Warley’s dreadful start to the league season continued as they lost home and away once again. A first competitive victory of SL36—a 49-41 success over Coventry in the Division One Cup—punctuated more disappointment for the pre-season favourites for relegation, the Warriors losing out by 14 at St Ives as both their second strings failed to beat an opponent, before going down to a 44-46 home loss with the visit of York. The Vipers claimed their first away points of the campaign when Adam Bennett (14+1) completed his second maximum of the season with a last heat win over Peter Soumi (13) and Vladilen Bunin (11+1), again the back-up riders failing to deliver for the Warriors, with their bottom four scoring 12 points as their opposite numbers tallied 21 despite the unfamiliar territory. As a result of his club’s poor start to the season, promoter Adrian Heathcote as plenty of scope for additions now the transfer window has opened, at 41.32 the GSA of his top seven after the first change is the lowest in the division. Leaders Blackpool would have been close to exceeding the 47 point limit if pre-season addition Marcel Stastny hadn’t been left out of the side to face Houston this week, his GSA remains at 5.64—it would have increased to over seven—as a result of featuring in just five meetings rather than the required six, the Blaze however did suffer their first league defeat of SL36 in his absence, Dave Hood’s side going down 52-38 at Houston.

St Ives are back in business in the SL36 Division One Cup after pulling off a shock win in the competition at early season league leaders Blackpool. A loss in their opening group fixture at Brighton looked to have cost the holders any chance of reaching the last four, however the 44-46 win in the north-west has change that situation for the better, paid ten and nine scores for second string Venedict Smolin and reserve Alex Bryan respectively leading the Pirates to success.

Pelham lost for the first time this season, and in spectacular fashion. The then unbeaten division two leaders travelled to bottom side Rhondda expecting to be challenging for more away points, they were defeated 57-33—just a couple of points shy of the club’s record loss—with their riders picking up just three race wins. Having lost top spot, the Zaz regained it with a later ten point home win over Sandwell, although the promotion race remains extremely tight, with the top seven separated by just three points. Peckleton and Midland gained slightly on the pacesetters after both picked up away points for draws, the top five all winning races for the former as they shared the spoils at Sneyd Green, while the Pristines levelled things up in their clash at Witham thanks to a last heat 5-1 from Adam Lobodzinski (15 from six) and the unbeaten Lars Stobbe (13+2).

Boston reach the first GSA change still looking for their maiden league win of the campaign. The returning Barracudas suffered a 42-48 home loss to Bury in their latest division three fixture, that despite the visiting side picking up five heat wins to the ten managed by the hosts. Geoff Keeble’s outfit however converted those five wins into two 5-1’s and three 4-2’s, the third of which returned in the last heat decider by Dusan Simak (12+1) and second string Alex Dunn (9+1).