The home crowd stood a much better chance of seeing a British MX2 victory, courtesy of 2007 event winner (at Donington Park) Tommy Searle, but it was to be Tyla Rattray and Antonio Cairoli that split the race victories.

Rattray dominated moto one, leaving Searle and rising star Sean Simpson to dispute second while Cairoli worked his way forward. The Italian produced an awesome ride to catch and pass both British riders, then closed rapidly on the seemingly safe Rattray to cross the finish line just half a second from the South African's rear wheel.

Cairoli made things much easier for himself in race two, leading from the start while Searle dropped gradually away to finish five second behind the Yamaha star. Rattray meanwhile had tangled with another rider on the opening lap, but pushed hard to reach fourth at the flag.

Cairoli thus took the overall by four points from Rattray, with home heroes Searle, Simpson and Stephen Sword third, fourth and fifth.

In the world championship standings, Cairoli has now taken the lead by just one point from Rattray with Searle a further nine points behind.

Peter Iven took a clean sweep at round two of the Veterans' World Cup winning both heats and storming to the top of the standings.

Making up for his difficult Spanish weekend, Dave Thorpe collected his first podium of 2008 by finishing twice runner up to Iven. Last year's Cup winner has now moved up to second in the points and is just 14 points away from Iven with one remaining round. Jan Blancquaert took the last step of the podium.