The race two win was Bayliss' ninth of the season, but his ride through the field to finish fifth in the opening race will become one of the season's highlights. Bayliss fell from his Infostrada Ducati 998F-02 while leading lap three in the wet conditions. Rejoining the race in 23rd position, he rode one of the most spirited rides to move up to eighth place, lapping three seconds a lap faster than anyone else before he again slid from the circuit on lap seven. He was able to keep his bike running and rejoined the race once more in pursuit of the leaders. With laps running out, he was able to finish fifth, while main championship rival Colin Edwards (Castrol Honda) took the race win by 7.3 seconds from Aprilia's Noriyuki Haga at the completion of the 20-lap race.

"I had a pretty good ride,…I just fell off twice," said Bayliss on his race one result. "But seriously, because Silverstone is such as strange place with the weather conditions, we decided to run for a setting on the chassis that ended up being too hard for the conditions. We were hoping that it may clear, but it got worse and we needed the bike to be slightly softer. After the first crash I was feeling good, maybe too good for the conditions and was just rushing things too much and as a result fell again. It was a freakish sort of race and in the end it was just nice to get across the finish line."

Determined to make amends for his first race indiscretions, Bayliss quickly took the race lead ahead of Edwards, who amazingly had crashed on the warm up lap, but was able to take his place on the starting grid. Edwards took the race lead away from Bayliss for three laps of the 5.094km Northamptonshire circuit, before Bayliss again grab the lead position on lap twelve. Edwards mounted another challenge and closed to within 0.5 of a second before Bayliss responded with the fastest lap of the race and a new lap record on lap 18 with a 2-min 02.145-secs. Edwards was unable to maintain the pace on the final laps, with Bayliss taking the win by 4.909 seconds from Edwards, with Bayliss' teammate, Spaniard Ruben Xaus third.

"We changed the settings on the bike to suit the full wet conditions and it was much better than the first race," added Bayliss. "The only mistake I made was that I allowed Colin to get by so that I could see his lines for a couple of laps, but once I did I wasn't able to see because of the spray from his bike, so I quickly got back past him again. Towards the end of the race I put some pretty good laps together and I managed to use the back-markers well to break Colin from me. As a whole I'm a bit disappointed on the day. I made some mistakes in race one that cost me a lot of points, but I guess the win in race two was good after the way the weekend has been for everyone. I would also like to take this opportunity to say sorry for the hand gesture I made at the end of the race. Unfortunately it was misunderstood, as I did it to release tension within myself at the end of the race and it wasn't meant to offend anyone."

Having arrived in England with a 38-pont championship lead, Bayliss heads to round seven with a reduced points lead of 29, over Edwards (260 - 231) after today's results.

Weather conditions at Silverstone were less than ideal all weekend, with both of today's WSBK races being declared wet. The streams of water that crossed the circuit at some points did catch out a number of riders, including Bayliss and Edwards. Light showers fell during the second race before the sun broke through and began to slowly dry the track surface, but not sufficiently to adversely affect the wet weather tyres that the riders were using.

The WSBK heads to Germany for round seven of the championship at the Euro Speedway in Lausitzring on June 8 - 9.