The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Skipper Ulrich receives six of the best and he’s thrilled to bits
Captain Ulrich Ostergaard reckons table-topping Panthers are currently high on confidence as well as quality. That was the conclusion drawn by the Danish ace in the wake of an impressive 5534 drubbing of highly-rated Plymouth at the East of England ShowgroundonTuesday night.
The emphatic victory stretched Panthers’ winning streak to six meetings and left skipper Ostergaard waxing lyrical about the fine form of his team-mates.
He said: “Plymouth have a very good team and they showed last season that they really like riding at our place.
“Butweprovedwhatweare capable of doingwhenthemajority of the boys are on fire.
“Winning races is great for the riders’ confidence and we are always happywhenweare earning money as well!
“We’re enjoying a really good run of results. It’s six wins in a row now and that doesn’t happen by fluke.
“Wearedefinitelyshowing everyone that we mean business this season and that has to continue.
“We have a really strong team from Craig Cook at the top down to Simon Lambert and Zdenek Holub at reserve.
“Theguyslike myself, Emil Grondal and Nikolaj Busk Jakobsen are also capable of doing a good job and we are showing that we have the strength to get good results.
“Wehavetoensurewekeep improving though as there is still a long way to go this season.”
Panthers have seen off Sheffield, Ipswich ( twice), Scunthorpe, Glasgow and now Plymouth during a fine runofformstretching backto mid-May.
The city club have won seven of their 10 league meetings to date and are unbeaten since the high-profile capture of number one Craig Cook.
They don’t race i n the league again until Tuesday, July12whenhostingrock-bottom Scunthorpe at the East of England Showground.
That meeting marks the start of a busy run of a dozen meetings in the space of seven weeks with two others, at home to Workington and Rye House, still to be rescheduled after postponements.