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Brands Hatch Race 1
Troy Bayliss appeared to jump the start, but took the lead into the first at the corner and at the second there was a pile up when Hodgson dropped his machine taking out Hislop, Edwards and Haga. Hislop getting the worst of it, He was taken away in the ambulance (later reported to have broken wrist and possible broken ankle).
The Race was red flagged and restarted after about a 20 min delay Edwards got away best followed by Haga who got a brilliant start off the forth row that saw him move from 15th to 2nd on the first lap. Bayliss soon took the lead as Edwards suffered some problem that saw him go almost in reverse from 1st to 7th in a very short time.
Edwards said in the press release ,\"I must have burnt the clutch out on the start or something - I couldn\'t downshift,\" he said. \"I felt it first on the first lap, I went to go down three gears into a left and it didn¹t go, I ran wide and held on as best as I could.\" As for the crash, Edwards said, \"My crash in the first start was one of those things. Hodgson ran over the curb and I had nowhere to go. I got lucky and escaped injury.\"
Bayliss was followed by Haga, Chilli, Walker, Hodgeson and Slight. As Bayliss slowly pulled out a lead Walker improved up to 2nd followed by Hodgson. Hodgson caught and passed Walker and set out after Bayliss grabbing the lead with two laps to go , only to have Bayliss take it back on the last lap. Walker took the third place.
Aaron Slight took 7th place. \"I had a gearbox problem,\" Slight said in a Castrol Honda press release. \"It just kept falling out of gear, I haven\'t a clue why it started doing that. It was holding me up a lot, I\'m sure I could have finished a lot higher.\"
In the Ducati Bostrom /Borja duel Borja came home in 11th place ahead of Bostrom\'s 15th.
In the points race at the end of race one . Edwards had 271, Corser 257, Haga, 243, with Chilli the best of the rest on 198. The Manufactures point Ducati 308, Honda 284, Yaaha 269, and Aprillia 262.
Race One:
Brands Hatch Race Two
Snap! As in Race one race two was red flagged when Troy Corser was high sided and took Yanagawa out with him. Corser did not line up for the restart At the first corner it was Bayliss, Edwards,and Hodgson. Haga again got a flyer and went from 15th to fourth in the first half lap.
Hodgson set out after Bayliss straight away and by lap 3 had passed Edwards and Bayliss taking the lead. Haga Walker and Chilli made up the chasing bunch. The two Ducatis however made a break on the rest with Edwards being left in a lonely 3rd place.
Hodgson opened up an ever increasing gap on Bayliss, and the race became one for third place between Edwards , Chilli ,Haga, Chilli eventually claiming the 3rd place after a hard fought battle.
Slight crashed out while in 9th place, Bostrom pulled into the pits to get a new rear tyre, he rejoins the race. Borja crashes out on lap 13.
On lap 20 Yanagawa was all over Edwards who again was suffering from machine trouble.
Hodgson was pulling out half a second a lap over Bayliss for a 7 second lead at the finish
Championship points at end of race two, Edwards 281, Corser 257, Haga 256, Chilli 214, Bayliss 187.
Race two
