Peterborough crushed at Monmore

The teenager, 19 yesterday, lost out to Grand Prix star Kenneth Bjerre in his first outing last night, but then went through the card.

That included a splendid last-heat 5-1 from skipper Peter Karlsson over Bjerre and former Wolf Niels-Kristian Iversen.

Woffinden had made a tremendous start to hit the front, but still had his work cut out as a decent-sized blanket would have covered all four riders.

He then reared and fell back to third as Karlsson took up the baton, only to fight his way through again for the perfect sign-off.

In between his first and fifth races, Woffinden reeled off three immaculate wins. If he made it all look rather easy then so too did Wolves, as all their riders with the exception of Chris Kerr scored heavily.

The American was unfortunate to, hitting the fence on the second turn of heat 11 and collecting an exclusion, after Iversen had drifted so far off line from gate one that he was left with nowhere to go.

A brave, sustained run round the boards to pass Henning Bager in his last race was aborted, as Kerr unluckily found team-mate Adam Skornicki in his path and had to throttle off.

But there was plenty to cheer for the home fans, as Wolves dominated this meeting.

Fredrik Lindgren was immaculate throughout, unbeaten and setting the fastest time of the night on a surface that again reflected the greatest of credit on the Monmore track staff, after a day of near-incessant rain.

Karlsson, although surprised by a forceful pass from - of all people - reserve Bager still posted double figures and took three victories.

Indeed, so intent was the captain on repelling the double-point bid of Iversen in heat 11 that he didn't even notice the chequered flag, roaring round at full throttle for a fifth lap in splendid isolation.

Skornicki again scored solidly in the middle order and Nicolai Klindt revelled in the conditions, dropping his sole points to a robust Iversen pass first time out, but later beating Bjerre by the proverbial country mile.

Ty Proctor was quick and smooth and might even have had a paid maximum from the reserve berth, had he not committed himself too early in a bid to pass Ales Dryml and lost control, collecting the Czech en route to a fall for both of them.

Sterner tasks lie ahead but, on this showing, Wolves will expect to be in action at the very sharpest end of the season.