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Reading Racers v Berwick Bandits
Premier League, 20 June 2005
Smallmead Stadium, Reading
| 1 | Andrew Appleton | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | . | 11 | 0 |
| 2 | Zdenek Simota | 0 | 1 | 1 | R | 1 | . | . | 3 | 0 |
| 4 | Richard Wolff | 1 | X^ | 2 | 2* | 2 | . | . | 7 | 1 |
| 5 | Matej Zagar | 2 | 6^ | 3 | 0 | 3 | . | . | 14 | 0 |
| 6 | Chris Johnson | 1 | 0 | R | . | . | . | . | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | Mathieu Tresarrieu | F | 1* | 2* | 1 | 3 | 1* | . | 8 | 3 |
| 1 | Adrian Rymel | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | . | . | 12 | 0 |
| 2 | Chris Schramm | 1 | 2* | 3 | 1* | . | . | . | 7 | 2 |
| 3 | Tom P Madsen | 2* | 0 | 2 | R | . | . | . | 4 | 1 |
| 4 | Adam Pietraszko | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | . | . | . | 7 | 0 |
| 5 | Michal Makovsky | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1* | 1* | . | . | 10 | 2 |
| 6 | Scott Smith | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | 5 | 0 |
| 7 | Carl Wilkinson | 2* | 0 | 2* | 0 | . | . | . | 4 | 2 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Once again Reading were at sixes and sevens at home as they were ripped apart by Berwick tonight. Reading used R/R for Steve Masters at number 3 while Berwick were at full strength. Berwick roared off into the distance from the start leaving the home side stunned. First up was a 2-4 from Adrian Rymel and Chris Schramm followed by a 1-5 in the reserves race from Smith and Wilkinson. Then Adam Pietraszko and Tom P Madsen added another 1-5 in heat 3 from Wolff and Appleton. In heat 4 even Matej Zagar couldn’t win a race beaten by Michal Makovsky but at least Reading shared the heat to trail 7-17. Richard Wolff took a TR in heat 5, then brought down Chris Schramm and was excluded from the rerun just as the Racers’ fans thought things couldn’t get worse. The result was another 1-5 from Rymel and Schramm to take the score to 8-22. At last Reading managed a race win as Appleton beat Makovsky with Simota third for a 4-2 in heat 6. In heat 7 Matej Zagar took a TR and this time won it with Mathieu Tressarieu second for a big 8-1 to cut the Bandits lead to 5 points at 20-25. The comeback was stopped dead in its tracks as the Bandits took yet another 1-5 in heat 8 from Schramm and Wilkinson as Simota had an engine failure to stretch the lead to nine points again at 21-30. Another 2-4 in heat 9 took Berwick 11 points ahead again at 23-34 but Reading responded in kind to take the score to 27-36. Zagar won heat 11 for a shared heat then Reading took a 5-1 in heat 12 from Tressarieu and Smith as Madsen had an engine failure to get to within five points of Berwick again. Heat 13 was the killer blow for Reading. Although it was won by Andrew Appleton, the Berwick pair of Rymel and Makovsky team rode to keep Matej Zagar at the back for a shared heat which Reading had desperately needed to win. Adam Pietraszko tied up the win for Berwick by taking heat 14 for the shared heat which kept Berwick five points to the good with one race remaining. Matej Zagar won the last heat but again Rymel and Makovsky filled the minor places for a shared heat. Match Report by Merlin |