Report by Lawrence Heppell .
Thanks to Newcastle Speedway and Lawrence for providing the following article.
Fresh from a good performance at Berwick the night the Diamond's tails were well and truly up and ready for more hot action against the Workington Comets again in a league meeting that took a disastrous twist in the final race of the night.
Having secured a good solid win, Heat 15 was eventually run with two Comets only as Claes Nedermark was out with very painful knees and Stuart Robson was on his way to hospital with a suspected punctured lung, damaged right arm and wrist and a leg injury as well in a ghastly twist of fate that saw them both end up on the shale.
It was the visitors, however took the first winner of the night in Heat One with James Wright taking the flag in fine style over Newcastle's two guests, Jason Lyons and Jan Graversen in a share of the spoils.
A win for Richie Worrall in the second with Kyle Newman keeping Byron Bekker at bay gave the Diamonds the edge in the match with a 4-2 victory moving the score on to 7-5, but a very fortuitous 5-0 in Heat Four when in the initial running, Tero Aarnio suffered a broken chain at the start and Kenny Ingalls was taken out of the re-run for falling and stopping the race.
Ingalls was then ruled out of the meeting with injury as the Diamonds moved on to lead 15-8 going into Heat Five which was also brought to an early halt when James Wright took a dive under Worrall on bend three in an attempt to pass the Diamond, but instead sent the Newcastle man into the fence with the Comet's exclusion in the home 4-2, taking Newcastle's lead to 19-10.
Nedermark grabbed a stunning amount of grip around bend two on the opening lap to fire himself from third, around Wright and his partner Newman to form a fine 5-1 maximum to move the score on to 28-13 allowing the Comets management to use Richard Lawson as a tactical ride for double points in Heat Eight.
With Worrall excluded for touching the tapes and Newman replacing his reserve partner, and with the Newcastle pair making an excellent gate the hard work was left to Lawson to try to maximise his double points, and engaged in a superb battle with Graversen for second place with the Comet nabbing it on the line for four points in a shared 4-4, progressing the totals onto 32-17.
Workington's second tactical ride came in Heat 11 and proved far more productive with the tactical man Wright jetting away with his partner Lawson leading the race until the last lap when he let his team mate through for six points in a Comets' 1-8 reducing the gap to 42-28 with only four races to go.
Lyons followed the on-fire Nedermark home in the 13th to record an easy home 5-1 over Tero Aarnio to seal a big home win for the Diamonds supporters to celebrate.
Unfortunately celebrations were short lived as a horrendous crash for Robson and Nedermark in the final heat put a dampener on proceedings.
Coming wide off bend two, the Diamond's number four tried to push hard in the dirt, but got badly out of shape and crashed into the safety fence and thrown from his machine, but on the rebound he caught Nedermark as well to took a serious clout from his partner's bike which became, for a while, attached to his own.
Nedermark was ambulanced off although appeared to be in reasonable shape although was complaining of two very sore knees whilst Robson was stretchered into a second ambulance complaining of a very painful right arm and wrist as well as a leg injury, but, being very gingerly taken from the track on a precautionary spinal board, the full extent of his injuries which were reported to include a punctured lung.
The club - dashed with ghastly luck on the injury front in 2011 are now left wondering this Monday morning as to the extent of the damage to yet two more of their riders in what is rapidly becoming a season to forget as Heat 15 completed with a two-rider only re-run with no Diamonds fit to race.
Team manager George English said: "This was a solid performance over the side currently third in the League and it was immensely satisfying to see the lads gel as well and really get back into winning ways, but then our bizarre bad run of luck hit us hard again and now we're sweating on news of another pair of riders and in particularly Stuart Robson to whom we all wish the very best. 2011 is not turning out to be a good year for Newcastle Speedway!"
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