This race was most notable for Luca Cadalora's shock first victory over Wayne Rainey at the near end of the race, the big accident that happened with Alex Barros, Mick Doohan and Kevin Schwantz on the opening lap and the close finish for third between Fogarty and Mackenzie.

;[4] Because of this, he is not able to qualify as good as he used to normally due to suffering from blurred vision, causing him to not be able to properly judge distance.

[5] In his biography 'His own story' he commented on this with the following words: "I told the medical guys that my back was really sore, but I didn't say anything about my head.

Alongside him on the grid is Luca Cadalora in second place, then Mick Doohan in third and teammate Alex Barros in fourth.

The second row of the grid consists of wildcard rider Carl Fogarty in fifth, Daryl Beattie in sixth, Àlex Crivillé in seventh and Wayne Rainey in a lowly eighth position, an impressive feat despite his problems at the time.

Exiting Redgate, Rainey wastes no time and immediately passes Barros on the inside heading into Hollywood (Turn 2), Cadalora right behind him.

Second is Cadalora, third is wildcard rider and home hero Fogarty, fourth is Shinichi Ito, fifth is Crivillé and sixth is Renzo Colleoni.

The marshalls are busy pouring concrete dust on the track to clean up the oil that's present, then quickly get out of the way as the riders go down Starkey's Straight.

At this straight, Fogarty goes side-by-side with Cadalora and outbreaks him entering The Esses, moving him up into second place.

On lap four, Beattie has caught and easily passed Colleoni for sixth place at the Wheatcroft Straight.

Exiting McLean's, Fogarty has to adjust his front brakes by hand, causing him to slow down enough for Cadalora to get by easily and snatch second from the Brit before Coppice (Turn 8) On lap eight, Fogarty has a moment exiting the Craner Curves (Turn 3).

On lap ten, the top six is as follows: Rainey, Cadalora, Fogarty, Ito, Crivillé and Niall Mackenzie - who has passed Beattie for sixth.

Crivillé has now fully caught up to Ito and tries a move on the Japanese entering Starkey's Bridge (Turn 5).

Ito holds on entering Schwantz Curve, Crivillé still hot on his heels at McLean's.

Lap eleven and Crivillé again closes up at Starkey's Straight but does not make a move entering The Esses.

On lap fourteen, Cadalora is still closing the gap to his Marlboro Team Roberts teammate Rainey.

The marshalls recover his bike as the Marlboro Honda Pons rider is being escorted away by one of the medical staff from the crash site in disappointment.

Lap twenty-one and the front is still stable: Rainey leads with teammate Cadalora in close second.

However, entering Starkey's Bridge, Cadalora finally makes a move by going up the inside of Rainey and taking over the lead under loud cheering from presumably Schwantz fans.

Team manager Kenny Roberts shakes his head after the Italian pulled the move on Rainey.

He passes the last corner to cross the line with a wheelie and take a dominant win over his teammate in his rookie season - his first in the 500cc class - followed by Rainey in second position.

On the parade lap back to parc-fermé, Rainey congratulates Cadalora by shaking his hand whilst still on the bike.

Mackenzie celebrates in his own style by taking the alternative flag of Scotland and waving it proudly, Fogarty talking to him as both have stopped on track.

The trio goes up to the podium and discuss the race, an exhausted but happy Cadalora receiving his winners trophy.

He lifts it up and covers his face with his hand, barely believing he has just won the race as the fans applaud and cheer.

But, we have a lot of work to do before we win the world championship and I don't think this is going to make a big difference and Wayne is very happy for Luca as well.