Maxwell, Walters and Falzon lead the way at Phillip Island ASBK Opener

Wayne Maxwell has fired an unmistakable warning shot to his QBE Australian Superbike Championship rivals after another dominant display at Phillip Island on Sunday.

With Sunday's race win the Victorian rider completed his third consecutive clean sweep at the 4.445km Grand Prix Circuit, and first as a factory Suzuki GSX-R pilot.

The event may not be for points but the strong showing certainly won‰Ûªt hurt the team‰Ûªs preparations ahead of the championship opener at Tasmania's Symmons Plains in April.

Maxwell led from the outset and by lap 5 had forged a gap of over 5 seconds to closest pursuer Chas Hern.

With clear track in front of him he turned up the pace and at two-thirds race distance clocked a 1m33.073s fastest lap ‰ÛÒ quicker than both of his ASBK Championship rivals racing as World Superbike wildcards.

Maxwell said he would not take the results for granted despite what must be considered a perfect debut with the new marque.

‰ÛÏThe boys gave me a great bike this weekend and the circuit was very grippy ‰ÛÒ we came here to win and that‰Ûªs what we did which is good,‰Û