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SOMERSET READY FOR PAIRS

Friday July 20, 2018
SOMERSET host the Championship Pairs at the Oaktree Arena tonight (7pm) in the traditional curtain-raiser to British Grand Prix weekend.

Ten of the eleven Championship clubs are involved with Sheffield defending the title they won in a re-staged event at Owlerton last season.

PRE-MEETING COMMENTS:

MICHAEL PALM TOFT (Peterborough): “I’ve done the Pairs before with Peterborough (in 2015) and we got quite far. But I had an engine blow-up and when I went out on my spare bike in the semi-final the clutch dipped in too hard and I lost out at the gate.

“Hopefully this year I won’t have an engine blow-up and then we can go that bit further!

“It would be nice to add the Pairs to the Fours, and I look at it as another meeting where hopefully we can do well.”

RICKY WELLS (Edinburgh): “It’s normally a pretty fun event I’ve been a part of it for a number of years now and for everyone going to Cardiff it’s a great way to kick-start the weekend.

“For me though it’s an event I’ve never had too much joy or luck in to be honest; either I haven’t done good and my partner has or I’ve done good and my partner hasn’t. But me and Erik (Riss) are racing good together this year so I think we have a good chance.

“I know there’s a bus coming down from Edinburgh, and I know it’s a long trip, but Edinburgh have got some of the greatest fans in the league and hopefully we can make the journey worth it for them.”

JAKE ALLEN (Scunthorpe): “I’ve watched the Pairs before because I’ve lived down that way, but this is my first-time riding in the meeting.

“I’m not sure if being a Somerset rider is going to be a massive advantage, because we haven’t had a whole load of home meetings this year – a lot of those are yet to come.

“Josh (Auty) and myself are both in good form, and we ride well together, so it’s all to play for on the night and we’ll see what happens.”

RITCHIE HAWKINS (Ipswich manager): “Nico (Covatti) and Rory (Schlein) are going to look at each other and know they have a good chance to win it, we have as good a chance as anyone and we go there focused on winning it.

“Being consistent is key really, in the shared events you need to be consistently picking up points and not running lasts.”


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UPCOMING FIXTURES...
18/10/18 1930 King's Lynn v Somerset (P-KOC F)
19/10/18 2000 Lakeside v Workington (CS Final.1) (at RH)
20/10/18 1830 Workington v Lakeside (CS Final.2)
20/10/18 2000 Workington v Lakeside (Championship)
20/10/18 1830 Coventry v Eastbourne (NL PO SF)
20/10/18 1900 Stoke v Plymouth (TPNL)
21/10/18 1800 Lakeside v Peterborough (Championship POSF)
21/10/18 1700 Scunthorpe v Workington (C-KOC F)
21/10/18 1930 Eastbourne v Mildenhall (NL PO F or TPNL)
21/10/18 1500 Buxton v Birmingham (TPNL)
21/10/18 1845 British 125cc Final, Scunthorpe
22/10/18 1930 NGK Spark Plugs Olympique, Wolverhampton
24/10/18 1900 Stoke v Eastbourne (TPNL)
25/10/18 1930 Workington v Scunthorpe (C-KOC F)
26/10/18 2000 Eastbourne v Mildenhall (TPNL) - Prov
 
LATEST RESULTS...
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17:
 
PREMIERSHIP KO CUP FINAL, 1st leg
Somerset 53 (Nico Covatti 12+3)
King’s Lynn 37 (Niels-Kristian Iversen 10)

NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAY-OFF S/F, 1st leg
Eastbourne 60 (Charlie Brooks 19+1)
Coventry 30 (Connor Mountain 9, Nathan Stoneman 9)

THREE TEAM CHALLENGE, Birmingham
Birmingham 44 (James Shanes 18)
Wolves Select 34 (Max Clegg 14)
Heathens Select 30 (Ben Morley 15)

MONDAY OCTOBER 15:

NGK SPARK PLUGS OLYMPIQUE
@ Wolverhampton - OFF
Re-staging date: Monday October 22, 7.30pm

SUNDAY OCTOBER 14:
 
CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL 1st leg
Glasgow 51 – Claus Vissing 13+2
Workington 38 – Rasmus Jensen 12
 
CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL 2nd leg
Lakeside v Peterborough - OFF
Re-staging date: Sunday October 21
 
Workington 52 – Mason Campton 16
Glasgow 38 – Ricky Wells 13
Workington win 90-89 on aggregate.
 
NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL 1st leg
Coventry v Eastbourne - OFF
Re-staging date: Saturday October 20, 6.30pm
 
TRAVEL PLUS NATIONAL LEAGUE
Buxton v Birmingham - OFF
Re-staging date: Sunday October 21, 3pm
 
SATURDAY OCTOBER 13:
 
CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL
Workington v Glasgow - OFF
Re-staging: Sunday October 14, 7.30pm
 
CHAMPIONSHIP KO CUP SEMI-FINAL 2nd leg
Peterborough 51 – Simon Lambert 15+2
Scunthorpe 39 – Jake Allen 11
Scunthorpe win 98-82 on aggregate.
 
NATIONAL LEAGUE KO CUP FINAL 2nd leg
Eastbourne 58 – Tom Brennan 13+1
Mildenhall 32 – Drew Kemp 13
Eastbourne win 96-84 on aggregate.
 
FRIDAY OCTOBER 12:

 NATIONAL LEAGUE KO CUP FINAL, 1st leg   
Mildenhall 52 (Drew Kemp 15+1) 
Eastbourne 38 (Tom Brennan 11)
 
CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL
Glasgow v Workington - OFF
Re-staging: Sunday October 14, 1.30pm
 
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 10:

PREMIERSHIP GRAND FINAL, 2nd leg
King’s Lynn 51 (Erik Riss 13+2)
Poole 39 (Josh Grajczonek 8)
Poole win 92-88 on aggregate.
 
MONDAY OCTOBER 8:
 
PREMIERSHIP GRAND FINAL, 1st leg
Poole 53 (Nicolai Klindt 11+2)
King’s Lynn 37 (Robert Lambert 12)

THE LAURELS, Kent
1 Jon Armstrong (Coventry)
2 Nathan Stoneman (Kent)
3 Dan Gilkes (Unattached)
4 Richard Andrews (Plymouth)

SUNDAY OCTOBER 7:
 
CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL 1st leg
Peterborough 44 – Simon Lambert 16+1
Lakeside 46 – Adam Ellis 12+1
 
TRAVEL PLUS NATIONAL LEAGUE
Buxton 38 – Tom Woolley 12+1
Stoke 52 – Max Clegg 18
National League points: Buxton 0 Stoke 4
 
Mildenhall 53 – Drew Kemp 10/Josh Bailey 10
Birmingham 37 – Nathan Stoneman 15+1
National League points: Mildenhall 3 Birmingham 0
 
Stoke 50 – Max Clegg 18
Buxton 39 – Tom Woolley 13+2
National League points: Stoke 3 Buxton 0
 
NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL 1st leg
Coventry v Eastbourne - OFF
 
SATURDAY OCTOBER 6:
 
FIM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Round 10
TORUN GRAND PRIX OF POLAND, Torun
1 Tai Woffinden (GB)
2 Artem Laguta (Rus)
3 Emil Sayfutdinov (Rus)
4 Niels-Kristian Iversen (Den)
 
FINAL STANDINGS
1 Tai Woffinden (GB) 139
2 Bartosz Zmarzlik (Pol) 129
3 Fredrik Lindgren (Swe) 109
4 Maciej Janowski (Pol) 104
 
CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL 1st leg
Lakeside v Peterborough (at Rye House) - OFF
Re-staging date: Sunday October 14 @ 2pm
 
NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL 1st leg
Eastbourne v Coventry - OFF
 
TRAVEL PLUS NATIONAL LEAGUE
Stoke v Buxton - OFF
Re-staging date: Sunday October 7 @ 7pm.

 

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