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Well that was one of the best meetings i've seen to date at berwick some decent racing,holder was in superb form in the heats unfortunately he couldnt carry this on inot the final,doolan was good in the heats and was a deserved winner,out of the new riders,smith,wortmann and kus,i think one word sums them up,mental!,what happened with kus and watto and that heat(sorry can't remember which one),smith was a box of tricks,a looped start and tapes infringement and a pass from the back on the home man,he'd be a good PL rider IMO.All in all a good well run meetingand a credit to berwick :D

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KOPIOWANIE TYLKO ZA ZGOD¥ ADMINISTRATORA

 

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Texter: Vyacheslav Molotov (hope thats right)

 

Updater: Stevep

 

WINNER: KEVIN DOOLAN

 

 

01. Craig Watson - 3,3,3,1 = 10 4TH

02. Kalle Katajisto - 0,0,1,0 = 1

03. Casper Wortmann - 1,1,1,1 = 4

04. Josef Franc - 2,2,2,3 = 9

05. Kevin Doolan - 3,2,3,3 = 11 WINNER

06. Stan Burza - Ef,0,1,0 = 1

07. Jacek Rempala - 1,3,2,1 = 7

08. Matej Kus - 2,1,0,2 = 5

09. Chris Holder - 3,3,3,3 = 12 2ND

10. Kozza Smith - F,1,0,2 = 3

11. Michal Makovsky - 2,2,2,2 = 8 3RD

12. Andrew Moore - 1,Ef,WithDrawn = 1

 

 

Heat Results

 

Heat 01: Watson, Franc, Wortmann, Katajisto 66.4

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Heat 02: Doolan, Kus, Rempala, Burza(EF) 66.2

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Heat 03: Holder, Makovsky, Moore, Smith(F) 66.2

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Heat 04: Watson, Makovsky, Kus, Katajisto 66.2

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Heat 05: Rempala, Franc, Smith, Moore(EF) 67.9

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Heat 06: Holder, Doolan, Wortmann, Burza 66.3

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Heat 07: Watson, Rempala, Burza, Smith 68.2

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Heat 08: Holder, Makovsky, Wortmann, Kus 65.2

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Heat 09: Doolan, Franc, Katajisto 65.9

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Heat 10: Holder, Kus, Watson 65.7

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Heat 11: Franc, Smith, Rempala, Katajisto 67.4

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Heat 12: Doolan, Makovsky, Wortmann, Burza 65.8

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Semi Final: Watson, Makovsky, Franc, Rempala 67.1

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Final: Doolan, Holder, Makovsky, Watson 65.5

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Wow teams confirmed

 

Track very dry, but its raining

 

 

Heat 02: Burza gave up on last lap, and did a practice start into the pits, Rempala gave on bend 3 lap 4 and toddled over for a point.

Doolan won by a mile.

 

Raining heavy now, and tractors have taken to the track.

 

Heat 03: Smith looped at the start and that was end of his race. Holder won by a mile and nearly crashed on last bend.

 

Heat 04: Absolute ridiculous decision made by ref Christina Turnball, Watson was on inside Kus on outside, Watson hit fence on bend 1, Kus cut to inside and Wato hit him onto the grass, and ref says ALL 4 BACK

Re-run: Makovsky passed Kus on bend 3 and 4 on lap 1.

 

Heat 05: Moore had engine Failure while 3rd on lap 3.

 

Heat 06: Burza would struggle to beat Katajisto judgeing by tonights performance, Holder is worth entrance money alone.

 

Heat 07: Ref is bloody useless, Rempala won the race by a good 2 feet, but blind Christina awarded it to Watson. Watson was on outside and Rempala inside at run to tapes. Smith hit tapes and went off 15 metres.

 

Heat 08: Holder won with fastest time of the season, Kus was 2nd coming out of bend 2, Makovsky went round outside and Casper then took him on bend 3 lap 2.

 

Andrew Moore has withdrawn as he only bought 1 bike and he knackered that up.

 

Apparantly Watson did win Heat 07, but the texter didnt really see it that way.

 

Heat 09: Excellent ride from Doolan to ride round Franc.

 

They had a junior race earlier which took about 4hrs. And now Rob Hollingworth is gonna race Rob Grant, fortunately for Hollingworth is he is on the inside, so Grant can't fence him.

 

If anyone was interested Grant won.

 

Heat 10: Watson went all funny on bend 1 and never recovered, Andrew Moore was missing rider in that heat. Kus used Francs bike and looked really good, and came round for a lap of honor after, to thank the fans.

 

Heat 11: Smith passed Rempala bend 3 and 4 last lap. and then did a deserved lap of honor complete with doughnuts.

 

Doolan and Holder advance straight to final.

 

Watson, Franc, Makovsky and Rempala make up Semi

 

So the Grand final will be Chris Holder, Kevin Doolan, Craig Watson and Michal Makovsky.

 

Junior races first tho before final.

 

Many thanks to Molotov and his Comrade Starling who stand against the facists lmao.

 

And night all

 

Congrats to Kev Doolan

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I thought it was torture, to be honest. How to make 14 races of speedway stretch to almost two hours.

Holder was superb, but picked the wrong gate in the final. Burza was worse than pathetic - easily the worst rider on show. I mean Katajisto is 16-years-old and making his first visit to an intimidating race track. What's Burza's excuse?

Smith, Wortmann and Kus all had their moments - I thought Kus looked very handy on Franc's bike in his last outing.

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I thought it was torture, to be honest. How to make 14 races of speedway stretch to almost two hours.

Holder was superb, but picked the wrong gate in the final. Burza was worse than pathetic - easily the worst rider on show. I mean Katajisto is 16-years-old and making his first visit to an intimidating race track. What's Burza's excuse?

Smith, Wortmann and Kus all had their moments - I thought Kus looked very handy on Franc's bike in his last outing.

Meeting did go on a bit dont forget though there was 2 races between Grant & Hollingworth and 3 races for the 250 riders also interviews with ex bandits.Well done to Marc Owen on winning the 250 races

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KOPIOWANIE TYLKO ZA ZGOD¥ ADMINISTRATORA

 

All Updates will appear in this window, please feel free to post any comments below.

 

Texter: Vyacheslav Molotov (hope thats right)

 

Updater: Stevep

 

WINNER: KEVIN DOOLAN

01. Craig Watson - 3,3,3,1 = 10 4TH

02. Kalle Katajisto - 0,0,1,0 = 1

03. Casper Wortmann - 1,1,1,1 = 4

04. Josef Franc - 2,2,2,3 = 9

05. Kevin Doolan - 3,2,3,3 = 11 WINNER

06. Stan Burza - Ef,0,1,0 = 1

07. Jacek Rempala - 1,3,2,1 = 7

08. Matej Kus - 2,1,0,2 = 5

09. Chris Holder - 3,3,3,3 = 12 2ND

10. Kozza Smith - F,1,0,2 = 3

11. Michal Makovsky - 2,2,2,2 = 8 3RD

12. Andrew Moore - 1,Ef,WithDrawn = 1

Heat Results

 

Heat 01: Watson, Franc, Wortmann, Katajisto 66.4

Sponsored by Music 24/7 at http://www.virtualvibesradio.co.uk/

Heat 02: Doolan, Kus, Rempala, Burza(EF) 66.2

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Heat 03: Holder, Makovsky, Moore, Smith(F) 66.2

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Heat 04: Watson, Makovsky, Kus, Katajisto 66.2

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Heat 05: Rempala, Franc, Smith, Moore(EF) 67.9

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Heat 06: Holder, Doolan, Wortmann, Burza 66.3

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Heat 07: Watson, Rempala, Burza, Smith 68.2

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Heat 08: Holder, Makovsky, Wortmann, Kus 65.2

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Heat 09: Doolan, Franc, Katajisto 65.9

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Heat 10: Holder, Kus, Watson 65.7

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Heat 11: Franc, Smith, Rempala, Katajisto 67.4

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Heat 12: Doolan, Makovsky, Wortmann, Burza 65.8

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Semi Final: Watson, Makovsky, Franc, Rempala 67.1

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Final: Doolan, Holder, Makovsky, Watson 65.5

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[sponsored by www.msj.edu.pl www.msjspeedway.com

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Comments:

 

Wow teams confirmed

 

Track very dry, but its raining

Heat 02: Burza gave up on last lap, and did a practice start into the pits, Rempala gave on bend 3 lap 4 and toddled over for a point.

Doolan won by a mile.

 

Raining heavy now, and tractors have taken to the track.

 

Heat 03: Smith looped at the start and that was end of his race. Holder won by a mile and nearly crashed on last bend.

 

Heat 04: Absolute ridiculous decision made by ref Christina Turnball, Watson was on inside Kus on outside, Watson hit fence on bend 1, Kus cut to inside and Wato hit him onto the grass, and ref says ALL 4 BACK 

Re-run: Makovsky passed Kus on bend 3 and 4 on lap 1.

 

Heat 05: Moore had engine Failure while 3rd on lap 3.

 

Heat 06: Burza would struggle to beat Katajisto judgeing by tonights performance, Holder is worth entrance money alone.

 

Heat 07: Ref is bloody useless, Rempala won the race by a good 2 feet, but blind Christina awarded it to Watson. Watson was on outside and Rempala inside at run to tapes. Smith hit tapes and went off 15 metres.

 

Heat 08: Holder won with fastest time of the season, Kus was 2nd coming out of bend 2, Makovsky went round outside and Casper then took him on bend 3 lap 2.

 

Andrew Moore has withdrawn as he only bought 1 bike and he knackered that up.

 

Apparantly Watson did win Heat 07, but the texter didnt really see it that way.

 

Heat 09: Excellent ride from Doolan to ride round Franc.

 

They had a junior race earlier which took about 4hrs. And now Rob Hollingworth is gonna race Rob Grant, fortunately for Hollingworth is he is on the inside, so Grant can't fence him.

 

If anyone was interested Grant won.

 

Heat 10: Watson went all funny on bend 1 and never recovered, Andrew Moore was missing rider in that heat. Kus used Francs bike and looked really good, and came round for a lap of honor after, to thank the fans.

 

Heat 11: Smith passed Rempala bend 3 and 4 last lap. and then did a deserved lap of honor complete with doughnuts.

 

Doolan and Holder advance straight to final.

 

Watson, Franc, Makovsky and Rempala make up Semi

 

So the Grand final will be Chris Holder, Kevin Doolan, Craig Watson and Michal Makovsky.

 

Junior races first tho before final.

 

Many thanks to Molotov and his Comrade Starling who stand against the facists lmao.

 

And night all

 

Congrats to Kev Doolan

Crazysue.....Have a bit of respect for God sake, your comments regarding Rob Grant were totaly uncalled for........bang out of order! Rob was one of the most popular riders to don the Bandits colours. No need for your sarcastic comments.

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Crazy sue neither texted or updated,i presume the comments were of the texter,so don't jump on crazysue's back.

Matty is correct . Sue was neither involved as a texter or updater with this meeting . Comments about Mr Grant and his left leg were made by that nasty man doing the texting . :lol:

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Berwick is notoriously hard to get updates from. Some people should just be grateful they got the scores.

I know - i was just having a laugh as i had a fair idea who the texter was :P Would never critisize any texter at any meeting cause i know from experience how difficult it can be . There is not that big a gap between races as you think . :wink:

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In fact Crazysue was at the time not even near the pc and was down at her parents trying to calm her father who has just received the date for his major heart operation!

 

I merely copied over the results from the Updates.....

 

Furthermore, those who know me also know that I would NEVER make comments about riders in that way.

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Never been a fan of the twelve rider format, riders meet to many times, riders can have to many duff races and still go through, and by the time riders like Kajiesto are in the field,Moore had with drawn, Burza had decided to go through the motions it with drew from the even as a competition a bit and the top 6 soon became inevitable.

 

Other than that it was ok, I can quite accept that events like this will be hung out for reasons like, junior races,vetran races, and a few short interviews.... short being the key word, if people wanted to listen to the ramblings of Dick Barrie they would listen to his radio show not stand freezing there bollocks of at Shielfield. :rolleyes:

 

 

 

The meeting its self , as I have already said there was a large gulf in class between some of the competitors which you would understand as one or two were making there first appearances on the track, all three looked quite accomplished motor cyclist, Smith lifting was just one of they things, once he settled into the track he looked a decent enough talent, Woortman was a typical methodical Scandanavian quite a lanky style, but never once looked in trouble, pulled of a beautiful pass on Kus using the banking to full affect, Kus was the one that grabbed my attention the most riding what could have been a Pepe Franc bike I would imagine it was it had old Pepe covers on it any way, he attacked the track well, looked nippy from the gate on a bike that spent the whole meeting missing would be interesting to see him on decent machinery.

 

Also had the unfortunate luck of Watson picking up some extra grip and cutting right across the front of him after Wato had bounced of the back straight safety fence.. could have been nasty but fortunately not.

 

 

One thing I will say for all 3 and Watson is that they all pick lines which were to there benefit the 3rd and 4th bend at Berwick isn't what it used to be but if you pick the right line and ride it as a wall of death you can generate speed and also keep the bike going forward at all times, all 4 of the riders I have mentioned done this, with time I think the three lads showed signs they could handle the PL.

 

 

We all know the drill with the other riders Holder fast and aggressive as ever, as Sub said made a slight error of gate choice in the final and once he was behind Doolan that was the race over Doolan had been fast in front the whole evening.

 

Kajiesto a nice style there is some thing to build on , so poor away from the tapes but he does have some thing if the speed comes and he can handle it he will hold his own, I know it is not Britains responsibility to make riders but a few CL outings would help the lad and give you a better gauge of what level the boy is at IMO.

 

 

So all credit to the riders other than Stan for turning out and making a decent night of racing on a night that weather wise was a right pain in the ass, it threatened rain and it was spitting all night, what a miserable summer it has been for the sport weather wise.

 

Highlight of the Night : Kozza Smith stalking down Jac and blasting round him on the third bend. :approve:

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I can confirm, comment was nothing to do with Sue whatsoever.

Don't think the texter was a Berwick fan, so you can understand it may not have been thier cup of tea.

 

For me, Granty is a hero, and I really enjoyed seeing him back on a bike.

 

That, and the juniors, were the highlights of the evening.

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I thought it was torture, to be honest. How to make 14 races of speedway stretch to almost two hours.

Holder was superb, but picked the wrong gate in the final. Burza was worse than pathetic - easily the worst rider on show. I mean Katajisto is 16-years-old and making his first visit to an intimidating race track. What's Burza's excuse?

Smith, Wortmann and Kus all had their moments - I thought Kus looked very handy on Franc's bike in his last outing.

Dont think it was that bad. If Bergstrom and Shields had been in from original field , it would have been better. See from looking at a recent Berwick programme, time clocked by Chris Holder on Saturday of 65.2 secs was fastest since Adam Shields in 2002!

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