The British Superbike Championship will attempt to run all three races at Doningto🐈n Park on Sunday after aborting two attempts t𓂃o get the first race underway on Saturday.

On a weekend of dismal weather acro🔯ss the country, series organisers MSV had been proactive in preparing for this eventuality by cancelling qualifying - meaning Friday’s combined practice times determined the grid - and bringin♈g Race 1 forward to midday to give it flexibility in getting things underway.

However, after the first attempt at 12.20 was called off, BSB attempted to get going again at 1.45 - following WorldSBK with which it shares airtime on Eurosport - but with a window of opportunity closing 🐻and rain returning, the decision was taken to call off the day’s action altogether in favour of a packed Sunday sche⛎dule.

“You can’t put people through multiple restarts,” said series director Stuart Higgs. “It was a surprise weather window that came and we were right to try but it started closing in a🌟gain. As we say, with the density of races there is no upside to forcing a situation that would be detrimental to the programme. 

“We have been chasing a closi✤ng weather window all day, it’s galling that we are 40mins o🌼ut but we have a contingency to run three BSB races across the day, so that is our objective now.”

It has been a tough season for BSB as a whole, which has reduced its calendar to six rounds in the wake of the COVID-19-initiated delay♒s, and has repeatedly attempted to allow spectators to return only for changing national guidelines to preveဣnt this from happening.

Donington Park represents Round 5 of 6, with Honda’s Glenn Irwin leading a top fou🍸r of Jason O’Halloran, Josh Bro🧸okes and Christian Iddon by 12 points.