Edinburgh Monarchs v Redcar Bears

REPORT Friday 17th July 2015, 10:00pm

by Mike Hunter

  Edinburgh Monarchs

Central Scotland weather was once again bad, to the extent of hitting the news headlines, though for much of the day Armadale escaped.

The track was difficult over the early heats even though Justin Sedgmen sailed elegantly round in heat one.

Max Clegg continued recent improvement with a good outside pass on Morley in heat 2, but there were signs of track problems as Alex Edberg struggled to turn.

Erik Riss was in difficulties in heat 3 and piled into the fence, and Craig Cook was the next to look uncomfortable as he unconvincingly tried a two-wheeling approach to overcome Stuart Robson in heat 4.

Next up though was a heavy shower lasting a few minutes, after which it was announced that the riders were willing to try out the track over another couple of races.

Heat 5 proved to be a comfortable 5-1 to the Bears’ opening pair, with Lasse Bjerre recording a time that was not particularly slow. In the riders’ view though they didn’t like it and a halt was called.

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