Shell Advance Australian Superbike Championship 2004 - Round 5

1650 - Full Results from C & D Race 1, that is us done for the day, catch ya tomorrow
1645 - That is the end of the day here, we just got word that today was the second best crowd of the year for a Saturday, the #1 spot was took out by Wanneroo a couple of rounds ago. We will wrap up shortly when the final results come through from that final race of the day which was that C & D Grade race
1640 - Jarradd Curran just took out the C & D Race form Brendan Gurowski, Steve Douglas and Jason Green
1632 - Full Results from Ultralites Race 1
1628 - Last event of the day is the C & D Race, top runner Alex Cudlin will not be contesting this weekend due to the wrist injury he sustained at Mallala, click for image of his wrist taken yesterday
1620 - Munn took the win by 2.8 seconds from Greentree, Eckersley third 0.4 seconds behind Greentree
1617 - A quite small Ultralites field are battling it out in their opening race of the weekend with Guy Munn escaping to a lead of just over a second while Greentree and Eckersley tussle over second place
1615 - Full Results from Nakedbike Race 1
1612 - Next up is an Ultralites race, until the results of that come in amuse yourself looking at a gallery from this morning's first qualifying session for the Superbikes, - Gallery G
1609 - Full Results from Supersport Final Qualifying / Combined Sessions / Grid
1608 - I believe that now means that only one of the Aprilia boys can take the title while Zac Davies wrapped up the smaller capacity Naked Lites class with a good result in that race
1606 - Archibald hangs on to take the win with Allen right on his tail. Cartwright third and Mick Shaw fourth
1602 - John Allen then put his head down to leave Cartwright in his wake before closing right on to the tail of Archibald and with two laps to run there was nothing in it between the leading duo
1600 - John Allen got the better of Cartwright on lap two while Benn Archibald stretched his lead out t0 1.5 seconds
1558 - The Nakedbikes are off the line now, the Aprilia's have not been so dominant as normal here this weekend as the FZ-1 boys with the power of the big bore fours have the acceleration on the Italian bikes down some of these dragstrip straights. Archibald crossed the line to start lap two with a 7-tenth lead over Jon Cartwright. Simon Rattenbury went out on the first lap
1554 - Up shortly is the first race for the weekend, one of three races today, this first one is for the Nakedbikes then we have an Ultralites race before the day concludes with a C & D Grade race
1550 - That session for the slower 600 riders just wrapped up. Full Combined Times will be available soon but it is fairly safe to say that there will be little change from this morning's first session times
1533 - The slower half of the Supersport field are out doing their final qualifying session now
1532 - Twins Final Qualifying / Combined Times / Grid
1504 - The Twins are out on their final qualifier now
1502 - The Full Results from Superstock Combined Qualifying / Grid are in
1457 - That Supersport session for the fastest half of the Supersport field has ended with Waters quickest but few riders bettered their morning times so provisionally the front row will be Holland, Greedy, Fergusson, Allerton.
1443 - I think Adam Fergusson just went for his second slide of the weekend, not sure exactly where and he is 100% fine. Only one going quick in this gusty wind in Waters but even he is fractionally behind his time from this morning
1434 - Riders heading out now for the final Supersport qualifying session, wind is really quite strong which will stop many of them from improving their times from this morning
1432 - Superstock Final Qualifier has wrapped up, Gareth Jones' 77.7 from this morning earns pole, Brendan Roberts will sit alongside him on the front row thanks to his morning time, as will Darren Edwards. Few riders went fastest in this windy afternoon session than they did this morning
1428 - Full Combined Superbike Results from both groups and all sessions thus this is the Grid
1422 - Full Results and Grid from Nakedbike Final Qualifying
1407 - Superstock boys out for their final qualifier now
1357 - Check out another gallery of images, this one is from the Australian Supersport first qualifier this morning
1345 - The slower half of the Superbike field are out on their final qualifier now
1331 - Nakedbike final qualifier on now
1327 - Full Results from the second Superbike Qualifying Session - THIS IS NOT THE GRID
1315 - Superbike qualifier wrapping up now, Shannon 70.4 from this morning good enough to give him pole, second quickest on combined time is Fergusson then it is Dan Stauffer, Damian Cudlin, Jamie Stauffer, Nick Henderson, Shawn Giles, Shaun Geronomi, Scott Charlton, Brent George. That order is provisional until we get the official combined times, but that is correct as far as I have been able to work out thus far. In this session Fergusson was fastest and Shannon second fastest, but that time from this morning is what earns Shannon pole position
1306 - Scott Charlton was the other man down, believe all are okay and the session restarting now
1300 - Red Flag came out due to a number of fallers at the double-left in the middle of the track, can't tell who all the riders are but fairly sure that one of them is Giles and another is Baird but they are all up and okay.
1258 - The fastest bikes have been doing around 260kph at the end of the back straight with the Suzukis of Giles and Cudlin topping the charts just ahead of Nick Henderson.
1254 - Superbikes are in to their final qualifier now, wind is very strong and due to the dry surroundings is also blowing quite a lot of dust across many of the corners. Dan is down to 70.9 in this session but I can't see them eclipsing Shannon's 70.4 from this morning. It should be noted also that Dan Stauffer is quite unwell here this weekend, he is suffering the after effects of dehydration at Suzuka and only did a handful of laps yesterday before going back to the hotel to lay down
1235 - Check out another gallery of images during the break, Gallery E
1233 - Wind is fairly crazy out here now and has been for the last hour or so. I will be surprised if the Superbike boys go quicker than they did this morning when the wind was much less intense. Lunch break now but Superbikes straight out for their final qualifier after the break, hanging on to a Superbike would be hard work at the best of times, but in this wind I must say I'm glad it's them and not me
1232 - Full Results from C & D Grade Qualifier
1220 - Full Results from Ultralites Final Qualifying
1214 - Full Results from Twins First Qualifying
1137 - The Twins just wrapped up their first qualifier with McMartin on a 72.7, a full 1.5 seconds quicker than the next best which is John Allen and Benn Archibald both on 74.2
1106 - Full Results from Nakedbike First Qualifying
1102 - Nakedbike first qualifier wrapping up now, Archibald on provisional pole with a 74.2 followed by Allen on 74.5, Cartwright 74.6 and Rattenbury 75.0
1101 - More images, Gallery D
1054 - Full Results from Superstock First Qualifying
1052 - Full Results from Ultralites First Qualifying
1049 - Full Results from Superbike First Qualifying
1041 - First Superbike qualifier over now, Johnson on top under the lap record with a 70.4, Fergusson 70.5, then Dan on 71.1, Cudlin 71.2, Henderson 71.3, Giles 71.4
1015 - Superbikes heading out now
1000 - Ultralites are halfway through their session now, Munn leading the way from J Cullen and Greentree. Next out are the Superbikes
0946 - Superstock session finishing their first qualifying session up now, Jones on top with a 77.7, Roberts next on 78.1 with Edwards a fraction behind
0930 - Superstock in to their first qualifier now, Jones currently leading from Edwards
0930 - Full Results from Supersport First Qualifying
0920 - Supersport session finishing up now, Holland on top with a 73.1 then it is Greedy on 73.3, Fergusson 73.4
0900 - Supersport bikes about to head out
0859 - We have uploaded another gallery of images for you, Gallery C
Friday's transcript from our live notes