In Race 1 Leon Camier on the Airwaves Ducati got his first race win of the season in an exciting battle with his team-mate Shane Byrne at Snetterton today.
Leon Haslam took the lead from the start ahead of Leon Camier and Tom Sykes, but Camier dived up the inside of him on lap four.
Two riders were out by lap 13, Scott Smart retired his bike as smoke began pouring out of the Kawasaki and Guy Martin returned to the pits and into his garage.
Shane Byrne made his move on Tom Sykes on lap 15 to take third and it was then a fight to the end for the Airwave Ducati boys, with Camier taking the victory from Byrne by 0.092 seconds.
Tom Sykes took the third and final step of the podium for the Rizla Suzuki team.
Here are the results:
1 - Leon Camier - Ducati – Airwaves Ducati - 23:13.162
2 - Shane Byrne - Ducati – Airwaves Ducati - 23:13.254
3 - Tom Sykes - Suzuki – Rizla Suzuki - 23:13.759
4 - Cal Crutchlow - Honda – HM Plant Honda - 23:14.188
5 - Leon Haslam - Honda – HM Plant Honda - 23:15.473
6 - Michael Laverty - Suzuki – Relentless Suzuki by TAS - 23:16.034
7 - James Ellison - Honda – Hydrex Bike Animal Honda - 23:19.212
8 - Karl Harris - Yamaha – Team Yamaha - 23:19.599
9 - Michael Rutter - Ducati – North West 200 Ducati - 23:30.004
10 - Simon Andrews - Yamaha – Jentin Racing / Lloyds British - 23:32.702
11 - Billy Mcconnell - Kawasaki – MSS Discovery Kawasaki - 23:35.468
12 - Atsushi Watanabe - Suzuki – Rizla Suzuki - 23:35.489
13 - Tristan Palmer - Honda – Tena for Men Honda - 23:38.956
14 - Gary Mason - Honda – Quay Garage - 23:43.939
15 - Marshall Neill - Honda – SMT Honda - 23:45.297
16 - John Laverty - Ducati – Buildbase NW200 Ducati - 23:46.192
17 - Dean Ellison - Yamaha – Co-ordit Racing - 23:47.235
18 - David Johnson - Honda – Team MAXXIS - 23:53.539
19 - Aaron Zanotti - Honda – Red Viper Racing - 24:03.322
20 - Leon Morris - Ducati – Brookspeed Moto-Rapido - 24:04.211
21 - Tom Tunstall - Honda – Hardinge – Ice Valley Motorsport - 24:05.423
22 - Martin Jessopp - Honda – Riders Racing - 24:18.280
Not Classified
DNF - Shannon Etheridge - Kawasaki – MAR Adept - 19:31.290
DNF - Scott Smart - Kawasaki – Hawk Racing - 13:31.427
DNF - Guy Martin - Honda – Hydrex Bike Animal Honda - 13:45.299
In Race 2, Shane Byrne celebrated his seventh win of the season for the Airwaves Ducati team with his team-mate Leon Camier in second and Cal Crutchlow on the HM Plant Honda in third.
As the riders were leaving their garages the heavens opened, leading to some convusion as to what tyres they should use. The rain continued and organisers decided to bring the riders back to the pits before restarting an hour later.
The race was now shorter, only 15 laps in the hazardous conditions which saw Scott Smart slide off the track on the first corner.
Leon Camier was leading the race followed by Karl Harris who was the next victim on the wet surface but unfortunately he also made it difficult for Byrne, who was in his path and he dropped back to 13th place.
Byrne battled to regain some places and took Tom Sykes and Michael Rutter on lap 3 moveing him up into fourth place behind Camier, Crutchlow and Haslam.
On lap 9, Byrne took Haslam and by lap 12, he was in second place just leaving his team-mate to get past which he did in the penultimate lap.
Here are the results;
1 - Shane Byrne - Ducati – Airwaves Ducati - 18:41.592
2 - Leon Camier - Ducati – Airwaves Ducati - 18:44.025
3 - Cal Crutchlow - Honda – HM Plant Honda - 18:47.604
4 - Michael Rutter - Ducati – North West 200 Ducati - 18:53.467
5 - Leon Haslam - Honda – HM Plant Honda - 18:56.119
6 - Michael Laverty - Suzuki – Relentless Suzuki by TAS - 19:01.549
7 - Tom Sykes - Suzuki – Rizla Suzuki - 19:02.715
8 - Simon Andrews - Yamaha – Jentin Racing / Lloyds British - 19:02.754
9 - Tristan Palmer - Honda – Tena for Men Honda - 19:06.854
10 - James Ellison - Honda – Hydrex Bike Animal Honda - 19:09.080
11 - Billy McConnell - Kawasaki – MSS Discovery Kawasaki - 19:09.754
12 - Gary Mason - Honda – Quay Garage - 19:12.415
13 - Marshall Neill - Honda – SMT Honda - 19:30.986
14 - David Johnson - Honda – Team MAXXIS - 19:31.936
15 - Dean Ellison - Yamaha – Co-ordit Racing - 19:32.082
16 - John Laverty - Ducati – Buildbase NW200 Ducati - 19:33.288
17 - Aaron Zanotti - Honda – Red Viper Racing - 19:36.945
18 - Tom Tunstall - Honda – Hardinge – Ice Valley Motorsport - 19:37.694
19 - Leon Morris - Ducati – Brookspeed Moto-Rapido - 19:45.442
20 - Atsushi Watanabe - Suzuki – Rizla Suzuki - 18:42.883
21 - Martin Jessopp - Honda – Riders Racing - 18:53.243
22 - Shannon Etheridge - Kawasaki – MAR Adept - 18:54.726
Not Classified
DNF - Guy Martin - Honda – Hydrex Bike Animal Honda - 8:03.519
DNF - Karl Harris - Yamaha – Team Yamaha - 2:12.143
DNF - Scott Smart - Kawasaki – Hawk Racing
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