Haslam now found the race coming towards him, and on lap 13 he dived down the inside of Camier into Hizzies to take second only to find his rival coming back at him straightaway to reclaim the position as the pair turned into Knickerbrook. Haslam wasn't to be deterred however, and as the pair started lap 14, he took the place at Old Hall.
That lap saw Haslam noticeably quicker than Byrne, and suddenly the Airwave man's comfortable lead looked in jeopardy. From 1.8 seconds at the end of lap 14, the gap was down to under a second by the end of the following lap, and as the pair approached Hizzies on lap 16, Haslam was suddenly on the back of the leader.
With Byrne clearly struggling with his tyres on the drying track, Haslam was all over the back of the lead through the penultimate lap and on the final lap, he launched his move for the lead coming through the high-speed left-hander at Island.
Haslam briefly nudged ahead only for Byrne to retake the place into Shell Oils and while Haslam tried to come back at him at Hizzies, the gap was too big to make a move. It left Haslam with one final chance into Lodge, but despite putting the front of his bike down the inside, he was too far back to make a move stick and Byrne was able to hold on for his second win of the campaign by just two-tenths of a second.
Camier took a lonely third place, while Rutter took fourth after battling ahead of Sykes and Crutchlow in the closing laps. It left Sykes with fifth and Crutchlow with sixth ahead of Michael Laverty, James Ellison, Tristan Palmer and Stuart Easton – the latter trio having been embroiled in a frantic battle for tenth during the middle of the race. Unfortunately for Grant, who had run in the top ten throughout, he was denied a fine finish when he pulled up with technical problems in the final lap.
