Well that was a LONG meeting, over two and a half hours for 15 heats of Speedway, some delays were obviously un avoidable but still far to long for a meeting. (Probably not as long as the match at Glasgow though!)
Delays included.
Blue Light fault in Heat 1
Crash in Heat 2.
Tapes fault
Paramedic attending to a rider
Re starts
Riders missing two minute warnings
Rider getting warned then excluded in the same heat
Sun break.
Apologies if I have missed any.....back to the meeting, looking at the Redcar line up in the programme I thought they would take all the points last night but the Comets hung in and grabbed a much needed win to boost the confidence in the camp.
Cook was superb only being beaten in ht 15 by Barker, team riding superbly in heats 10 and 13 to grab 5-1s on both occasions, oh and a super fast track record
in heat 1!
All the team rode well and chipped in with some good points, especially pleasing to see Matt Williamson getting some much needed points on the board.
Hopefully James Sarjeant can cure his starting problem because its losing points money for him and the Comets.
On another note the crowd numbers were very low tonight, maybe just peak holiday time, but worrying all the same.