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According to his father Tai Woffinden will ride in all three Pardubice meetings and also the Tomicek meeting in Prague on the Monday.

Have not stayed in Kolin. I'm in Lazne Bohdanec again this year but not at Hotel Technik (Vitek's). In a guest house which is next to the Town Hall so its last silent death (Trolley Bus) out at night from Pardubice.

There are a number of Rye House and Edinburgh fans staying in Kolin which is on the main line from Prague to Pardubice.

This would be fine but many of the hotels will only accept a two night booking.

Cobras 1 Adam Wrathall 1 F 1 2 2 Kieran Morris R 2 0 2 3 James Cartmell NS 2 F 2 4 James Sargeant 3 F 3 6 Rhinos 1 Ben Taylor 2 3 2’ 7+1 2 Ben Hopwood 3 3 3 9 3 Sean Paterson 2 1 2 5 4 Rusty Dougan 1’ X 1’ 2+2 Heat 1 Hopwood, Taylor, Wrathall Morris 1 5 1 5 62.7 Heat 2 Sarjeant, Paterson, Dougan Cartmell (NS) 3 3 4 8 65.0 Heat 3 Taylor, Cartmell, Paterson, Wrathall (F) 2 4 6 12 Awarded Heat 4 Hopwood, Morris, Dougan (left track), Sarjeant (F) 2 3 8 15 63.8 Heat 5 Sarjeant, Paterson, Dougan, Cartmell (F) 3 3 11 18 65.4 Heat 6 Hopwood. Taylor, Wrathell, Morris 1 5 12 23 61.9

Believe there had been six call offs by Saturday lunchtime. Will we see the same for the restaging?

Not wanting to trivialise the injury sustained to Dan I looked to the rule book to see what the rules are regarding the starting tapes. BriG says in his original post "I have heard that there is a shortage of the official tape material and that tracks are using other stuff." From the Rule book Rule 9.4 "The Starting Gate, operable only by the Referee, shall support 2 or 3 cotton tapes (but not linen, plastic or other material likely to cause injury to a competitor colliding with them).... Other than saying cotton has to be used, no reference to grade of cotton (if there is such a thing) is specified. I believe all tracks do comply with the rules and that a rare incident, as in this case is very unfortunate, but you cannot legislate for all eventuallities or we wouldn't be going for our regular fix of speedway. As a matter of interest the Edinburgh electrician spent half a day finding the fault which if you remember your physics from school days (a long time ago in my case) involved coils and magnets. Hope Dan gets back racing soon. Bill

Thanks from the small number of regulars who clear up after the Devils meetings to Chris Widman's Dad for giving us a hand on Saturday. Very much appreciated especially after the kind of day they had.

Heat 23 was 58.7 All times on the night were truncated to 1 decimal place.