Giles got off the line well, Josh's Fireblade twisted up in to a high wheelie but he somehow managed to keep an inside line into turn 1 in 3rd place.  Brookes got past Maxwell around the back of the circuit and set out after Giles.

Josh Brookes pulled an awesome out-braking manoeuvre in to turn 7 on lap 2 and took the lead.  Giles hanging on to the back of him though, Josh riding the wheels off the Fireblade which is monoing out of all the turns with Josh sliding the rear at the same time!  The Fireblade even reared in to a mono down the start/finish straight that time. 

On lap 6 Giles got the advantage out of turn 2 but Josh held him off on the entry to turn 3 and kept the lead.  The race pace is in the middle to high 1m08s.

The leaders started to encounter lapped traffic on lap 9 but it didn't seem to slow them up too much.  On lap 10 they had to negotiate a back-marker in the tight turns 7 and 8 but they got through without incident.

Brookes suffered machinery problems on lap 11 which let Giles through as Brookes' Honda sounded as though it was down on a cylinder, or maybe even down 2 cylinders, and suffering an obvious major loss of power.  Alistair Maxwell had a minor off but regained the circuit to continue racing.

Josh's Fireblade limped across the line to finish 2nd, 7 seconds behind Giles, the Sydney teenager will be gutted he couldn't take the win but also glad that he was at least able to salvage points by making it home.

Jay Normoyle's engine expired a couple of laps from the end which left him with a DNF.

1    Shawn Giles (NSW)        Suzuki GSXR  16:17.2861   2 1:08.9934 
2    Joshua Brookes (NSW)     Honda CBR    16:24.5414   2 1:08.5274*
3    Stephen Tozer (VIC)      Yamaha R1    16:27.3648   2 1:09.6261 
4    Steven Cutting (NSW)     Suzuki GSXR  16:38.5338   3 1:10.0669 
5    Michael Clunie (VIC)     Yamaha R1    16:42.7374   8 1:10.7404 
6    Alistair Maxwell (NSW)   Suzuki GSXR  16:49.5023   3 1:09.4088 
7    Robert Bugden (QLD)      Suzuki GSXR  16:56.7188   3 1:11.0237 
8    Jay Taylor (NSW)         Honda CBR    16:59.4874   9 1:10.9812 
9    John Gazard (SA)         Yamaha R1    17:06.4530  11 1:11.9789 
10   Andrew Tootell (VIC)     Yamaha R1    17:14.7197   3 1:12.7483 
11   David Wilkinson (SA)     Honda CBR    17:22.4457   3 1:12.8275 
12   Ben Lucchitti (NSW)      Yamaha R1    16:35.9143  11 1:14.8270 
13   Ian Roberts (SA)         Suzuki GSXR  16:45.4640   4 1:16.0915 
14   Rob Vikuckis (SA)        Yamaha R1    17:13.7542  10 1:17.7018 
DNF  Jay Normoyle (VIC)       Suzuki GSXR  15:31.3497   2 1:10.5685