Ellison leads Airwaves 1-2

By Burning Rubber on Sep 27, 09 05:40 PM

BY ZOE BURN and MIC ARCHBOLD

JAMES Ellison led team-mate and newly crowned champion Leon Camier across the line in the second of today's MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship races at Silverstone.

Camier, who was lucky to stay upright after running wide while trying to make a pass on Lap Four, bounced back from ninth position to finish just over a second behind his Cumbrian team-mate.

The race, which was a full restart over 18 laps after Tristan Palmer's Buildbase Kawasaki went pop on the opening lap spilling oil all over the track, started in the usual manner - with Hydrex Honda's Stuart Easton taking the lead into the first corner.

Ellison had got away in third place, and managed to pass Josh Brookes for second on Lap Two, while Camier passed Brookes for third and then made the move on Ellison a lap later.

But while trying to pass Easton on Lap Four, he ran wide and onto the grass, rejoining ninth with everything to do all over again.

And in true Camier style he did it - making it all the way back to second place, picking riders off lap after lap before enjoying a big scrap with Brookes on Lap 13.

He eventually made it past and into third and saw off Easton for second, before crossing the line just behind Ellison to make it an Airwaves Yamaha 1-2.