Anthony Gobert had to switch bikes at the last minute before the race start due to some sort of technical problem with his Ducati.  Fellow Australian Mat Mladin suffered no such problems and took the holeshot aboard the GSX-R1000, Kurtis Roberts right on his tail, Yates, Duhamel and Ben Bostrom also in the hunt.

Gobert then worked his way up to the leading group where Mladin and Yates are regularly swapping the lead with Yates and Duhamel also getting a turn.  The riders then started to have to deal with lapped traffic and Gobert made the most of this to take the lead with Duhamel slipping in to second place, Roberts third.

Roberts then took the lead before running off the track in a small 'moment' which put him back down to sixth.  Duhamel got the better of Gobert who then pulled in to the pits for fuel and rubber, the others also pitted shortly afterwards.

After all top runners had made their first pit stop it had shaken out with Duhamel leading from Ben Bostrom, Eric Bostrom and Aaron Yates with Kurtis Roberts some distance behind in fifth.  Gobert drifted further and further behind with some sort of machine failure.

Roberts then pushed hard to make up ground on the leading trio while Duhamel, Yates and Ben Bostrom tussled for the lead.  Yates then took the lead with Roberts moving up in to second place before the teams took their second pit stop.

After the second and final pit stop Kurtis Roberts emerged as the race leader from Ben Bostrom, Aaron Yates and Miguel Duhamel before Yates ran off the track which put him out of touch with the leading trio.

Ben Bostrom and Miguel Duhamel then both pushed under Roberts as the battle between the three Honda's reached its climax.

Duhamel took the win after a great drafting move to go from third to first on the run to the line.  Ben Bostrom second, Kurtis Roberts third, making it a Honda 1-2-3.

1. Miguel Duhamel - Honda RC51
2. Ben Bostrom - Honda RC51
3. Kurtis Roberts - Honda RC51
4. Aaron Yates - Suzuki GSX-R1000
5. Eric Bostrom - Kawasaki ZX-7RR (800cc)
6. Mat Mladin - Suzuki GSX-R1000
7. Ben Spies - Suzuki GSX-R1000
8. Michael Barnes - Suzuki GSX-R1000
9. Jason Pridmore - Suzuki GSX-R1000
10. Shawn Higbee - Suzuki GSX-R1000
11. Andrew Deatherage - Suzuki GSX-R1000
12. Larry Pegram - Ducati 998
13. Jack Pfeifer - Suzuki GSX-R1000
14. Sandor Bitter - Suzuki GSX-R1000
15. Ricky Orlando - Suzuki GSX-R750
16. Vincent Haskovec - Suzuki GSX-R1000
17. James Randolph - Suzuki GSX-R1000
18. Warwick Nowland - Suzuki GSX-R1000
19. Mike Cicotto - Suzuki GSX-R750
20. Geoff May - Suzuki GSX-R1000

Quotes

Aaron Yates, Fourth Place - "I think for sure we could have been there at the end. Just unfortunately, I got pushed wide and missed turn one. I was chasing down Kurtis and we come around the banking out of the chicane and we got hooked up with a lapper and he kind of stayed behind and I got a really good draft and was coming down the front and I was coming up on him pretty fast and I was thinking 'I'm going faster than usual.' The way I was coming up I had to go to the outside and I got on the brakes and it's like he wanted to go in there and brake with Kurtis. I had had to turn right and then I'm looking down there and couldn't decide and just looking off at that little driveway in turn one. I got stopped as hard as I could and turned it around. The first tire didn't work. Just didn't work right. I was looking at everybody thinking they're trying to conserve tires, trying to make it. The tire guy said to save it the first eight laps then we could spin it up. The second tire was a lot better, but still you do your best to conserve your best so you have something at the end."

Mat Mladin, Sixth Place - "For me the race was about conservation, just doing tires and stuff and that's what. And I couldn't make them last. The lap times were easy to do if you had a tire under the bike. The first part of the race, that first stint, I got out in the lead and it was one of those things I tried to do the lap times that the bike was going to allow me to do without spinning the tire and that was my plan for the whole race. And it just didn't matter. I was short shifting quickly even at the start of the race. Unfortunately, that first tire, with five or six laps to go, it was all over, I kept going backwards. Before the first pit stop I knew I wasn't going to win the race. It was all about getting around, getting to the finish and getting some points. We're 20 points ahead of where we were when we left here last year."

Ben Spies, Seventh Place - "It was really fun. I learned a lot. Unfortunately, in the first leg I think had a bad tire. I don't know what it was. I could only run 54's and 55's and second and third leg I was running 51s and 52s. If the first leg would've been alright maybe we could have beat Mladin, but he was having trouble with his tire too. It was fun and I learned a lot, so next year it will be good too. About eight laps into the first leg, I couldn't even draft the 750 Supersport bike on the banking, my bike was sliding so bad. Put on a new tire and it was ten times better. For a first year running I think we did pretty good."