Haga and Biaggi swapped places three times on lap two while Toseland took the lap record with a time of 2min 1.889secs. Biaggi started to close down on Toseland and on lap five he made his move taking the lead and bringing Haga with him pushing Toseland back to third place. By lap seven Toseland was back to fourth place behind Kagayama while Haga made a charge for the lead.
That only lasted for a few corners as Biaggi took it back. At mid race distance Toseland began his fight back and forced his way through to second place. Meanwhile Biaggi ran wide and dropped two places. Haga and Toseland crossed the line side by side with Toseland out wide and on the grass. The dust and stones thrown up by Toseland's bike showered Biaggi and Kagayama.
Toseland regained the lead on lap ten and Biaggi moved back up to second place. Kagayama made a late charge and took both Haga and Biaggi in one go to secure second place. Biaggi wasn't going to be out done and fought back for his second place. Kagayama was relegated to fourth place again by Haga on lap fifteen. The leading four had now split slightly with Toseland and Biaggi gapping Haga and Kagayama.
Kagayama waited until the penultimate lap to take back third place from his friend and held it to the line. Toseland put in a titanic effort to keep his first place from the menacing Biaggi who had closed the gap down to just 0.127secs.
Troy Bayliss predicted that he would struggle on his Xerox Ducati and he was right. He was running in tenth place when
Karl Muggeridge crashed and his sliding bike hit Bayliss knocking him off.
Roberto Rolfo put in a solid race finishing in fifth place and keeping
Michel Fabrizio at bay all race.
Troy Corser didn't have a good time on track slipping form his fifth place start to finish seventh. The Australian has been struggling with grip all weekend and it looked like he succumbed again to it during the race.
