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...
23/07/19 1930 Glasgow v Eastbourne (CS SF)
23/07/19 1930 Leicester v Plymouth (NL)
24/07/19 1930 Birmingham v Somerset (Champ)
25/07/19 1930 Ipswich v Wolverhampton (Prem)
25/07/19 1930 King's Lynn v Peterborough (Prem)
25/07/19 1930 Swindon v Belle Vue (Prem)
25/07/19 1900 Silver Ski Holidays Fours, Isle of Wight
26/07/19 1930 Edinburgh v Berwick (Champ)
26/07/19 1930 Glasgow v Leicester (Champ)
26/07/19 1930 Redcar v Sheffield (Champ)
26/07/19 1915 Silver Ski Holidays Fours, Plymouth
27/07/19 1930 Eastbourne v Somerset (Champ)
27/07/19 1930 Leicester v Glasgow (Champ)
27/07/19 1900 Stoke v Belle Vue (NL)
28/07/19 1830 Scunthorpe v Glasgow (Champ)
28/07/19 1730 Sheffeld v Newcastle (Champ)
28/07/19 1500 Mildenhall v Plymouth (NL)
29/07/19 1930 British Final, Belle Vue
29/07/19 1930 Cradley v Stoke (NL)
29/07/19 1830 Kent v Leicester (NL)
30/07/19 1930 Leicester v Isle of Wight (NL) 31/07/19 1930 Somerset v Glasgow (Champ)
01/08/19 1930 Ipswich v Belle Vue (Prem)
01/08/19 1930 Poole v Peterborough (Prem)
01/08/19 1930 Belle Vue v Kent (NL) 01/08/19 1900 Isle of Wight v Oxford Select (Ch)
02/08/19 1930 Edinburgh v Scunthorpe (Champ)
02/08/19 1930 Glasgow v Redcar (Champ)
02/08/19 1915 Plymouth v Leicester (NL) 03/08/19 1900 Berwick v Redcar (Champ)
03/08/19 1930 Eastbourne v Glasgow (CS SF)
03/08/19 1900 Stoke v Leicester (NL) 04/08/19 1600 Leicester v Sheffield (Champ)
NATIONAL LEAGUE Belle Vue 56 (Leon Flint 14) Isle of Wight 34 (Jack Smith 15) National League points: Belle Vue 3 Isle of Wight 0
Kent 53 (Dan Gilkes 13+1) Stoke 37 (Tom Perry 12) National League points: Kent 3 Stoke 0
SUNDAY JULY 21:
CHAMPIONSHIP
Newcastle 47 (Max Clegg 11+1)
Glasgow 42 (Rasmus Jensen 14)
Championship points: Newcastle 3 Glasgow 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Mildenhall 48 (Danny Ayres 14)
Leicester 42 (Danyon Hume 14+1)
National League points: Mildenhall 3 Leicester 1
FIM MONSTER ENERGY SPEEDWAY OF NATIONS - FINAL 2nd leg, Togliatti, Russia 1 Poland 26 (Bartosz Zmarzlik 18) 2 Russia 23 (Emil Sayfutdinov 14) 3 Sweden 19 (Fredrik Lindgren 10) 4 Australia 18 (Jason Doyle 14) 5 Denmark 18 (Leon Madsen 11) 6 Germany 16 (Kai Huckenbeck 11) 7 Great Britain 6 (Craig Cook 4)
FINAL STANDINGS 1 Russia 45 - Placed 1st after race-off 2 Poland 47 - Placed 2nd after race-off 3 Australia 41 - Placed 3rd after race-off 4 Denmark 37 5 Sweden 35 6 Germany 30 7 Great Britain 16 (RUSSIA crowned 2019 FIM Speedway of Nations Champions)
NATIONAL LEAGUE Kent 41 (Drew Kemp 12+1) Cradley 37 (Max Clegg 12) Abandoned after 13 heats - Curfew - RESULT STANDS. National League: Kent 3 Cradley 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE FOURS, Stoke 1 Stoke 15 (Tom Perry 4, Luke Priest 4, Joe Lawlor 4) 2 Isle of Wight 14 (Ben Morley 6) 3 Mildenhall 13 (Danny Ayres 5, Jason Edwards 5) 4 Kent 6 (Drew Kemp 4)
