After Monday’s unfortunate postponement of the Bears meeting at Scunthorpe and the rearranged date for Wednesday, tonight’s meeting now makes this a two day double header for the Redcar 'Ecco Finishing Supplies' Bears against a solid looking 'Fluid Air Power' Scunthorpe Scorpions.

Redcar 'Ecco Finishing Supplies' Bears v Scunthorpe 'Fluid Air Power' Scorpions - Premier League - Thursday 28th August - 7:30pm start

This is the second time these two sides meet in a league fixture after the new league fixture format was put out this season. It was only a month ago when the Bears beat the Scorpions 50-40 at home.

These two meetings start a busy period for the Scorpions who race four meetings in five days. The others being home and away matches against Workington who amazingly have suffered more than anyone with meetings being abandoned, and have only completed thirteen matches to date. Scunthorpe have completed eighteen. In contrast the Bears have completed twenty three and with meetings running out for the Bears two wins could put them into sixth position in the table, but with teams below having meetings in hand that position is never going to hold.



A mixed bag of results for Scunthorpe has seen them winning 10 meetings (9 with full maximum points) and 8 defeats and presently sit precariously in sixth position in the table. That is one place above the Bears and they will be going all out for at least a win at the Eddie Wright Raceway and if they have ambitions for the play-offs, a win at the South Tees Motorsports Park. The Bears, racing for pride, will be going out all guns blazing in what is the penultimate home meeting before next week’s last home meeting v Rye House.

Nicolai Klindt heads the Scorpions team, but could be missing on Thursday due to injuring his scaphoid while racing in Denmark last week. Nicolai will be missing on Wednesday due to his Denmark commitments and it will depend on how he reacts to his injury in Denmark, whether he races on Thursday.

Two riders returning from injury to the Scorpions are Thomas Jorgensen who has been suffering for almost a month with an illness and slots back into the top five after David Howe has been forced into the reserves and Josh Auty, who has had appendicitis. The top five is complete with the spectacular 'flying' Ryan Douglas and local rider Ashley Birks. Matt Williamson is the second reserve.



Redcar should be back to full strength, with Richard Lawson returning back to the number 1 slot. The Bears will be hoping to build on the solid 53-37 win over Sheffield last Thursday, a meeting which saw strong performances from the whole team.

Redcar Bears: Aaron Summers, Carl Wilkinson, Hugh Skidmore, Jan Graversen, Mark Lemon, Rafal Konopka, Richard Lawson

Scunthorpe Scorpions: Ashely Birks, David Howe, Josh Auty, Matt Willimason, Nicolai Klindt (if fit), Ryan Douglas, Thomas Jorgensen.