Team Websites for News and More Detailed Match Reports:
Edinburgh Monarchs Website (Official)
Friends of Edinburgh Speedway

Live Updates for a Current or Recent match: Live Speedway Updates
Discussion on Matches and Other Speedway Issues: Speedway Forum

Edinburgh Monarchs v Berwick Bandits
Premier League, 15 July 2005
Armadale Stadium, Edinburgh

Edinburgh 59
1(g)Andre Compton2X21. ..50
2Kristian Lund1*331*. ..82
3Cameron Woodward31333 ..130
4Daniel NermarkFx32*3. ..81
5Rusty Harrison33332* ..141
6William Lawson312*2*2* ..103
7Robert Ksiezak100.. ..10
Berwick 34
2Chris Schramm02002 Fx.40
3Tom P Madsen32234^ 1.150
4(g)Trent Leverington1*000. ..11
5Michal Makovsky1*1*Fx2^0 ..42
6Adam Pietraszko20... ..20
7Carl WilkinsonF2211 1*181

* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).

Edinburgh were without their injured captain, Theo Pijper, and had Andre Compton as a guest at number 1. Berwick were without Adrian Rymel, injured last Sunday at Newport, and used R/R at number 1. They were also without Scott Smith and had Trent Leverington as a guest.

Although Berwick yet again took a bit of a hammering at Armadale there were some excellent races as the Bandits gated well. Adam Pietraszko had to withdraw after his second race suffering from a neck injury.

Tom P Madsen rocketed from the gate in heat 1 to share the race 3-3 before the Monarchs took a 4-2 from the reserves race. William Lawson pulled a locker on the first bend, hampering his partner, Robert Ksiezak, and giving the Berwick reserves a big lead. However as Pietraszko and Wilkinson tried to tiptoe their way to a 1-5, Wilkinson fell and Lawson, with the bit firmly between his teeth, reeled in Pietraszko to get the decision on the line. Daniel Nermark fell in heat 3 after throwing a chain but Cameron Woodward won the rerun for a shared heat. Rusty Harrison won heat 4 after a rerun for another shared heat and the heat 4 score was 13-11.

Chris Schramm made an electric start to heat 5 but an excellent ride from Daniel Nermark took him past the Berwick rider for a 4-2 to double Edinburgh’s lead. In heat 6 the referee ludicrously excluded Andre Compton for making an inside pass on Michal Makovsky who laid his machine down in sheer fright but Kristian Lund made an excellent start in the rerun to share the race. Rusty Harrison won heat 7 from Madsen as William Lawson picked off Trent Leverington for third place and Edinburgh stretched their lead to 6 points. Kristian Lund drove hard round the field in heat 8 and was joined by William Lawson for a 5-1 which took the score after 8 heats to 29-19.

Michal Makovsky made a fast start to heat 9 but forgot to turn and, as he fell, he clouted his partner, Carl Wilkinson, into the fence. In the rerun Carl Wilkinson made another fast start but Woodward reeled him in and passed him after 2 laps. Wilkinson then had the misfortune to suffer an engine failure and conceded second place to Daniel Nermark while pushing home for the third place point. Tom P Madsen also made a fast start to heat 10 and won comfortably with Berwick probably wishing they had given him a TR. The heat was shared then Berwick gave a TR to Michal Makovsky in heat 11 but he was well beaten by Rusty Harrison and William Lawson for a 5-2 to the Monarchs. In heat 12 Berwick finally did give a TR to their man in form, Tom P Madsen, but it was Cameron Woodward who drove strongly round the outside of the Berwick rider to win the heat. Madsen gave chased but finally fell back. With Carl Wilkinson third Berwick managed their one and only heat adavantage of the night with a 3-5 to take the heat 12 score to 45-30.

Heat 13 saw an excellent race between Rusty Harrison and Chris Schramm with Schramm passing Harrison round the outside of the first and second bends of the second lap but the Edinburgh rider did likewise to Schramm one lap later for a 4-2. Edinburgh then signed off with two 5-1s from Daniel Nermark and William Lawson in heat 14 and Cameron Woodward and Rusty Harrison in heat 15.

Match Report by Merlin