Reading scrape home.

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

With just one point in it going into heat 15, Matej Zagar made a perfect start to win it for the Racers, after Glasgow fought back from twelve points down after heat 10.

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 Johnson scoring a well-deserved 5 (paid 6). Johnson was voted rider of the night by meeting sponsors Business Moves.

George Stancl was top man for Glasgow with 15 (paid 16), with Shane Parker next best 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 in 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 heat 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 three points (39-36) after heat 12, as Claus Kristensen and James Cockle stormed to a 5-1 over Appleton.

Zagar won a shared heat 13, but a 4-2 in heat 14 from Tigers pair of Cockle 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 coming 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).