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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
T |
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| 1 |
Ryan Fisher |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
10 |
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| 2 |
Dan Bewley |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
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| 3 |
Andrew Tully |
1 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
N |
6 |
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| 4 |
Matej Kus |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
12 |
2nd |
| 5 |
Ricky Wells |
3 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
12 |
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| 6 |
Rob Branford |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
7 |
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| 7 |
Adam Roynon |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
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| 8 |
Charlie Ermolenko |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
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| 9 |
Sam Masters |
2 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
14 |
1st |
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| 11 |
Aaron Summers |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
11 |
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| 12 |
Billy Janniro |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
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| 13 |
James Sarjeant |
2 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
9 |
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| 14 |
Ludvig Lindgren |
3 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
13 |
3rd |
| 15 |
Fernando Garcia |
0 |
0 |
FX |
1 |
N |
1 |
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| 16 |
Mitchell Davey |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
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| Heat by Heat |
Heat 02 Wells, Branford, Ermolenko, Roynon, 56.3
Heat 01 Kus, Fisher, Bewley (3 Riders Only) 56.5
Heat 03 Summers, Masters, Tully, Janniro, 56.3
Heat 04 Lindgren, Sarjeant, Davey,, Garcia, 57.3
Heat 05 Masters, Fisher, Wells, Sarjeant, 56.0
Heat 06 Lindgren, Branford, Bewley (3 riders only) 56.5
Heat 07 Summers, Tully, Roynon, Garcia 57.3
Heat 08 Kus, Ermolenko, Janniro, Davey, 57.6
Heat 09 Summers, Branford, Fisher, Davey, 56.9
Heat 10 Wells, Janniro, Bewley, Garcia (fx) Awarded
Heat 11 Masters, Tully, Lindgren, Ermolenko, 56.7
Heat 12 Kus, Roynon, Sarjeant (3 riders only) 57.6
Heat 14 Sarjeant, Summers, Bewley, Ermolenko, 57.4
Heat 15 Wells, Davey, Tully (3 riders only) 57.4
Heat 16 Masters, Kus, Garcia, Branford, 57.3
Heat 13 Lindgren, Fisher, Janniro, Roynon, 57.8
Heat 17 Fisher, Ermolenko (2 riders only) 59.0
Heat 18 Masters, Roynon, Bewley, Davey, 58.3
Heat 19 Sarjeant, Janniro, Branford (3 riders only) 58.0
Heat 20 Lindgren, Wells, Kus, Summers, 57.8
Grand Final
Heat 21
Masters, Kus, Lindgren Wells, 57.5 |
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| report from the Edinburgh Evening News |
It proved to be a Yankee Doodle Dawdle for Edinburgh Monarchs skipper Sam Masters who sped to glory to win Californian Ryan Fisher’s Testimonial speedway meeting at Armadale Stadium last night.
Masters, who top scored in the qualifying races, held off a fierce challenge from Newcastle’s Matej Kus to take the chequered flag in fine style. Kus’s Newcastle colleague Ludvig Lindgren was third with Workington’s Ricky Wells fourth.
Masters said: “Ludvig reckoned I jumped the start and to be honest I did! But it was great to win the meeting, even although Ryan didn’t see fit to tip me beforehand.”
Tully quit the sport a while back, having perhaps fallen out of love with it. Yet he was best remembered for scoring a 21 point maximum at the Lothian Arena in that season of 2008 when Monarchs crushed the Isle of Wight Islanders.
Tully finished a creditable third in his first ride behind Masters and Aaron Summers which was a pretty hot race for him to make his comeback in, but he looked pretty decent.
But it was Newcastle’s stylish Lindgren who set the pace in the qualifying heats with two victories on the trot, which was matched and bettered by his club team-mate Kus after a third victory in heat 12. And Glasgow’s Summers was also very much in the mix after a trio of victories.
Fisher’s long-time buddy Billy Janniro, who he badly wanted to do well, struggled in his first outing but looked a lot more forceful in his next ride as the battle to make the Grand Final began to heat up. Fisher started off with two second places, perhaps conscious that winning your own meeting might be deemed bad form! And a third-place finish behind Rob Branford and Summers in the ninth race certainly killed off his Grand Final aspirations.
Masters, meanwhile, after a second place in his first ride, then won three on the bounce to put himself in contention for the silverware.
Fisher, despite not triumphing, will have been pretty pleased at how things panned out for him. Blue skies graced the evening which had a ritzy feel to it. A plethora of stars and stripes flew proudly in the breeze, but most of all he felt the affection Monarchs supporters have for him.
He is something of a maverick off the track and that’s always been a large part of his appeal. His wife Daelyn commented: “He has always been a bit crazy.”
He ain’t gonna change now... |
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