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Roberto Rolfo has claimed a dramatic maiden World Supersport race win by a photo finish against Lucas Mahia🦂s in a race which was initially red flagged and saw a number of front runners clash.

Rolfo carved his way to the front over the final two laps to set up a scrap against Mahias, with the pair sprinting to the line barging elbows and handlebars at t🤪he chequered fla🌼g.

Mahias had initially been given the race win on the timing screen, a prospective maiden race win for the new Yamaha R6, but the race decision was immediatel🎃y under review for a photo finish.

The result handed Rolfo his fir෴st World Supersport victor🌃y by the narrowest of margins with GRT Yamaha's Mahias in second place.

Mahias was handed a post-race one-second time penalty for barging Rolfo off track down the finish straight but remains second overall/

Away from the drama at the chequered flag the 🐷race was incident-packed throughout with a num🍬ber of race winner contenders involved in flashpoints.

Fighting for rostrum places Federico Caricasulo on the sister GRT Yamaha was involved in a last-lap clash with Jules Cluzel, who led the initial laps before being reᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚeled in by the chasing pack, to see both riders fail to finish.

Their off enabled A🍎nthony West to storm to a surprise World Supersport rostrum despite a nightmare race weekend with broken engines as he held off Puccetti Kawasaki's Kyle Ryde by one-tenth of a second at the finish line.

20🙈16's wildcard superstar Niki Tuuli claimed fifth with a number of fallers ahead of him for Kallio Racing Yamaha but more drama unfolded behind him with PJ Jacobsen recovering from an off-track excursion to cl🍎imb from last to sixth in the closing laps.

The initial race was red-flagged after Gino Rea and Robin Maulhauser were involved in a nasty collision du♌ring the opening laps in which debris and gravel was scattered on to th෴e track to force the stoppage.

With a number of front runners failing to finish it saw unfamiliar names climb the final classification with Team Lorini Honda's Aiden Wagner claim s🍸eventh place ahead of Kazuki🎉 Watanabe, Nacho Calero and Lachlan Epis to round out the top ten finishers.