Lightning could strike twice for Wolves

Black and gold victories at the big Showground track, so different from their compact home Monmore circuit, come once in a blue moon.

So their eight-point win at there last month was arguably Wolves' performance of the season – certainly their best on the road.

Now, with chasing clubs dropping points recently, second-placed Wolves have a chance tonight to widen the gap to their pursuers.

One man who would have welcomed the opportunity tonight is Czech reserve Hynek Stichauer.

He took his only race win of the season in the first match at Peterborough – applauded back to the pits by the rest of the team – and would have relished another go.

But Stichauer is out for at least eight weeks with a fractured vertebra from a crash in Hungary.

Number eight Chris Kerr deputises, while Lee Complin again steps in for double-up reserve Ty Proctor, away on Redcar duty.

The home side, beaten 52-41 at Poole last night, are without former Wolf Kenneth Hansen, who has become the sport's first rider to contract suspected swine flu.

The Panthers operate rider-replacement.

Wolves face a tough task this evening (7.30pm) but have Tai Woffinden in scintillating form.

The 18-year-old topped the Czestochowa scorecharts in Poland, although his 12+1 could not save his team from a 47-43 home loss to Gorzow.

Peterborough: 1 Niels-Kristian Iversen, 2 Ales Dryml, 3 Mads Korneliussen, 4 rider-replacement for Kenneth Hansen, 5 Kenneth Bjerre, 6 Henning Bager, 7 Claus Vissing.

Wolves: 1 Fredrik Lindgren, 2 Nicolai Klindt, 3 Tai Woffinden, 4 Adam Skornicki, 5 Peter Karlsson, 6 Chris Kerr, 7 Lee Complin.