ROBINS’ skipper Leigh Adams now lies just 25 points behind Martin Ashby’s all-time record for the club.
This follows his top-scoring exploits for Swindon in the narrow defeat at Wolverhampton on Monday. With TR and TS outings netted down to their conventional scoring value, Adams’ sublime 19-point haul at Monmore Green meant he had carved 16-points off his required target.
Including this week’s away encounter against Wolverhampton, Adams now totals 5,451.5 points from 465 appearances in all team competitions.
Leigh’s number of maximums for the Robins currently stands at exactly 100 (48 full and 52 paid), the brilliant Aussie having reached the landmark figure in last Thursday’s home meeting versus Peterborough.
In the league alone for the Robins, Adams has ridden in 312 matches, scoring 3,764.5 points. With the exclusion of a guest appearance in 1995, this adjusts to 3,753.5 points from 311 appearances.
From official matches (League, Play-Offs, Knock-Out Cup, Gold Cup, BSPA Cup, Craven Shield and Elite Shield), the durable Aussie totals 4,935.5 points from 414 meetings in Swindon’s colours, excluding those as a guest, not forgetting 95 maximums (45 full and 50 paid).
Incredibly, having first ridden officially on these shores for Poole in 1989, Leigh is currently in his twentieth successive season of UK racing. He is already the highest scoring rider in British speedway history and recently, on 10 July, in the Robins’ home fixture versus Belle Vue, he made his 800th official appearance in the UK.
He has since taken his overall tally of race points to an amazing 9,825.5 from 805 matches. From these meetings, he has also recorded a total of 154 maximums (70 full and 84 paid).
Meanwhile, on the individual stage, the reigning World No. 2 made his 99th Grand Prix appearance in Prague last Saturday evening, when he took his overall points tally in the competition to 1,131.
That total puts Leigh fifth in the list of all-time GP scorers, behind Jason Crump (1,411), Tony Rickardsson (1,401), Greg Hancock (1,345) and Tomasz Gollob (1,256).
The Sultan of Slide is due to make his 100th GP appearance in the Scandinavian round on 16 August.
