Key: + denotes 15m handicap for starting offense.
| SHEFFIELD SPEEDWAY MATCH REPORTS 2023 |
SHEFFIELD  'Tigers' v
IPSWICH 'Witches' |
Premiership 2 |
10th July '23 |
|---|
| Ref: Craig Ackroyd | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 |
05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | S/h | Tot+Bp |
|---|
| 1. Jack Holder | 8.58 |
3 | | | | |
2 | | | |
3 | | |
1' | |
2 |
(3) |
11+1 |
| 2. Lewis Kerr | 5.35 |
fx | | | | |
- | |
- | |
- | | | | |
| |
0 |
| 3. Adam Ellis | 6.09 |
| |
3 | |
fx | | | |
0 | | |
3 | | |
| |
6 |
|---|
| 4. Josh Pickering | 5.79 |
| |
1 | |
1 | | | |
2 | | | | |
3 |
| |
7 |
| 5. Tobiasz Musielak | 8.17 |
| | |
3 | | |
3 | | | |
2 | |
2 | |
1' |
(2) |
11+1 |
| 6. Kyle Howarth © | 5.18 |
|
3 | |
1 | | |
1 |
2' |
|
1 |
- |
2' | |
2' | |
|
12+3 |
| 7. Dan Gilkes | RS |
|
1 | |
- | |
0 | |
3 | | |
0 |
- | |
| | |
4 |
| Simon Stead |
3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
SH 5 |
| SHEFFIELD 'Tigers' |
3 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 16 |
18 | 22 | 27 | 29 | 33 |
35 | 40 | 43 | 48 | 51 | |
| IPSWICH 'Witches'
| 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 14 |
18 | 20 | 21 | 25 | 27 |
31 | 32 | 35 | 36 | 39 |
SH 4 |
| Ritchie Hawkins |
3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 1. Emil Sayfutdinov | 9.80 |
1' | | | |
3 | | | |
3 | |
3 | |
3 | |
3 |
(4) |
16+1 |
| 2. Keynan Rew | 4.00 |
2 | | | |
2' | | |
0 | | |
1 | | | |
| |
5+1 |
| 3. Danny King © | 6.73 |
| |
2 | | | |
2 | | |
2 | |
1 | | |
| |
7 |
| 4. Erik Riss | 5.93 |
| |
0 | | | |
0 | | |
0 | | | |
1 | | |
1 |
| 5. Jason Doyle | 9.66 |
| | |
2 | |
3 | | |
1 | | | |
0 | |
+0 |
(0) |
6 |
| 6. Danyon Hume | 3.92 |
|
2 | | | |
1 | | |
- | | |
0 | |
0 | | |
3 |
| 7. Dan Thomson RS | 3.31 |
|
0 | |
0 | | | |
1 | | | |
| |
- |
| |
1 |
|
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 |
06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 |
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
S/h |
|---|
| 60.62 | 62.44 | 61.37 | 61.50 | 61.12 |
61.62 | 62.37 | 62.88 | 61.13 | 63.00 |
62.00 | 62.37 | 61.75 | 63.31 | 61.88 |
62.19 |
We beat the Witches by 12 in our first home league encounter but they now have Erik Riss back in the side. Their task wasn't made any easier
when Lewis took a tumble at the back in heat 1. A simple looking fall resulted in a broken collar bone!.
Adam rode a good line to hold back Danny King in heat 3. Tobiasz won heat 4 with Doyle passing his team mate on the first lap and
getting around Kyle on turn 2 on the last lap. Adam was harshly disqualified from heat 5 when Emil dived up inside him and took his front wheel
away, but Craig Ackroyd's guide dog must have been looking the other way.
Jack struggled from gate 2 and couldn't catch Doylie in heat 6. Danyon Hume passed Dan on the last lap for a Witches heat advantage. Tobi won heat 7
from Danny with Kyle ahead of Erik for third.
Kyle was R/R for Lewis in heat 8 and he followed team mate Dan home for a brilliant reserves 5-1. Ritchie retaliated by tac-subbing Emil into heat 9
which he duly won from Josh with Doylie leaving Adam pointless. Jack won heat 10 but Danny battles past Kyle to put him under pressure and this is a
featured race on '2023 Season Review' DVD from Clear Cut Sports. Tigers lead by six points.
Emil won heat 11 from Tobiasz and Keynan Rew headed Dan to reduce
the deficit to 4. Adam and Kyle trapped in heat 12 and the captain rode well to stay ahead of Danny and the lead went up to 8. In an epic
heat 13 Emil won by quite a margin but Tobiasz rounded Jason at the end of the first lap and then Jack dived under him into turn one. Another reason
to get the DVD! Erik Riss briefly led heat 14 but
Josh took the lead on the pits turn and then Kyle dived past at the start of the second lap to extend the lead to 12. The team to
get an advantage in heat 15 would win the bonus point, but Jason caught the tapes with the peak of his helmet and earned himself a 15m handicap.
Emil won the restart but was under fierce pressure from Jack. No passing but a brilliant race. See the DVD!With the aggregate scores level a
Super Heat ensued with virtually the same line up. Emil trapped again but the Tigers let him go knowing that they just had to keep Jason behind to
win the bonus point which they duly accomplished to the delight of the home fans.
Jason was his usual self kicking people on his way into the first bend but
totally lost his team all the points by finishing stone dead last in heats 13, 15 and the super heat. The Tigers take all three
match points and look to have consolidated their place in the run-offs. The Witches claimed seven heat winners to the Tigers nine but the Tigers ran
out 12 point winners and won a solid Super Heat! Emil Sayfutdinov claimed 6 of their race wins and Jason Doyle the remaining one however the Tigers
succeeded as a team. Two race wins each for Jack, Tobiasz and Adam; one win each for Josh, Kyle and Dan
and the better team won with the minor placing in the super heat.
Analysis of starting gate positions:
Gate 1 - 27(+1)pts 6 wins. Gate 2 - 24(+2)pts 2 wins. Gate 3 - 16(+2)pts 1 win. Gate 4 - 23(+2)pts 6 wins.
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