Reading Ideal Video Racers brought their 2005 season to an end with a 47-46 home 𒆙win over Glasgow Tigers on Monday night at Smallmead Stadium.

With just one point in it going into heat 15, Matej Zagar made a peဣrfect start to win it for the Racers, after Glasgow fought back from twelve points down after heat 1🔜0.

Zagar signed off for the season with 14 points from six rides with all the remaining five Reading riders chipping in with valuable contributions. Sam Simota scored 8 (paid 9), Matt Tresarrieu 7 (paid 8), Andrew Appleton 7 and
Chris J🐠ohnson scoring a well-deserved 5 (pa𓂃id 6). Johnson was voted rider of the night by meeting sponsors Business Moves.

George Stancl was toꦅp man for Glasgow with 15 (paid 16), with Shane Parker next b🥂est with 8 (paid 10).

Reading went in front in heat 2 with a 5-1 from guest Ashley✃ Jones and Johnson, but Tigers levelled it up with a 5-1 straight 🦹back in heat 3.

Stancl and Trent Leverington scored a 4-2 for the visitors in heat 5 which put them in front at 16-14, only for Reading to strike straight back with a 4-2 of their own i🌊n heat 6 from Appleton and Simota.

Racers hit the front with a 4-2 in 💧heat 7, and a 5-1 in heat 8 from Simota and Tresarrieu, stretched the Ideal Video Racers advantage to 27-21 at the half way stage of the meeting.

That lead became 31-23 courtesy of a 4-2 in he𝕴at 9, and then a Simota/ Tresarrieu 5-1 in heat 10 over Stefen Ekberg, made it 36-24.

Zagar fell and was excluded whilst challenging Stancl in heat 11. In the 🎃re-run Stancl (tactical ride) won it for Glasgow, but Johnson just pipped Leverington on the final bend to split the Tigers pairing, resulting in a Glasgow 7-2.

Reading's lead was down to just th✨ree points (39-36) after heat 12, as Claus Kristensen and James Cock🅠le stormed to a 5-1 over Appleton.

Zagar won a shared heat 13, but a 4-2 in heat 14 from Tigers pair of Cockဣle and Ekberg took it to a last heat decider, with Reading leading by just one point (44-43).

Thankfully in the final heat Zagar 🃏made a good start edging in front c🎃oming off the second bend and beating the visiting pair of Stancl and Parker. The resulting 3-3 gave Reading the victory by the narrowest of margins (47-46).