I'm sure everybody's thoughts this morning will be with Young Star Adam Lowe who crashed heavily in his opening ride last night and appears to have broken a bone in his back. It was a very nasty crash indeed but the medical crew at the NA were superb, taking every precaution as the tended to him on the track, and he was off to hospital with minimum delay. As I said our thoughts are with him and hopefully we'll get an update on his progress later in the day.
Whilst that obviously put something of a dampener on proceedings, Adam's crash apart, it was a cracking first match of the season at this level at the NA with both sides playing their full part.
Jake Knight's paid 18 return speaks for itself as one of the high spot - his winning time of 61.20 in heat 2 being quicker that winning times recorded by Dan Nermark, Tomas Topinka, Olly Allen, Ben Barker AND Kryzstof Kasprzak in the senior Stars recent home match against Birmingham!
My other top moments were Barrie Evans and Marc Owen's rides in heats 13 & 15.