Peterborough

Barney             3   2   2   0                  7
Norton              1   1*  R   1*                3 +  2
Pryer                2   1*  0   3                  6 +  1
Horton              1*  2   1   3   0             7 +  1
Schramm          3   3   3   3   1          13
King                  1   0   R                      1
McCabe              3   1   3   1   2*       10 +  1

Wimbledon

Phillips            2   3   2*  2   1*  2*        12 +  3
Osborne         Fx                                   0
Williams          3   1*  3   2                      9 +  1
Sweet            0   0   0   R  0                  0
Gordon           2   3   2   3   2   3          15
Hunt               2   R   2                            4
Geer              0   0   1*  1*  0   X             2 +  2


Heat  1 - Barney ; Phillips ; Norton ; Osborne(Fx) ;   (4-2)(4-2)
Heat  2 - McCabe ; Hunt ; King ; Geer ;   (4-2)(8-4)
Heat  3 - Williams ; Pryer ; Horton ; Sweet ;   (3-3)(11-7)
Heat  4 - Schramm ; Gordon ; McCabe ; Geer ;   (4-2)(15-9)
Heat  5 - Phillips ; Horton ; Pryer ; Hunt(R) ;   (3-3)(18-12)
Heat  6 - Gordon ; Barney ; Norton ; Sweet ;   (3-3)(21-15)
Heat  7 - Schramm ; Gordon ; Williams ; King ;   (3-3)(24-18)
Heat  8 - McCabe ; Hunt ; Geer ; Norton(R) ;   (3-3)(27-21)
Heat  9 - Gordon ; Phillips ; Horton ; Pryer ;   (1-5)(28-26)
Heat 10 - Williams ; Barney ; Norton ; Sweet ;   (3-3)(31-29)
Heat 11 - Schramm ; Phillips ; Geer ; King(R) ;   (3-3)(34-32)
Heat 12 - Pryer ; Williams ; McCabe ; Geer ;   (4-2)(38-34)
Heat 13 - Schramm ; Gordon ; Phillips ; Barney ;   (3-3)(41-37)
Heat 14 - Horton ; McCabe ; Sweet(R) ; Geer(X) ;   (5-0)(46-37)
Heat 15 - Gordon ; Phillips ; Schramm ; Horton ;   (1-5)(47-42)

Full report of the Wimbledon V Belle vue Colts Meeting.

Report By Becky Partridge  2/5/02

What a fantastic evening.

Full results as Follows, Racing was abandoned after race 12 due to a water logged track.

Dons 1) Glen Phillips, 2) Chris Geer 3) Martin Williams, 4) Garry Sweet, 5) Graeme Gordon, 6) Chris Hunt, 7) Jon Stevens

Colts 1) Aidan Collins, 2) Chris Collins, 3) Tom Brown, 4) Danny hughes, 5) Lee Smethills, 6) Dave Hartley, 7) Paul Burnett.

Race 1 G Phillips, C,Collins, C Geer, Aidan Collins (Fx) 4-2 (93.40)
Race 2 P Burnett, C Hunt, J Stevens, D Hartley 3-3 (7-5) (96.72)
Race 3 T Brown, G Sweet, D Hughes, M Williams. 2-4 (9-9) (92.62)
Race 4 P Burnett, J Stevens, G Gordon, L Smethills 3-3 ( 12-12) (97.03)
Race 5 A Collins, C Collins, M Williams, G Sweet (EF) 1-5 (13-17) (93.95)
Race 6 G Phillips, L Smethills, C Geer, D Hartley 4-2 (17-19) (93.98)
Race 7 G Gordon, D Hughes, T Brown, C Hunt. 3-3 (20-22) (92.92)
Race 8 P Burnett, C Collins, J Stevens, C Geer 1-5 (21-27) (94.19)
Race 9 G Phillips (T/S) G Sweet, L Smethills, D Hartley 5-1 (26-28) (90.58)
Race 10 D Hughes, T Brown, C Geer, G Phillips (EX) 1-5 (27-33) (93.35)
Race 11 A Collins, C Collins, G Gordon, C Hunt 1-5 ( 28-38) (89.13)
Race 12 T Brown, D Hartley, M Williams, J Stevens (EF) 1-5 (29-43) (93.83)

Indivdual Scores
Dons
Glen Phillips 3,3,3,ex =9
Chris Geer 1,1,0,1 =3
Martin Williams 0,1,1 =2
Garry Sweet 2,EF,2*= 4 plus 1 bonus
Graeme Gordon 1*,3,1 = 5 plus 1 bonus
Chris Hunt 2,0,0 =2
Jon Stevens, 1*,2,1,EF= 4 plus 1 bonus.

Colts
Aidan Collins Fx,3,3 =6
Chris Collins 2,2*,2*,2* = 8 plus 3 bonus
Tom Brown 3,1*,2*,3 = 9 plus 2 bonus
Danny Hughes 1,2,3 =6
Lee Smethills 0,2,1 =3
Dave Hartley 0,0,0,2* =2 plus 1 bonus
Paul Burnett 3,3,3 =9

Well well well what a night, it was just great to see speedway back at Plough Lane,

It had been clear skies around Mitcham and Tooting all day, with just a few clouds hovering over head, right up until about 4:30 this afternoon when it just started to spit down, as I was on the bus coming down to the stadium it then started to come down really heavy.
It would of been rained off if it was not the meeting it was the grand re opening meeting of Wimbledon Speedway.

There was a delightful sound as the gates were open by all the helpers selling raffle tickets( including myself and my mum) and programmes.
The start of the meeting was delayed by amost 45 mins as to let the thousands of fans into the stadium that were queing outside to welcome the Dons back in fabulous style.
Extra gates had to be opened and other parts of the stadium, due to incresing crowds.

When the meeting finally got underway, Dave Croucher did the introductions of the riders and what a tremendous feeling it was to be able to shout for your team, as the Dons were introduced a roar of delight swepted the stadium. Ronnie Moore was introduced as the Mighty King of Plough Lane undisputed World Champion, Ronnie was due to do a couple of laps around on the bike however due to track conditions was not able to do so, but he came out onto the center green and made a speech.

We then held a two minutes silence for David Nix who sadly lost his life in a speedway meeting last night. I would like to pass on my condolences to David's friends and family and everyone who knew him on behalf of EVERYONE at Wimbledon Speedway.

Track action then got underway, we could see right from the beginning that the track was very slick and not the best track conditions, but all the riders put on a brave and outstanding performance to entertain the thousands of people that turned up to watch.

After race two there was a long delay while the track staff graded the track to see if it helped the conditions. Racing then started back once the track had been inspected.

The best race of the night was heat 9 when Glen Phillips was put in as a TS to replace Martin Williams. Glen Phillips was leading the race and there was a battle going on for second and third between Gary Sweet and Lee Smethills, when Gary Sweet swept around Lee to join Glen on a 5-1 to the Dons, Gary riding his heart out to hold lee off and put him into 3rd place.

During about race 10 the rain then started to come down again this time it was really heavy, therefore after heat 12 it was abandoned due to rain.

It was a great evening and I would like to thank the Bellevue cols riders and management for a great meeting and also to the Dons riders and management for bringing speedway back to the mighty Plough Lane.

LIVE UPDATES OF SWINDON V WIMBLEDON MATCH ( TAKEN FROM ALL4BACK.COM)

SWINDON 52              WIMBLEDON 38       (Result)

Conference Trophy match.
Swindon Sprockets 52
Wimbledon Dons 38

Swindon

1 Jason King 15 from 5 rides     2 Jack Gledhill 2 from 4     3 Mark Steel 14+1 from 5          4 Daniel King 7+2 from 5         5 Tom Brown R/R            6 Thomas Allen 10 from 4         7 Simon Dyminski 3 from 4         8 Matt Tutton 1+1 from 3

Wimbledon
1 Martin Williams 7 from 4 rides      2 Terry Day 0 from 3       3 Garry Sweet 9 from 6        4 Peter Collyer 2+1 from 3      5 David Meldrum 12 from 6        6 Jon Stevens 1+1 from 3     7 Chris Hunt 7+2 from 5 rides

12/5/02 Newcastle 48 Wimbledon 42 

 12/5/02 Newcastle 48 Wimbledon 42

Newcastle   C.Branney 8+1 , A Compton 3+2, S Jones 6, D Swales 1+1, R Hall 8+1,

J Robertson 12+2, W Lawson 10+1

Dons   M William 10, G Sweet 6+2, David Meldrum 20, C.Geer 1, R/R, B Geer 1, C Hunt 4

DONS LOSE BY 6 POINTS

Dons 42  Buxton 48

What a great meeting. The Dons just missed out for victory, losing by just 6 points.

What a fantastic track as well things are looking good down Plough Lane.

Wimbledon were operating rider replacement at 4 and Phil Ambrose at 2 in place of Peter Colleyer. An injury in heat 4 to Chris Hunt also hampered the dons scores as Chris's rides needed to be covered as well.

Scores are as follows.

David Meldrum 0,3,ef,0,0,0   = 3 from 6 rides.
Phil Ambrose  2,1*,2,Fell,2*  = 7 plus 1 from 5 rides
Martin Williams 2*,2,1,3,2*,0  = 10 plus 2 from 6 rides.
R/R gainning 9 plus 2
Jason Prynne 3,3,3,3,1,3,3 = 19 from 7 rides
Jon Stevens 0,0,1,0   = 1 from 4 rides.
Chris Hunt 2,Fell, Injured =2 from 2 rides.

Aidan Collins 3,3,2,3,2   = 13 from 5 rides
Carl Belfield 1,0,3,1*   = 5 plus 1 from 4 rides.
Chris Collins 1,2,3,2  =8 from 4 rides
Paul Burnett 0,1    = 1 from 2 rides.
Jon Armstrong 1*,3,2,2*,1* =9 plus 3 from 5 rides
Lee Derbyshire  3,1,0,1*,0   = 5 from 5 rides
James wright  1,2,2*,1,1   = 7 from 5 rides.

Heat 1  A Collins, P Ambrose, Carl Belfield, D Meldrum (2-4) (2-4) (68:95)
Aidan fell on the 1st lap on the 1st bend, ref put all 4 riders back in.

Heat 2  L Derbyshire, C Hunt, J Wright, J stevens (2-4) (4-8) (72.02)

Heat 3  D Meldrum,Williams,C Collins, P Burnett (5-1) (9-9) (68.86)

Heat 4  J Prynne, J Wright, J Armstrong, C Hunt(injured) (3-3) (12-12) (68:76)
Chris Hunt took a nasty fall in heat 4 on the 4 lap and the last bend, Chris didn't get up for about 5 mins, he has a suspected broken finger.

Heat 5  A Collins, M Williams, P, Ambrose C Belfield, (3-3) (15-15) (66:48)

Heat 6  J Armstrong, P Ambrose, L Derbyshire, D Meldrum (EF) (2-4) (17-19) (66:24)

Heat 7  J Prynne, C Collins, P Burnett, J Stevens, (3-3) (20-22) (68-94)

Heat 8  C Belfield, J Wright, J Stevens, P Ambrose, (1-5)(21-27) (69:94)

Heat 9  J Prynne, J Armstrong, M Williams, L Derbyshire, (4-2) (25-29) 66:63)

Heat 10  C Collins, P Ambrose, J Wright, D Meldrum, (2-4) ( 27-33) (62:92)

Heat 11 J Prynne, A Collins, C Belfield, J Stevens (3-3) (30-36) (66:93)

Heat 12  M Williams, C Collins, L Derbyshire, D Meldrum, (3-3) (33-39) (67:47)

Heat 13  A Collins, J Armstrong, J Prynne, D Meldrum (1-5) (34-44) ( 66:11) Track record

Heat 14  J Prynne, M Williams, J Wright, L Derbyshire, (5-1) ( 39-45)(66:87)

Heat 15 J Prynne, A Collins, J Armstrong, M Williams, (,3-3) ( 42-48) (66:92)


Well what a great evening down at Plough Lane tonight the Dons operated R/R in the number 4 position.
New signning David Meldrum didn't have a good night he seemed to have a few engine problems and also took a few tumbles, due to trying just a little bit too hard.
Phil Ambrose stood in for Peter Colleyer, Phil did a great job and looked a great rider.
The Dons other new signning Jason Prynne, made an excellent debut in the Dons Colours by scoring a great 19 points from 7 rides.

Hopefully Cris Hunt our very own captain will be ok and that he has a speedy recovery.

That's all folks, here's for some more Action at Plough Lane Next Thursday when we take on Boston.