The Workington contingent played their part in moving Belle Vue Aces a step nearer retaining their Premiership title.
Ex-Comet Dan Bewley, the Maryport-based Grand Prix star, scored 11; former Workington rider Charles Wright had seven and a bonus and current number one Connor Bailey scotred six and two bonus.
Belle Vue made light work of seeing-off injury-hit King’s Lynn with a 57-27 win at the National Speedway Stadium.
The meeting was curtailed one race early due to rain but the Aces dominated proceedings with Brady Kurtz (11+1) scoring a paid maximum whilst Bewley and Jaimon Lidsey both scored 11 and dropped their only points to Robert Lambert on his return to the NSS.
Lambert scored nine and won two races along the way, whilst namesake Simon Lambert, another ex-Workington rider, was the visitors’ only other heat winner.
Kurtz said: “It’s a shame we couldn’t get that final heat raced but, again, it’s a credit to this track that we were able to get as far as we did in those conditions.
“A win is a win however you look at it and it is another great result for the team with only a couple more meetings to go before the play-offs next month.”
Stars manager David Hoggart, the former Workington centre green announcer, said: “Conditions didn’t help although it was the same for both sides, and obviously the Belle Vue guys have got a bit of home track advantage – they go really, really well here.
“I don’t need to kid anybody, we turned up with an under-strength team and we missed Nicolai (Klindt) terribly. If he’d been here, he would have been in double figures as he has been consistently all year really.”
Klindt, a member of Workington’s treble winning team before the Derwent Park track closed, is recovering in hospital from neck injuries received in a bad smash in Poland.
