After a call off on Monday Belle Vue were at Winbourne Road at the Poole pirate speedway club.

Unfortunately on Tuesday one of the double up riders Claus Vissing took another knock by getting a collar bone injury in the premier league meeting of Ipswich v Somerset, where there was an incident between Dakota North and Claus. So Craig Cook was the replacement for Vissing.

Poole did not get it their own way all the time. The aces put up a fight in that the pirates were not cruising in all 15 heats. Although heat 15 was the decider with the return of turbo twins Chris Holder and back from injury Darcy Ward.

There was another incident which involved Sam Masters who has consequently injured his wrist.

But the scores on the doors was not enough for the aces to get a point with the score being 49-41.

Weather permitting Poole will face Belle Vue again at Kirkumshulme Lane.

Last night at Belle Vue there was another rain off, disappointing I know but things like this happen we all know, but it seems to be a lot at the moment. So having withdrawal symptoms from being spoilt from the speedway world cup there was some premier league action with Ipswich witches v Somerset rebels. 

So sky did their bit with the premier league. The weather was dry and with some good racing going on, everything was fine, until the rain came….

It seemed to rain from no where, although the riders agreed to carry on. Jason Doyle from Somerset was on fire, he got a paid maximum and was one of the cleanest there. Due to the rain it caused a lot of dirt into mud in a way and if you were not in front you would get very dirty indeed.

Although there was an incident between Dakota North and Claus Vissing where it turned out Claus had a suspected collarbone injury, so he did not ride for the rest of the meeting. So that is a blow. 

The Aussies were there in full force, the young one like Cameron Heeps and Rohan Tungate did extremely well in the muddy and slippery conditions. But to all the lads on both teams going out there and having a good go of it and a win for Ipswich as well, seemed a good home win!!

The sunshine may have been shining on the city of Manchester, but there was a dark cloud over the aces this evening. 

The final score was the aces 33-60 robins. 

Unfortunately Belle Vue still had no Rory Schlein so had guest Mads Korneliussen, who the week previously had ridden against the aces in the meeting against Eastbourne Eagles.

In reserve was dane Claus Vissing who was in for Josh Grajczonek. For the robins Robin Aspergn was in for Anders Mellgren.

By heat three the robins were in the lead by eight points at 5-13. However the aces lost a rider when polish rider Artur Mroczka withdrew from the meeting in heat five after a crash, and was advised to withdraw by medical advise. Also he had a cracked helmet from the crash.

Heat six saw the guest Mads use the black and white colours for double points. However this did not pay off whatsoever with just the one point only. Later on, two heats later Mads use the double points ride, and this time it paid off with six points from coming first. Nick Morris was also disqualified from the same heat but used a rider in his place aka Hans Anderson. 

Although one thing I did not agree with is when fans use personal things which are not nice as chants, seriously there is no need at all!!!

Moving on though there was a spat between Charlie Gjedde and Nick Morris and a few words were exchanged, but it added some spice to it all.

The last heat, heat 15 was consisting of Patrick Hoguaard and Charlie Gjedde for the aces and for the robins was Peter Kildemand and Troy Batchelor. It finished with a 3-3 all.

So the final score of the meeting was Belle Vue 33-60 Swindon Robins.

In other speedway there was a midland derby with Coventry Bees v Birmingham Brummies. The Brummies won by ten points with 40-50. There was an awful crash which saw Scott Nichols injured. Best of luck on a speedy recovery.

So as a Belle Vue fan myself I am happy at some of the signing, but unsure of some of them in how they can perform in the elite league, but only time will tell!

Anyway the important bit. The three signings to finish the line up is another Australian Travis McGowan (who I have heard of by the way). Also joining the pack of cards will be doubling up riders Ulrich Ostergaard and Claus Vissing.

Ulrich will be riding between the aces and Redcar bears in the premier league. Whilst Vissing will be doubling up with Somerset as well as the aces.

The full line up is Rory Schlein, Patrick Hougaard, Josh Grajczonek, Adam Shields, Linus Eklof, Charlie Gjedde, Travis McGowan, Ulrich Ostergaard and Claus Vissing.

That is the full deck of cards which make up the Belle Vue Aces of the elite league 2012 season.