Tai Woffinden: Success even sweeter at end of Wolves career
Double world speedway champion Tai Woffinden says winning the Elite League Championship was made all the more sweet because he can't race for Wolverhampton next year.
The 26-year-old, who was drafted in to the Wolves team in August, played down his contribution in last week's Grand Final but admitted he was delighted to silence some of Belle Vue's abusive fans. "It was great to come back but I don't think I contributed at all to the victory," he said. "The Wolves boys were strong without me. Winning a league title doesn't happen often, and it's seven riders, not just one.
"That kind of annoyed me that people were like Tai's here, we're going to win. I kept saying we're a seven-man team. "I just came and did the job that I was meant to do and we did it as a team. You can't win these things on your own."
Confirming that he wouldn't be racing with Wolves next year, Woffinden added: "There's a rule that's being enforced that you can only ride in two leagues in the world.
"I want to be racing against the best guys so that means I'll be racing in Poland and Sweden."
Woffinden received plenty of heckling from the Belle Vue fans during a heated night in Manchester, but he says that just spurred him on.
"When they were giving me abuse it made me more hungry to win, more hungry to score the points," he said.
