Championship Pairs, Oxford.. Friday, 12th. August

[soupy 556]

1 hour ago, Gazc said:

I give up.

Danyon was catching Kerr and could possibly have passed without Ben slowing the race but Danyon locked up again and would in all likelihood lock up regardless what Ben did or didn’t do.

All ifs and butts and if them 3 horses did mot  got beat a nose I would be a rich man.

[soupy 556]

4 minutes ago, Jaizer said:

Mate, you're boring. Get over it

Mate,Not as boring as you.You get over it.

[Jaizer 2,853]

8 minutes ago, soupy said:

Mate,Not as boring as you.You get over it.

Oh no call the burns unit for that one 

[Steve Shovlar 10,439]

Just heard Steve Worrals cut out came adrift at the start of the final. Luckily no big engine expense. 

[lisa-colette 6,018]

1 hour ago, Bagpuss said:

I think its a big ask for a young rider like Basso to try and slow a race down with his limited experience. Asking for carnage.

He has to be one of the favourites for SGP2 on Sunday.

Only cos he isn't good at it. Age nothing to do with it as I remember a really good rider who was very good at team riding at 18 as he knew how important it was. Basso similar to Nicki P, don't remember him team riding much either. Maybe they just don't teach it much in Denmark. 

[lbw 869]

9 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Just heard Steve Worrals cut out came adrift at the start of the final. Luckily no big engine expense. 

Good no engine expense, just makes it more of a bugga with that happening 

[mac101 1,187]

Maybe with Basso having made the gate off gate 2 like he had done in every race he  could have clamped the rider in gate 1 and let Danyon come around the outside and maybe could have team rode for 2@3 place all ifs and maybes now we’ll done to Redcar no last places wins it 

[lisa-colette 6,018]

1 hour ago, gmuncie said:

The riders weren’t warned by the referee not to slow races down 

The referee did say as it was a pairs meeting that he expected team riding and that was ok but if riders took it to far and were dangerous or caused an accident then he would have to take a view on it 

That explanation makes the most sense.

[mac101 1,187]

1 hour ago, gmuncie said:

The riders weren’t warned by the referee not to slow races down 

The referee did say as it was a pairs meeting that he expected team riding and that was ok but if riders took it to far and were dangerous or caused an accident then he would have to take a view on it 

So basically you could team ride if together and don’t do anything dangerous or stupid like slow down which could cause a accident 

[Gazc 7,087]

58 minutes ago, soupy said:

All ifs and butts and if them 3 horses did mot  got beat a nose I would be a rich man.

That’s why I said possibly and not probably.

[Gazc 7,087]

18 minutes ago, lisa-colette said:

That explanation makes the most sense.

Because it suits.

[Skidder1 7,632]

21 minutes ago, Turnip said:

Good no engine expense, just makes it more of a bugga with that happening 

In later news, its reported that Stevie blew his engine on the start line!  Hopefully the £500 donation given to him by R.E.F. on Wednesday will help his expenses.

[wtf 621]

3 minutes ago, Skidder1 said:

In later news, its reported that Stevie blew his engine on the start line!  Hopefully the £500 donation given to him by R.E.F. on Wednesday will help his expenses.

No, just pulled his cut out accidentally 

[Skidder1 7,632]

Just now, wtf said:

No, just pulled his cut out accidentally 

Just quoting what it says on the Poole website!!

[baiden 90]

1 hour ago, Steve Shovlar said:

A bit late in replying to the meeting but had s flat battery to sort out this morning! 
 

First of all well done to Redcar on their win. Final a huge anti-climax with Steve Worrals bike blowing up on the line. No point in Danny chasing down the Redcar pair as it would have made no difference. Could only see a Pirates win before that but those are the breaks in a 4,3,2 scoring system. Revenge for heat 20 would have been sweet but it was not to be. Pirates through down the gauntlet in the semis with a brilliant win over the Lions but lady luck deserted when it matters. 
 

But take nothing away from Redcar who were solid in the qualifiers and had 1 and 3 when they met Poole, which were best gates. Interestingly Poole took 2 and 4 in the final having done the biz in the semis.
 

Dont think anyone can begrudge Redcar the trophy. A good night overall. Racing not great, Oxford useless, good crowd, good company. Well done to track staff keeping dust down until the last few heats . And special mention to Basso on being a class above the opposition. Poole B nearly made the final.

 

Redcar smashed Poole 7-2 just three heats earlier (off the same gates), yet you could only see a Pirates win in the final before Worrall didn't get off the start. Classic deluded Poole fan! Newsflash - it would have been exactly the same result.