Senna Agius has sensationally snatched the YMI Supersport 300 Championship at the end, scoring a second and a first-place finish in two races to overhaul Max Stauffer in the very last race of the season.

Both races featured the nose-to-tail pack racing and relentless swapping of positions that have characterised the category over the last few seasons. In Race 2, Agius led out of the final corner but was slipstreamed by Luke Jhonston on the run to the finish line, but in Race 3, Agius asserted himself, taking the win by a bike length from Hunter Ford and Seth Crump.

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Stauffer looked to have minimised the championship damage when he finished fourth in Race 2, and he again ran in the lead pack in Race 3. But he was shuffled back to fifth on the run to the finish line, and denied of the championship by a solitary point.

Newly-crowned champion Agius said he knew the race win was vital in enabling him to challenge for the title.

“On the last lap, I was seventh heading into the first corner, and I thought ‘I have to make something special’ – I put my head down, and by Turn 9 I was in first,” he said.

“It was a bit risky leading out of the last corner, because I got slipstreamed to the line in Race 2, but I just took a breath, hoped I could get there and I got it done.

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YMI Supersport 300 – Points after Round 7

  1. Senna Agius – 384
  2. Max Stauffer – 383
  3. Hunter Ford – 309
  4. Seth Crump – 293
  5. Yannis Shaw – 285
  6. John Lytras – 277
  7. Brandon Demmery – 254
  8. Zac Levy – 243
  9. Luke Jhonston – 216
  10. Ben Baker – 206
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