Redcar made it three Pairs titles in four years with victory in the first half of the Championship Big Weekend at Workington on Saturday.
Bears duo Erik Riss and Charles Wright defeated Poole in the Final, with the race featuring a crash between Riss and Lewis Kerr on the first lap from which the Pirates rider was disqualified.
Riss then overtook Zach Cook in the re-run with Wright third as the Teesside outfit made sure of the crown, with Wright taking it for the fourth time in his career in total.
Glasgow duo Chris Harris and Kyle Howarth had led the scoring from the qualifiers, but they were beaten by Redcar in the first semi-final, whilst Plymouth’s Nicolai Klindt and Ben Barker were edged out by Poole in the second.
Riss said: “We would rather have won it with four riders in the race, but it’s racing and it was a tight move.
“There was a lot of water on the track for the final and I had a lot of speed coming into the corner, and Lewi did as well. We were really close and because it was so greasy we came together.
“It was a racing incident and it was unfortunate to end that way, but at the end of the day we got the win, and this is why we came here!”
Poole’s Lewis Kerr was in philosophical mood after his new club’s Championship Pairs hopes were effectively ended by his disqualification from the final.
Kerr, who had won the Pairs with Redcar in 2022, was judged to be the cause of the crash with Riss.
That meant the Pirates’ opponents only had to make sure of finishing the race in the re-run to retain the trophy.
Kerr said: “I’m feeling pretty rough, it was a bit of a sad way to end the meeting, but at the same time a decent start for the season.
“It was great, the whole meeting was fantastic and me and Zach were looking for each other.
“We knew what we had to do and it worked but, like I said, it is just a shame the way it ended.”
