No, not the title of some dubious adult movie (though it could be) but a summary of some extraordinary events over possibly the best race weekend of the year.

The organisers decided to run the event over the shorter International circuit this year rather than the full size GP circuit that was used in 2004. This took about a mile (1600m) off each lap but meant that the paying crowd got to see 28 laps instead of just 20 last year. The shorter circuit may well have missed out some of the most exciting bits but the tighter layout meant that the racing was likely to be closer.

Now of course this is England so weather is always going to be an issue. Not, for once, because of the rain but because of the wind. Talking with some of the riders after Saturday's practice sessions, the consensus was that the back of the circuit in particular was, in the words of one (anonymous) Aussie rides, "Bloody horrible - you're leaning into the wind and you can feel it lifting the wheels off the ground..." Lap times consequently suffered and getting set up for Superpole was a real challenge.

Shortly before Superpole we were treated to the unusual spectacle of a 30' high Corona display being blown past our area. Despite being bolted down...

Anyway, Superpole didn't turn up a huge number of surprises. Apart from Nori Haga blitzing everyone to put the Yamaha into pole position, that is. And Yukio Kagayama then slicing a full 3/10 second off to push his countryman back into second. Then Mr Superpole himself came along and failed to topple the Japanese pair, ending up fourth behind Regis Laconi. James Toseland, always under extra pressure at his home race, did brilliantly well to catch a massive slide which robbed him of a front row start. The young Englishman was disappointed to be starting seventh despite the fact that someone with only 95% of his ability would have been in the gravel. Ahead of Toseland were Chris Vermeulen and Yamaha's Jose Cardoso in a surprise appearance near the front. Chris Walker rounded off the second row. Garry McCoy did well to put the still underpowered FP-1 on the third row while Frankie Chili was bitterly disappointed to be back in thirteenth after struggling for setup.

Race day dawned slightly warmer and far, far less windy. And warm-up left lots of riders smiling the smiles of men who were suddenly looking forward to a nice day instead of a battle against the elements as well as each other. The happiness also showed just how hard the teams had worked on settings and little tweaks to get things working better than before.

Race one saw a storming start from Corser, hotly pursued by Haga and Walker who made another of his legendary Stalker starts to gain five places by the first corner. Laconi and Toseland both took advantage of Kagayama fluffing the start too, joining on the back of the train for the first couple of laps before making a move. And move they did, as unlike most other races this year Corser and the mighty Suzuki proved unable to simply outpace everyone else. By the end of lap six, both Ducatis had passed Walker whose Kawasaki seemed unable to sustain the blistering pace and by the halfway point less than a second separated the top four. Walker was slipping further back and coming under pressure from Chris Vermeulen while Frankie Chili was carving his way up through the field and was now in seventh place. On lap twelve, Laconi barged past Haga for second place, followed three laps later by Toseland in an audacious outbraking move. Then on lap sixteen, after a couple of abortive attempts, Laconi slipped past Corser to take the lead while Toseland upped the pressure. And so it remained. Though the young Brit was always threatening, third was the best he could do while his team-mate took a highly deserved first win of the season for Ducati.

But what of everyone else? Yukio Kagayama, fighting to make up for his terrible start, overdid it at the chicane and lost the front. Somehow he managed to keep the bike running and restarted in sixteenth position, finally finishing eleventh. Ben Bostrom retired when the subframe broke on his Honda, allowing the battery to go walkabout. Haga dropped back to fourth and then retired a few laps later when the fuel pump stopped on his Yamaha. Chris Walker was passed by Vermeulen and Chili to round off the leading group. Then a yawning gap of some twenty four seconds to Max Neukirchner. Andrew Pitt suffered a ride through penalty for a technical infringement and ended up thirteenth while Muggeridge rode to a lonely tenth.

A huge crash in the early stages saw Alfonsi and Gimbert come together, the latter collecting a broken leg while a few more laps saw the departure of Lanzi, Nieto and Clementi, the latter pair assisting each other. Garry McCoy also crashed out at the chicane, the unfortunate Aussie failing to restart and having to ride in for a chat with team boss Carl Fogarty.

So all in all an exciting, close and action packed race. And not one the pundits would have predicted either, popular belief having the Suzuki fast enough to simply gobble up anything else down the long straights.

Race two was shaping up to be a goodie. The wind had dropped further, the track was warmer and everything was looking good. This time it was Haga who got the holeshot, followed by Corser and Kagayama who must have been practicing starts in the break. Then Laconi and Toseland, followed by Walker, Vermeulen and the rest of the slavering pack. Again we saw Corser unable to break away, even after muscling past Haga on lap four. But even more unusually, we saw the Ducatis keeping up and even closing. But on just the second lap, in a carbon copy of race one last year, Laconi locked up the Ducati on his way into the Woodcote chicane and went down and out, this time inviting Cardoso and Neukirchner to join him. Desolate, all the Frenchman could do was hang his head and walk sadly back into the pits. Talk about one extreme to the other... Meanwhile, out on the circuit, a young Englishman was steadily reeling in the ostensibly faster and better suited four cylinder bikes ahead of him. It took him until lap sixteen to stuff the Ducati down the inside of Haga's Yamaha and take second place, but he took it and held it. In fact, he did rather better than that, riding round Corser a lap later to take the lead. And there he stayed. He extended a half second gap very quickly and then, barring a few fluctuations, stayed there. And there was nothing that Corser could do about it, despite riding smoothly and cleanly as you like. Haga hung on to third while Chris Vermeulen took fourth. Walker got mugged halfway through the final lap to cede fifth place to Chili and was clearly furious with himself while Kagayama faded throughout the race, finishing a distant seventh. Miguel Praia, one of the nicest guys on the circuit if not one of the fastest, crashed hard a dozen laps in while Fonsi Nieto got a ride through penalty before retiring.

So while the championship hasn't changed that much at the top, James Toseland has done his prospects no harm at all, closing as he has to within striking distance of Laconi. Corser has extended his lead over Kagayama while the Japanese rider is now dangerously close to getting swamped by the prodigious talent of Chris Vermeulen just four points behind. With the next round back in Ducati's back yard at the twisty Misano circuit this could be the time that Ducati turn things around properly...

Race One

1 Regis Laconi (Ducati)
2 Troy Corser (Suzuki)
3 James Toseland (Ducati)
4 Chris Vermeulen (Honda)
5 Pier-Francesco Chili (Honda)
6 Chris Walker (Kawasaki)
7 Max Neukirchner (Honda)
8 Giovanni Bussei (Kawasaki)
9 Jose Cardoso (Yamaha)
10 Karl Muggeridge (Honda)

Race Two

1 James Toseland (Ducati)
2 Troy Corser(Suzuki)
3 Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha)
4 Chris Vermeulen (Honda)
5 Pier-Francesco Chili (Honda)
6 Chris Walker (Kawasaki)
7 Yukio Kagayama (Suzuki)
8 Norick Abe (Yamaha)
9 Andrew Pitt (Yamaha)
10 Karl Muggeridge (Honda)

Championship Standing after five rounds:

1 Troy Corser 182
2 Yukio Kagayama 130
3 Chris Vermeulen 115
4 Regis Laconi 87
5 Andrew Pitt 60
6 James Toseland 57
7 Chris Walker 54
8 Norick Abe 54
9 Noriyuki Haga 52
10 Pier-Francesco Chili 44