Troy Herfoss Wins 2015 Australasian Superbike Championship
Rennie Scaysbrook | December 7, 2015
Former AMA Supermoto Champion, Troy Herfoss, has claimed his first big bike road racing title in the 2016 Australasian Superbike Championship by a single point over defending champion, Yamaha Racing Team’s Wayne Maxwell at the season finale at Sydney Motorsport Park at the weekend.
Riding for Team Honda Racing, former Australian Supersport Champion Herfoss took conservative 3-2-5 results, trailing home third placed Maxwell in the third and final encounter to steal the title. Cube Racing Kawasaki’s Mike Jones took the round win with 2-1-1 results.
That last race was the most stressful 12 laps I have had on a motorbike!” said Herfoss. “It’s a great feeling to win this championship and something I have worked hard for, what an unreal feeling.”
It was a bitter pill for Maxwell to swallow as he missed out on being the first rider in Australian history to win three straight Superbike titles on three different makes of machinery (Suzuki 2013, Honda 2014, Yamaha 2015). Crucially, he crashed out of Friday’s opening race and lost valuable points to Herfoss.
“I only have myself to blame crashing on Friday and it was too much of an obstacle to overcome,” said the 2014 champion. “I can’t make a mistake like that and expect that a rider as good as Troy isn’t going to take advantage of it. Congratulations to him.”
Rounding out the top five in the 2015 Australasian Supersport Championship were Glenn Allerton (Yamaha), Mike Jones and Jamie Stauffer (Honda).
In the support classes, Callum Spriggs (Yamaha) took victory in the Australasian Supersport title, Paul Young took the Kawasaki Ninja 300 Cup win and Paul Byrne (Honda) took the Formula Oz title.
