Belle Vue kept up the pressure at the top of the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership with a 53-37 home win over Birmingham.
West Cumbrian Grand Prix star Dan Bewley made a solid return from injury at number one scoring eight points plus a bonus.
Bewley had four rides with one win, two seconds and a third as the Aces took maximum points from the meeting and are now within five of leaders Ipswich, although they have raced one more fixture.
Workington Comets young Finnish rider Antti Vuolas was at reserve again and he scored six and two bonus from four rides – which included three second places.
Brady Kurtz scored 14 from five rides against the Brummies, dropping his only point to Fredrik Lindgren in Heat 11, whilst Ben Cook chipped in with 11+1.
Tom Brennan scored nine for the visitors who did make a comeback after going 16-points down after just seven races, before the Aces finished strongly.
Belle Vue star Jaimon Lidsey (9+2) said: “It was a tough away leg but we were able to hold on for the win, but we knew we needed something much bigger from our home performance to secure the three points.
“There was a point where they managed to cut the lead we had established in half but we didn’t panic, we just kept our heads down and chipped away at them.
“After the rain and in the second half of the meeting, Birmingham did find something that was working for them but I think we had some of the strongest heats in the second half of the night.”
Workington skipper Craig Cook was still an absentee for Leicester Lions trip to King’s Lynn.
He has missed meetings for both the Comets and the Lions because of his partner about to give birth.
The Lions moved into the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership’s top four with an emphatic 52-38 win.
The Lions are in their best form of the season and are now ahead of rivals Oxford in the race for a play-off place, and still have matches in hand.
Max Fricke scored a 12-point maximum at the Adrian Flux Arena, whilst Luke Becker (13) won his first four rides before missing out on a full house in Heat 15.
Leicester manager Stewart Dickson said: “We were very professional and very thorough, and our gating was superb tonight. It’s a great three points for us.
“To be ultra-critical, we also threw away some heat advantages in the first seven or eight races, but credit there also to the King’s Lynn riders for passing us.
“The main thing was that it didn’t come back to haunt us, and I did say beforehand these are the sort of meetings where we can take advantage of them not having an out-and-out No.1 because of the situation they’re in.”
