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Sunday, 7 July, 2002, 17:20 GMT 18:20 UK
Crash prevents Hislop double
Steve Hislop was seventh in the second race
Championship leader Steve Hislop crashed out on the final lap at Knockhill to allow Shane Byrne a taste of glory in the British Superbike Championship for the second time this season. Hislop had already won the first of the two races on home soil at the tight, 1.3-mile Fife circuit as he attempted to tighten his grip on the title. But, instead, his dogfight at the front with Michael Rutter proved costly and allowed Ducati rival Sean Emmett to narrow the gap by two points to 11. Hislop and Rutter had duelled frantically for the final two thirds of that 30-lap race, with the height of their scrap coming with three laps remaining when they traded places four times.
Hislop, the 40-year-old from Hawick, appeared to have come out on top, but Rutter continued to press and the front wheel of his Renegade Ducati
clipped the back of the leader's bike and they both crashed out.
Byrne whipped through to take the victory ahead of Paul Brown and Emmett, while Hislop managed to remount and pick up some points with a distant seventh place. The Isle of Man-based Scot said: "I thought I had it won, even though I had been held up a bit on the back part of the circuit. "I went into the hairpin a bit tighter and then felt a bit of a tap from behind. "That was it - I was down and the bike was sliding into the gravel, but I managed to get back on and finish seventh. "On the slow-down lap, I stopped to offer Michael a lift back to the pits. He apologised to me - it was one of those things that happen."
Earlier, Hislop had overcome the challenge of Rutter to take the first-race
victory by 2.4 seconds, with Emmett finishing third.
The Scot had to do it the hard way, heavy rain hampering his qualifying rides to such an extent that he had started fifth on the grid. Leicestershire-based Rutter had claimed his third pole position of the season seconds before the rain came down. But the rider buoyed by a double victory last time out at Rockingham had to settle for third by the end of the race itself. Hislop had warned that he meant business and said: "Those people who had written me off and reckoned they would break me this weekend had best watch out." The determined Scot had to break a barren run at his home circuit to win the first race, not having won there aboard a superbike since 1995.
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