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Comment now on the latest news at the Forum BACK IN THE GROOVE Witches shine on travels to land cup Whitemoor are planning on making SL29 a year of firsts for the club after claiming part one in late season treble bid. Three trophies in six weeks to add to their early season Pairs success is the aim for Trevor Walker’s side, who broke their duck in the Division One Cup competition by completing a six point aggregate victory at Newport Pagnell. Next up is the final of the 4TT, where again they go looking to claim a maiden win in the competition, while a first ever league championship title win would round things off nicely. Whitemoor dominated the early part of proceedings at Newport Pagnell’s Groveway home this week, twice extending their eight point first leg lead in the final of the Division One Cup up to 14, as their riders won six of the first nine heats, claiming four 4-2’s along the way. Five different riders claimed those early successes, with two going the way of eventual top scorer, their main man, Bernd Hoover (13). However it would be Izaac Melin (5+1) who took the visitors over the line when he became their sixth different race winner in heat 14, the Witches aggregate success assured with the victory over home reserve Simon Brookes. Walker’s priority this season has always been the league however, a competition—as with the Division One Cup—they have finished as runners-up in in both SL27 and 28. Newport Pagnell are again the ones who could stand in the leaders way, they’ve cut the deficit between the two sides down to one point, despite Whitemoor managing to pick up five of the six points on offer this week, two returned for a draw at Cambridge, where Hoover (13) and Skjold Likness (11) levelled things with a last heat 4-2.TODAY: Shorts Oxford recovered from the concession of three 5-1’s in the opening five heats of this weeks second leg to win the Division Two Cup final. 12 down from the opening meeting, this weeks hosts Nottingham made themselves favourites with the early treble and a 4-2 in heat six. Ally Carroll’s Mavericks however fought back by claiming four wins in the next six, which included successes for Mario Stum (16) and Mario Gottardi (9+2) when making tactical substitute appearances in heats eight and 11 respectively, the minor places in heats 14 and 15 from their riders would take them to the narrow victory, and their first trophy since they landed the division one version of this competition five years ago.
Newington’s bid to land the third tier double in their maiden season is over after they lost at home for the first time. Defeat to Wimbledon—another SL29 debutant—at the Red 5 Arena gave their visitors a four point aggregate win in the final of this years Division Three Cup competition, the minor places from Thomas Blasiak (13) and Andreas Huber (9+1) in the last heat decider securing Andy Fowler's Wanderers the silverware. Wimbledon’s success on the road came despite their riders picking up just five race wins in the contest, three going the way of Blasiak, the other two picked up by reserve Steve Birkby (9+1). Wimbledon lift the trophy having gone through the campaign unbeaten over the course of their ten meetings, winning seven, drawing three.
Disappointment in the cup but Newport Pagnell kept up the pressure in the league by making it four division one wins in a row. A 43-47 victory at third placed Chalvington the latest on the road in that sequence, Deniz Rask (13) ending the hosts own hopes of the title when completing the Knights second win of SL29 at the venue with success over Jason Danoff (11+1) in the final heat. A race earlier reserve Simon Brooks (10)—who has been in and out the side since joining the club in pre-season—completed his first double figure haul of the campaign with a crucial second place finish. The result leaves Chalvington facing a nervy finish to the campaign as they bid to race in Europe next season, a top three finish required for that, they remain third at the moment, but just points difference ahead of Bridgwater in fifth. Smethwick moved to within four points of them in sixth with a 44-46 win at Claygate.
Bridgwater’s Andy James (15) this week claimed his first GP victory since winning the World Championship for a fourth time six years ago. And in style too, the now 33 year old scoring a maximum to take the Danish GP crown in Horsens by five points from Bengt Karim (2nd) and Cestmir Sulak (3rd), who fought out a race-off for the minor podium spots. Bernd Hoover leads the overall series standings by a clear ten points with two rounds remaining, despite adding just six points to his tally in Horsens.
Whitemoor’s £1/4milllion signing Florian Ziegler (12) topped the WU19 Final standings by a point to land his first career WSO meeting win. The young German topped the podium in Linz from Hanus Tomes (11) and Radim Urban (11).
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