BRITISH SPEEDWAY AUGUST 5, 2025

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ACES FORCE A DRAWN RESULT

IPSWICH were victorious at Belle Vue in a Super Heat after a pulsating ROWE Motor Oil Premiership clash between the top two ended in a 45-45 draw in Manchester.

The Witches raced into a 25-11 lead after just six races as they looked to repeat a KO Cup victory from earlier in the season at the same venue, but the Aces came charging back despite the absence of the injured Jaimon Lidsey.
Zach Cook raised the roof by snatching a Heat 14 win from Tom Brennan on the line, leaving the home side two points down with one race remaining.

Dan Bewley won the race for the home side but Emil Sayfutdinov’s second place ahead of Brady Kurtz left the meeting tied, meaning one league point apiece, but it was the visitors who took the extra point in the Super Heat as Sayfutdinov and Jason Doyle kept Kurtz at the back.
Bewley scored 15+1 from six rides for the hosts with Cook on 12+1 and Kurtz on 11, whilst Sayfutdinov led the way for the Witches with 12, and reserve Dan Thompson gained a huge race win over Kurtz on his way to 8+2.

Ipswich boss Ritchie Hawkins said: “I’m really happy with the result but I felt everything about us was much improved and the buzz was back from the boys which has been lacking for a few weeks now. I thought that was by far our best performance since the injuries. 
“We know they are an extremely good team, and they have not been beaten in the league there all season and they have two of the top riders in the world. We knew they would come back at us, but we didn’t let our heads drop and stayed fully focused.
“To get the win is terrific and it gives us great confidence for the play-offs if we go there, but more than anything I was glad to get the ball back rolling again.”

Belle Vue manager Mark Lemon said: “It was a little bit frustrating tonight, what normally worked wasn’t working. It took quite a bit of resolve from the boys to knuckle down and pull it back.
“To bring back 14 points against the table toppers is quite some feat, especially without Jaimon.
“Credit where credit is due, we did so well to get the result we did. The Super Heat could have gone either way.”

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LEICESTER kept up their impressive run of form with a 54-36 win at King’s Lynn in their return to ROWE Motor Oil Premiership action.
The sides had drawn at the same venue in the KO Cup Final last week before the Lions clinched the silverware at home, but this time they were in dominant form in Norfolk.

Ryan Douglas raced to a 14+1 paid maximum for the visitors, and skipper Max Fricke totalled 14+2 in a fast-gating performance from the team overall, which included a run of three 5-1s and three 4-2s in a six-race mid-meeting spell.
The result consolidated the Lions’ top four place as well as all-but ending the Stars’ faint chances, although Danish star Niels-Kristian Iversen collected a hard-fought 10 points for the home side.
Leicester boss Stewart Dickson said: “Obviously there wasn’t the intensity and atmosphere of the Cup Final last week, but we still had a job to do, and we did it very well.

“All six of our riders performed well and it’s another big result for us especially when you look at the scores elsewhere tonight.
“There was some talk about Tom Brennan guesting last week and us being ‘lucky’ because he scored 12 from five rides; well, on this occasion our own riders scored 10+1 from four rides using rider replacement, so it does show that whether using a guest or r/r, we are a strong side.”
King’s Lynn manager Rob Lyon said: “We tried to beat the weather tonight and we tried really hard to get a good track, but we were comprehensively beaten every which way.

“There was nothing wrong with the track, but obviously the starts were a little different, and as a home team that sometimes messes with your head a bit.
“We discussed things during our team chat of course, and our boys were trying different things to get off the start. It wasn’t as if they were just leaving it, but nothing seemed to work until the end when we managed a couple of wins.”

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SHEFFIELD had two unbeaten riders in an emphatic 59-31 ROWE Motor Oil Premiership away win at bottom club Birmingham on Monday.
Jack Holder and Rising Star Leon Flint, the latter against his former club, both scored 12-point maximums for the Tigers, and skipper Josh Pickering also won four races as he ended with 14 from five rides.

That meant there were slim pickings for the Brummies, whose only two victories on a torrid night came from Rew (7) and Jonas Jeppesen.
Flint said: “Watching all the Birmingham boys have their head in their hands, thinking what to do, that was exactly what I was doing last year!
“I’m a firm believer that when the track is like that, it’s always easier as an away rider to just get cracked on and try and find something that’s working.

“But we were just making starts tonight and riding the right lines so I was a happy camper.
“We obviously had new team changes; yes we were missing ‘Reggie’ (Jye Etheridge) but hopefully we can crack on now and get gelled together ready for the play-offs.”
Brummies star Paco Castagna said: “I think we were pretty much embarrassing all night long.
“We just couldn’t start, we couldn’t gate and fair play to them for finding good set-ups and riding the track better than us.
“It’s just a shame because we know we don’t have much time left and we want to finish on a high – it was just one of those nights I guess.”
 
(FIXTURES)

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6:
CAB DIRECT CHAMPIONSHIP: Oxford v Redcar 7.30, Poole v Plymouth 7.30

THURSDAY AUGUST 7:
ROWE MOTOR OIL PREMIERSHIP R2: Ipswich (46) v Oxford (44) 7.30

FRIDAY AUGUST 8:
CAB DIRECT CHAMPIONSHIP: Edinburgh (50) v Scunthorpe (40) 7.30, Glasgow v Workington 7.30, Redcar (42) v Berwick (48) 7.30