From SPEED Channel:

Two-wheel Tuesday Line-up For Tuesday, June 18:

2:00 p.m. FIM 125cc GP, Mugello, Italy

3:00 p.m. FIM World Supersport, Silverstone, England

7:00 p.m. Bike Week

7:30 p.m. Motorcyclist

8:00 p.m. AMA Formula Xtreme, Road America, WI

9:00 p.m. MotoGP, Catalunya, Spain

10:00 p.m. AMA Grand National Dirt Track T.T., Springfield, IL

11:00 p.m. Corbin’s Ride On

11:30 p.m. Harley-Davidson Sportsters, Springfield, IL

12:00 a.m. Bike Week

12:30 a.m. Motorcyclist

1:00 a.m. AMA Formula Xtreme, Road America, WI

2:00 a.m. MotoGP, Catalunya, Spain

3:00 a.m. AMA Grand National Dirt Track T.T., Springfield, IL

Copyright 2002, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

By Bruce Wilkins

Cooler than normal temperatures with an afternoon of overcast skies allowed for some hot testing today at Virginia International Raceway.

Numerous AMA Superbike teams finished up the second day of tests with faster times than they achieved last season. The teams will converge on the southern Virginia road course on August 9-11 for the doubleheader season finale of the AMA Superbike season.

Miguel Duhamel, who won back-to-back Superbike races at Road America two weekends ago, utilized most of the Tuesday session to set up his Supersport CBR600F4i.

“It’s the first time back on the 600 and we’re right there within two-tenths of the fastest laps done today by the 600 regulars,” said Duhamel, who recorded a 1:28.5 lap as his fastest of the day. “We’re matching our fastest laps in our race here last year and I always run faster in a race than like this, so we’re pretty happy about that. Looks good for August.”

Duhamel’s Superbike times in the morning were off from teammate Nicky Hayden’s best times. “That’s really not too bad, but tomorrow we’re going to concentrate on the Superbike full time,” he pointed out. Duhamel’s fastest Superbike lap today was 1:27.0, while he recorded lap times in the 1:26 range yesterday. “We’re real confident that we’ll get back in the 26s tomorrow.”

Duhamel credited his hot streak with reuniting with crew chief Al Ludington. “I’m really looking forward to VIR…now that I’ve got Al back, we’ve got the right setup, the guys are working really great, I see myself in the mixture in every race. The rest of the season, it will be a big disappointment in each race if we’re not in the top three.”

Kawasaki racer Eric Bostrom has mixed feelings about the VIR testing session so far. “The good thing is that our times are better than last year, but the downside is that I’m not totally happy with the suspension yet,” Bostrom said. “We’ll work on that the rest of the day.” Bostrom recorded numerous laps in the low 1:25 range on Tuesday.

Kawasaki team manager Michael Preston described the sessions so far as averaging about a second faster than his racers did last year. “Nobody’s crashed, we’re getting a lot of work done, and so far, so good,” he said. “We’re real lucky in that we thought it was going to be real hot this week, but so far it hasn’t been that hot. Hot weather like we had here last year is a discomfort for the riders and it’s definitely a lot more work to get the bikes ready. So we like the way the weather was today.”

Preston described the youngest member of his team, Tony Meiring, as a quick learner and taking to VIR real well. “Tony has come along really good and is actually a little ahead of our schedule,” Preston said. “The last few rounds he has had some really good performances and we’re just ecstatic that he’s getting in there and riding with the front runners.

“Tony’s getting better every week that he rides a bike and he’s doing real well here today,” Preston added. “He actually rode here last year as a privateer, so he’s come around really good.” Meiring lost a chain late in the afternoon under the bridge and his bike had to be hauled back to the pits.

The testing session marks the first such test of the year for the Austin Bleu Bayou Ducati team and racer Pascal Picotte. “It’s been good for us because this time has allowed us to go through a lot of stuff, things we couldn’t go too far with on race weekends,” Picotte explained. “At the track in the previous races, we could make a little improvement here or there, but here like this we can go from one extreme to another and figure things out that I really like…and the geometry and those types of things. We’re definitely learning a lot with this test and we’ll carry that over for us the rest of the season.” Picotte recorded laps in the 1:27 range, about a half-second off the leaders, but said he plans to get those times down to the mid-26s by tomorrow.

Points leader Nicky Hayden and winner of the first AMA Superbike race last season at VIR was pleased so far as well. “This test has been really good,” Hayden said. “I’ve gone faster than I qualified last year. I’m having a little problem with my foot. I was practicing the other day and twisted my ankle up pretty bad flat-tracking. I caught my right foot in a hole. It hasn’t slowed me down, but it hurts a lot. It’ll be all right…that’s just part of racing. Hasn’t been that much fun today because of the pain.”

Despite the injury, Hayden recorded consistent laps in the high 1:25s with his fastest lap a 1:25.5, according to Hayden. “I really like this track more each time I come here,” he said. “It’s held up really, really well for the amount of racing on it and it’s a just a cool place to race.”

Teams participating in the tests include Blimpie Yoshimura Suzuki with Mat Mladin, Aaron Yates and Jamie Hacking; Arclight Suzuki with Lee Acree and Craig Connell; Kawasaki with Tony Meiring, Eric Bostrom and Tommy Hayden; American Honda with Nicky Hayden, Miguel Duhamel and Jake Zemke; Austin Bleu Bayou with Pascal Picotte; and Yamaha with Damon Buckmaster.

NASCAR racer Ken Schrader spectated briefly during the test, checking out Mat Mladin’s racebike.

From a press release issue by Fuchs Kawasaki:

WORLD SUPERBIKE & SUPERSPORT CHAMPIONSHIPS
ROUND 8 – MISANO, SAN MARINO
18 JUNE 2002 – EVENT PREVIEW

IZUTSU RETURNS TO THE FRAY AT MISANO

After an enforced eight week lay off through injury, Hitoyasu Izutsu will make his return to the World Superbike Championship aboard the Fuchs Kawasaki ZX-7RR at Misano this weekend. The former Japanese Superbike Champion, who sustained a badly fractured wrist in a qualifying crash at the Sugo round of the championship back in April, tested in Japan last week before declaring himself fit to compete at Misano.

‘I’m looking forward to getting back on the bike and racing again at Misano,’ said Izutsu. ‘It’s been a long, hard two months, but everything felt fine during last week’s test and I’m in pretty good shape for the weekend ahead. Of course, racing is completely different to testing but I’ll be pushing just as hard at Misano as I was in the opening three rounds of the series.’

With Izutsu sidelined through injury Chris Walker has been the main four-cylinder threat to the V-twins over the last four rounds. Walker is currently the highest placed four-cylinder rider in the championship; a position he is determined to maintain at Misano.

‘Misano is a pretty popular test track with all the teams, so I guess everyone is going to be on the pace from the word go this weekend,’ said Walker. ‘The bike seemed to go pretty well when we tested here, but the most important thing was that the test gave me a chance to learn my way around the circuit. I’ve had to learn too many tracks during free practice sessions this year, so it will be good to race at one of the few circuits I’m familiar with this weekend. The fact that Izutsu is back from injury is also a bonus, although if he thinks I’m going to relinquish my position as the top four-cylinder rider without a fight, then he’s in for a shock…’

Having put his World Supersport Championship campaign back on track with a hard fought second place at Lausitz, Andrew Pitt is determined to retake the lead in the championship standings this weekend. The sweltering conditions normally experienced at Misano may cause problems for others, but a rigorous training schedule in Italy, carried out during the hottest part of the day, has left the Australian feeling confident about the weekend ahead.

‘It’s going to be hot and it’s going to be hard this weekend; which suits me just fine,’ declared Pitt. ‘It was hot in Australia and South Africa and I won both those races, so the conditions we normally experience at Misano shouldn’t pose any real problems for me; although I expect a couple of the other riders may struggle with the heat. If I’m to regain the lead in the championship standings then I need nothing less than a race win this weekend, and that’s exactly what I’ll be aiming for.’

Pitt’s Fuchs Kawasaki team-mate, James Ellison, is also looking forward to this weekend’s Misano round, but for very different reasons.

‘It’s been a bit of a nightmare recently, but I’m confident that I can turn things around this weekend’ said Ellison. ‘We’ve seen improvements both in the bike and my times during practice and qualifying at each of the last three rounds, only to suffer some real bad luck in the actual races. The team have worked real hard getting the bike set up how I want it and I need to repay all their hard work with a good result at Misano. I like the track and I’ve always gone well here in the past, so I’ll be bitterly disappointed if I leave here on Sunday without a top ten finish under my belt.’

From a press release issued by Team Suzuki News Service:

HOT PACE IN SPAIN BOOSTS SUZUKI’S ASSEN HOPES

2002 MotoGP Championship
Catalunya, Spain, June 18, 2002.

Team Telefónica MoviStar Suzuki rider Kenny Roberts Jr. was brimming with confidence after two gruelling days of testing at the Catalunyan GP circuit – “the best tests so far with the new four-stroke machine.”

Blazing heat and exhausting conditions were not enough to keep Roberts from running more than 70 laps on both Monday and Tuesday, as a revised chassis and a series of other development changes kept levels of enthusiasm and excitement at fever pitch.

The factory’s and the team’s latest development work not only brought the 2000 World Champion a significantly faster lap time than he had achieved at the GP on the weekend before. They also opened up a new level of competitive promise for the powerful 990cc Suzuki GSV-R V4 – newest of the three Japanese factory four-stroke racing prototypes, after being brought to the tracks a full year earlier than originally planned.

“This was one of my best tests ever, and certainly the best with the new motorcycle,” enthused Roberts at the end of the second day. “I’m really looking forward to the next GP, at Assen in Holland.

“The team found some different directions, and a new chassis from the factory also seemed to help,” he continued. “We made a lot progress in areas that we hadn’t necessarily expected to, and it made the bike comfortable for me to ride at a very fast pace.

“The lap times reflected it. I was able to go half-a-second faster than I had in qualifying for the weekend’s GP, but I could do so for a number of consecutive laps. That is what’s really important.

“We were all pretty tired and beat up after the weekend, but the progress over the two days meant that I and the whole team ended on a very high note. We have think we have the confidence to challenge for the top five, and we can carry that over to Holland.”

Teammate Sete Gibernau also tested on the first day, but missed the second, after finally succumbing to an illness he had been fighting off all weekend. The bulk of the work – testing next-generation prototype Michelin tyres as well as Suzuki’s own development – fell on Roberts, and team manager Garry Taylor was full of praise.

“Kenny ran almost three times race distance on both days, while the weather just kept on getting hotter and hotter. None of us had been looking forward to the tests after a long and hot weekend, but Kenny showed a lot of grit and determination, and that inspired the whole team. When things are going in a good direction, you can see a lot of difference in Kenny, and in everyone else as well.

“I think the whole team would like to thank him for his efforts.”

Copyright 2002, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

AMA Pro Racing has announced a new medical board which only includes doctors associated with motocross and conspicuously lacks participation by doctors who have road raced–including retired emergency room doctor Jim Adams, general practitioner James Norwood and orthopedic surgeon Dave Kieffer–or have made a career out of treating road racers, including orthopedic surgeon Dr. Art Ting.

An AMA Pro Racing press release on the new medical board follows:

AMA PRO RACING FORMS MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD TO IMPLEMENT UNIFORM RACE MEDICAL CARE

PICKERINGTON, Ohio — AMA Pro Racing has formed a new five-member Medical Advisory Board to implement new standards for trackside medical support of AMA Pro Racing competitors.

The medical advisory board is made up of members with extensive experience in motorcycle racing, including: Bob Moore, former FIM World Motocross champion and chairman of the Road 2 Recovery Foundation; AMA Supercross and Motocross doctors John Bodnar, Medical Director, and Stephen Augustine; Duke Finch, AMA Motocross/Supercross manager; and Hugh Fleming, AMA Pro Racing safety and equipment director.

“The medical advisory board was formed by AMA Pro Racing to implement better safety and medical policies for our professional racers,” said Scott Hollingsworth, CEO, AMA Pro Racing. “Our goals are to standardize medical services in all of AMA Pro Racing with the eventual aim of providing a mobile hospital that would go to as many events as possible. We will shortly announce our first medical policy dealing with concussions and we hope to establish a medical database of our riders to help better evaluate their condition in the event of an injury.”

The mission of the medical advisory board is to promote the safety of the AMA professional athlete, to improve and elevate the quality of on-site medical care available at professional races, and to promote safety and performance research as it relates to professional motorcycle racing.

“The advisory board is working to form policies to benefit the rider’s health and safety first and foremost,” said Fleming. “The work being done in supercross and motocross is acting as a template for other disciplines. Future goals include augmenting the medical staff with professional trainers and therapists.”

The team of Dr. Bodnar and Dr. Augustine work together in covering all AMA Supercross and Motocross events this season thanks in large part to the support of Asterisk, a sub-division of the CTI Kneebrace Company. The addition of these sports-specific doctors, working in conjunction with existing track medical staffs, is helping to better assess and deal with injuries suffered by riders. The board is also formulating standardized policies on how to best deal with specific types of injuries, especially when dealing with head injuries.

Asterisk provides financial assistance for the doctors expenses for both supercross and motocross. Additionally, they have organized and funded the Kawasaki Medical Mule that has been used at the races to provide a prompt response vehicle to assist with injured riders.

The AMA Pro Racing Medical Advisory Board is the latest effort by AMA Pro Racing to further the cause of rider safety in motorcycle racing. Last year, with support from throughout the industry, AMA Pro Racing implemented the use of hundreds of feet of additional air modules at AMA Chevy Trucks U.S. Superbike Championship races.

Copyright 2002, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

Riding a Suzuki GSX-R1000 his mechanics built using a cylinder head ported by Kaz Yoshima, Jeremy Toye unseated reigning WSMC Champion and Willow Springs Emperor Chuck Graves in an epic Toyota Cup Unlimited Formula One duel on Sunday.

Yoshima also developed the suspension and chassis set-up for Toye’s bike, prepared at Toye’s San Diego high-performance shop, Lee’s Cycles.

Graves, riding an ex-Damon-Buckmaster YZF-R7/R1 hybrid, had no answer for Toye and his overbore GSX-R1000 in a race run on a slippery track in hot conditions, although Graves did lead several times.

Vincent Haskovec was third on his AMA Superstock bike, fitted with slick tires, ahead of Jack Pfeifer on a Team Orthopedics Superstock GSX-R1000 and racing lawyer Stephen Hewitt on a YZF-R1.

Graves won the Performance Machine Open Superbike race on the same bike from Hewitt and Keith MacBeth, and used a YZF-R6 to beat Toye in Roadracingworld.com 600cc Superstock action, with Jacob West third and Pfeifer fourth.

Pfeifer won in 600cc Modified Production, beating Robbie Dowie and WSMC Operations Manager Kenny Kopecky. Pfeifer also won the Skorpion Racing Open Modified Production race from class sponsor Tyler Paulson and Kopecky, and won the Open Superstock race from the front row, beating Chris Ulrich, who started on the last row of the grid. Ulrich caught and passed Pfeifer late in the six-lap race, then got kicked completely out of the seat in turn two, barely stayed on the track and finished second.

Haskovec came from the back of the grid to beat Toye in 750cc Superstock and L&L Motorsports 750cc Superbike but Toye beat Haskovec in 750cc Modified Production, which was the pair’s first match-up of the day, a race which saw Haskovec start on the same tires he used in the Superbike race at Sears Point. Haskovec missed Saturday practice because he had to work.

Frank Aragaki held off Mark Watts to win the Bakersfield Yamaha 250cc GP race and Willard Ivins won the 125cc Grand Prix race with Sharyn Namnath second.

Andre Castanos won the Pro-Italia Aprilia Challenge race and also won the Wood-Ease Professional Hand Cleaner 550cc Superbike race, riding a Libasci Racing Aprilia RS250.

From a press release:

MARLBORO YAMAHA TEAM TESTS
Catalunya, Spain
Monday, June 17 2002

MARLBORO YAMAHA TEST TYRES AT RED-HOT CATALUNYA

Marlboro Yamaha Team riders Max Biaggi and Carlos Checa stayed on at Catalunya today for Michelin tyre tests, completing four gruelling days of riding at the Spanish circuit. Both men each completed 65 laps in stifling 40-degree heat, evaluating front and rear development slicks on their YZR-M1 MotoGP bikes.

“I’m glad we stayed on, it was definitely worth it,” said Biaggi. “Michelin have done a great job with their four-stroke tyres and today we tested a new type of front tyre that definitely had some good points, including improved feeling. But these are development tyres that we won’t be racing just yet.”

Biaggi, who scored the M1’s first pole position on Saturday, was unlucky on race day. The Italian had to race his second bike after his number-one machine struck problems in morning warm-up. Nevertheless, he rode a determined race to fourth to lift himself to fourth in the World Championship points standings.

Team-mate Checa, who finished third in Sunday’s Marlboro Catalan GP after leading half the race, was also impressed by Michelin’s latest batch of front and rear slicks. “This was a useful test for us, the new tyres definitely have potential,” said the Spaniard. “The main thing for us was to give the best-possible feedback to Michelin, so they can keep developing their tyres and keep making steps forward.”

Biaggi and Checa were testing alongside rival Michelin-equipped teams. Michelin are dominating the new era of four-stroke MotoGP racing, just as they had dominated 500 GP racing for many years, but the French company never stops working to improve its range of tyres.

“The whole team is pretty exhausted after this very long weekend, but it’s always good to see what new tyres Michelin come up with,” explained Marlboro Yamaha Team manager Geoff Crust. “For us, testing front tyres was the main objective of this test and both Max and Carlos liked what they tried. We tested the fronts first and then a few rears, and the information we gave Michelin will help them to make the next step. Now we’re all going to get a few days of well-deserved rest. We’ve been flat out for six weeks or more, and after next week’s Dutch GP we’ve got back-to-back races in Britain and Germany, so everyone needs a few days off.”

Practice and qualifying for the Dutch GP at Assen commence on Thursday June 27. Race day is Saturday June 29.

Lap times
Max Biaggi (Marlboro Yamaha Team) 1m 45.0s
Carlos Checa (Marlboro Yamaha Team) 1m 45.6s

Copyright 2002, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

This just in: Racer Vicky Jackson-Bell and husband/tuner Tony, part owners of Spectrum Motorsports, are expecting a second child.

Vicky Jackson-Bell is already the fastest mother on the planet, thanks to budding motocross star Christopher, age 9.

The unborn child already has racetrack experience, including crashing; Jackson-Bell served as an instructor at Freddie Spencer’s High-Performance Riding School in Las Vegas on May 23-24 shortly after becoming pregnant (and before she knew it), and crashed when a student turned in front of her at California Speedway during a Fastrack Riders day on June 3rd.

She says she’s giving up riding until after the child is born.

Copyright 2002, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

By Beth Wyse

Young Matt Furtek took three wins at the WERA National Challenge Series races at Talladega Gran Prix Raceway, while Vesrah Suzuki’s Tray Batey took two wins in Sunday’s 14-lap sprint races.

Mark Crozier won Open Superstock on his Suzuki GSX-R1000 after working his way past Scott Harwell. Crozier pulled away as the five riders in the race all ran around by themselves. Harwell finsished second with Scott Brown in third, both on Suzuki GSX-R1000s.

John Jacobi got the holeshot in 600cc Superstock and pulled a long gap to take the win on his Suzuki GSX-R600. Five riders behind Jacobi battled for second and third. Harwell held on for second as Brian Stokes worked his way around Mike Smith and Dave Yaakov to take third. All of four were on Suzuki GSX-R600s.

Jason Peters took a convincing victory in 125cc GP on his Honda RS125. Pat Chandler and Chuck DiGregorio, both on Honda RS125s, placed second and third.

Stokes took the lead early in the 750cc Superstock race, but Batey quickly worked his way past on his Vesrah Suzuki GSX-R750. While Batey pulled away to take the win, Crozier worked his way up to a second-place finish on his Suzuki GSX-R750. Jacobi got by Stokes to finish third, also on a GSX-R750.

Donnie Tingle, Jr. won Formula Two on his Yamaha TZ250 while Monty Warsing and Logan Young raced for second place. Warsing finally took second on his Yamaha TZ250 and Young wound up third on his Honda RS250.

Furtek took a solid victory in 600cc Superbike. Furtek took the lead from Adam Coco on the third lap and built a comfortable lead on his Yamaha YZF-R6 while Coco held onto second on his Suzuki GSX-R600. Steve Breckenridge wound up third, also on a GSX-R600.

Batey and his Suzuki TL1000R were at the front of the Heavyweight Twins race, as usual. Bill St. John took second on his Ducati 996 but was no challenge to Batey. Scott Brown took third on another Suzuki TL1000R.

Furtek took another win in 750cc Superbike, still on his YZF-R6. Just past the halfway mark, Furtek took over the lead from Tommy Bauchiero, who finished second on his Suzuki GSX-R750.

Dave Yaakov won the Lightweight Twins race on a Suzuki SV650. Also riding Suzuki SV650s, Bradley Champion finished second and Chris Normand wound up third in single-file action.

Furtek won his third race of the day in Formula One, beating the larger bikes on his Yamaha 600. Scott Carpenter was running in second until he crashed in turn seven. J.J. Roetlin took second and Jim Doerfler was third, both on Suzuki GSX-R750s.

From a press release issued by Monstermob Ducati:

MONSTERMOB DUCATI BRITISH SUPERBIKE TEAM
Round 6 – 2002 MCN British Superbike Championship, Brands Hatch
Saturday 15th/Sunday 16th June 2002

Race Report


HIZZY MAINTAINS SUPERBIKE LEAD AS EASTON WINS AGAIN

MonsterMob Ducati left Brands Hatch with both MCN British Superbike and MB4U.com National Supersport Championship leads intact despite a weekend of high drama at the Kent circuit over the weekend.

Championship leader in the prestigious Superbike class, Steve Hislop had to overcome more traction woes in qualifying aboard the 998cc Testastretta but still managed to post second fastest time in Superpole to start from the front row.

But the 40 year old Isle of Man based Scot suffered more bad luck in the opening 20 lap race when he could only manage a lowly 12th place finish because of rear tyre problems which prevented him from utilising the power on the Ducati.

“I had virtually no grip from turn one on the first lap and I was having to take totally foreign lines to keep the bike as smooth and as upright as I could. I was sliding about all over the place but I was desperate to rack up a few more points” said Hislop, whose cause was aided when main championship rival Sean Emmett retired his Ducati on lap two when an oil seal blew.

Fired up and ready to salvage something from the weekend, Hislop tried a different profile rear tyre for the second race which proved to his liking and ran with the leaders for all the race, just missing out on the race win by finishing three thousandths of a second behind race winner Emmett.

“That’s turned things around for us. I really wanted to win and proved I’m still a match for the other guys as long as I’ve got the right rubber underneath me. I’m a lot more happy leaving here than I was when I left Snetterton and I’m feeling really positive that we’ve got a good set up now” commented Steve who dropped a single point to Emmett in the standings as a result.

No such problems for Supersport teammate Stuart Easton who recorded his sixth successive win in the class by taking another comfortable victory to extend his lead at the top of the standings to 59 points at the half distance stage of the series.

The 17 year old from Hawick overcame two engine problems in qualifying to set his fifth pole position of the year before destroying the opposition with a start to finish win in the 16 lap race to end up over 14 seconds to the good.

“People were saying to me that my dominance was coming to an end after the close race I had at Snetterton but I just wanted to prove to them that I’m still in charge. I’ve had a lot of stick so I thought I’d best smoke them again and show them that young ‘Ratty’ is still the man to beat” said Easton.

Team owner Paul Bird was relieved his riders had managed to maintain their leads after a weekend of frustration:

“We always knew it wasn’t going to be as easy as people were reckoning after the first couple of rounds and so it’s proving. But we’re here to ride out the storm and hopefully to take advantage when other teams get their share of bad luck, which will happen. Steve rode brilliantly to take second after the disaster in race one and as for Stuart, what more can anyone say about him. He’s a class above the rest at this moment” said the Penrith businessman.

Race One Result – 1. John Reynolds (Suzuki) 29m25.192s, 2. Steve Plater (Yamaha) 29m25.402s, 3. Michael Rutter (Ducati) 29m34.958s, 4. Paul Brown (Ducati) 29m38.985s, 5. Simon Crafar (Yamaha) 29m39.940s, 6. Glen Richards (Kawasaki) 29m42.261s, (12. Steve Hislop (MonsterMob Ducati) 29m55.497s).

Race Two Result – 1. Sean Emmett (Ducati) 31m50.803s, 2. Steve Hislop (MonsterMob Ducati) 31m50.835s, 3. Michael Rutter (Ducati) 31m51.033s, 4. John Reynolds (Suzuki) 31m51.271s, 5. Shane Byrne (Ducati) 31m51.481s, 6. Steve Plater (Yamaha) 31m51.821s.

Supersport Result – 1. Stuart Easton (MonsterMob Ducati) 24m40.323s, 2. Simon Andrews (Honda) 24m54.604s, 3. Tom Tunstall (Suzuki) 24m56.140s, 4. Scott Smart (Honda) 24m57.116s, 5. Gary May (Yamaha) 24m57.305s, 6. Chris Bishop (Honda) 24m57.822s.

British Championship Standings – 1. Steve Hislop (213pts), 2. Sean Emmett (197pts), 3. Michael Rutter (162.5pts), 4. Steve Plater (147pts), 5. John Reynolds (143.5pts), 6. Paul Brown (126.5pts).