Two more superb championship races saw wins for reigning champions John Holden and Andy Winkle (D&A Walmsley LCR Suzuki) and Simon Neary and Jason Slous (Hudspeth/Crowe Racing LCR Honda) while Tim Reeves and Gregory Cluze (Connole Racing/Haith LCR Suzuki) had to be content with the runners-up spot in both. However Reeves and Cluze had the consolation of opening a 15 point lead in the title chase.

Qualifying was fast and furious and at times most definitely frantic! Neary, Holden and Reeves went at it immediately, circulating closely together on track, all three setting their fastest lap third time around but the fourth tour ended disastrously for Neary, in particular for passenger Dipash Chauhan. The outfit spun after the left-hander before the Mountain and Dips suffered a broken thigh when he was thrown out and the outfit hit him. Neary had claimed pole but now faced the task of finding a replacement passenger. Fortunately James Stonier was recruited in time for the opening race.

It was Holden who led on the opening lap from Ian and Carl Bell (Ian Bell M/cs LCR Yamaha), Neary, Carl Fenwick and Mark Sayers (Fenwick Racing Shelbourne Honda) and Tony Elmer and Darren Marshall (ASBroadley Decorators Ireson Yamaha), with Reeves languishing in sixth. By lap three, Reeves was in third and closing on Bell while Holden was opening up a good lead.

Neary, Fenwick and Elmer were 4th to 6th while Dave Atkinson and Phil Knapton (Garland/Moore LCR Suzuki), Roy Hanks and Dave Wells (Dorwingear Ltd Molyneux Suzuki), Miles Bennett and Kevin Perry (Mad Cow Racing Shelbourne Honda) and Frank Lelias and Jerome Vannier (L&W Contractors LCR Suzuki) completed the top ten.

Reeves took second place from Bell on lap five while Fenwick got ahead of Neary on lap seven as Pete Alton and Shaun Parker (OTC Racing Dynocentre Baker Yamaha) retired with a blown engine – their meeting over. A lap later Neary must have thought his weekend was too, as passenger Stonier fell out at the bottom of the Mountain, fortunately uninjured.

The second part of the race was notable for Reeves and Atkinson both being 'on a mission'. Reeves rapidly reduced Holden's lead while Atkinson first moved past Elmer into fifth and then on lap 11 of the 13 overtook Fenwick, his rival for FII Cup honours, to take fourth position.

Reeves by this stage was right with Holden, aided by a fastest lap 1.5 seconds quicker than anyone else. He tried every possible manoeuvre to get past Holden but the reigning champion stood firm to take his first victory of the season by 0.15 seconds from Reeves with Bell third. Atkinson was fourth ahead of Fenwick and was the FII Cup leader to boot.

Elmer, Hanks and Bennett retained 6th to 8th. Gary Bryan and Jamie Winn (Drury Engineering Baker Honda) were ninth, Lelias tenth and Tony Thirkell and Nigel Barlow (TT Motorsport MR Equipe Honda), Howard Baker and Mike Killingsworth (D&J Bike Spares Lincoln Shelbourne Honda), Dave Wallis and Steve Wareham (Team Petpals LCR Honda) and Russ and Rod Pearce (Pearce Racing LCR Suzuki) claimed the remaining points positions.

It looked as if Monday's race would be another Holden-Reeves tussle unless Neary could find yet another passenger but Jason Slous flew in from the Isle Of Man to rescue Neary from what would have been, literally, a pointless weekend. Slous had chaired for Neary at Snetterton and the Southern 100 last year.

It was Holden again who led on the opening lap, again from Bell and Neary and once more Reeves had plenty to do from fifth place behind Fenwick. Reeves soon got past Fenwick while Neary took second from Bell as Holden once more began to open a gap to the rest.

It took Reeves three laps to get past Bell but Neary was some distance ahead. Indeed he was beginning to make inroads on Holden. Bell was fourth with both Fenwick and Atkinson edging closer. Elmer, Bryan, Bennett and Lelias completed the top ten with Hanks in 11th after he'd lost four places having gone off track. Neary edged closer and closer to Holden and finally took the lead on lap 10 with his fastest lap of the race.

Both Fenwick and Atkinson had got ahead of Bell but Reeves was well ahead in third and he too now closed on Holden, getting past on the penultimate lap as Holden slowed rapidly. Neary and Slous took the win by two seconds, Jason's first championship victory with Reeves again second. Fenwick, Atkinson and Bell all moved up a place as Holden toured in sixth, Fenwick and Sayers securing their first 'senior' podium.

Elmer, Bennett and Bryan were next up with Hanks regaining one place from Lelias. The remaining trio of Wallis, Thirkell and Baker had battled together for the entire race but Thirkell had to retire on the last lap as he joined Pearce on the sidelines with engine trouble.

Both Championships are shaping up to be the closest for many years. In the FII Cup, Fenwick and Atkinson share the lead with 90 points, Lelias third on 48. In the main championship, Reeves leads with 85 points from Neary on 70, Holden 61, Bell 59 and Fenwick on 46. No one has ever won the British FI and FII titles in the same year but Reeves and Cluze lead both - for now!