RYE House Rockets thrashed the Stoke Easy Rider Potters 63-30 at Hoddesdon Raceway on Bank Holiday Monday to complete the double in the Premier Trophy over the Potters.

 The Potters were down by ten points to two after the opening two heats before they managed to get a three all drawn heat in heat three after Robert Mear brought down Stoke’s Jason Bunyan with Mear going through the safety fence, Mear eventually getting up after some treatment on the track.  Referee Christina Turnbull excluded Mear from the rerun. In the rerun Joe Haines leads comfortably for three laps, but Bunyan mounts a challenge on the last lap and swoops off the last bend to take victory by half a wheel with Tom P Madsen his partner in third the Potters gain a 4-2 heat advantage to leave the scores at 12-6 in favour of the Rockets after three heats. 

Rye House immediately hit back with three successive 5-1 heat advantages to extend their lead to 27-9 after six races and leave the Potters with a mountain to climb. 

Easy Rider Potters team manager John Woolridge gave Bunyan a tactical ride in heat seven and he duly delivered the maximum six points with partner Madsen keeping Rocket Andrew Silver at bay for a Potters 7-2 heat advantage, although the Rockets still held a comfortable lead with the score 29-16 in favour of the home side.

Rye House then hit the Potters with three 5-1 heat win and four 4-2 heat advantages in the next seven heats as they romped to an easy victory.   

Stoke team boss Woolridge gave Lee Complin a tactical ride in heat eleven but to no avail as the home pairing of Mear and Silver kept Jesper Kristiansen and the Potters skipper at bay. 

In heat fifteen Rye’s Linus Sundstrom clipped the inside kerb of the track which caused him to career into Potters rider Phil Morris causing both riders to fall, both riders got up and walked back to the pits with Sundstrom being excluding from the rerun. Chris Neath got out of the start well in the rerun with Bunyan going wide into the dust but there was no way that he was going to catch home skipper Neath as he took the chequered flag for the Rockets with Bunyan in second and Morris in third for a drawn heat giving the Rockets all three points with a 63-30 victory.

 Potters boss John Woolridge said “I’m totally deflated with the score line and very disappointed. “I have to give credit to several riders who rode their hearts out for us but got very little in a points return on a dusty and slick track.”

 Promoter Dave Tattum said “It was dismal display and we cannot allow displays like this to happen and I’ll be talking with the riders in depth about this afternoon’s performance we really do have to take a good look at ourselves because score lines like today are not acceptable.”

 Rye House 63: Chris Neath 14+1, Linus Sundstrom 13+2, Robert Mear 11+1, Josh Auty 9+3, Joe Haines 9, Andrew Silver 7+1, Tommy Allen R/R

Stoke 30: Jason Bunyan 14, Phil Morris 6+1, Jesper Kristiansen 4, Lee Complin 3, Tom P Madsen 2, Klaus Jakobsen 1, Glen Phillips 0