BRITISH SPEEDWAY OCTOBER 11

Date: Monday October 11, 2021

(SPEEDWAY 1)

CHAMPIONSHIP leaders Poole have chosen to face the winners of the Leicester/Scunthorpe tie in the play-offs semi-finals.
Delays at the quarter-final stage mean the last four line-up will not be finalised until Tuesday, but the Pirates have pushed ahead with their choice as they will stage their home leg of the semi on Wednesday.

Co-promoter Danny Ford said: “I am sure many will think we are brave in going for the winners of this one, but to be honest whichever side we chose it is going to need two good performances to make it into the Final.

“With Leicester looking strong favourites we spoke with our lads who have been patiently waiting for the quarter-finals to be resolved, and the general consensus is that if Leicester made it through then we would go for them as, on aggregate, we have a very good record this season against them and we will be looking to draw on some of the experience we picked up during the Cup semi-final.

“But even if Scunthorpe were to pull off an amazing recovery, and we had to meet them, there can be absolutely no doubt that we need to be on our best game on Wednesday.”
Poole’s selection means the other semi-final will see Glasgow face the winners of the Edinburgh/Redcar tie.

(SPEEDWAY 2)

GLASGOW took control of their Championship KO Cup semi-final with a 53-37 win over Edinburgh at Ashfield.

The home side built up a 12-point advantage with four heat advantages in the first six races, and also finished strongly by taking a 5-1 and a 4-2 from the last two.

Craig Cook led the way with 11+1 for the Tigers and Tom Brennan added an impressive 11, whist Sam Masters scored 11+1 for the Monarchs and Kye Thomson picked up 9+1.
Brennan said: “A lot of hard work has gone into that tonight and it’s definitely been a long time coming for me.
“Every team has their ups and downs, every team can have a really good meeting and then will probably have a poor meeting, that’s the way speedway works. But I think you can now see the momentum building and that should take us all the way to the Final.”

Thomson said: “It’s not ideal – they ran away with it from the start. We tried to fight back, but for some of the boys the bikes were going nowhere.
“We’ll just need to try our best in the second leg and see what happens.”

(FIXTURES)

TUESDAY OCTOBER 12:
CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF Q/F 2nd leg: Edinburgh v Redcar 7.30, Leicester v Scunthorpe 7.30
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE: Kent v Leicester 6.30

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 13:
CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF S/F 1st leg: Poole v Leicester/Scunthorpe 7.30