Nutt wins at Brands Hatch climax.

Marty Nutt had mixed results at the final round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch on board his Mark Johns Motors/Nuttravel.com Honda, winning the first BSB Privateer's Cup race before a major mechanical failure put him out of race two.

However his overall result for this season is third in the BSB Privateer's Cup, so a successful season all in all.

Qualifying didn't go quite to plan for Nutt, who admitted that traffic during the session had been an issue.

"I qualified in seventeenth but I had been circulating in the top fifteen; however I never got a clear lap in with a qualifier," he said. "I tried to tag onto Plater and Rutter thinking I would get a good tow but they held me up!"

The grid position was on the outside of the track - "I was on the left hand side of the grid behind Rea and Rutter, so I was in a good position to sweep into Paddock Hill bend" - and that is exactly what he did getting a good strong start to race one.

"I got a good start but as luck would have it a warped disc on the right hand side front was causing me no end of problems," Nutt said. "I kept running wide and ended up in the gravel at Druids. I pulled the bike out again and got my head down, and so finished seventeenth overall and won the cup race.

"I've really upped my game in the past two rounds and a top ten would have been good."

Race two didn't go as well as expected when his bike dropped a valve and he was forced to retire, meaning he will have work to do before his season comes to a close as Nutt heads home to Northern Ireland to compete next weekend.

"I was running top fifteen but the bike dropped a valve so I had to retire," he said. "I need a new engine before heading to the Sunflower International meeting at Bishopscourt, but I'll get out for a run round!"

Next year Nutt aims to be back in Superbikes and is ninety percent sure it will be in the BSB Privateer's Cup.