In a fabulous last lap dice Yukio Kagayama took the first race of the day at Oulton Park from team-mate John Reynolds by the very smallest of margins. Michael Rutter had to battle back to the front from twelfth to take third.
It was flames ahoy and an almost toasted Noriyuki Haga in the warm-up lap for the first race of the day at Oulton Park with a rather unusual scenario on the warm-up. As the bikes rounded the circuit on the warm-up lap there was a sudden burst of flame from the back of the grid.
The on track debut of the latest spec Proton KR V5, during a two day test at Valencia, has ended with one machine being set alight and rider Kurtis Roberts injured.