REACTION: LUCK-LESS PIRATES LOSE OUT TO BRILLIA...
A cocktail of a powerless serviced engine, a lift while leading and a broken jubilee clip garnished with some superb heat saving passes by Jason Ed...
League leaders Poole banked their seventh consecutive home victory but were denied the aggregate bonus point due to resilience from the Workington Comets' second-strings and a fair share of misfortune.
Poole were well served by their mid-order pairing of Lewi Kerr and Zach Cook with Kerr summing his night up by declaring. "It was good. A bit frustrating for me in the last two, especially heat fifteen as I messed up the start and that was that one gone, but hopefully I will get another one."
Kerr's eleven points helped the Pirates to their 47-43 victory which extended their lead at the top of the table, but they were facing a twelve point deficit in their bid for all three league points.
They might well have wiped that margin off in an incident packed heat six, but circumstances conspired against them. Tobias Thomsen went surging round the first arc but couldn't prevent himself from running into the back of team-mate Richard Lawson at the pit gate. So, rather than be able to go and mount Poole's third consecutive 5-1 of the night, the pair found themselves tangled amongst machinery, with Thomsen's foot caught and facing the verdict of disqualification for the Dane.
Eventually, after a second restart when Lawson showed first turn firmness on Jacob Hook, a third when Lawson was moving at the start, the Poole number one managed to win the heat for a share of the spoils.
Workington then responded with two heat advantages, the latter helped on by another disqualification for Thomsen, this time for colliding with Vinnie Foord, who had found extra pace coming off the fourth turn of the first lap of heat eight and drifting round Thomsen as they approached the first turn for the second circuit. Foord was unable to take any further part in the meeting, thus reducing the Comets to just five rides after Tate Zischke had withdrawn earlier in the day due to a foot injury.
On the night's form, the Pirates would have fancied their chances of a decent score in heat thirteen, but Comets' captain Troy Batchelor, with just one point to his name hitherto, came to the party and took the win over Lawson, the Poole fans willing the Rocketman to replicate his unbelievable charge from third to first that he had produced in heat ten.
The shared heat thirteen left the Pirates needing two maximum 5-1's to force a run-off for the bonus point and whilst skipper Cook became the second Pirate to dig deep from third place to take a win, the Comets were content to block out Will Cairns to bank the bonus, leaving them requiring a 5-1 of their own to force a superheat for the league points! Lawson wasn't having any of it however, collecting his third win from five starts
POOLE 47 - Richard Lawson 13 (2,3,3,2,3) ,Lewis Kerr 11 (3,3,3,2,0) ,Zach Cook 7+2 (0,2',2',3) ,William Cairns 6+3 (1',2',2,1',0) ,Anders Rowe 6+1 (3,R,2,1') ,Paul Starke 3 (2,1,0,RS) ,Tobias Thomsen 1+1 (1',FD,FD,0)
WORKINGTON 43 - Fraser Bowes 13 (3,2,R,3,3,2) ,Jye Etheridge 12+2 (1',3,2,3,2,1') ,Jacob Hook 9+2 (3,2,2',1,0,0,1') ,Troy Batchelor 5 (0,1,1,3) ,Antti Vuolas 3+2 (0,1',1,1',0) ,Vinnie Foord 1 (0,1,FN,NS)
Photo credit: Tony Hartmann
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