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World Supersport's last race of the weekend would be eighteen laps of Phillip Island with a pit stop in the middle with the same ten lap limit on the tyres as yesterday. The temperature was up to 22ºC with a 11kmh wind. So far no geese, penguins or other wildfowl made an appearance in the races.

Stefano Manzi led into turn one with Can Oncu behind as Bo Bendsneyder dropped to fourteenth place from pole position. Can Oncu took the lead into turn four top lead Manzi and Tom Booth-Amos and Lucas Mahias. Into turn one of lap two, Manzi passed Oncu and Booth-Amos as the leading three riders escaped from a large pack behind them. Harrison Voight, fourteenth over the line, set the fastest lap, a 1'33.319, as Booth-Amos took the lead.

The leading trio became a nine bike pack as Jaume Masia set a fastest lap of 1'32.905. After a bit of a scrap, Oncu dropped back to seventh place. Booth-Amos and Schroetter tried to escape from Valentin Debise and Manzi as Masia, Oncu and Mahias tried to keep up. Lap six, and everyone was together again, everyone in the top ten within half a second of the bike in front. Can Oncu set a 1'32.556 fastest lap in sixth place on lap five.

Lap seven, the top seven were covered by three quarters of a second but a lap later, Booth-Amos had a gap from the Ducatis of Debise, Schroetter and Masia behind him as the pit window opened.

Tom Booth-Amos pitted in with Schroetter and Masia in his wake and the seventy eight second pit intervention clock started. A lap later, the rest of the lead group pitted in with only three riders stayed out on track.

When the clock settled, the second group meeting the first out of the pits, Valentin Debise exited ahead of Marcel Schroetter but Schrotter and Xavi Cardelus passed him before lap eleven where Debise and Masia crashed in the slipstream as Masia didn't have enough brakes at the turn.

Marcel Schroetter crashed out of the lead and riders behind had to avoid him. When the dust settled, Tom Booth-Amos led Jeremy Alcoba, Stefano Manzi and Michael Ruben Rinaldi, but Alcoba was carrying a seven second pit intervention penalty. With six laps to go, Manzi chased Booth-Amos as Bendsneyder clawed his way up to sixth place, then fifth behind Rinaldi.

With four laps left, Booth-Amos couldn't escape from Manzi and at the start of lap fifteen, Manzi took the lead into turn one but Booth-Amos took the lead back in turn three. Bendsneyder closed up on Alcoba with Oncu behind him, neither knowing that Alcoba carried a penalty.

At the start of the penultimate lap, Booth-Amos was three tenths of a second ahead of Manzi and Bendsneyder took third place as Alcoba made a small mistake into turn three. Oncu wasn't able to capitalise on Alcoba's mistake in fifth place. On the last lap, Booth-Amos led Manzi by two tenths of a second as Oncu crashed overtaking Alcoba into turn four, recovering out of the points.

Tom Booth-Amos opened up a gap on the last lap to take his first win over the only other rider to win on a Triumph Street Triple, Stefano Manzi. Bo Bendsneyder rounded out the podium making another Next Generation podium of three different bikes. Michael Ruben Rinaldo took fourth place from Jeremy Alcoba after his penalty with Lucas Mahias sixth.

Marcel Schroetter, Valentin Debise and Jaume Masia were all taken to the medical centre to get checked out. Leonardo Taccini had the largest penalty, a penalty of over twenty five seconds.

Tom Booth-Amos and Stefano Manzi leave Australia with a joint lead, forty five points each from their brace of a win and a second. Bo Bendsneyder passed Marcel Schroetter for third place in the championship with his podium, sixteen points off the leaders.

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