Edwards finishes 2000 season in style.

Colin Edwards held off a determined challenge from Neil Hodgson and Pier Francesco Chili to take his seventh win of the 2000 season and end his Championship winning year on a high note.

Edwards withstood some intense pressure from Chili in the closing laps after Hodgson's INS Ducati suffered an oil leak just seven laps from home. Edwards and Hodgson had thrilled the packed Brands Hatch crowd for the first 15 laps as they fought for the lead as Chili, Troy Corser, John Reynolds and Troy Bayliss battled for third. Chili's Suzuki was stronger in the second half of the 25 lap race and the Italian was able to pull away from the second bunch and close in on the leaders.

The final step on the podium was finally taken by Corser who held off Race One winner Reynolds by two seconds after a race-long duel while Gregorio Lavilla completed the top five on the leading Kawasaki. Bayliss fell out of contention at Druids on lap eight and fell to sixth in the Championship behind Chili and Akira Yanagawa, who came home seventh, as a result.

Chris Walker was sixth on the National Tyres Suzuki but only after James Haydon crashed at Druids on the final lap while Aaron Slight's World Superbike career came to an end with eighth position. Katsuaki Fujiwara and Ben Bostrom, both unsure of their 2001 situation, rounded out the top ten.

Full report to follow.