The 2024 Mi-Bike Australian Superbike Championship (ASBK) returned to action at Morgan Park for round four of this year’s series, and we’ve compiled comments from a number of different riders to see how their weekends went for this Quotebook feature.

Superbike

Broc Pearson (DesmoSport Ducati) – Second overall:
It was nice to race for the win today! It’s been a while since I’ve been in the battle for race wins, and I really didn’t expect it this weekend. My crash in testing was pretty big, and I’m still feeling the effects of it, but the effort off the bike I’ve been putting in has helped me manage that on the bike. The cold temperatures were a challenge, and we made some calculated decisions as a team on set-up, tyre choices and strategy and that put me in a good position to be in contention for both the race and round win.

Max Stauffer (Penrite Racing SBK) – Fifth overall:
Overall the weekend was quite positive for us, even though Friday was tough and I had to readjust to the bike after riding the Suzuka bike, took me longer than I would have liked to get back up to the pace I knew I was capable of. However, the team gave me a great bike for qualifying and I was stoked to qualify in P2. It was unfortunate that I had a big crash at the end of Q2 and ended up in the wall and that just made Sunday running so rough. I finished third and seventh in the race and was just physically struggling so much towards the end of the race, I was quite beat up. I’m sorry to my team that I wasn’t able to keep pushing in the end but I’ll come back stronger and we will keep fighting hard.

Cameron Dunker (Penrite Racing SBK) – Fourth overall:
Good weekend here at Morgan Park, probably my best so far! Two fifth-place results, which I’m really happy about from starting 10th on the grid. The team worked so well this weekend, I can’t thank everyone enough, and Ian for coming to help as my mechanic and of course my dad and my pop, Heath and everyone in the team who make this possible for me. I tried to give them the best result possible today, I got really close to fourth but fifth will have to do, hopefully we keep this momentum rolling for the next one and keep getting better from here.

Cru Halliday (Yamaha Racing Team) – Sixth overall:
The weekend started well but the racing was terrible. In the first race I just got frustrated, tried to override the bike, and went nowhere. In race two, I felt I rode better and was a lot closer to the front, but just couldn’t move forward. It’s a little disappointing that I started the weekend out well but couldn’t capitalise on it so I need to rebound strongly at Phillip Island and get things back on track.

Mike Jones (Yamaha Racing Team) – First overall:
This one was a little closer than what I would’ve liked it to have been. Broc put up a great fight and was riding really well. When he passed me with a couple of laps to go, I didn’t really know of an area on the track where I was a lot stronger so I just kept the pressure on him and hoped he would make a mistake. Fortunately for me, he lost some grip coming out of a turn and I was able to get alongside him and make it stick into the next corner. It’s awesome to get another win and make up some points in the championship. We still have three rounds remaining and anything can happen, so I just have to keep fighting for race wins and doing the best I can in every race. A huge thanks to the team for their hard work this weekend. I was a little off on Friday and made them jump through hoops to get on top of it, but we turned it around on race day and were able to get the job done.