Belle Vue kept their feint playoff hopes alive
with a demolition job of the reigning league champions the Poole Pirates at
Kirkmanshulme Lane Monday Night, as the Aces gave the south coast side a
champion like beating with the home side firing on all cylinders in the meeting
and was led by the British GP Wildcard entry for this weekend Grand prix at the
Millenium Stadiun in Cardiff in Craig Cook. The Cumbrian man top scored with 11+1
to help his side to victory.
The opening race saw Poole's Australian rider
Darcy Ward take the race win as he was put under pressure by Matej Zagar for
the full four laps, but saw Ward managed to hold on to lead and beat a fellow
GP rider in the process.
Belle Vue welcomed back reserve Stefan
Nielsen from his recent injury and saw the Danish born rider win the first reserves
race of the meeting, ahead of the Pirates duo of Ben Hopwood and Adam Ellis to
see another shared heat and keep the score level.
Maciej Janowski and Scott Nicholls then had battle
in heat 3 which saw Janowski made to work for his race win and saw the sides
level still as Cook held third place. Poole's Josh Grajczonek then took an easy
win in heat 4 to see the score move onto 12 all and in Heat 5 finally we saw
the deadlock broken, with Craig Cook and Matej Zagar scoring a massive 5-1 over
Poole`s Polish riders Przemyslaw Pawlicki and Vaclav Milik, as the Slovenian
swooped by Milik to see him join his team mate at the front and ride onto
victory.
Scott Nicholls then rode a brilliant captains
race, when the Belle Vue man came under stern pressure from Darcy Ward and
Maciej Janowski and saw Ward who was getting a lot of speed down the straights become
a cropper on the end of lap 2, as the Pirates number one took a fall on the
third and fourth bend to see him come off and hit the air fence pretty hard and
saw him excluded from the re-run.
Nicholls and guesting for the Aces
in place of Richie Worrall who is nursing a broken bone in his foot, saw
Edinburgh Monarchs rider Max Fricke pick up a third place finish for 4-2 heat
advantage and see the Aces increase their lead to six points after 6 heats gone
in the contest.
Vaclav Milik then popped out of the outside gate,
which has been ridiculously advantageous to every rider that has come off the
golden gate 4 this season and saw Milik do what many riders have done and that
was take the race win ahead of Dane Michael Palm Toft and Lee Payne, with the
home riders packing the minor places to avoid the visitors clawing back any
points back.
Heat 8 saw a shock winner in guest rider
Max Fricke with the 18 year old Aussie fly out of the gate and do well to hold
off the strong Poole riders in Pawlicki and former Aces rider and
Tameside-based Josh Grajczonek.
In the second reserves race of the meeting it saw
the home side picking up a 5-1 heat victory after guest for the Pirates in Adam
Ellis, saw him falling off in the original race and getting excluded. Heat 9
was re run and saw Stefan Nielsen show his liking to the Belle Vue circuit more
and more as he took the win ahead of team mate Lee Payne to secure another
maximum race win for the home side and move the score onto 32-22.
Poole Pirates team manager Neil
Middleditch then put the Black & White helmet colour on Pawlicki, as he
came in out as tactical going for double points in the following race. For a
part of the race it seemed like Poole were going to pick up a 7-2 race
advantage, but Matej Zagar had other ideas and swooped right round Pawlicki by
the fence to use the extra dirt line to fire him by the Pole and take victory.
It meant the Pirates had to settle for a 5-3 with
Zagar finishing first and the Pirates packing the minor places as Pawlicki scored
4 points instead of the 6 Poole wanted. Vaclav Milik took his second race win
of the night, after he came off the superior gate four in which propelled him
to victory and had Scott Nicholls and Craig Cook chasing shadows as the Pirates
rider came up big for the win for his team.
Belle Vue increased their lead with a
Danish feel about it, with Nielsen and Palm-Toft finishing ahead of Adam Ellis
to pick up a 5-1 and secure the meeting as Josh Grajczonek bike packed up on
the starting gate and saw the Pirates in trouble.
Heat 13 saw the traditional big guns come out for
both side and seen the hometown Aces bang in another 5-1 through Cook and Zagar,
with the home side riding away to victory with Ward not looking himself since
his fall in heat 6 after he took a heavy bang into the air fence.
Vaclav Milik once more won his heat, but
Fricke made him work for it as the young Aussie got out of the tapes quicker
than that of the Poole rider, but saw Milik come up the inside of him on the
back straight to move into first and held back the challenge of the guest to
see the Pirates get a 4-2 with Ben Hopwood coming third ahead of Lee Payne.
Heat 15 saw the nominated race and for the Aces
it was Craig Cook and Scott Nicholls up against the Poole pairing of Milik and
Pawlicki. Poole was racing for pride now and was hoping to end the meeting on a
high with the Aces out trumping them in the match. It saw the race stopped on
three occasions, all due to first bend bunching and on each occasion it saw
Milik coming off the bike.
When the race did eventually get going, it
saw Cook get out ahead of Pawlicki and saw the Pole trying to get near to the
Cumbrian man, but Cook just knew the right lines to be riding on and saw him
finish first ahead of the Pirates man, while Nicholls came third for a 4-2 heat
advantage and see the final score 54-38 in favour of the Aces and take some
confidence to into their return fixture two days later down on the South coast
at Wimbourne Road.
Belle Vue = 54
1. Matej Zagar - 2, 2*, 3, 2* = 9+2
2. Michael Palm Toft - 1*, 2, 0, 3 = 6+1
3. Scott Nicholls - 2, 3, R, 2, 1 = 8
4. Max Fricke (G) 2, 1, 3, 2 = 8
5. Craig Cook - 1, 3, 1*, 3, 3 = 11+1
6. Stefan Nielsen - 3, 1*, 3, 2* = 9+2
7. Lee Payne - 0, 1*, 2*, 0 = 3+2
Poole = 38
1. Darcy Ward - 3, Ex, 0, 1 =4
2. Josh Grajczonek - 0, 3, 1*, R = 4+1
3. Przemyslaw Pawlicki - 0, 1, 2, 4, 2 = 9
4. Vaclav Milik - 0, 3, 3, 3, 0 = 9
5. Maciej Janowski - 3, 2, 1, 0 = 6
6. Ben Hopwood -2, 0, 1 = 3
7. Adam Ellis (G)- 1*, 0, Ex, 1, 1 = 3+1
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