Wolves storm to victory as Freddie Lindgren dominates

Wolves...........................57

Peterborough.................35

It?takes something pretty special to upstage the return of Peter Karlsson to Monmore Green.

And the 42-year-old legend could hardly have done more to justify his guest booking for the injured Tai Woffinden.

Karlsson dropped just a single point from four starts and in his sole defeat was catching Kenneth Bjerre hand over fist in heat 11 before picking up drive and being forced to scrub off speed to correct the problem.

On any other night, PK?would have taken top billing – though reserve Ricky Wells, after a monumental paid 20 return, would feel entitled to his own five minutes in the spotlight.

But Monmore Green on a hot, sun-dappled evening made for speedway reserved its biggest salute of all for Freddie Lindgren.

The new Swedish Grand Prix champion was chauffeured round by car with his torso neatly enclosed in the sunroof. Indeed, disentangling himself offered far more of a threat to the GP hero's poise than anything luckless Peterborough could manage on the track.

Right from heat one, when Kenneth Bjerre was so intent on taking Lindgren to the fence that Wells hit the front unremarked, 'Fast Freddie' showed his very best form. He zipped past Lasse Bjerre, drove under his elder brother and glided round for the 5-1.

Michael Jepsen Jensen – and all that you've heard about the new Danish wonderkid is true on this showing – kept him honest in the 10th, but Lindgren was otherwise untroubled.

Jepsen Jensen took immediate notice when Karlsson used his trademark inside run out of the pits bend to pass him in heat seven. The Peterborough man repaid the favour by the same method in the same spot and Karlsson had to wind it on round the fourth turn to reassert the proper order of things.

Jepsen Jensen also missed out in a titanic struggle that saw Ty Proctor – harshly disqualified in heat five – squirm through the smallest of gaps to reduce the impact of his double-point tactical ride.

The feisty Robert Miskowiak is looking a useful signing, though he inadvertently hit Peterborough's hopes with a lock-up that caused Linus Sundstrom to fall and be withdrawn from the meeting.

We had Wells, Karlsson and an evening of superb racing – but the night belonged to Lindgren.