Redcar Bears v Edinburgh Monarchs

REPORT Thursday 12th April 2007, 10:00pm

by Mike Hunter

  Edinburgh Monarchs

At Redcar we contributed to a decent match, with most of our riders doing something, but too much inconsistency ruled out any chance of a win.

For true inconsistency, beat this ? in William Lawson?s second ride he finished behind Courtney, which was Jamie?s only point. In William?s third ride, he beat Gary Havelock!

That to some extent was true of most of the team, other than Matt Wethers who had a real off night, and Andrew Tully who was good all the time!

First drama of the evening came in the pits when Henrik Moller?s bike went on fire. He didn?t have a machine on parade and rode his second bike, which had an old Frede Schott engine in it!

After a shared opener (Moller passing Giffard), Andrew started his evening with a great burst round the outside of the first corner to lead Derek home.

Redcar levelled in the next race through the powerful Grieves/Kerr combination, and the same pair were too powerful for our opening pair in heat 5. Ronnie was pushed very wide by Kerr on the first turn and never recovered.

Another disappointing maximum reverse followed when Wethers and Sneddon were passed by Giffard.

Daniele Tessari couldn?t start his bike for heat 7, and emerged eventually on Henrik?s bike. Suddenly we saw the real Tessari ? a fast start and a great race against the flying Matt Tresarrieu, who just squeezed past on the last lap.

Henrik had looked quite effective so far, though with only two thirds, and he was a good choice as TR in a weakfish heat 8, winning easily. Andrew?s third gave us a 7-2 and pulled the score back to 23-28.

Immediately Grieves and Kerr rattled in their third 5-1. Then came heat 10, the Lawson victory, a great race with Havelock which looked as though Havvy might have got up on the line round the outside. But William took the verdict.

Two heats with home reserves followed, both shared, then Ronnie gave Tresarrieu his first defeat by taking second in heat 13.

Kerr won heat 14, giving him a paid 12 from 4, and he was in with Greives again for heat 15 against Ronnie and William.

This time Ronnie off gate one was away well, driving up the back straight in front. Kerr tried a wide pits turn, but lifted and fell.

He was excluded, and Ronnie did it again in the rerun, with William keeping the pressure on James Grieves all the way.

The final score of 51-42 was a lower margin than all 26 predictions on the Monarchs? Chatzone ? one predictor had us scoring 28.

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