Poor line up?
All ex Comets or guests so beggars cant be choosers.......... this is the Wokington 40th Anniversary, there will be many ex riders who will be there on the night too, who may have a trundle round on the back of a bike or may even have a blast down the home straight on a borrowed machine?
There is a photo of Richard Lawson racing in the blog which looks very like one of mine, feel free to use any photo,s of mine if they are good enough!
Such a shame Carl Stonehewer cannot make it to the meeting one of the Workington Speedway Greats.
Got to agree there Rob, Cardiff is a good weekend away for a few beers, great atmosphere in the stadium and some Speedway thrown in but not one of the better ones for the racing, usually the Polish GP,s serve up the best on track action.
In the past people have gone to the Crown just outside the stadium, but both myself and Bluejam are suggesting this year a new venue The New Barrack Tavern.
The New Barrack Tavern is about 100 yards from the stadium, has two rooms a covered walled garden, and also does food including a carvery
Maybe that's why we could not find it!
We are still looking for the place, we did go to the Garrison Hotel for a pint thinking that might be the place?
This was about 14:00hrs but not many people about so went to the Crown, had a good chat with some Berwick fan's, also Andre's dad asked if we were going to be cheering for him (Compo).
Sorry we missed what sounded like a good afternoon.
Some good racing last night, Kerr was a surprising but deserved winner, well done Chris.
Steady was good but made some poor starts and got caught in traffic early on in some heats so lost points.
Screeny made a good fist of it but was hit by mechanical trouble's so finished down the order.
All the riders had some good races at various points in the meeting so the scoring was pretty well spread.
Biggest cheer went to John Branney when he won heat 19 from David Howe,Lyons and Lambert.
Some very fast times last night which ranged from 63.0 seconds in heat 1 (Kerr) to heat's 15 and 19 65.7 second's (Screen and Branney).
Well worth the admission money of £15.00 but the crowd was slightly down on the usual League match figure i think.................... oh and it was cold here comes Autumn/Winter.
1.Kerr 13
2.Stead 12
3. Doolan 12
4 Compton 9
Haines 8
Piszcz 8
Ashworth 8
Proctor 7
Screen 7
Branney 7
Wright 6
Howe 6
Lyons 5
Harrison 5
Sneddon 4
Lambert 1