Milwaukee Yamaha boss Shaun Muir squared off against his deadly rival Robin Croft in the lobby of Macau's Galaxy Hotel after consuming 'a couple of sherberts' each after today's frantic second qualifying session.

SMT's Croft, who has won a few Macau Grands Prix and was hoping for another with rider Michael Rutter, was seen to have words with Muir, whose rider Ian Hutchinson pipped Rutter to pole today, over the use of full works parts and equipment.

As the pair are professional northerners, police had to be called as both had threatened to strip down to their vests and Y-fronts.

Muir had apparently shouted something unpleasant in broadest Guisboro, but no-one could understand what it was. Croft, meanwhile, said in his police statement: "Well I don't know. You've got that lot with their full factory this and that and Jerry Burgess on the end of the phone only able to just beat an eight-year-old Honda cobbled together in a tin shed in Skelmersdale…"