Welcome back to our speedway coverage for 2012. For the 2nd year we will be following Newcastle Diamonds. We start our feature named ‘Bobby Dazzlers Tapes Up’ at the Northern Challenge. Thanks to George English and the team at Newcastle Diamonds, for providing the match reports directly from their website www.newcastlediamonds.co.uk.The Newcastle Diamonds opened their home 2012 season last night at Brough Park when the Redcar Bears called in try to do the double in the pre-season friendlies, but the Diamonds had other ideas.
The home side got off to a magnificent start with home number one and skipper Mark Lemon blowing away the nightmare of his first leg's mechanical problems by taking Heat One with ease in a home 5-1, a score repeated by the lightening Worrall twins in the second to put Newcastle 10-2 up.
Aaron Summers has always ridden the Byker track with skill, and so he did in the third to share the heat with a fine win, as did Ulrich Ostergaard who learned quickly from his heat one disaster to take the fourth in solid style with the score now at 15-9 courtesy of a Stuart Robson fall gifting the Bears a 2-4.
Summers' second win of the night in the sixth resulted again in a 2-4 as Lemon failed to get on terms with his fellow countryman with the score moving on to 20-16.
Former skipper Christian Henry took a secure second place in Heat Eight led and well won by his reserve partner Richie Worrall equalling the fastest time of the night up to that point at 64.2.
The Bears nominated Summers as a double-point tactical ride in Heat Nine against Ludvig Lindgren and Claes Nedermark, but it was the Bear who shot out to take a massive win for six points in a Redcar 3-6 to tighten the match at 32-25.
Controversy blew up on bend one of Heat 10 when skipper Lemon got squeezed dramatically between Gary Havelock and Summers with the Newcastle man falling and, much to the annoyance of George English the Newcastle team manager, excluded the home star.
After much deliberation on the pits-referee phone link the result stood for the three-man re-run in which Summers and Havelock shot out to take an untroubled 1-5 to reduce the score to 33-30.
Richie Worrall gave Havelock the hardest race of his season so far in Heat 12, but the former World Champion won out a deserved winner in another 3-3 as the scores remained tight and only three apart.
Lemon and Robson romped to take advantage of a Summers fall and nab a vital 5-1 in the 13th, taking the score on to 44-37, but despite a 2-4 in the penultimate race the home win on the night was in the bag redressing the defeat on Thursday night.
Team manager English was satisfied, saying: "The gremlins for our skipper were well and truly laid tonight and it's obvious he's back to his brilliant best. The rest of the lads too all looked far more in control and again young Richie Worrall looked like he's determined to make this season his big year, and we're looking forward to see what he's capable of…. Great things I believe!"
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