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January 2010

18/01/10

JASON RUNNER UP AT AWARDS.

Potters skipper Jason Bunyan finished second in the Speedway Riders Association Premier League rider of the year. First place went to Darcy Ward who rode with King’s Lynn while Scunthorpe’s David Howe finished third.

17/01/10

Stoke Easy Rider Potters reserve Taylor Poole returned from injury to compete in the Australian under 21 Final on Saturday night.

Poole who suffered a back injury in a crash at Gosford earlier in the month had been expected to miss the meeting rode through the pain barrier to score five points in the meeting at Mildura to finish in fourteenth place in a meeting won by Poole’s Darcy Ward.

14/01/10

OPENING FIXTURE ANNOUNCED

STOKE Easy Rider Potters will launch what they hope will be an exciting season when they take on Birmingham in the M6 Trophy.

The Potters who won the trophy last season will travel to the West Midlands on Wednesday March 17^th for the first leg with the second leg opening the Potters home season on Saturday March 20^th.

Birmingham have revamped their line up with only skipper Jason Lyons and Richard Sweetman remaining from last seasons septet. Veteran Aussie Steve Johnston has joined the Brummies from Somerset along with Justin Sedgmen who has also made the switch from the Rebels. American Chris Kerr has also joined the West Midlands outfit after spending last season riding for Redcar and Wolverhampton where he gained an Elite League winners medal with parent club Wolverhampton. Aaron Summers as been added to the Birmingham line up after making the switch from Edinburgh while Jake Anderson makes his British debut to make it six Australian’s in the Brummies line up.

Promoter Dave Tattum said “It will be a good test for us as Birmingham look to have put together a decent line up and I expect them to be up there challenging for honours at the end of the season. We will be looking to start our season off with a victory over them though and retain the trophy we won last year and hopefully we will this year be able to add more trophies to it by the end of the season.”

12/01/10

PICKERS THANKS FANS

Former Stoke Easy Rider Potters skipper Paul Pickering has been in touch with Potters Power and would like to thank all the supporters that voted for him.

Pickers said “It is a great surprise and an honour to be named rider of the decade by the Stoke supporters and I’m really chuffed to bits about it. I would sincerely like to thank all who voted for me and would also like to thank the Stoke supporters in general for all their support over the years. I’d like to wish everyone and Happy New Year and again my heartfelt thanks to everyone who voted for me, I really am very honoured.”

All the best

11/01/10

EASY-RIDER ARE BACK

EASY Rider have announced that they will again be sponsoring Stoke Potters in the coming season.

Easy Rider link up with the Potters for the tenth consecutive season and the Stoke supremo Dave Tattum is delighted to have them on board.

Tattum said “I’m absolutely delighted to have Easy Rider back for a tenth season and I’m hoping we can make it a special season for them as well as us. I’m hoping to arrange something in the way of a special meeting to commemorate Easy Rider’s tenth season with us here at Loomer Road and will release details when they are available.

We’re very thankful for all the help they have given us over the years. Not many clubs can say they have had one major team sponsor for as long as we have here at Stoke and we hope that our partnership will continue for many years to come.”

11/01/10

CHRIS HOLDER TAKES OZ TITLE

POOLE’S Chris Holder has become Australian Champion taking victory in the third and final round of the Championship at Newcastle on Sunday, taking victory from Cameron Woodward who finished in second place with Darcy Ward and Rory Schlein finishing third and fourth respectively.

The result means Holder takes the title for the second time of his career taking victory by a single point from Troy Batchelor with Darcy Ward third and Rory Schlein fourth overall.

Potters reserve James Holder finished the meeting with two points from his four rides as he retired in his final outing.

FINAL STANDINGS

POS	RIDER	PTS
1	Chris Holder	56
2	Troy Batchelor	55
3	Darcy Ward	51
4	Rory Schlein	48
5	Cory Gathercole	39
6	Ty Proctor	38
7	Jason Doyle	36
8	Justin Sedgmen	36
9	Cameron Woodward	34
10	Sam Masters	30
11	Josh Auty	26
12	Alex Davies	22
13	Mark Lemon	21
14	Robert Ksiezak	15
15	Josh Grajczonek	9
16	Jim Holder	8
17	Joe Haines

10/01/10

KLAUS JOINS THE PANTHERS

STOKE Easy Rider Potters rider Klaus Jakobsen will double up with Sky Sports Elite League Peterborough for the 2010 campaign.

Jakobsen who returns for a third season with the Potters links up with former Coventry team boss Peter Oakes who took the Dane to Coventry as the Bees’ number eight last season.

The 20 year old Dane said “It’s a big season for me and my last at under-21 level and I need to make sure this season works. I have spent a lot of money on machinery and getting things right for this season and I’m going out to fight for everything this season and show everyone what I can do.”

09/01/10

PICKERS VOTED THE RIDER OF THE DECADE.

STOKE Easy Rider Potters supporters have voted former skipper Paul Pickering as their rider of the last decade.

Pickering who suffered career threatening arm injuries back in April 2005 skippered the Potters for several years and represented the club in the Premier League riders championship where he finished in third place back in 2000 after finishing joint top scorer in the qualifying heats and the Premier League pairs where he finished runner up with Alan Mogridge at Reading’s Smallmead circuit in 2004 and runner up in the Premier League fours at Workington also in 2004.

Stoke promoter Dave Tattum said “Paul was a top rider when he was with Stoke and was a credit to the club both on and off the track and he’s obviously been remembered fondly by the Stoke supporters for all his efforts. He had numerous successes here at Stoke and will always be remembered going around the safety fence with Jan Staechmann and Alan Mogridge to gain us some superb victories and we all have happy memories of him being with us in the Potteries.”

Pickering finished ahead of Jan Staechmann and Alan Mogridge who finished in joint second place and Ben Barker who finished fourth.

05/01/10

WELCOME BACK KLAUS

STOKE Easy Rider Potters have completed their 2010 line up with the return of Dane Klaus Jakobsen for a third season.

Jakobsen finished last season with a 5.35 average and gets the nod ahead of fellow Dane Jesper Kristiansen.

Promoter Dave Tattum said “It’s been a very hard decision as both Klaus and Jesper are Stoke assets but I’ve made the decision and am pleased with the team that we’ve put together. I feel all the riders have potential to improve, they also have hunger and ambition, and they all want to be successful for this club in the new campaign which starts at Loomer Road on Saturday 20 March.

I’ll of course do everything possible to get Jesper fixed up with another club and have circulated his name as being available. I’m looking forward to the new season and can’t wait for the start of the season to come around I really do feel we have an exciting team that will provide some superb entertainment for the supporters and hopefully see the club pushing for some success on the track I’ve not felt this excited for quite some time.”

Jakobsen is one of only two riders to return from last season’s squad as he joins new skipper Jason Bunyan who returns for a second season in the new line up, after Tattum wielded the axe seeing last season’s skipper Lee Complin. Tom P Madsen, Craig Branney, Robert Ksiezak and Jesper Kristiansen through the exit door, with Michal Rajkowski, Hynek Stichauer, Ricky Wells, James Holder and Taylor Poole coming into the club.

03/01/10

AMATEUR EVENT AT LOOMER

It gives us great pleasure to announce that Stoke Speedway will be holding their first amateur meeting for 2010 on Sunday the 14^th of February, from 12.00 – 15.30.

The format for the event will be the normal three classes i.e. Open class- for riders around the conference league level, Novice class- for riders who are from complete beginners to those who can normally get a full slide on, and Intermediate class- for those who are somewhere between the two.

Youth classes will run depending on entries received.

The cost for the meeting will be £35 (£25 for under 15s) and free to spectators.

Naturally there will be the ambulance and paramedics in attendance and the full café and bar facilities will be in action.

Each rider will be programmed for five rides, with the three highest point’s scorers taking the trophies in each class. Should there be riders in the top three finishing on equal points a run off will decide the final result. There will also be a trophy fore the person judged to be the “rider of the meeting” in each class.

Helmet colours will be required but can be borrowed (with advanced notice) and dirt deflectors are required for all but the novice class.

A limited number of hire bikes will be available at a cost of entering the meeting being £120 for 500cc and £100 for 125cc youth. These will only be available to those who have ridden before.

Full spares, fuel/ oil etc will be available from the track.

The event will take place here at the Loomer Road Stadium.

Anyone who wishes to ride is asked to reserve a place by contact Michael Gittings on 07717 573639 or email Michael.g06@tiscali.co.uk and place a £15 deposit (£50 for hire bikes).

The deposit can be in the form of a cheque/postal order made payable to Crewsline ltd. The address to send it to is Michael Gittings, 45 Sheringham drive, Rugeley, Staffordshire, WS15 2YG.

Any other questions please contact Michael on the above methods. If I am unavailable then please leave a message and I’ll get back to you at the earliest opportunity.

Anyone travelling long distance is welcome to camp over at the track the night before and shower/ toilets/ water facilities can be made available, please indicate that you are planning to stop over when booking in.

Note there will also be an open practice the Sunday beforehand (07/02/2010) at the normal times of 12.00- 15.30.

03/01/10

HOLDER RACES IN OZ rounds one and two

Stoke Easy Rider Potters reserve James Holder scored four points in the first round of the Australian Championship in Gillman.

The meeting was won by Troy Batchelor who scored fourteen points with James’ brother Chris Holder finishing second with eleven points and Darcy Ward finished in third also with eleven points.

Round 1 results from Gillman,SA:-

Line Up
1. Jason Doyle.................3,3,1,3,0
2. Robert Ksiezak..............1,0,0,2,1
3. Justin Sedgmen............2,0,1,1,3
4. Alex Davies..................0,1,2,1,3
5. Sam Masters................0,2,3,0,0
6. Cameron Woodward.......2,1,2,0,2
7. Mark Lemon.................3,1,X,DNS
8. Ty Proctor...................1,3,0,3,1
9. Chris Holder.................2,X,3,3,3 - 2nd
10 Troy Batchelor.............3,3,3,2,3 - WINNER
11 Josh Auty....................1,2,3,1,1
12 Josh Grajczonek............0,0,1,1,0
13 James Holder.................1,1,1,0,1
14 Darcy Ward..................3,2,2,2,2 3rd
15 Cory Gathercole............X,3,2,2,2
16 Rory Schlein.................2,2,0,3,2

Reserves
Joe Haines......................0
Jake Anderson ................0

Australian Championship, 2^nd round

STOKE new boy James Holder scored four points in the second round of the Australian in Mildura on Sunday. Holder defeated rival premier league riders Josh Auty and last seasons Redcar number one and Loomer Road track record holder Ty Proctor in his four point haul.

The meeting was won by Troy Batchelor who headed home Chris Holder for the second round running with Darcy Ward taking third place for the second time on the bounce as he beat Rory Schlein into fourth place in the final.

Line Up

1. Josh Grajczonek..........0,1,1,2,0
2. Ty Proctor.................1,3,1,3,1
3. Rory Schlein..............3,1,3,3,3 4th Place
4. Jason Doyle...............2,2,2,1,0
5. Mark Lemon ..............F,2,3,0,3
6. Darcy Ward..............2,0,3,2,2 3rd Place
7. Chris Holder..............3,2,3,3,2 2nd Place
8. Justin Sedgmen...........1,3,2,1,1
9. Troy Batchelor............3,3,0,3,3 Winner
10 Cory Gathercole..........2,1,1,2,2
11 Cameron Woodward.....1,0,2,2,1
12 James Holder..............0,1,2,1,0
13 Robert Ksiezak............F,0,F,EF,1
14 Josh Auty.................2,2,1,0,2
15 Sam Masters..............1,3,0,0,3
16 Alex Davies................3,0,0,1,0