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Written by jlh
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søndag, 04 juli 2010 |
Saturday night's "Danish" meeting between the Stoke Potters and the Newcastle Diamonds at Loomer was no success for neither the home teams two danish riders nor generally for the Potters who lost their 100% home league record.
Newcastle were in very good form on the night, while a couple of Stoke riders suffered mechanical problems, and even though the two teams lay side by side during most of the meeting, the Potters finally ran out of steam and went down to a 42-48 defeat.
Even in the unofficial contest between the Dansh riders of the two teams, the Diamonds turned out to be the strongest with a combined score of 19+2 points for Kenni Larsen and René Bach against a total of 11+3 by Claus Vissing and Jan Graversens on the Stoke side.
The Danes were in front in several exciting heats, beginning with Kenni Larsen winning the opening race in the fastest time of the season just 0.1 outside the track record, Claus Vissing taking second place.
By the way, the two met again in the 13th heat in a close fight for the third place, this time won by Claus Vissing.
Most exciting - and fatal, however, was heat 10, where Newcastle's Jason King and René Bach met Stokes' Claus Vissing and Ricky Wells in in a superb race for the whole of the four laps with just a wheel separating King, Bach and Vissing, as they went over the finish line, unfortunately in that order, which changed the score from a draw at 27-27 to Stoke trailing by four points - a loss, they never rcovered.
- Counting by points, it certainly wasn't satisfactory, byt nevertheless I had some pretty good races, Claus Vissing commented.
- And, as they say, you don't learn anything from riding up front all the time, he added with a certain irony. But I admit that I'd liked to make some better starts.
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