Swan Yamaha's Tommy Hill emerged vi♔ctorious following an eight-l🌱ap sprint in the MCE British Superbike race at Oulton Park, taking the honours from team-mate Noriyuki Haga on a magnificent day for Shaun Muir's team.

The race was initia🥃l🦩ly red-flagged following a crash involving Samsung Honda's Jon Kirkham, who came off at Clay Hill after appearing to lose the front end of his CBR1000RR Fireblade.

Kirkham wa𒅌s treat𒉰ed in the medical centre for concussion.

Hill headed a Swan Yamaha one-two, with Aussie Brookes filling the final rostrum p🌠osition ahead of team-mate Alastair Seeley, who earlier crashed at♉ Cascades during qualifying.

Tommy Bridewell continued to impress on the Supe🃏rsonic BMW as he took fifth place on the S1000RR with Samsung Honda's Michael Laverty rounding out the top six.

Japanese star Haga led the re-stꦑarted race on his YZF-R1 until after the half-way point. The World Superbike hero passed Tyco Suzuki's Josh Brookes in the opening stages to hit the front.

However, reigning champion Hill was always poised to strike behind his team-mate after moving through to challenge the leader in today's race,꧒ which was rescheduled from the opening round of the championship at Brands Hatch last month due to poor weather and deteriorating surface conditions.

Hill, who🎃 was lying in fourth place at the end of lap one, picked off Rapid Solicitors Kawasaki's Shane 'Shakey' Byrne anꦜd Brookes before shadowing Haga.

Once he made his move at Island he put the hammer down to open a one-second lead by the end of the penultimateꦏ lap.

Hill was the only rider to achieve a sub-1m 36s lap as he blasted around the Cheshire course in a time of 1m 35.842s on his final lap to cro🅘ss the line with a 1.5s advantage over the ever-improving Haga, who claimed his maiden BSB podium.

Brookes was 2.6 seconds💧 clear of current British Supersport champion Seeley on the second Tyco Suzuki, who put his di♑sappointing results at Thruxton behind him with an strong ride to fourth.

Laver♍ty will be pleased with his performance after clawing hꦗis way through the pack from almost last place on the grid to finish behind Bridewell, with veteran Chris Walker, Michael Rutter, Stuart Easton and James Westmoreland the top ten.

Padgetts Honda rider Ia๊n Lowry w🅰as forced out of the race with bike trouble.

Hill starts from pole position in tomorꦰrow's races after lapping half a second fastꦯer than Byrne and Brookes.