BRITISH SPEEDWAY JULY 11, 2023

(SPEEDWAY 1)

TIGERS CLAW THEIR WAY TO VICTORY

SHEFFIELD collected maximum points against Ipswich in a dramatic finale at Owlerton as the aggregate point was decided in a Super Heat.
The Tigers were only four-up with four races remaining, but they collected 5-1s in Heats 12 and 14 to win the Sports Insure Premiership match 51-39 – mirroring the result from Foxhall last month.

Witches star Emil Sayfutdinov won Heat 15 but his team-mate Jason Doyle was penalised for touching the tapes – and with the aggregate scores level, another win for Sayfudtinov was not enough as Jack Holder and Tobiasz Muiselak held Doyle at bay in the Super Heat.

Holder and Musielak but scored 11+1 for Sheffield with reserve Kyle Howarth on 12+3, taking extra rides after Lewis Kerr was ruled out with a collarbone injury from a Heat 1 fall. Sayfudtinov racked up 16+1 for the Witches.
Tigers manager Simon Stead said: “We knew the importance of the result. We were desperate to maximise the amount of points we were taking out of the meeting, and we managed to do that.

“We knew that it was going to be tough and at one stage, we were struggling to gain any distance at all.
“Losing Lewi wasn’t ideal; juggling races and trying to maximise what we’d got from each and every heat. It was difficult, but credit to the lads, they pulled together, and they knew what they needed to do.”

Witches boss Ritchie Hawkins said: “I am extremely disappointed; we were in the meeting longer than we were last time we were here, but we dropped away again at the end.
“To even lose the aggregate point is dreadful, and obviously it really hurts our chances of making the top four.
“Everyone is leaving here very disappointed, but we go again on Thursday. We have got to pick ourselves up for that and keep fighting. We owe it to everyone and ourselves to keep fighting for the rest of the season and that is what we will do.”

(SPEEDWAY 2)

WOLVERHAMPTON fought back from six points down to edge out Belle Vue 47-43 in an incident-packed Sports Insure Premiership match at Monmore Green.
The Aces led 33-27 after Heat 10 but the meeting began to turn in the next race when No.1 Dan Bewley was involved in a spectacular collision with home reserve Zach Cook.

Both riders walked away but Bewley did not race again as a precaution and Wolves levelled with a 5-1 in Heat 13 – with the Aces then hit by mechanical trouble for Charles Wright in Heat 14 and Jaimon Lidsey just prior to the last race.
Sam Masters won the decider for Wolves with Rory Schlein third, although the league leaders did take consolation with the aggregate point to go eight points clear at the top.

Wolves boss Peter Adams said: “We were glad to get over the line, obviously, because they’re a tough team to beat.
“We were a bit asleep at the start in a few of the earlier races, but we had a bit of a get-together halfway through and they got it together when it mattered, that’s not the first time that’s happened here.”

Belle Vue skipper Brady Kurtz said: “Losing Dan in Heat 11 was a massive blow for us. It was just a racing incident and the fact that he was able to walk away, and Zach too, was a big relief.
“Then both Charles and Jaimon having bike problems in both their final rides compounded the damage but we kept the pressure on right to the end.
“Had we been at full strength going into Heat 15 I believe we could’ve won, and this result just proves that we can be just as strong around here as Wolves are.”
 
(FIXTURES)

TUESDAY JULY 11:
CAB DIRECT CHAMPIONSHIP: Plymouth v Glasgow OFF

WEDNESDAY JULY 12:
CAB DIRECT CHAMPIONSHIP: Birmingham (26) v Glasgow (64) 7.30, Oxford v Edinburgh 7.30, Poole v Berwick 7.30

THURSDAY JULY 13:
SPORTS INSURE PREMIERSHIP R1: Peterborough (23) v Sheffield (37) 7.30
SPORTS INSURE PREMIERSHIP R2: Ipswich v Belle Vue 7.30