Around the Premier League Tracks 2007

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Wednesday, 1 August

Two Premier League matches were raced tonight. At King’s Lynn the Stars raced against Berwick while at Birmingham the Brummies took on Newcastle.


Premier League: King’s Lynn 64, Berwick 28 King’s Lynn won the aggregate bonus point by 110-72


King’s Lynn were back at full strength but Berwick were missing Stanislaw Burza and Andreas Bergstrom. They used Rider Replacement at number 4 in place of Burza and had Tomas Suchanek as a guest in place of Bergstrom at number 2.

Having lost at home to the Stars the bonus point looked a lost cause for the Bandits. They started badly losing the opening race 5-1 to Topinka and Mills and looked like doing the same in heat 2 when Brundle and Compton led after Meldrum had fallen on the first lap and remounted. However, Compton then fell on the third lap and the race was awarded as a 3-3. Daniel Nermark and Paul Lee added another 5-1 in heat 3 after Lee had passed a struggling Jacek Rempala but another fall by Benji Compton in heat 4 resulted in another shared race when Trevor Harding passed early race leader, Michal Makovsky, on the second lap. This took the score to 16-8.

Heat 5 produced another 5-1 to the home side, the third in five heats, as Nermark and Lee repeated their heat 3 result although Sebastian Truminski was more on the pace and kept Paul Lee focused. The Stars added another two points to their lead with a 4-2 in heat 7. Trevor Harding passed Makovsky again to win the race while Brundle finished third ahead of Rempala. Mills and Compton, who stayed on this time, added another 5-1 in heat 8 to take the score to 35-13.

The 5-1 blitz continued in heat 9 as Nermark and Lee made it three on the trot as a pairing to open a 26 point lead. At last in heat 10, Berwick produced a race winner. Jacek Rempala made the gate and Topinka could do nothing about it. Chris Mills took third place so the race was shared as was heat 11, won by Trevor Harding. James Brundle was excluded in the first running of the race and was excluded. Then Tomas Suchanek was excluded from the rerun for failing to meet the two minute time allowance so he was replaced by Sam Martin. In heat 12 Jacek Rempala took a Tactical Ride but finished second behind Daniel Nermark. Benji Compton finished third so the heat was shared 4-4 taking the score to 50-24.

Trevor Harding completed a full four ride maximum and, together with Tomas Topinka, added a 5-1 in heat 13. Paul Lee and Brundle then added the Stars’ eighth 5-1 in heat 14. In heat 15 Daniel Nermark completed his full five ride maximum but Jacek Rempala prevented Trevor Harding from doing likewise by holding on to second place as the Stars finished with a 4-2 for a 36 point win.

Scorers: For King’s Lynn – Daniel Nermark 15 (5)(full maximum), Trevor Harding 13 (5), Tomas Topinka 10+1 (4), Paul Lee 9+3 (4)(paid maximum), Chris Mills 8+ (4), James Brundle 6+1 (4), Benji Compton 3+1 (4).

For Berwick – Jacek Rempala 9 (5)(with 4 point TR), Michal Makovsky 7 (6), Sam Martin 5+1 (6), Sebastian Truminski 3 (4), David Meldrum 2+2 (5), Tomas Suchanek 2 (5).



Premier League: Birmingham 57, Newcastle 36.


Birmingham were at full strength. Newcastle had Simon Lambert as a guest in place of the injured Adam McKinna at number 6.

Birmingham got off to a flying start with a 5-1 from Ulrich Ostergaard and Ben Powell after both the home riders passed early leader Christian Henry when the Diamonds’ number 1 made a mess of the fourth bend. Manuel Hauzinger won heat 2 from Sean Stoddart while Lee Smart was third for a 4-2. Birmingham then scored another 5-1 from Jason Lyons and Henrik Moller in heat 3 after Ross Brady had been excluded from the race for tape touching and replaced by Sean Stoddart. Newcastle provided their first race winner in heat 4 when Jonas Raun beat Emiliano Sanchez. Hauzinger’s third place meant a shared race taking the score to 17-7.

The home side added another two points to their lead in heat 5 as Jason Lyons won from Carl Wilkinson. Henrik Moller took third while Christian Henry fell at the back. Heat 6, won by Ostergaard was shared then Josef Franc took a TR in heat 7. He won it by beating Sanchez and Smart and Newcastle scored a 3-6. The Brummies added two more points to their lead with a 4-2 in heat 8. In this heat Carl Wilkinson fell challenging Ben Powell for second place behind Manuel Hauzinger. Ben Powell slowed expecting the race to be stopped and Sean Stoddart took advantage to slip through to second place. This took the score to 31-20.

Lyons and Moller added another 5-1 for the home side in heat 9 but the next two races both went to Newcastle. Jason Franc lowered Ulrich Ostergaard’s colours in heat 10 while Brady finished third for a 2-4 then Carl Wilkinson and Christian Henry threatened to add a 1-5 in heat 11 until Emiliano Sanchez passed Henry to limit the damage to a 2-4. Jason Lyons won heat 12 completing a four ride full maximum beating Josef Franc and Manuel Hauzinger took third for a 4-2 taking the score to 44-31.

Newcastle needed to keep it tight to have any chance for the bonus point but conceded two 5-1s in heats 13 and 14. Ostergaard won heat 13 and Sanchez passed Henry again for the first maximum then Moller and Smart headed home Ross Brady for the second. A rerun heat 13 saw Josef Franc ruin Jason Lyons’ maximum hopes by winning the race. Ulrich Ostergaard was third to share the race and the Brummies had secured a 21 lead to take to Brough Park in search of the bonus point.

Scorers: For Birmingham – Jason Lyons 14 (5), Ulrich Ostergaard 12 (5), Henrik Moller 8+3 (4), Emiliano Sanchez 8+1 (4), Manuel Hauzinger 8+1 (4), Lee Smart 4+2 (4), Ben Powell 3+1 (4).

For Newcastle – Josef Franc 15 (5)(with 6 point TR), Jonas Raun 6 (4), Carl Wilkinson 5 (5), Sean Stoddart 4 (4), Christian Henry 3 (4), Ross Brady 2 (4), Simon Lambert 1+1 (5).