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Staring on top

FOR THE LAST TWO years Wayne Maxwell and the Boost Mobile team have been virtually unstoppable, strong enough to convince Maxwell to postpone his retirement for a chance at a history-making fourth Superbike title. From the outset his Ducati V4 R was the class of the field, punching out times well clear of the field every session and setting a new qualifying record of 1m31.363s.

His challengers were still confident of an upset. Bryan Staring was quickly adapting to the Desmosport team and

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