(SPEEDWAY 1 - MONDAY REVIEW)
SCUNTHORPE climbed off the foot of the Premier League table with a 49-41 win over local rivals Sheffield on Monday.The Eddie Wright Raceway staged the only league meeting of an otherwise wet Bank Holiday, with remedial work to the track allowing racing to begin after a half-hour delay.Theo Pijper was top-scorer for the Scorpions with 11 points from four rides whilst Leigh Lanham picked up 10+1 on his debut. New Sheffield No.1 Jason Garrity won three races on his way to 12 points for the Tigers.Scunthorpe boss Dave Peet said: “It's nice to move off the bottom; to be honest, I don't feel we've deserved to be down there, but we've had a lot of back luck this year. The team spirit and determination of this side is not one that deserves to finish bottom.“But we're not going to get giddy. We have a job to do in the crucial meeting against Redcar on Friday, to consolidate our position.”Sheffield co-promoter Damien Bates said: “The track was really wet to start with, and gating was vital early on although it did dry out and we got some good racing as the meeting went on. Fair play to Rob (Godfrey) and all the track staff at Scunthorpe, they did a fantastic job to just get the meeting on."The track conditions weren't ideal and I think that went against us a little bit, in normal conditions I think we could well have got a win.”The second half of Scunthorpe’s meeting saw 14-year-old Jack Parkinson-Blackburn crowned Midland Development League Riders’ Champion.Parkinson-Blackburn, who turns 15 later this week and is set to have National League outings for Buxton, defeated Layne Cupitt, Callum Walker and Alex Wilson in the Final.Buxton boss Jason Pipe said: “Before the meeting started I was very nervous for Jack, but I knew he'd be able to handle himself and cope well with the occasion! He has a very good team of people helping him out in the pits who know what they are doing, which is a very big help to him.“As his Buxton team manager, I'm very proud of him tonight and I'm so looking forward to watching him win more races and trophies in the future. He deserves to be MDL Champion after the way he's being riding in MDL meetings.”
(SPEEDWAY 2 - TUESDAY PREVIEW)
KING’S Lynn will look to move back into the top four of the Elite League with victory in their hastily-arranged clash with Leicester at the Adrian Flux Arena on Tuesday.The Stars dropped out of the play-off places with Belle Vue’s home win on Tuesday but can reclaim their place with a win of their own in their penultimate home match.Lynn boss Rob Lyon said: “If we are to get in the play-offs we need to win, nothing less will do really. “Our destiny is in our own hands and the boys know that. We need to come together as a team, club and unit to make sure we reach our goal of a top four finish.”
(SPEEDWAY 3)
THE draw has been made for the Perryman’s British Under-19 Final at Berwick on Saturday September 12.With two rounds of the Mitas British Youth Championship having been postponed, the winner of that series has yet to be decided, so the Young Lions Management have announced that the winner of the first three rounds, Jack Parkinson-Blackburn, will get the wild card for the Under-19 Final.There has been one other change to the original line up with Cradley’s Nathan Greaves still not recovered from a broken leg, meaning Kings Lynn’s Layne Cupitt comes into the line-up for a meeting supported by the Speedway Riders’ Association.DRAW: 1 Connor Mountain (Mildenhall), 2 Luke Ruddick (Mildenhall), 3 Josh Bailey (King’s Lynn Young Stars), 4 Max Clegg (Edinburgh/Cradley), 5 Danyon Hume (Rye House Raiders), 6 Zach Wajtknecht (Birmingham), 7 Michael Neale (Cradley), 8 Alfie Bowtell (Rye House Raiders), 9 Layne Cupitt (King’s Lynn Young Stars) 10 Ellis Perks (Cradley), 11 Alex Wilson (Birmingham), 12 Jack Parkinson-Blackburn (Buxton No.8), 13 Josh Bates (Wolverhampton/Sheffield), 14 Danny Phillips (Stoke), 15 Ryan Kinsley (King’s Lynn Young Stars), 16 Liam Carr (Berwick/Buxton). Reserves: 17 Ben Basford (Kent No.8), 18 Kieron Douglas (Berwick).The format of the meeting will be a full 20-heat individual with the top two scorers going straight to the Final, with the next four competing in the semi-final from which the first and second placed riders will also go into the Final, from which the Champion will be decided.
(FIXTURES)
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1:ELITE LEAGUE: King’s Lynn v Leicester 7.30
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 2:ELITE LEAGUE: Coventry v Swindon 7.30, Poole v King’s Lynn 7.30CITY GEARBOXES NATIONAL LEAGUE: Birmingham v Eastbourne 7.30, King’s Lynn v Kent 7.30
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3:ELITE LEAGUE: Leicester v Poole 7.30, Swindon v Coventry 7.30PREMIER LEAGUE: Redcar v Workington 7.30LEAGUE CUP SEMI-FINAL 2nd leg: Ipswich v Edinburgh 7.30
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4:ELITE LEAGUE: Coventry v Leicester 7.30PREMIER LEAGUE: Scunthorpe v Redcar 7.30, Plymouth v Berwick 7.15TRAVEL PLUS TOURS KO CUP S/F 1st leg: Edinburgh v Newcastle 7.30CHALLENGE: Somerset Select v Exeter Select 7.30
