Iron man Nermark rides again
Last updated 12:08, Wednesday, 07 May 2008
Iron man Daniel Nermark rode in Sweden last night and will be back in action for the Workington Comets on Friday.
Nermark had to finish his involvement at Rye House after just three rides after a heavy fall in which he damaged his hand.
Track paramedics suspected a broken scaphoid but a hospital check later in the day was inconclusive and it was Nermark’s decision whether he flew out to Sweden to fulfil a League commitment there.
“He’s a tough lad and although he was in some discomfort from the swollen thumb he decided to go out there and see how he felt at start time,” said Comets boss Keith Denham.
“He was obviously ok to race and he must have been feeling fine because he scored 12 points. I really was fearing the worst on Monday but we appear to have got away with it. For once Lady Luck is smiling on us,” he added.
Nermark will be staying in Sweden to ride out there on Thursday night before he flies back into Britain for the Comets’ match at Scunthorpe on Friday.
He will be at Workington on Saturday for the match with Reading Racers – and the eagerly-awaited track confrontation with Ulrich Ostergaard – before flying out for commitments in Poland on Sunday.
It’s been a punishing schedule for the Comets number one who will have ridden every day except today from last Saturday at Derwent Park to this coming Sunday in Poland.
Reading, the next visitors to Derwent Park on Saturday, were well-beaten 58-34 on the Isle of Wight last night when Comets’ reserve Joe Haines was their guest number seven.
The Bolton teenager scored three points from his five rides, but was forced to retire in two of them.
He was second to James Holder in the reserves race and his only other scoring ride was third, when he was Reading’s point scorer in an Islanders’ 5-1 for Cory Gathercole and Holder.
In the penultimate race of the night Haines determinedly held the lead for two laps before Andrew Bargh forged a route through. Latterly, Haines’ machinery unfortunately gave up the ghost, allowing Fry to link with his colleague for the home side’s sixth maximum advantage of the night.
