Stoaty

Various reasons. The track was a little difficult to ride after the rain and some of the riders struggled on it. Some were trying too hard. Some just unfortunate.

Newport 1. R/R 2. Richard Andrews 2, 1, 3, 2*, X = 8+1 3. Brendan Johnson 3, 3, 3, 2, 3 = 14 4. Matt Bates 0, 2*, 1*, 3 = 6+2 5. James White-Williams 2, 0, 3, 2*, 2 = 9+1 6. Dan Greenwood 3, 1, 2*, 3, 1 = 10+1 7. Freddie Owen 1, 1*, 0 = 2+1 8. Martin Knuckey 1* = 1+1 Scunthorpe 1. Ross Walter 3, X, X, 1 = 4 2. Sam Woods X, X, X = 0 3. Stefan Nielsen 2, 2*, 1, 4 = 9+1 4. Oliver Greenwood 1*, 3, 0, 2 = 6+1 5. Adam Wrathall 3, 2, 6, 3 = 14 6. Connor Dwyer 2, 0, 0, 1, 1* = 4+1 7. Martin Wrathall X, X, X, 0 = 0 Ht 1. Walter, Andrews, Knuckey, Woods (X) - Awarded No time 3-3 3-3 Ht 2. D Greenwood, Dwyer, Owen, M Wrathall (X) - 64.94 4-2 7-5 Ht 3. Johnson, Nielsen, O Greenwood, Bates - 65.63 3-3 10-8 Ht 4. A Wrathall, White-Williams, Owen, M Wrathall (X) - Awarded No time 3-3 13-11 Ht 5. Johnson, Bates, Walter (X), Woods (X) - 67.03 5-0 18-11 Ht 6. Johnson, A Wrathall, Andrews, Dwyer - 64.72 4-2 22-13 Ht 7. O Greenwood, Nielsen, D Greenwood, White-Williams - 66.85 1-5 23-18 Ht 8. Andrews, D Greenwood, Woods (X), M Wrathall (X) - Awarded No time 5-0 28-18 Ht 9. A Wrathall (tac ride), Johnson, Bates, Dwyer - 65.50 3-6 31-24 Ht 10. White-Williams, Andrews, Nielsen, O Greenwood - 66.94 5-1 36-25 Ht 11. D Greenwood, White-Williams, Dwyer, Walter (X) - Awarded No time 5-1 41-26 Ht 12. Johnson, Nielsen (tac ride), Dwyer, Owen - 65.97 3-5 44-31 Ht 13. A Wrathall, White-Williams, Walter, Andrews (X) - 65.41 2-4 46-35 Ht 14. Bates, O Greenwood, D Greenwood, M Wrathall - 67.00 4-2 50-37 Abandoned after 14 heats - result stands

I'd echo that. It saved us a wasted journey.

There has to be some qualification process. Why use top the three averages? Why use only 2011 averages? Whatever the process for deciding there will be people moaning that it should be different. Just thank the gods they're not basing it on scores in heat 15 any more.

No it won't, it will be based on the rolling averages at the 1st June, or whatever month it's run in. They will fluctuate, just not by as much.

What's wrong with deciding qualification on the combined average of the top two in a team? It's straightforward and sensible. That way you don't have to have a supplementary qualification rule if the hosts are the previous year's winner.

Heavy rain showers at the moment.

I really like the fact that two of the most incomprehensible people on here are having a go at someone else's poor choice of word.

My brain just walked out in disgust.

I think that is more down to the intelligence of the spectator rather than the complexity of the rules.

No.

It was bad on the back straight yesterday, much worse than normal. I did laugh when they announced that someone was using flash photography on the second bend and could they stop it, believing that they could actually be heard there.

OXFORD Hasse Holmqvist 3 3 3 3 = 12 Pete Jarman 2 1 3 0 = 6 Colin Goody 0 1 1 = 2 Ronnie Genz 1 1* 2* 3 1 = 8+2 Mick Bell 0 = 0 Eddie Reeves 1 2 2 2 1 = 8 Rick Timmo 0 0 0 0 = 0 NEWPORT Sandor Levai 2 2* 3 2* 3 = 12+2 Bob Hughes 0 0 1 = 1 Bill Andrew 1 2 3 2 X = 8 R/R Ed Stangeland 3 1 2 2 2* = 10+1 Norman Strachan 3 0 0 = 3 George Major 1 3 0 1* 3 = 8+1 Heat 1: Holmqvist, Levai, Reeves, Hughes 4-2 4-2 69.4 Heat 2: Strachan, Reeves, Major, Timmo 2-4 6-6 72.4 Heat 3: Stangeland, Levai, Genz, Bell 1-5 7-11 70.0 Heat 4: Major, Reeves, Andrew, Goody 2-4 9-15 71.4 Heat 5: Levai, Jarman, Genz, Hughes 3-3 12-18 69.2 Heat 6: Holmqvist, Andrew, Jarman, Strachan 4-2 16-20 69.6 Heat 7: Andrew, Reeves, Stangeland, Timmo 2-4 18-24 70.0 Heat 8: Jarman, Genz, Hughes, Major 5-1 23-25 69.8 Heat 9: Genz, Andrew, Reeves, Strachan 4-2 27-27 71.4 Heat 10: Holmqvist, Stangeland, Major, Jarman 3-3 30-30 69.8 Heat 11: Major, Levai, Goody, Timmo 1-5 31-35 69.4 Heat 12: Holmqvist, Stangeland, Genz, Andrew (X) 4-2 35-37 69.6 Heat 13: Levai, Stangeland, Goody, Timmo 1-5 36-42 70.4

NEWPORT Reidar Eide 2 2* 3 3 = 10+1 Bob Coles 0 3 1 0 = 4 Tom Owen 2 3 0 1 = 6 Geoff Mudge 2* 2* 1 2* = 7+3 Phil Crump 3 3 3 3 = 12 Roy Trigg 2 0 1 = 3 Jim Tebby 1* 0 2 = 3+1 SWINDON Martin Ashby 1 0 2 3 2 = 8 Mike Keen 3 1 2* 1 = 7+1 Ed Stangeland 1 0 0 = 1 Bernie Leigh 1 2 1* 1 0 = 5+1 Norman Hunter 0 0 = 0 Mick Handley 0 0 = 0 Brian Leonard 3 3 1 3 2 = 12 Heat 1: Keen, Eide, Ashby, Coles 2-4 2-4 72.4 Heat 2: Leonard, Trigg, Tebby, Handley 3-3 5-7 73.5 Heat 3: Crump, Mudge, Leigh, Hunter 5-1 10-8 71.7 Heat 4: Leonard, Owen, Stangeland, Trigg 2-4 12-12 73.5 Heat 5: Crump, Mudge, Keen, Ashby 5-1 17-13 71.9 Heat 6: Coles, Eide, Leonard, Stangeland 5-1 22-14 73.5 Heat 7: Owen, Leigh, Trigg, Hunter 4-2 26-16 74.5 Heat 8: Leonard, Keen, Coles, Tebby 1-5 27-21 74.8 Heat 9: Crump, Ashby, Mudge, Handley 4-2 31-23 72.5 Heat 10: Eide, Leonard, Leigh, Coles 3-3 34-26 73.8 Heat 11: Ashby, Tebby, Keen, Owen 2-4 36-30 73.0 Heat 12: Eide, Mudge, Leigh, Stangeland 5-1 41-31 73.6 Heat 13: Crump, Ashby, Owen, Leigh 4-2 45-33 72.4

19-Jun-1998 Wayne Barrett 2 1 2 3 3 = 11 Dave Osbourn 0 0 1 R 2 = 3 Richard Ford 1 2 0 2 N = 5 Andy Carfield 3 2 2 0 2 = 9 Graig Gough 1 R 2 T T = 3 Roger Lobb 3 3 3 2 3 = 14 Jason McKenna N N N N N = 0 Seemond Stephens 2 3 3 2 1 = 11 Dean Garrod 3 2 2 1 3 = 11 Nick Simmons F 2 1 3 0 = 6 Martin Williams 2 X 1 1 3 = 7 Phil Pickering F 1 3 1 1 = 6 Andrew Appleton 3 3 3 3 2 = 14 Neil Painter 2 1 1 2 1 = 7 Chris Neath 1 3 R 3 2 = 9 Paul Oughton R X N N N = 0