Manfield saw a day of ups and downs for the riders in the 600 Supersport class. First race the two front riders are alledged to have jumped the start and the race penalty of twenty seconds is now under appeal. This put Midge Smart from England in first place with John Ross in second and Nick Cole in third.

It was an exciting race to watch especially the guys in 4th to 10th placing changing places serveral times through out the race. Up front saw a battle between Glen Scketchill, James Smith, Midge Smart, John Ross and Sam Love. A protest was put in that John Ross had passed Sam Love under a yellow flag and he was also penalised twenty seconds. This was corrected later in the day with John being reinstated to second place.

Six points down from the lead and the new tyres have finally arrived so it's all on.

Practise indicates that this should be a hot race with Nick, Jimmy, Karl Morgan and John Ross all close with their practise times. Between practise sessions we suspect the phantom fiddler who has been mysteriously fiddling with bikes had a go at Nicks as the rebound had been completely unwound. There was a bit of this going on in the pits and the phantom idiot does not realise the risk to peoples lives he is playing with.At this stage it put us completely on the back foot as we did not have a race bike set up and there was fustration and anger in the camp. In fact we didn't have it right by the time practise was finished. The only opportunity we had left to verify we had it right was the 3 lap scrub in session. Would you believe it we got it bang on. A special Thanks to Dukic Performance for his expert attention.   

 Race One and the battle is on. The lights change from red to green and up goes the Kawasaki like a bucking horse. Fifth into the first corner and then second into the next corner and along the back straight sees Jimmy, Nick and John all vying for position. Each lap it changes and the crowd

After a night at Aromowana where the usual spooky stories and high jinxs we head off to Invercargill. We did notice that on the community board we saw some wag had added the name of David Grey to the attendance list. But we are not superstitious. Invercargill was cold and so it was a quick practise on practise days and five laps of qualifying which saw Nick set a time of 59.9 and the lap record is 59.8.

Race day dawns and it starts with good humour all around the pits as when we drove in here was the Honda 4 wheeler up on 4 rubbish bins. I guess they won't loan Brain B their machinery again.