Slick thinking by Sutton-on-Forest Superbike rider Scott Smart allowed him to take his second win of the season at Knockhill yesterday.

The 29-year-old Hawk Kawasaki man gambled on a drying track with most opting for a wet and intermediate combination - and it paid off with a comfortable 18-second victory.

Smart took the lead on the fifth lap from his fifth-on-the grid start position, and found an extra turn of speed to lap nearly a second faster than the rest of the field.

James Haydon - winner of race two - was second on his Virgin Yamaha with Yukio Kagayama of Rizla Suzuki third and championship leader James Reynolds fourth.

In the second of the two races, Smart was overtaken late on to push him down into sixth and he finished less than two tenths of a second behind Kagayama's wheel.

The overall championship leaderboard remains unchanged after the weekend with Smart fifth, but he is now within ten points of Kagayama in third and 54 points of second place with ten races still to go.

Updated: 11:29 Monday, July 05, 2004