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The field has just been anounced for this year's classic , and quite interesting it is too . -

 

1 Trent Leverington ( Glasgow )

2 Tero Aarnio ( Berwick )

3 James Wright ( Swindon )

4 Rory Schlein ( Ipswich )

5 James Grieves ( Redcar )

6 Robert Ksiezak (Glasgow )

7 Carl Stonehewer ( Workington )

8 David Howe ( Wolverhampton )

9 Mikael Makovsky ( Berwick )

10 Tomas Topinka ( King's Lynn )

11 Paul Cooper ( Sheffield )

12 Shane Parker ( Glasgow )

13 Lee Dicken ( Glasgow )

14 Peter Juul ( Glasgow )

15 Mitchell Davey ( Glasgow )

16 Richard Hall ( Scunthorpe )

 

Referee is the Grand Monarch .

Interesting field with a few Ashfield specialists among the PL riders , and one or two top league boys as well . No Monarchs in the field as they are at Birmingham , but we do have a notable ex-Monarch in the shape of the Poo Boy and of course Jim McGregor is the referee .

Looking forward to see how 2009 Tiger Peter Juul does on his first competative action round the squaredome . Should be a great afternoon .

Just too add Glasgow have re-declared their 1-7 and have introduced Peter Juul in place of Josh Grajczonek for the remaining few meetings .

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The field has just been anounced for this year's classic , and quite interesting it is too . -

 

1 Trent Leverington ( Glasgow )

2 Tero Aarnio ( Berwick )

3 James Wright ( Swindon )

4 Rory Schlein ( Ipswich )

5 James Grieves ( Redcar )

6 Robert Ksiezak (Glasgow )

7 Carl Stonehewer ( Workington )

8 David Howe ( Wolverhampton )

9 Mikael Makovsky ( Berwick )

10 Tomas Topinka ( King's Lynn )

11 Paul Cooper ( Sheffield )

12 Shane Parker ( Glasgow )

13 Lee Dicken ( Glasgow )

14 Peter Juul ( Glasgow )

15 Mitchell Davey ( Glasgow )

16 Richard Hall ( Scunthorpe )

 

Referee is the Grand Monarch .

Interesting field with a few Ashfield specialists among the PL riders , and one or two top league boys as well . No Monarchs in the field as they are at Birmingham , but we do have a notable ex-Monarch in the shape of the Poo Boy and of course Jim McGregor is the referee .

Looking forward to see how 2009 Tiger Peter Juul does on his first competative action round the squaredome . Should be a great afternoon .

Just too add Glasgow have re-declared their 1-7 and have introduced Peter Juul in place of Josh Grajczonek for the remaining few meetings .

Think several of these are in Berwick Bordernapolis Saturday as was announced: Makovsky, Aarnio, Schlein, Juul, Howe, Parker ?

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Think several of these are in Berwick Bordernapolis Saturday as was announced: Makovsky, Aarnio, Schlein, Juul, Howe, Parker ?

 

Can you give us a link to where it was announced EG? Like Paul I haven't seen anything about the line up for it on Saturday, to be honest I thought they had decided not to run it this Saturday and had maybe put it back

 

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Can you give us a link to where it was announced EG? Like Paul I haven't seen anything about the line up for it on Saturday, to be honest I thought they had decided not to run it this Saturday and had maybe put it back

 

 

http://www.berwickspeedway.co.uk/news-item...rdernapolis.htm

 

 

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Looks like James Wright may have picked up a knock during Skys Monday night meeting. Will the Robins, who are already missing a couple of riders, be keen on him taking his place with the play off the following night :unsure:

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Well I had a chat to Rory Schlein this afternoon and he said he is definately coming up to Glasgow as he is really keen to meet Paulco and as an Edinburgh old boy is keen to win and REALLY p*ss him off!!!!

 

 

 

 

(I didnt really but Im sure that's what he's thinking!!!!!! :lol::lol::lol: )

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Well I had a chat to Rory Schlein this afternoon and he said he is definately coming up to Glasgow as he is really keen to meet Paulco

Why is that ? Does he want to buy me a pint then ?

Anyway since he hasn't rode Ashfield since his days with the Moaners it will be interesting to see how he goes . His battles with Mitchell Davey and Lee Dicken should be fascinating . :wink:

 

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Top Six

 

1st Schlein 15pts

2nd Grieves 13

3rd Parker 12

4th Wright 11

5th Topinka 9

6th Stoney 9

 

 

Semi-Final; 1st Stoney 2nd Parker 3rd Topinka 4th Wright

 

Final 1st Grieves 2nd Schlein 3rd Stoney 4th Parker

 

Grieves made a great gate in the final and was gone. Schlein locked up slightly at the apex of 1st and 2nd bend to allow Stoney through but re-passed him later in the race.

 

Would give you more details but my old man has buggered aff with the prog.

 

Overall I thought it was a decent meeting, a bit better than usual with quite a bit of passing going on particularly in the first half of the meeting before the track began to slicken off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Not a big fan of individual events , but this wasn't the worst i've ever seen . Couldn't honestly see anyone getting near Rory Schlein as he cruised to a 15 point maximum , but he made a poor gate in the final to hand James Grieves the initiative - and he took full advantage .

Scorers -

Rory Schlein 15 , James Grieves 13 , Shane Parker 12 , James Wright 11 , Carl Stonehewer 9 , Tomas Topinka 9 , Mikael Makovsky 9 , David Howe 8 , Robert Ksiezak 8 , Trent Leverington 7 , Lee Dicken 5 , Peter Juul 5 , Lee Smethills 3 , Mitchell Davey 2 , Adam McKinna 2 , T Sike 1 , J McBain 1

Semi-final - 1st Stonehewer 2nd Parker 3rd Topinka 4th Wright

Final - 1st Grieves 2nd Schlein 3rd Stonehewer 4th Parker

As i said Schlein was head and shoulders above everyone in the qualifying heats , but these days a 15 point maximum doesn't guarentee you victory and James Grieves was a popular winner among the Glasgow faithful . Quite pleased with the debut of Peter Juul who mixed it very well in this company .

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Was Carl Stonehewer good?

He rode really well today . In his first race he made the gate against Grieves , who then got passed him on the 3rd lap .

Heat 2 Grieves , Stonehewer , Howe , Ksiezak

His next race he was 2nd to James Wright after a great 4 laps of speedway

Heat 7 Wright , Stonehewer , Smethills , Davey

He then finished 2nd to the impressive Schlein after missing the gate

Heat 12 Schlein , Stonehewer , Dicken , Topinka

He was out in the following heat in which he beat Shane Parker

Heat 13 Stonehewer , Parker , Leverington , Juul

Then in his final race he gated alongside Makovsky , who rode him out to the fence and he ran out of track and fell . The referee harshly excluded him .

Heat 18 Makovsky , McKinna , McBain , Stonehewer ( exc )

In the semi-final he comfortably beat Shane Parker for a 2nd time .

Semi-final Stonehewer , Parker , Topinka , Wright

And in the final he gated 2nd behind Grieves , but made a slight mistake on the 2nd bend of the 2nd lap to let Schlein through into 2nd place

Final Grieves , Schlein , Stonehewer , Parker

 

So on the whole 3rd place was a great effort in an event he has won 3 times in the past .

 

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Was Carl Stonehewer good?

 

Stoney rode well today Nemo and was unlucky to be excluded in his final qualifying heat otherwise he would probably have scored 12 instead of 9. Yep he looked a wee bit more like the Stoney of old today, but as a three time winner he does enjoy the Classic :approve:

 

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