Woffinden blast for Lakeside man
Furious Tai Woffinden blasted rival racer Lee Richardson after Wolves' win in the play-off semi-final at Lakeside.
The 19-year-old stormed into the pits after falling in the final race of the night. He was forcibly held back by Wolves riders and staff, notably Fredrik Lindgren, and club owner Chris Van Straaten.
It came after Woffinden spun and fell while chasing race leader Richardson in heat 15. The Lakeside man appeared bemused by the fuss, and there seemed to the onlooker to be little wrong with his riding.
But the Wolves man said afterwards: "It's hard when you get an idiot like him doing dirty things in the middle of a race. I'll get him back next time. I just went down the straight, looked across and smack!
"It's like one of the dirtiest things you can do on a speedway bike."
Ironically, the two are teammates in Poland at Czestochowa and rode on Sunday in their team's two-point at Bydgoszcz in the first leg of the third-place play-off.
Woffinden had an on-track row with Poole's Bjarne Pedersen earlier this season, but was the peacemaker at the Cardiff Grand Prix when Scott Nicholls and Emil Sayfutdinov exchanged punches.
