I SAT down to watch the latest from the Duke stable which shows the World Supersport 600 championship on a 180minute DVD.

This sees Irish rider Eugene Laverty and British rider Cal Crutchlow battle it out over 14 rounds, with the teams travelling to all corners of the world – from Italy to South Africa and the US to Donnington Park.

The other high-speed DVD is the brilliant Ulster Grand Prix, which covers all the races over the 7.5-mile Dundrod course, and is 117 minutes' duration. I have raved about this meeting since that day in August, and while the road race preview I reviewed recently had some race coverage in it, this is the full monty.

When Eugene Laverty took to the World Supersport Championship, he was not regarded as a strong contender, but by the end of the season he almost took the title, and was denied by Crutchlow.

The first round was in the beautiful Philip Island in Australia, and this was to be Laverty's first outing on a 600. After qualifying in fifth, he duly responded by finishing fourth in the race, behind Crutchlow. The second round saw Laverty qualify on the front row, and in a brilliant race he clinched victory from Crutchlow.

Even in the early stages of this world championship, it looked that this was going to be a close-fought battle between Laverty and Crutchlow, and after a damp race in Valencia in Spain, Crutchlow took the victory, and Laverty was down in a lowly 13th. In the following round at Assen, Crutchlow took another victory, and he repeated the win at Monza.

In Kyalami outside Johannesburg, Laverty took an easy victory, but had to settle for second in the following race in America, ex world champ Kenan Sofuoglu taking the narrowest victory from him, with Crutchlow third.

At Misano, Crutchlow was the victor from Laverty, but at Donnington things went wrong for the young Irishman when he crashed and remounted to gain valuable points in fifth place.

At Brono, Crutchlow's Yamaha died during the race for the first time during the season, but Laverty could only finish fourth. In Germany it was Crutchlow from Laverty.

In Monza the race was redflagged and restarted on an aggregate basis, but this time Crutchlow crashed out, giving Laverty the advantage which he took, and finished second.

With two races to go, race number 13 was to be the downfall for Laverty's championship when he crashed, but again he remounted to finish in the points.

There were 20 points between the pair going into the last round in Portugal, and it is here that Laverty's team sponsors are from. Laverty knew he had to win and hope that other problems would befall his opponent., but while Laverty took an easy win, Crutchlow finished third to claim his World Championship win.

Nevertheless, Laverty did himself and his country proud, and while Crutchlow is the new king of the 600 class, Laverty can look back at a year that saw him jump to the top of world championship racing.

This is a very good look at the Supersport Championship, and the coverage is excellent, but there are times when the commentator would drive you mad with his comments. One week Laverty was Irish, and the next he was British; you wouldn't know what way to go with him.

Getting back to the 'Ulster' I was going to compare these two productions against each other, but in the end they are two very different branches of the sport. As a lifelong roadrace fan, though, I will still rant and rave about the two 600 races at Dundrod, and when you see them in full length against the track racing of the world championship, there is definitely no comparison – the Ulster wins hand down. These two DVDs can be obtained from Duke Marketing at 0044-1624640020. The World Supersport is £24.99 and the Ulster is £19.99 – just ask for Emma.

Keep 'er lit.