Everyone got off the line well in the second race but this time around Troy Corser,  James Toseland and Noriyuki Haga didn't even manage to get around the first turn! That was three of the top five qualifiers out of the race at turn one but there was no such dramas for championship leader Troy Bayliss as he streaked away in the opening laps while Yukio Kagayama and Andrew Pitt tried to keep him in sight.  Ruben Xaus joined the party on the second lap to move past Pitt and onto the tail of Kagayama who in turn had managed to claw back plenty of ground on Bayliss and was all over the back of the #21 Ducati. Kagayama made his move on lap four to take the lead from the Australian who then had his hands full with a charging Ruben Xaus. Things at the top remained tight as Pitt, Muggeridge, Nieto and Laconi were also right in the hunt. Lap five saw Xaus get the better of Bayliss for second place before setting out after Kagayama.

Bayliss and Pitt shuffled Xaus back to fourth place on lap 9 of the 22 lap journey and the Aussie duo quickly closed on the tailpipe of race leader Yukio Kagayama. Two laps later Bayliss hit the lead but another mover in the pack had been Fonsi Nieto who had got the better of Xaus before closing to within striking distance of Andrew Pitt. Chris Walker was down in tenth place and in no chance of doing the double but Nieto was flying the Kawasaki flag high in fourth place. Nieto then moved up to third place on lap 13 and started hounding Kagayama for second place. It only took him another lap to take that position from Kagayama but Bayliss would not be such an easy target as while the battle for second had been unfolding Bayliss had been pulling away.

Nieto quickly proved that the task was not beyond him however as he pulled away from Kagayama and Pitt and started closing on Bayliss at an alarming rate. The gap was 2.2 seconds at the end of lap 14 but by lap 16 Nieto had halved that margin to a much more manageable 1.1 seconds.

Just when it started to look like Nieto may take a huge surprise win over Bayliss he took to the grass and was shuffled back to fifth place by the time he rejoined the tarmac and got back up to race pace on what was now basically a virtually completely dry track. Nieto got back past Xaus on lap 17 to move up to fourth place and set his sights on Kagayama in an effort to promote himself into a podium position. Kagayama was in mood to relinquish his position however and Xaus decided to join the party with four laps to run and threw his hat into the ring in the battle for that final step on the podium.

Nieto moved into third position on the penultimate lap and he was then given a little breathing space when Xaus duffed up Kagayama for fourth place and slowed the Suzuki man a little.

The battle for third was where the excitement was while up front Bayliss took a clear win over Andrew Pitt by 9.3 seconds for an Aussie 1-2 while Fonsi Nieto rounded out a great day for Kawasaki in taking third place. Kagayama managed to hold off Xaus in the run to the flag to claim fourth position.

A disastrous weekend for Corser and Haga with no points gained from their efforts.  James Toseland remounted his Fireblade following the turn one debacle to bring home ninth place and the important points that earned him promoted him past Haga for second place in the championship exactly 100 points behind series leader Troy Bayliss.