BELLE VUE ACES 49
PETERBOROUGH
PANTHERS 41
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| Ace star :Matej Zagar |
Belle Vue returned back to winning ways
after their dreadful display at Perry Barr last Wednesday night where they were
thrashed by the Birmingham Brummies . Only Matej Zagar and Craig Cook put up
any kind of resistance for the Aces, So Monday saw the Aces at home to face the
Peterborough Panthers for the 3rd time this season with Belle Vue holding two
victories over the East Anglian side this season, having previously beat them
down on their travels at the East of England Showground a few months back.
Belle Vue almost got the perfect start in
the opening race when Matej Zagar was continuing his good form this season , as
he launched out of the gates along with his team mate Artur Mroczka. The Aces
looked to be heading to a 5-1 score line when Mroczka hit a rut and moved out
wide towards the fence allowing Dane and ex-Ace Kenneth Bjerre to pass up the
inside of him and make it a 4-2 instead.
In the reserves race another former Aces
rider in Patrick Hougaard made his return, As he wanted to prove a point, as he
has had a woeful season this year and was terrible earlier in the season when
the Panthers came to town last.
But in recent weeks there had been signs of
getting back to the old Patrick as he got a maximum against the Poole Pirates
not long ago.
Hougaard is currently on loan to the
Panthers from Belle Vue for the season and the young Danish rider made a
fantastic gate with his team mate Dakota North in heat 2, had it not been for North
doing a wheelie down the back straight then Peterborough would have took maximum
points, As it was the Aces pair of Kauko Nieminen and Ales Dryml passed to make
it a shared heat as North lifting relegated him to the back.
Heat 4 saw a horrific crash involving Hougaard,
The Dane was took to hospital following a tumble he took with his team mate as
Peterborough once again made the gate and his front wheel caught the back wheel
of partner Kenni Larsen who came across him, which led to Hougaard clipping
Larsen back wheel and bounced on the track, against the fence and leading him to
be motionless on the track as he was knocked unconscious from the crash.
Paramedics rushed to him along with riders
and the ambulance was immediately called for by the track people working on
him, he was loaded into the back of the ambulance after a 10 minute delay and
it was another bit of bad luck for the poor Danish rider.
In heat 6 Zagar was left to fend for
himself as his Polish team mate Mroczka was having yet another stinker of a
meeting for Belle Vue, Matej Zagar chased down Kenni Larsen for 3 laps getting
closer and closer till he eventually passed him up the inside, sending the
hosts fans into raptures as the Slovenian rider then went on to win the race
and keep the 6 point lead for the hosts, with the score at 21-15.
Dakota North was then forced to take 4
races on the trot, as he came in for Ryan Fisher who broke the tapes and so
North was drafted into the line up as he his fellow reserve Hougaard was
withdrawn due to the crash earlier.
North won with ease as Nieminen followed
behind him, with Magnus Zetterstrom struggling in 3rd place trying to stop
Linus Sundstrom from getting through, but the Swede out raced him to the line
and so gave the Panthers their first heat advantage of the night picking up a 4
- 2.
In the following race North was proving to
be useful reserve as he took the next race as well with Mroczka and Dryml packing
into the minor places for a 3-3.
His good work came undone though, as he
came last in his 4th race in a row which saw Kenni Larsen picking up the win
for the Panthers and Aces Craig Cook and Kevin Wolbert grabbing second and
third place after they both passed the Aussie.
Jason Attwood the Aces team manager , then
made a change as he took out Artur Mroczka for Ales Dryml and the move paid off.
As the Captain and Zagar got an easy 5-1 to make the score 34 - 26 for the
hosts. Both riders had ridden together on Saturday night in the World Pairs so
they had a good idea of how to team ride.
Craig Cook then won heat 12 with that man Dakota
North there once again , as the Aces took a 4 - 2 heat win with Dryml grabbing
third place and made it a ten point lead, meaning Peterborough chance to do a
tactical was too late now.
In the penultimate race, Dakota North
finished off his night with a win as he and Sundstrom got a 4 - 2 and saw them trailing
by 8 points. This gave the Panthers a good chance of getting something from the
meeting, as if the away side loses by 7 or under you gets a bonus point.
It came down to Cook and Zagar to avoid a
heat loss for the Aces to take all 3 points on offer. And that`s just what they
did, as Kenneth Bjerre took the race win to deny Zagar a maximum , but Cook had
a good go at Bjerre for the 4 laps chasing him down but just couldn`t find the
speed to pass him. Belle Vue took all three points on offer and seen them move
above the Poole Pirates in the table and face the challenge of the reigning
champions in the Swindon Robins next week at home.
BELLE
VUE ACES
1. Matej Zagar: 3 3 3 3 1* =13+1
2. Artur Mroczka: 1 0 1* =2+1
3. Craig Cook: 2 3 1* 3 2 =11+1
4. Kevin Wolbert: 1* 1 2 0 =4+1
5. Magnus Zetterstrom: 1 0 2 R =3
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6. Kauko Nieminen: 2 2 1* 2 =7+1
7. Ales Dryml : 1* 3 2 2* 1=9+2
PETERBOROUGH
PANTHERS
1. Kenneth Bjerre: 2 2 3 2 3 =12
2. Nicolai Klindt: 0 0 0 0=0
3. Ryan Fisher: 3 exct 0 0 =3
4. Linus Sundstrom: 0 1 1 1=3
5. Kenni Larsen:2 2 3 1* 0 =8+1
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6. Dakota North: 0 1* 3 3 0 2 3 =12+1
7. Patrick Hougaard: 3 f=3 withdrawn
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