{"id":865315,"date":"2026-08-23T08:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T08:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865315\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T08:24:08","slug":"gladiators-edge-out-comets-british-speedway-official-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865315\/","title":{"rendered":"GLADIATORS EDGE OUT COMETS \u2013 British Speedway Official Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PLYMOUTH overcame the injury absence of No.1 Scott Nicholls to defeat Workington 49-41 at the Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Gladiators operated rider replacement for Nicholls and raced into an early 12-point lead before the Comets cut the gap to four points to set up a tight finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe Thompson and Danny King combined for a vital 5-1 in Heat 13 which all-but secured the home win, which will leave Workington needing to win their final fixture next weekend to avoid the Cab Direct Championship wooden spoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben Barker (14+1) and Thompson (13+2) led the way for the Gladiators whilst Troy Batchelor notched 15 for the visitors and Vinnie Foord impressed with 10+2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OFFICIAL REFEREE SCORECARD<br \/>Available <a href=\"https:\/\/britishspeedway.co.uk\/26results\/plymouth_22.08.26_res.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo credit: EBONY MARCH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLYMOUTH overcame the injury absence of No.1 Scott Nicholls to defeat Workington 49-41 at the Coliseum. The Gladiators&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-865315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}