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Redcar Bears v Glasgow Tigers
Premier League, 15 June 2006
South Tees Motorsports Park, Redcar
| 1 | Gary Havelock | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | . | . | 14 | 0 |
| 2 | Mathieu Tresarrieu | 0 | 2* | 2* | 2* | . | . | . | 6 | 3 |
| 3 | Tomas Suchanek | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | . | . | 12 | 0 |
| 4 | Kevin Little | 2* | 1* | 2* | 2 | . | . | . | 7 | 3 |
| 5 | Chris Kerr | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | . | . | . | 6 | 0 |
| 6 | Jack Hargreaves | 3 | 0 | 1* | 1* | . | . | . | 5 | 2 |
| 7 | Daniel Giffard | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2* | . | . | . | 9 | 1 |
| 1 | Danny Bird | 3 | 3 | 6^ | 1* | 2 | . | . | 15 | 1 |
| 2 | David McAllan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | . | . | . | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | Lee Dicken | 1 | 1* | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | Kauko Nieminen | Fx | 4^ | 1 | 3 | 0 | . | . | 8 | 0 |
| 5 | Shane Parker | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | 6 | 0 |
| 6 | Robert Ksiezak | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | . | . | . | 3 | 0 |
| 7 | James Cockle | 0 | F | Fx | 0 | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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With Daniel Giffard back in the side, following his illness in the pits last week as a result of sunstroke, Redcar were at full strength for this match as were Glasgow With Redcar beginning to gel and now hitting top form round their new track and in-form Glasgow keen to improve on their two point defeat on a rain soaked track in their Premier Trophy match, this meeting had the makings of a close encounter but it didn’t quite work out that way. Redcar made it a double Scotch! After beating Edinburgh by 18 points last week the Bears turned in another impressive display to beat their Glasgow rivals by 23 points tonight. The teams exchanged 4-2s in the opening two heats. Danny Bird held off the challenge of Gary Havelock in the first heat while Jack Hargreaves won the reserves race from Robert Ksiezak as James C.ockle fell trying an outside line drive. Heat 3 took three attempts to complete. At the first attempt, Kauko Nieminen got no further than the first two bends before falling and being excluded. The second attempt was pulled back for an unsatisfactory start then, at the third attempt, Redcar scored a 5-1. Tomas Suchanek made the start but Lee D.icken looked like taking second place until he drifted on the second bend of lap three allowing Kevin Little through for maximum points. With the inside line dominant it was the two reserves who contested the lead from gates 1 and 2 in heat 4. James C.ockle, off gate 1, led for the opening lap but fell at the start of the second lap under pressure from Daniel Giffard who went on to win the heat from Shane Parker and a 4-2 which made the score 15-9 after the opening four heats. In heat 5 Danny Bird gated and rode the inside line to win the race from Suchanek and Little for a share of the points but Redcar moved 10 points clear with another 5-1 in heat 6. This time it was Gary Havelock who made the gate and he was joined up front by Mathieu Tressarieu who passed Shane Parker on the third lap for the maximum. It was TR time for Glasgow and Kauko Nieminen wore the black and white helmet cover in heat 7 but, although he gated, he was passed by Chris Kerr on the back straight. Kerr went on to win the race while at the back, Jack Hargreaves fell so Lee D.icken’s third place point gave Glasgow a 3-5 cutting two points from the Bears’ lead. James C.ockle led heat 8 for a lap before failing to turn at the start of the second lap and colliding with the fence. Heat 8 specialist, David McAllan, led from the tapes but was passed by both Giffard and Tressarieu exiting the second bend and the Bears raced off to score another 5-1 to increase their lead to 12 points with the score reading 31-19. Things got worse for Glasgow as they conceded yet another 5-1 in heat 9. This time it was Tomas Suchanek and Kevin Little who raced off for the maximum leaving Shane Parker looking down at his bike with some sort of machine problem. It was turning into a bit of a rout as heat 10 went the same way. Gary Havelock and Mathieu Tresarrieu scored another 5-1 to increase the Bears’ lead to 20 points before the unbeaten Danny Bird took Glasgow’s second TR in heat 11. He won the heat for a 3-6 pulling three points back while Chris Kerr came from the back to take second place. It was only a temporary respite, however, as Suchanek and Giffard added another maximum in heat 12 after Robert Ksiezak had made a good gate. This took the score after twelve races to 49-28. Gary Havelock won heat 13 from Shane Parker and Danny Bird as, for once, Danny Bird did not make the gate then, in heat 14, Kauko Nieminen became the second Glasgow rider to win a race beating Kevin Little and Jack Hargreaves for another shared heat. In the last heat, Gary Havelock won again from Danny Bird while Tomas Suchanek passed Kauko Nieminen for third place and a 4-2 which gives Redcar a 23 point advantage for the bonus point up for grabs later in the season at Ashfield. Match Report by Merlin |