Lindgren wins the Banks's Olympique

Super Swede Fredrik Lindgren stamped his class all over the Banks's Olympique with the win at Monmore Green.

The Wolves number one has now won this unique event three times in its last four stagings.

Only Peter Karlsson in 2006, with his magnificent 15-point maximum – as rare in a handicap event as Swindon triumphs in the league – has managed recently to bump Lindgren down to the rostrum's second step.

Indeed, it's hardly fanciful to suggest that Lindgren could extend his dominance in the event to the proportions of Ole Olsen's six consecutive victories in the early 1970's, when such luminaries as Ivan Mauger, Barry Briggs and Peter Collins were left to view his back wheel.

Lindgren took his first win from the gate, but it was his second race where he moved smoothly through from the back to hit the front inside two laps that gave an early indicator of the title's probable destination.

Although he failed to make up the 20 metres advantage enjoyed by Ty Proctor in heat 10, it was clear that his clash with Chris Harris and Scott Nicholls five races later would prove decisive.

All three were off 15 metres while the niceties of the format decreed that American hopeful Jimmy Fishback, having won from the gate last time out, had to give these three Grand Prix riders five metres' start.

Harris, unusually, made the cleanest start but that was merely the cue for Lindgren to skate cleanly round the outside on the fourth bend and take the defining win.

But there was nearly a sting in the tail. Needing just one point from his final outing Lindgren was pinned at the back for a couple of laps by Lewis Bridger, while William Lawson and Kenny Ingalls circulated untroubled.

As the greater speed of the men at the back began to overhaul the front pair, Lindgren emerged from a confused passage of play in second place while Bridger took a tumble.

Harris eventually finished runner-up, swapping rostrum spots with Scott Nicholls from the 2006 finishing order.

But Nicholls only reached the third step after a run-off with home hope Nicolai Klindt. The latter's 10-point return indicated that there is much more to come from this speedy racer next season, a conclusion even more firmly underlined by his pass and re-pass dice with Nicholls in the shoot-out.

There was also good work in the home camp from Adam Skornicki, Ty Proctor and a determined Chris Kerr, twice getting up late to win points.

Although injury and illness cut through the field – Tai Woffinden was a late withdrawl with flu – part of the Olympique flavour is a glimpse of newer riders, and Edinburgh's determined German Kevin Wolbert did not disappoint with a fine eight points.

The gloriously named Fishback – one terrace wag was prompted to inquire whether Finn Jensen was his engine 'tuna' – might well have won his second outing with a more fortune.

But class will always tell – and last night, as all season, the class came from Lindgren.