Chris Martin (Dave Dean Honda) stretched his run of successive wins in the ACU 250 Championship to seven in rounds 8 and 9 at Donington Park and stretch his lead in the series to 33 over his closest rival, Ant Hodson (FCL Yamaha).
Martin, the 33-year-old Yorkshire man and reigning ACU 250 title holder, topped qualifying, but he was less than a tenth of second faster than Hodson, the 37-year-old Lincolnshire racer and just over a quarter of a second better than Phil Atkinson (Declan’s Racing Yamaha).
Martin led race one from start-to-finish, beating Hodson by over seven seconds and setting a new NG Racing 250 lap record.
Atkinson, the 31-year-old South African-born racer, now living in Horley, failed to start after someone forgot to turn on the fuel tap!
He came to a halt halfway round the warm-up lap and could not back to the grid in time.
Bruce Dunn (Yamaha), making his first appearance of the season, was third over the line at the head of a four-rider convoy, who were covered by just over four fifths of a second.
Behind him was Dave Hampton (J&RB Racing Yamaha), Thomas Lawler (CGTL Life and Pensions Honda) and Adam Hoare (AMH Rail Services Honda).
Jonathan Stamper (File Tuning/FRGB Yamaha) was sixth home in his first appearance since winning the opening two rounds of the series at Brands Hatch in March.
Martin won race two, grabbing the lead from Atkinson on the last lap, with a brave move that had over the kerbs at times.
Atkinson was five hundredths of a second down in the sprint to the line.
Hodson was leading on the penultimate lap, but had to settle for third place just over half a second behind Martin.
Hodgson had the consolation of setting a new 250 National lap record.
Hampton was fourth over the line, 14 seconds back, with Lawlor fifth and Hoare sixth.
With arch rival, Andrew Sawford absent after being injured in training, Rich Grinling (RG Carpentry and Joinery Yamaha) would have hoped to close the 59-point gap in the Pre 92 class.
He won race won one, but the exhaust pipe split in the second, leaving him third in the points, 34 behind Sawford, with Ste Howard (Howard Racing Yamaha) up to second, 16 down on the leader.
Paul Metcalfe won both NG Cup races to cut the lead of Simon Hunt (Ransby Racing Yamaha) to 40.