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,. .... beca use several st rategic parts of th e m ach in e were in a sta te of meltdown and t he h e av il y smok i ng m a c h in e would not restart. Th e app eal was th rown out. In race two the Aprilia team suffered the ir first genuine breakdown ri ght at the start of the race, when Corser finally got squeezed out of th e reckoning . " W h e n the y stripp ed d own t he eng ine after it stopped in race two , they fo und petrol inside it, so wh atever was wrong caused that to happen." Cors er said . "Th is is abo ut the wo rst day of the season , with th e possible excepti on of Brands Hatch last time. All we can do now i s consoli da te o u r posi tion at Brands Hatch . Congratula tio ns to Colin. He's ridden well in a lot of races this year." B ayli ss , ha v in g another good day after his A ssen no -scores, was a fu lly !Above) Chili (7) leads Gregorio Lavilla (6) and Troy Bayliss (21) in race one. Lavilla had h is best outing of the year after returning from early season Injuries, finishing second. (Left) Noriyukl Haga (41) had a weekend he'd rather forget. He crashed his factory Yamaha R7 in Superpole and was forced to start both races fro m 16th on the grid. From there, Haga fi ni sh ed ninth and f ifth In the two races. Peter Goddard (14) , meanwhile, had to come in for a st op- a nd-go penalty in the first race , ru in ing any chance of a good ra ce resu lt. why. His fitness was back to near normal. "I knew I could reach to the top rid ers," the Spaniard said . " I got into a good rhythm, especially in race two , but I h ad sp i nning r ear t i r es a nd Ak ira [Yanagawa] was to o stro ng at the end to let me get tw o podiums in one day. Th is is th e firs t race all ye ar when I have been fit and I am still not 100% in co ndi tio n. Right now I am very tired. but I was okay in the races." charged racing machine, on ly outpaced by Edwards. "I had a pain fro m a pulled muscle or something in my chest , but it didn't affect m e in the races." the Australian said . "T he bike was really fast, but I really tried to catch Coli n and win - but I cou ldn't do it." Ragg ed and sli ding wildly in rac e tw o , Bayli ss him self ap pea red to beat him self into th ird , whil e allowing Grego rio Lavilla into second in rac e one. Th e Au ssie, though, is maybe the only m an looking forward to the next race for its own sake , bei ng the reign in g Brit ish Cha m pion and all. "I didn't win here, but I'm really co nfident for Brand s," Bayliss said. "It co uld even be snowing t here co me m id-O cto ber , and the tra ck surface will be prett y cold anyway so I could have an advan tage having raced there in all weathers." Lavilla though was in quite devastating form, and gave a sim ple reason Edwards (2) got the early jump in race two and went on to lead every la p, eventually w inning by over four seconds. He had been threatening to take double wins all year - b ut hadn't do ne so since the first race of the season in South Africa. c ue I e n e _ S • S EP T EM B ER 20 . 2000 7