Wolves 58 Peterborough 36

If you wanted a metaphor for Wolves' speedway story over the last 12 months, it was readily to hand.

A 2008 season that concluded with a relegation play-off was transformed into a 2009 campaign, where the team reached for the stars and grasped the Elite League title.

Last night Wolves, almost as an afterthought, also brushed aside a poor Peterborough team to take the Midland League and sign off for the winter.

But, despite a night of exciting racing, it was the presentation of the Elite League trophy by Wolves football boss Mick McCarthy that was the fans' big moment.

Here was just another small but telling example of the Wolves' team spirit, as skipper Peter Karlsson accepted the cup and promptly passed it down the line of riders so each could take his applause.

Last to receive it was Adam Skornicki, mercifully upright albeit with the aid of crutches after a horrifying smash in heat eight. He tangled with Claus Vissing on the third bend, both riders flung rag doll fashion into the safety fence in a dreadful flurry of men, machines and flying shale.

The luckless Skornicki finished with his hand trapped in Vissing's back wheel - a public address appeal for tools to free him brought a cavalry charge of mechanics from the pits headed by Fredrik Lindgren's spanner wielder, Jacek Trojanowski.

'Jacko,' who on this showing would be a likely 400m candidate should Lindgren ever choose to hang up his kevlars, and Co did the trick but Skornicki was stood down from the rest of the meeting with a knee injury.

His absence failed to stop Wolves continuing to dominate. Number one Fredrik Lindgren inevitably completed yet another Monmore maximum, while Tai Woffinden dropped just one point in five starts.

Former Wolf Niels Kristian Iversen was the man to deny him, riding a brilliant first turn in heat five to race between Woffinden and Nicolai Klindt to take the visitors' only heat win.

While Lindgren and Woffinden were sublime, Karlsson was gritty and repelled double-point tactical rides from Troy Batchelor and then Iversen.

Klindt picked up heat 14 with a smart switch inside Batchelor and Chris Kerr delighted supporters by stalking the same rider and then driving inside him for the 5-1.

But if you wanted a marker for 2010, then Ty Proctor was your man. The all-action Aussie punched the air in delight when crossing the line in heat 12, completing a five-ride full house notable both for style and severity – particularly when chopping across fellow countryman Batchelor at the start of heat 10.

It was his first maximum at this level – yet Proctor, who just loves to race, was happy to risk denting it by taking the heat 15 nomination. But he and Woffinden took the race, playfully swapping lines as they disappeared into the distance.

The post-match fireworks were well worth the wait. So was the 2009 Wolves team.