Derek Sheils drew first blood today at the Mid-Antrim 150 with a start to finish win in the Open Race on his CD Racing Kawasaki, comfortably beating Jamie Hamilton, Seamous Elliott and Michael Sweeney to the flag.

In the Superbike race it wasn’t such a straight-forward task with Hamilton and him battling from the start, Sheils had a slender lead until the final lap when Hamilton moved to the front but the pair collided and crashed out with two-thirds of the lap completed bringing out the red flags. The result was taken from the previous lap awarding Michael Sweeney the win Davy Morgan second and Seamous Elliott third.

Hamilton took his maiden win in the National Supersport 600 class. Seamous Elliot had the lead off the line with Hamilton getting a bad start and dropping back to 4th but the race was red flagged after a crash left debris scattered across the track.

At the restart it was Hamilton who got the better start from Elliott and led all the way eventually opening a small gap and taking the chequered flag 2.5s seconds ahead of second place Elliott and Sam Wilson in third. The win moving him to the top of Supersport standings. Hamilton also maintained his unbeaten run in the Supertwin race.

Michael Sweeney took his first victory of the day in a closely- fought 250 race in which the lead was swapped on a number of occasions between him Davy Morgan, Seamous Elliott and Sam Dunlop, Elliott was an early retirement leaving Morgan to pick up second place and Sam Dunlop third.

Both the Junior and Senior support races were won by Mark Hanna

Paul Robinson won the 125 race from Sam Dunlop and Nigel Moore after Sam Wilson had to retire with a mechanical problem while holding a handsome lead.