Championship Pairs @ Workington

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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!”

CHAMPIONSHIP PAIRS, Workington
Glasgow 25 (Kyle Howarth 13, Chris Harris 12), Poole 24 (Lewis Kerr 12, Zach Cook 12), Plymouth 24 (Nicolai Klindt 14, Ben Barker 10), Redcar 20 (Charles Wright 10, Erik Riss 10), Berwick 17 (Drew Kemp 11, Danyon Hume 6), Oxford 16 (Sam Masters 12, Jordan Jenkins 4), Scunthorpe 12 (Steve Worrall 12, Simon Lambert 0), Edinburgh 12 (Kye Thomson 12, Justin Sedgmen 0), Workington 12 (Antti Vuolas 10, Tate Zischke 2).
SEMI-FINAL 1: Redcar 7 Glasgow 2
SEMI-FINAL 2: Poole 6 Plymouth 3
FINAL: Redcar 6 Poole 3

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