After a month's hiatus, the Maxxis British Motocross Championship rumbled back to life with the annual round in Northern Ireland. The weather leading up to the round had been good, and for a change it looked that the championship would see some weather similar to the round at Lyng, but it was not to be. The round piggybacked on a road race in the area in that the traditional race day on Saturday was moved to Sunday, in the hopes that it would improve the spectator figures.