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By jumping the start, especially after a warning, the rider is deemed to be "delaying the start" by preventing the race being run in a timely fashion. "delaying the start", "touching the tapes", and a "two minute time exclusion" are all deemed as Starting offences and have the same punishment. i.e. reserve replacement from the gate or 15 metre handicap. It should be pointed out that should the offence occur in heat 15 the nominated rider can now only be replaced by a reserve or starts off 15 metres ​from the same gate position as the offence occurred (not always from gate 4.)

That's a bit hard on Danny. true he missed the gate in heat 4. but would have possibly got past Payne if he'd made the slightest mistake. He was put into heat 6 against Bellego and Busch who are top the two bears by average, despite Busch riding at two. And in heat 9 it was against Skidmore and Andersen, who both beat at least one of our heat leaders during the meeting. So like for like Etheridge didn't beat him at all, and against Payne it was 1-1. In effect he sacrificed his programmed easier rides for the sake of the team.

Yes but if Vic does score well on Saturday, You can bring in Matej and Ludvig, drop Vic down to reserve then he can have 5 rides if necessary. same applies to Lewis. the problem starts if they BOTH score well on Saturday.

Well with 3 elite league matches and two (apart from this one) premier league fixtures I would guess a quality guest who could do the bizz is hard to come by. Besides Roberts back and he, as well as luddy, Matej, and Vic can get an extra ride.

Steve moves up to number 1 according to the latest greensheet averages effective from Friday,