanwhile, it was misfortune for two other Next Gen riders in Sydney, with Tom Toparis (Stop and Seal Ducati) eliminated with a blown engine and debutante Jacob Hatch (Triumph) not even getting through qualifying after being caught out as collateral damage in a Scott Nicholson (TeamBWR Yamaha) crash.

Race and Road Supersport 300 and BLU CRU R3 Cup

Peovitis marched through the two Race and Road Supersport 300 races with a level of authority rarely seen in the class, with his winning margins five and six seconds respectively. While Peovitis’ domination was atypical, behind the West Aussie it was more of the same close-quarters intensity we’ve come to expect, with King second in both races and the third places shared by Phoenix O’Brien (Blue Marlin Pools Racing Yamaha) and Lincoln Knight (Yamaha).

That was where the program ended, with race three abandoned after Knight crashed at turn two and required medical intervention. King leads the championship on 95pts from the charging Peovitis (85pts) and Jordy Simpson (Yamaha, 82pts).

In the BLU CRU R3 Cup, Oscar Lewis (1-2-4), Connor Lewis (2-1-6) and defending champion Simpson (6-3-2) were the top brass in Sydney, while Matthew Ritter scored two third places. The 2026 ASBK Championship will now head to The Bend for round three on May 1-3

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