Craig Willoughby (15) claimed a maiden victory in the BU21 competition after winning the final at the fourth attempt. With home advantage and having the highest average of the 16 strong field victory for the 20 year came as no real surprise, however he was pushed all the way by Quantock team mate Charlie Pickering, at 17 the youngest of the riders in action. Like Willoughby the Rangers reserve won all his first four races, however experience told when they met in the final scheduled heat of the meeting, Willoughby forcing the teen wide from the start which meant it was he who had the better position coming out of the second bend. Willoughby went on to make it five out of five while BU19 champion Pickering trailed home in third, the point putting him into a race off for the minor podiums spots—which he won—with Joseph Ballard. The top seven from Quantock qualify for the WU21 semi finals which take place in the second half of the season.

A winning WSO debut for Samuel Murphy who took the WU19 title in Oslo with a 15 point maximum. The 17 year old—currently without a club—topped the standings from Bolsover’s Conner Robertson (12) and Tanek Zajec, pre-meeting favourite and defending champion David Johnson (11) finished a disappointing fourth while Charlie Pickering (7) was the best placed Brit in ninth.

Ramsgate’s bid for a fifth straight Division One Cup final appearance continued with a 42-47 win at Newquay. The Rams are unbeaten in this years competition and moved a step closer to qualification for the last four with the win, secured with a last heat Shane Goodwin (13) winning 4-2. Earlier Ramsgate suffered their first league defeat of the campaign on their trip to Southampton, 51-39, the defeat seeing them slip to second in the standings at the time, however they end the week top thanks to a later win over Laceby, 57-33, returned despite the tactical absence of Joseph Ballard from their side. Ballard has been averaging 8.20 at reserve this season, however he retains his 3.00 point GSA for the next six weeks at least having not ridden in the necessary six meetings required for it to change.

Altrincham end the week second in the division one standings following a surprise victory for the Panthers at Exeter. Key reserve Steffan Boden was missing for the visitors, but still they had enough to eke out a 44-46 success against their full strength hosts, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov (15) helping his side to their second league win at the venue in three by winning a last heat 4-2. Elsewhere Quantock bounced back from a double loss last week by picking up a brace of top flight wins this, which included a two point success at Swindon bookend-ed by 4-2’s involving Wlod Szczepanski (11).

Jericho have secured an early qualification to the semi finals of the Division Three Cup after making it three wins out of three in the qualifiers at California (41-49). Eight down after heat six the Jack Russells raced to five heat advantages in the next eight to win the meeting with a race to spare, a heat 14 5-1 won by second string Tim Picard (7+1) taking them over the line.