Right up until the last five minutes he was still in the overall top twenty, but had slipped to third privateer, with both championship leaders, Tristan Palmer and James Buckingham went tenths faster. Ending up in 22nd and on the sixth row in front of some good riders, meant the team could be more than happy with the job they had done and could look forward to the next days racing. The day dawned bright and sunny and the whole team were in a bouyant mood. Faulkner and his team, proudly took their place on the grid, lining up just behind the official factory Yamaha of Tommy Hill, only four tenths of a second quicker in qualifying. At the start, Faulkner, traditionally selected reverse and made it hard for himself, losing a number of places off the line. He then set about getting past Guy Martin on the Phase One Yamaha, but the extra straight line performance of the 2007 bike was making it diificult. After a safety car intervention, Martin got the jump on Faulkner, but within two laps he was on his tail, setting the fastest privateer lap of the race on the way. Unfortunately this was to be his undoing as, going for a closing gap at Druids had Faulkner squeezing a little too hard on the brake lever and resulted in him low siding into retirement. A shame but Faulkner and the team were over the moon about the fastest lap of 46.9, only 1.4 seconds slower than Lavilla, who broke the lap record by 0.4 seconds on his factory Ducati! In race two, the start was pretty much the same, but after about ten laps the race was red flagged due to oil on the track from James Buckinghams blown engine. Unfortunately the team didnt have a new tyre to put on and this would badly effect his grip in the restart! Not being able to match his times in the first race, Faulkner still managed to hold on to second place and joined Tristan Palmer and Malcolm Ashley on the podium as a fittig finish to the season. The whole team breathed a huge sigh of relief as Faulkner crosed the finish line, with no incidents and no mechanical problems! A great job, by Gary, Paul, Mike, Frank and Chunky, Ade, Ian and Kevin at Virgin Media Yamaha. Special thanks again to Pete Beale for an engine that ran faultlessly all weekend and saw the Team Emco Yamaha further up the speed trap charts than it had been all season.