Team Traction Control (Steve Mercer/Ben Neeves) clinched the ACU/Sorrymate.com National Endurance after a dramatic final round of the series at Pembrey.
Fastest in qualifying Mercer and Neeves looked set to win the three hour race and wrap up the title.
Three laps into the race Mercer held a near-five second lead over Go Racing Developments (Gregg Allsop/Andy Carpenter), but then crashed out at the fast left-hander near the pits. Mercer escaped serious injury, but his bike was too badly damaged to repair, so he had to share the Suzuki 1000 of Neeves.
Hottrax Endurance rules, though, meant the team had to spend ten minutes in pit lane at every rider change and to be classed as a finisher had to complete 75% of the distance completed by the winners.
Go Racing Developments took over at the front after Mercer fell and completed 171 laps, Team Traction Control was last over the line, but they managed 142 laps, to be classified as a finisher, take second place in the class and winning the title.
Everything ran faultlessly for Go Racing Developments, who were overall race winners and first in National 1000 Endurance class, finishing runners up in the final championship table, 13 points down on the champions.
The only problem they had was with ten minutes to go, when Carpenter had to take an unscheduled pit stop to hand over to Allsop when his Kawasaki ZX10 lost all its electrics and he had to limp the machine back home.
Hottrax had been forced to switch the event from Mallory Park to Pembrey just days before the meeting. As a result, IBL Racing, who was second in the series, four points behind Team Traction Control coming into the meeting, but who would have been without the services of Hudson Kennaugh, who was competing at Silverstone in the Superstock 1000 championship, decided not to race.
Macca and Edge Racing (Gary Johnson/Nick Edgeley) were second over the line, on the same lap as the winners, just over 54 seconds down.
The class title went to the consistent Team sorrymate.com (Colin Norris/Warren Verweh), who was sixth overall and fourth in the class, beating Pit Stop Racing (Peter and Marc Dilks) by just nine points. Fire IT Racing (Andy Goddard/Louis Turner-Laurent) was third overall, first Clubman 1000 over the line. They were one lap down on the top two. TANC 2 Racing, the class champions, was absent, allowing Fire IT Racing to finish 19 points down on the winners.
SBK City Motogrande 1000
Benjamin Fortt (Kawasaki), the 19-year-old Thai racer wrapped up the SBK City Motogrande 1000 championship with two second places behind Welshman Paul Shook (Kawasaki).
The teenager ended the season on 342 points, 102 ahead of his closest rival, Andrew Haines (Yamaha).
Christian Holt (Suzuki) was the only one of the top four 1000 Rookies who made the trip to South Wales and it paid off two wins, with double points in the second race hoisted him to third in the final standings behind Mick Alderson and Andrew Gooding.
Motogrande 600
Dale Thomas (Kawasaki) was in a class of his own, qualifying on pole position and winning both Motogrande 600 races, but it had no effect on the outcome of the championship.
James Edwards (Yamaha) took runner-up spot in both outings, adding 60 points to his season’s tally to 385, 42 clear of his closest rival, Stephen Bridle (Suzuki).
Jack Bleakley (Yamaha) took third place in the championship, after notching up a seventh and a fourth.
Michelin Power Cup
Wayne Humble (Yamaha) took the Michelin 600 Power Cup championship, wrapping up a great season with a second and a third in his two races to end the season on 442 points, crucially just two ahead of his arch rival, Richard Charlton (Yamaha) who added 75 point to his score with two wins.
William White (Triumph) was third in the final standings, 35 points behind Charlton, Greg Allsop (Yamaha 1000) topped qualifying, but though he won both his races, he was only fifth over the line in both of his two outings.
Allsop ended the season second in the championship on 345 points, 56 down on Keilty.
Dominic De Leon finished third in the series with 290 and Richard White climbed to third on 240.
Richard Telford (Kawasaki) took the Rookie 600 championship by a comfortable 45 point margin after his season-long rival, Jordan Greenshields (Yamaha) failed to finish in two of the season’s final three races.
Ducati Desmo Due
With both champions, David Wood Jr and Tom HalIifax, missing the path was clear for others to shine in the Ducati Desmo Due, Matthew Lawson qualified fastest and won both races. He beat Martin Cox by over six seconds in the first.
Lawson won race two, beating a six rider convoy, headed by Class B racer Scott Wilson, by over 18 seconds. Phil “The Ghost” Wilcox had to battle for his fifth and third places, but it earned him third place overall in Class A place behind Wood Jr and Mark Roxbrough. Claridge finshed runner-up in Class B, with Wilson third, just two points ahead of Bloomfield.
Parkitt Modern Classics/Formula 400/
Stu Bayliss (Concept Communications Group/ Aprilia Performance Aprilia) clinched his Superbike title after finishing second in the class to Andy Challis (Aprilia) in the first race of the weekend.
Owen Richardson (Kawasaki) ended the season second in the table 108 points down on Bayliss.
Bob Barton (Suzuki) just had to finish in the points in the first race to secure the Supersport title, but pulling on to the grid his gear linkage broke leaving the machine stuck in fourth gear.
Astonishingly he managed to complete the race, finishing 11
th overall and third in his class, rounding off a fantastic season for the rookie.
Youngster Wayne Morris (Kawasaki) left early after gremlins prevented him starting in both races.
His departure allowed John Bolsover (Yamaha) to take two class wins, leapfrog Morris and finish second in the championship.