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(Right) The races for second piece were hotly contested, especlelly In the second rece. Anthony Gobert leeds John Reynolds, Colin Edwerds, Troy Corser end Yesutomo Negelln their pursuit of Fogerty. (Below) John Reynolds wes ester in his home race. finishing fourth end third In the two reces. be wise to race in these conditions," he said. "Once the race got underway, my foot hurt a lot, but I managed to put my problems out of my mind and go for it. Everything went well, but I noticed Troy (Corser) only some five laps before the end. I couldn't keep him behind me in the closing stages." ' Edwards secured fifth with Slight taking ninth, again struggling with handling problems. "Catching up with people is OK," Slight said. "But getting past them is a problem: To get in front, you have to outbrake them, which is impossible in my case. So I tried to ride a steady race. On the last laps, things got quite hectic, and when (Fabrizio) Pirovano tried to outbrake everybody, I almost got off the track" Simon Crafar finished 10th, after having overcome a bad start and struggling with too soft a tire that "went off too fast." RACE TWO In the second heat, Gobert was once again one of the few inen able to challenge the World Champion. The Australian Kawasaki rider stayed ahead of Fogarty for about half a lap. After that, Fogarty once again took over. This time, (Right) Colin Edwards II (45) and Anthony Gobert (H) battle In the second race. Edwards ended up second, the best result of his rookie season. tor, who had assured him that starting lights would be used. But the lights didn't seem to work and only a few seconds before things actually got under way that guy started to wave the Union Jack, I missed the start completely and as it was pretty crowded up front, with a lot of fairings banging, it took a while before things cleared up and I got a shot at the leading men. The bike setup gave us some problems because of the bumps." Gobert was somewhat disappointed after having second place on the last lap. "Yesterday, I was wondering if it would however, the gap between the red Ducati and a following group consisting of Kawasaki riders Gobert and Reynolds and the Yamaha duo of Nagai and Edwards didn't grow as easily as Fogarty may have wanted - partly because of ome handling problems with the number-one Ducati. "The front caused me some problems," Fogarty said later. "But these were only minor. The only scare 1 had was on the last lap, when I started to wave to the crowd, and at one moment was pretty surprised to see Colin (EdwarQs) and his mates getting really dose behind." For a fong while, the green machines seemed to be in control in the battle for second, but things changed dramatically when Edwards and Nagai put on a final charge that moved them past the Kawasakis. Edwards notched a career-best second place, and Nagai camooome third. "Finally everything came together," the happy Texan said. "The bike had been working very we1lin the first heat, so I only changed one click on the rebound setting, The first few laps I gave myself some time to get comfortable in that leading group. There were