Around the Premier League Tracks 2007

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Wednesday, 15 August

There should have been two Premier League matches raced tonight but, once again, the weather intervened to cause the postponement of the match at [b][color=red] King’s Lynn where the Stars were due to race against Workington. The match at Birmingham where Berwick were the visitors did take place after the track staff had worked on the track following the afternoon rain.


Premier League: Birmingham 59, Berwick 33 Birmingham won the aggregate bonus point by 111- 73


Birmingham were at full strength while Berwick had Lee Complin as a guest at number 3 in place of Jacek Rempala who was racing in the Polish Championship.


Having lost at home by 12 points to Birmingham last Saturday night the bonus was a thing of dreams for Berwick. Tonight they were no match for the Brummies and only a puncture for Henning Bager in heat 15 prevented the home side from topping 60 points.

This match seems to have been a bit of a secret since there’s not much information to be gleaned about it anywhere.

What is known is that the Brummies rocketed into a 17-7 lead after heat 4 after Emiliano Sanchez had passed both Berwick riders in heat 4 to join Ben Powell for a 5-1. Berwick recovered to keep the gap down to 10 points over the next three heats assisted by a Tactical Ride for Lee Complin who finished second in heat 7 to Emiliano Sanchez. A 4-2 advantage to the home side in the next race took the score after heat 8 to 31-19.

Birmingham then pulled away with back to back 5-1s in heat 9 and 10 to increase their lead to 20 points and another four points were added to the lead over the next two heats to take the score after 12 heats to 49-25.

However the Bandits produced some late resistance through two race wins for Michal Makovsky in heat 13 and 15 the latter producing a 2-4 Bandits’ advantage when Andreas Bergstrom finished third behind Ben Powell while in-between they lost another 5-1 to Henrik Moller and Lee Smart.

It was a fine performance from Ben Powell the Brummies’ reserve who won his first four races in his paid 15 point return earning him a nomination for a heat 15 ride. Berwick’s cause was not helped by a failure of either reserve to beat a home rider while Stanislaw Burza also had a disappointing match.

Scorers: For Birmingham – Ben Powell 14+1 (6), Jason Lyons 10 (4), Emiliano Sanchez 9+2 (4), Henrik Moller 8+2 (4), Henning Bager 8+1 (5), Lee Smart 7 (x), Manuel Hauzinger 3+2 (x).

For Berwick – Michal Makovsky 10 (5), Lee Complin 9 (4)(with 4 point TR), Andreas Bergstrom 6 (5), Theo Pijper 5 (4), Stanislaw Burza 2+1 (4), Sam Martin 1 (4), Dave Meldrum 0 (4).