Neil Grantham Posted March 7 Report Share Posted March 7 (edited) Hi all I wonder if anyone has the heat results for this competition for the years 1998, 2003 and 2004, all held at Sheffield Many thanks [Edit] - just found the 2003 results Edited March 7 by Neil Grantham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS50 Posted March 7 Report Share Posted March 7 44 minutes ago, Neil Grantham said: Hi all I wonder if anyone has the heat results for this competition for the years 1998, 2003 and 2004, all held at Sheffield Many thanks [Edit] - just found the 2003 results http://www.sheffield-tigers.co.uk/plrc190904.html. If the link works should get 2004 results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS50 Posted March 7 Report Share Posted March 7 1998 can tell you Glen Cunningham won, Carl Stonehewer 2nd Peter Carr 3rd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS50 Posted March 7 Report Share Posted March 7 Up Premier League Riders Championship Owlerton Stadium 19th Sept 2004 Rider 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Tot Craig Watson 3 3 2 ef 2 10 5th Glenn Cunningham 1 1 1 fx 1 4 Ross Brady fx r - - - 0 André Compton 2 3 3 2 0 10 1ST Mark Lemon 2 2 2 2 3 11 2nd Tomas Topinka 1 3 1 0 3 8 Carl Stonehewer 3 2 1 3 ef 9 Adrian Rymel 0 2 2 3 0 7 Danny Bird 2 fx 3 1 3 9 6th Jan Stæchmann 1 2 2 1 1 7 Rory Schlein 3 1 fx - - 4 Chris Neath + r 0 0 2 1 3 Jason Lyons x 1 0 r 2 3 Shane Parker 1 r ef 1 2 4 Simon Stead 3 3 3 3 3 15 3rd Craig Boyce 2 1 3 3 2 11 4th Paul Cooper (res) 1 0 1 Luke Priest (res) 2 1 3 Track record 59.5 Simon Stead 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 60.6 63.0 60.0 59.6 61.7 61.7 59.8 60.0 61.8 60.2 62.5 59.8 62.5 64.0 62.1 60.9 60.9 63.0 63.5 63.4 Semi-final FINAL Craig Wason f Craig Boyce x2 Mark Lemon 2nd Simon Stead fx André Compton 1st André Compton 1ST Danny Bird fx Mark Lemon 2nd 61.8 awd Ross Brady fell exiting the 2nd turn in heat 1 collecting André Compton in the process. After straightening his bike André followed Craig Watson home in the rerun. Stoney won heat 2, and Rory Schlein heat 3 after Chris Neath nudged the tapes earning himself a 15m handicap. Simon Stead flew home to win heat 4 just one tenth of a second outside his own track record with Craig Boyce in second and Jason Lyons being overtaken at the back. Craig Watson once again powered away to win heat 5 from Mark Lemon, but Jason Lyons lost control just as Danny Bird was passing him on the second turn with Danny clattering into the fence. I would have adjudged Jason the guilty party, but not this referee. He then lost control of the meeting completely as Stoney led a riders revolt and demanded all the top shale be bladed off. Ok, the track was grippy, but there were 17 more races to go and it was improving heat by heat. The riders may have been caught out by finding grip on the track, but they've all been around Owlerton before and should have been expecting it. If their tuners have got the setup wrong then it is hardly Graham Trollope's fault and it should have been down to the riders to adjust their machines accordingly. Craig, André and Simon managed it, so how come such an experienced ex-Grand Prix rider couldn't. Perhaps he was trying to generate an Elite style surface to favour the gaters, and all the other non-racers jumped on the band waggon. When the racing did eventually recommence Tomas Topinka took a tapes to flag win from Jan Stæchmann, and then Steady showed Stoney a clean pair of heels to win heat 7. André took heat 8 and thanks to the lack of grip Craig Boyce was unable to make a move on second placed Adrian Rymel. Heat 9 saw Rory Schlein clatter heavily into the fence on the second turn and while he was able to limp from the track with bruising to his back he joined Ross Brady (knee ligaments) in withdrawing from the meeting. In the rerun Craig Boyce left it late but dived under Craig Watson on the third turn, last lap to claim his first win. Steady trapped to win heat 10 from Mark Lemon, and Danny Bird bounced back to win heat 11 from Adrian Rymel with Shane Parker again retiring at the back. André scorched clear to take heat 12 but Stoney was perhaps beginning to regret his foray into track preparation taking three laps to pass Jason Lyons in order to follow Jan Stæchmann home. Stoney trapped in heat 13 to put himself back into contention and Chris Neath opened his account following Craig Watson's retirement. Adrian Rymel was gifted a win in heat 14 following a Glenn Cunningham fall and Jason Lyons pulling up in the rerun. Craig Boyce took his second win in heat 15 ahead of Mark Lemon, and Steady took heat 16 with ease as André settled for 2nd place. After yet another delay for the blade to do yet more damage Steady recorded his clean sweep ahead of Craig Watson, with Stæchmann powering around Adrian Rymel off the pits turn to take third. Danny Bird got stuck in to win heat 18 from Craig Boyce, and Stoney's 'take it easy and just qualify' tactics came adrift as he rolled to a halt. The countback system meant that Danny Bird took the last place in the semi by virtue of beating Stoney in this heat! Tomas Topinka strolled to a win in heat 19, and Jason Lyons trebbled his score by beating the woeful Chris Neath. Second place was all André required to qualify directly to the final with Steady but he dropped it on the first bend as he looked for the grip by the fence. Although he jumped back on he was too far adrift even to catch meeting reserve Luke Priest as Mark Lemon booked his semi-final place by winning from Shane Parker. More drama in the semi-final, André powered around the field to lead down the back straight but Danny Bird shed a chain on the second turn and tumbled into the fence. André did it again in the restart, and Craig Boyce passed Craig Watson on the pits bend heading for the final. Watto grabbed a real handful around the outside but came to grief on the second turn and credit to him for quickly removing his bike from the track. With choice of gate position in the Grand Final Steady curiously went for gate 2. Craig Boyce plumped for gate 1, André gate 3 leaving Mark Lemon off the outside. Craig Boyce then suffered some mechanical problem and with the seconds counting down his spare bike was rushed onto the track. With Craig astride it and just fitting his cut-out the pillock of a referee decided to delay proceedings just a little longer and excluded him! When the final eventually started Steady made another beaut of a gate and it looked to be all over. André however had other ideas and after scraping the fence for three laps building up momentum he made a heroic dive down the inside of the first turn on the last lap. As the two riders exited the second turn it was with André half a bike length ahead. I fully expected Simon to do his own third bend inside dive but it was not to be. Instead he tried to lean on André from the outside and succeeded in catching his arm in André rear wheel catapulting himself into the fence and causing André to lose control and demolish yards of the safety fence as he was thrown like a rag doll into and along it. (See for yourself by downloading Steve Shovlar's screen capture of the crash). How they both were able to walk away from it must be a testimony to the design of the fence and their own fitness. André was able to take his place on the winners rostrum but Steady was whisked away to hospital where he had his shoulder popped back in and treatment for a broken finger. It was getting very late so I didn't hang around for all the celebrations but it seems that some moronic Workington fans staged a track invasion and that a rider was threatened with violence before the security guards were able to intervene. A sad end to a forgetable night marred by poor refereeing, and a riders revolt which was resolved by compromising track conditions which destroyed the quality of racing in the latter stages. Return to Sheffield Speedway Fixtures & Results Return to Sheffield Speedway homepage1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS50 Posted March 7 Report Share Posted March 7 The above is best I can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Grantham Posted March 7 Author Report Share Posted March 7 5 hours ago, RS50 said: The above is best I can do. Thank you RS50, got that now Just 1998 heat details to find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS50 Posted March 8 Report Share Posted March 8 On 3/7/2025 at 4:40 PM, Neil Grantham said: Hi all I wonder if anyone has the heat results for this competition for the years 1998, 2003 and 2004, all held at Sheffield Many thanks [Edit] - just found the 2003 results Wikipedia Search 1998 Premier League speedway season Article Talk Language Download PDF Watch Edit The 1998 Premier League speedway season was the second division of speedway in the United Kingdom and governed by the Speedway Control Board (SCB), in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA). 1998 Premier League speedway season League Premier League Champions Peterborough Panthers Knockout Cup Reading Racers Young Shield Isle of Wight Islanders Individual Glenn Cunningham Pairs Peterborough Panthers Fours Peterborough Panthers Highest average Nicki Pedersen Division/s above 1998 Elite League Division/s below 1998 Conference League ← 19971999 → Season summary edit The League consisted of 13 teams for the 1998 season with the following the closure of the Long Eaton Invaders and the decision of the Oxford Cheetahs to compete in the Elite League. The addition of the Peterborough Panthers who dropped down from the Elite League limited the reduction in numbers. The League was run on a standard format with no play-offs and was won by Peterborough.[1] Final table Fixtures & results Premier League Knockout Cup Riders' Championship edit Glenn Cunningham won the Riders' Championship. The final was held on 13 September at Owlerton Stadium.[7] Pos. Rider Pts Total SF Final 1 England Glenn Cunningham 2 2 3 3 3 13 - 3 2 England Carl Stonehewer 3 3 2 1 3 12 2 2 3 England Peter Carr 3 3 2 3 3 14 - 1 4 Denmark Nicki Pedersen 2 2 3 2 2 12 3 0 5 Australia Craig Watson 1 3 2 2 2 11 1 6 England Leigh Lanham 0 3 0 3 3 10 0 7 England Paul Bentley 1 0 3 2 2 9 8 England Paul Pickering 1 1 2 3 0 8 9 Australia Frank Smart 2 1 1 1 2 7 10 England Scott Smith 0 2 3 0 1 7 11 England Lee Richardson 3 2 1 0 r 6 12 England David Walsh 0 0 1 2 1 6 13 England Paul Thorp 3 r 3 14 England Martin Dixon 2 0 1 0 3 15 England Steve Masters 1 1 0 t 1 3 16 England Derrol Keats 0 0 1 1 1 3 17 Australia Mick Powell 0 1 1 f=fell, r-retired, ex=excluded, ef=engine failure t=touched tapes Pairs Fours Leading averages Riders & final averages See also References Last edited 4 days ago by MaugerFundin Wikipedia Wikimedia Foundation Powered by MediaWiki Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Privacy policy Contact Wikipedia Code of Conduct Developers Statistics Cookie statement Terms of Use Desktop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Grantham Posted March 8 Author Report Share Posted March 8 Thanks again for your reply RS50, that's a good start. Just need to know the starting order now, so I can fill in a spreadsheet 'program', Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdave Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 On 3/8/2025 at 10:55 PM, Neil Grantham said: Thanks again for your reply RS50, that's a good start. Just need to know the starting order now, so I can fill in a spreadsheet 'program', Starting Order: 1. Leigh Lanham, 2. Peter Carr, 3. Glenn Cunningham, 4. Paul Pickering, 5. Frank Smart, 6. Lee Richardson, 7. Mick Powell, 8. Craig Watson, 9. David Walsh, 10. Martin Dixon, 11. Carl Stonehewer, 12. Paul Bentley, 13. Scott Smith, 14. Steve Masters, 15. Paul Thorp, 16. Nicki Pedersen, 17. D. Keats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Grantham Posted March 10 Author Report Share Posted March 10 1 hour ago, bigdave said: Starting Order: 1. Leigh Lanham, 2. Peter Carr, 3. Glenn Cunningham, 4. Paul Pickering, 5. Frank Smart, 6. Lee Richardson, 7. Mick Powell, 8. Craig Watson, 9. David Walsh, 10. Martin Dixon, 11. Carl Stonehewer, 12. Paul Bentley, 13. Scott Smith, 14. Steve Masters, 15. Paul Thorp, 16. Nicki Pedersen, 17. D. Keats Cheers, you're a star mate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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