Belle Vue Aces speedway star Rory Schlein trumped all his rivals to capture the Scottish Open Championship for a third time at Armadale Stadium last night.
Injury and illness is set to wreck the A-Plant Tigers hopes of picking up points on the most crucial of weekends with no less than three riders ruled out for tonight’s trip to Scunthorpe and at least one out for the whole weekend.
Christian Henry is the rider ruled out for about a fortnight after an x-ray confirmed that the crash he had at Ashfield against Ipswich a fortnight ago has resulted in a cracked bone in his back and he is set to miss out for around two weeks, although further examinations will be required.
For tonight’s trip to Scunthorpe, both Joe Screen and James Grieves are in their beds suffering from illness, as they have been for several days. It is unclear how they are progressing in terms of racing the rest of the weekend although both must be considered doubtful for both further meetings.
Jordan Frampton and Kozza Smith will take the places of Screen and Grieves respectively and rider replacement will be in operation for Henry.
JAN Staechmann was left bemused after Swindon suffered their second home defeat to King’s Lynn this year, as the Blunsdon side remained cut adrift at the base
of the Elite League.
Edinburgh Monarchs riders have discovered that home track advantage is no automatic passport to victory in the Keylinesponsored Scottish Open speedway championship which takes
COVENTRY have injury concerns as they prepare to host local rivals Birmingham in the Elite League at Brandon tonight (8pm).
FORMER Robin Lee Richardson guests in place of Scott Nicholls tonight as Swindon take on a King’s Lynn Stars side lacking Kenneth Bjerre, and you can follow LIVE UPDATES here.
SCOTT Nicholls has failed to win his fitness race in time to make the start line for Swindon’s Elite League clash against high-flyers King’s Lynn at the Abbey Stadium tonight.
COVENTRY boss Alun Rossiter admitted some sympathy for depleted Poole at Brandon on Monday – but said gaining the maximum three-points was an all-important result for his side.
Belle Vue’s avengers wiped out the memory of Friday’s heavy defeat at Peterborough in the most exciting meeting of the season at Kirkmanshulme Lane last night. 
COVENTRY secured the result they needed against the title favourites last night at Brandon – although injury-hit Poole took things right down to a nervous conclusion.