Sunday; Everyone was very confident on race day, even Scotty who totalled his machine on the 1st lap of morning warm-up, leaving him on the spare bike.

Race 1 started great for me when I got the holeshot, but I knew Bairdy and Brookesy were close behind. Brookesy and I traded places a few times in the opening few laps, when I opened the throttle a little to early out of the left hand sweeper and had a slide. I dropped a second to Brookesy but I was surprised to see that we had worked up a 2 sec lead over third.

With some breathing space, I concentrated on closing the gap which with 5 laps to go was down to 0.5sec when I had an almighty high-side thru the turn 1 kink. Somehow I hung on to the bucking 600, only to run on to the loose dirt and have the shock sensor shut down the ignition. All this left Brookesy miles out in front doing close to lap record times, and a late charging Bairdy in second. I was happy to catch up and get points for 6th, but also disappointed as I was confident the Team Suzuki 600 was up to the task.

Race 2 saw Brookesy get the holeshot, with myself and Bairdy behind. Soon after the race started, a collision between a few midfielders saw Wayne Maxwell hit the deck with 20-odd bikes heading straight for him. The unlucky rider was Rory Rock, with Rory's Honda mounting Maxwells pirouetting Kwaka which sent Rory down for a quick track inspection himself.

The race was stopped/and restarted with myself lucky enough to get the holeshot, only to see Bairdy Rocket up the inside through turn 1 and run wide which allowed me to get back in front.

Bairdy (on his Race 2 mission) took the lead again and going across the finish line for the first time, the #2 yamaha cut-out leaving me right on his (bald eagle) hammer and nearly running into him. Bairdy's machine cut-out again coming onto the straight leaving him pretty much out of contention and myself in the lead with Brookesy on my tail.

I pulled and kept a 0.5sec lead until the penultimate lap when Brookesy tried out braking me into the last passable corner. He ran wide, but I knew he'd have another go there, so on the last lap I knew if I broke a metre too early, Brookesy would take the win.

I hit the anchors just a little later than I had been doing all weekend and Brookesy still came up the inside so I was hoping he'd overcooked the corner, he ran a little bit wide allowing me a small gap to move up the inside for Team Suzuki's first SuperSport win of the year.

The South Australian crowd was fantastic and the most vocal I have heard for a long time. 

Cheers

Dan