Around the Premier League Tracks 2007
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Saturday, 18 August

There were five meetings scheduled today but three of them were wiped out by the rain and one was abandoned after eight heats. The survivor, but only just, was the meeting at Berwick where they ran the 40th Anniversary Meeting which had been rained off some weeks ago. The match at Mildenhall between the Fen Tigers and Newport was the one which was abandoned while the meetings at Rye House, Stoke and Workington were all early casualties to the weather.


Premier League: Mildenhall 30, Newport 18 match abandoned after 8 heats – the result does not stand.

Mildenhall and Newport were both at full strength.


When this match started the rain had stopped but by heat 6 it had started again and by heat 8 the track was unraceable so the meeting was abandoned leaving both teams having to do it all again at a later day.

Shaun Tacey and Tom P Madsen got the meeting underway with an easy 5-1 for the Fen Tigers but heat 2 there was a collision on the first bend between Barry Burchatt and Tomas Suchanek which caused a delay before the rerun with all four back could be raced. This had to be stopped too when Nick Simmons and Mark Baseby collided causing another all four back rerun in which Burchatt streaked from the gate while Tomas Suchanek suffered an engine failure at the tapes. Mark Baseby passed Simmons for second place so the Wasps had to settle for a 2-4. Paul Fry and Kyle Legault team rode round in heat 3 for a 5-1 opening a six point lead but Barry Burchatt made another fast start to win heat 4 from Jason King. Chris Schramm finished third for another 2-4 to the visitors and the score now stood at 14-10.

Another Legault/Fry 5-1 in heat 5 put the Fen Tigers eight ahead and the lead stretched to 12 points when Tacey and Madsen repeated the score in heat 6. Phil Morris managed a second place in heat 7 behind Jason King while Tony Atkin finished third for a shared race then, in heat 8, with the conditions deteriorating badly, another lightning start by Barry Burchatt produced another race` win for him and a shared race. The score now stood at 30-18 and the meeting was called off.

Scorers: For Mildenhall – Shaun Tacey 7+1 (3), Kyle Legault 5+1 (2), Paul Fry 5+1 (2), Jason King 5 (2), Tom P Madsen 4+2 (2), Mark Baseby 2 (2), Tomas Suchanek 2 (3).

For Newport – Barry Burchatt 9 (3), Phil Morris 3 (2), Chris Schramm 2 (2), Tony Atkin 1+1 (2), Michal Rajkowski 1 (2), Nick Simmons 1 (2), Tom Hedley 1 (3).



40th Anniversary Meeting at: Berwick

Winner: Kevin Doolan

Second: Chris Holder

Third: Michal Makovsky

This was another rain affected meeting as Berwick again had little luck in the staging of their 40th Anniversary Meeting. This time they did manage to run it but the rain fell throughout the meeting.

The format of this Individual meeting was a 12 rider, twelve heats affair with the top two scorers seeded directly to the final and the next four to a semi-final from which the first and second completed the final line-up.

At the end of the twelve qualifying heats the unbeaten Chris Holder and Kevin Doolan were the top two so went straight to the final. The semi-final consisted of Craig Watson, Josef Franc, Michal Makovsky and Jacek Rempala, three of them Berwick or former Berwick riders. However, it was Glasgow’s Craig Watson who won the race from Michal Makovsky to join Holder and Doolan in the final which was won by Doolan from Holder with Makovsky third.

Scorers from the qualifying heats: Chris Holder 12 (4), Kevin Doolan 11 (4), Craig Watson 10 (4), Josef Franc 9 (4), Michal Makovsky 8 (4), Jacek Rempala 7 (4), Matej Kus 5 (4), Casper Wortmann 4 (4), Kozza Smith 3 (4), Andrew Moore 1 (2), Kalle Katajisto 1 (4), Stanislaw Burza 1 (4).