STOKE Easy Rider Potters were thumped 65-30 by the Rye House Rockets at the Hoddesdon raceway on Monday afternoon.

 Potters number one Jason Bunyan and skipper Lee Complin received little back up as Rockets veteran Andrew Silver rolled back the years to complete his first paid maximum
of the season.

 The writing was on the wall for the Stoke septet as Rye House took a 19-5 lead after just four  heats with only Jason Bunyan managing to lower a Rockets riders colours when he managed to pass home skipper Chris Neath to take second place in heat one, but he was unable to catch youngster Joe Haines who took victory and recorded the fastest time of the season at the Hertfordshire circuit of 56.0 seconds just 0.4 outside the Hoddesdon track record.

 Bunyan again managed second place in heat five behind Chris Neath with Ludvig Lindgren taking third place for a Rockets 4-2 heat advantage.

 Lee Complin was nominated as a tactical ride in heat seven but Tommy Allen made the gate with Complin and Klaus Jakobsen chasing him but to no avail, Josh Auty then managed to get round Jakobsen to take third place to force a 4-4 drawn heat to leave the score at 32-12. 

Rye House piled on the pressure with two successive maximum heat wins before Lee Complin managed to split the Rockets pairing of Allen and Haines to give the Rockets a
4-2 race win.

Jason Bunyan took the Potters second tactical ride of the afternoon and he promptly
 took victory from Allen with Jesper Kristiansen holding off a late challenge from Josh
Auty the Potters gained their one and only heat advantage of the afternoon giving the Potters a 7-2 race win, Rye House still lead comfortably with the score 48-23 after eleven heats and all three league points in the bag.

 In heat thirteen Bunyan took the lead but unfortunately fell on the third turn and was disqualified by referee Dan Holt. In the rerun Auty took a comfortable victory from Robert Ksiezak who managed to hold off the challenge of Joe Haines for second place.

 The Potters managed a drawn heat in fourteen as Neath took victory for the Rockets with Complin and Tom P Madsen taking the minor placings.

 Potters skipper Lee Complin took a tumble in the first running of heat fifteen and was disqualified from the rerun as the primary cause of the stoppage. In the rerun Neath cut across Jason Bunyan allowing the undefeated Andrew Silver through to take the lead
and although Bunyan was all over Neath’s back wheel the Potters top scorer was unable to find away past to give Rye House their eighth maximum race win of the meeting and a comfortable 65-30 victory over the Potters.

 Potters team boss John Woolridge said “We were a two man team and I dread to think what would have happened has we not got Jason and Lee today. “Jesper tried hard but got little in return in the way of points and I can’t fault him for effort either but the rest just did not perform and it’s just not good enough. “We know Rye House is a difficult to place to come at the best of times but there is just no excuse for today’s performance, certain riders were just not at the races.”

Rye House 65: Andrew Silver 15+3, Chris Neath 15+1, Tommy Allen 11, Joe Haines 10+1, Ludvig Lindgren 8+2, Josh Auty 6+1, Robert Mear (Rider Replacement)

Stoke 30: Jason Bunyan 11, Lee Complin 9, Robert Ksiezak 4, Tom P Madsen 2+1, Craig Branney 2, Jesper Kristiansen 2, Klaus Jakobsen 0