Speedway: King's Lynn suffer defeat at Belle Vue during rain-affected meeting
The meet was called off partway through due to heavy rain
Last updated 22nd Aug 2023
King's Lynn suffered a 57-27 defeat at Belle Vue last night, in a meeting heavily affected by rain and bad weather.
Conditions began to worsen at the National Speedway Stadium from midway through the meeting and, after a heavy downpour, the match was abandoned with the result standing as was.
It was a tough night for the Stars who achieved just three race wins – two of them from returning No.1 Robert Lambert.
Those victories came after a last place in his first ride when the Aces opened with a 5-1 from Brady Kurtz and Tom Brennan, and whilst Lambert overtook Charles Wright for second place in Heat 5 he couldn’t catch the flying Jaimon Lidsey.
Lambert did take the flag in Heats 11 and 12, the former seeing him get the better of his GB colleague Dan Bewley, and he then beat Lidsey in the latter, although by that stage the Aces had secured the win.
New skipper Simon Lambert was the Stars’ other winner in Heat 2 when he held off the challenge of German star Norick Blodorn.
Otherwise, the hosts dominated, with Kurtz scoring a paid maximum whilst Bewley and Lidsey dropped their only points to Robert Lambert.
Stars manager David Hoggart said: “Conditions didn’t help although it was the same for both sides, and obviously the Belle Vue guys have got a bit of home track advantage – they go really, really well here.
“I don’t need to kid anybody, we turned up with an under-strength team and we missed Nicolai (Klindt) terribly. If he’d been here, he would have been in double figures as he has been consistently all year really.
“We were keen to keep going, in theory we could have called a halt after Heat 10, but we wanted to keep going and give it our best shot.”
The Stars are back at the Adrian Flux Arena this Thursday for Lambert’s homecoming in the return fixture against the Aces.