Team Suzuki rider Troy Herfoss has extended his points lead to 31 in the Australian Supersport Championship after two hard-fought races at the penultimate round of the series at Victoria‰Ûªs Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit on 10-12 September.
Herfoss, who started from pole position on his Team Suzuki GSX-R600, was engaged in two thrilling 10-lap races with Triumph's Christan Casella and Suzuki rider Brodie Waters.
Twenty-three-year-old Herfoss, who is only in his second full season of Supersport racing after swapping from Supermoto at the end of 2008, went elbow-to-elbow with his two adversaries in each race at a meeting run in conjunction with a round of the V8 Supercar Championship Series.
The Team Suzuki rider recorded the fastest lap in race one on his way to a 2.340sec victory over Waters, with Casella third. Waters had led the opening two laps, but Herfoss proved too strong in the latter part of the race.
‰ÛÏI had a couple of scary moments in race one when I nearly hit some seagulls, but I wasn‰Ûªt sure how close Brodie was behind so I didn‰Ûªt want to back off,‰Û
