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(Top. left to right) Team captain Bobby Schwartz. Dennis Sigalos. Shawn Moran. team manager John Scott. Kally Moran and Lance King pose for a team picture. (A bove left) De nnis Sigalos slides underneath John Titman. David Bargh and Peter Collins. (Above right) The Morans flank Phil Crump. u.s. storms World Team CilP.'speedway qualifier By John Hipkiss ENGLAND. 27: 1. Kenny Cart er (BI: 2. Peter Collins (7): 3. Cris Morton (6): 4 . Si mon Wi gg (6): 5. Dave Jessup (0). NEW ZEALAND 20 : r . M il C Shirr a (B): 2. Larry h Ross (6): 3. Ivan Mauge r (5): 4. Dave Barg h (1). AUSTRAU A 11: 1. Billy Sanders (6): 2. Phill Crum p (2): 3.Jo hn Tilman (2): 4 . Sl ave Regeli ng(l ). USA/Eagl,ad Test Series: 'ound3 READING , ENGLAND, MAY 15 America headed the score charts at the first roun d of th e qua lifying for the World Team Cup Speedway Championship. Riding o n a ' slick , dus ty track, th e defending World Champions scored 38 points to dominate the event, led by the 12-point maximum score of Den nis Sigalos. 26 The Americans were never pushed at a ny stage of the meeti ng, holding a four-point lead at the halfway point over New Zealand , with England left scratching th eir heads nine points behind. While Sigalos had a clean sheet, Shawn Moran collected two race wins , one over Engl and's Kenny Carter, for 10 points. Brother Kell y won one race, for a to ta l of nine points a nd team ca p tain Bobby Schwanz, sur: prisin gly. co llected on ly seven points, o n hi s " ho me " British League track. W ith o n lv two of the four teams goi ng through to th e next rou nd , th e Americans were seen as obvio us qua- lifiers, but England looked right out of it, until the new wonder boy Simon Wigg beat first Schwanz a nd th en KellyMoran to squeeze th e host nation into second spot. America is the def ending champion a nd on this performance it doesn't look as if the team are to loos e it. In all but one race th ey finished either first or second. England was just left to thi nk of what to do next, because th e tra ck becam e more suited to th e "fast starters and England's team co nsisted more of " fro m-theback " rid ers. T he Brit ish had to let Ameri ca take th e glory, a nd conce ntrate on Finishing a head of New Zealand a nd Austral ia. Resu lts USA. 3B: 1. Denn is Sigalos (12): 2. Shawn Moran 110): 3. Kell y Moran 1 4. Bobby Schwartz (7); 5. 9): Lance King (no rides). England floats win in Poole By John Hipkiss ENGLAN D, MAY 4 England gained sweet revenge . at Poo le Speed way, for it was ' here last year that the Ame ri cans wo n the 1982 test .series , This time, however, right from when the tapes went up in heat one, the British showed true determination, winni ng 63-45 to take a 2-1 lead in the series . H opes were high in the American camp that they cou ld re~at last year's performance, even without World Champion Bru ce Penhall , but the points just weren't co m ing th eir way. Captain Bobby Schwanz suffered an engine failure in th e fir st ride, and Eng la nd took an eight-po int lead after two heats. That was in creased to 10 points a t th e halfway stage, a nd thoug h the Ameri can s fought hard, th ey on ly raced to four h eat wins, and . England had wrapped the meeting up with fo ur hea ts to go. By race fo urteen the score stood at 51-33. T he return of John Cook sadly made little difference as he was obviously off form and only ret urned two points. Lance King also scored a low six points just as he seemed to be raking in the points in the British League. It was good to see that Kelly Moran had returned from California for th e rest of the series and he shared top U.S . points honors along with Dennis Sigalas. both posting I I . Results ENGLA ND. 63 : 1. Kenny Carter (1 6~ 2. Mi ke L8e (12): 3 . Simon W ing (12): 4. Peler Colli ns (101 5. : Dave J essup (6): 6. Chri s M ort on (3): 7. John Davis (3): 8. Kevin Smith 111. USA. 45: 1. Dennis Sigalos (111: 2. Kelly Moran (111: 3. Shawn Moran (8): 4. Bobby Schwartz (7): S. Lanee King (6): 6. J ohn Cook (2): 7. Sl ove Gresham (no ride): B. Rick M ill er (no ridel . USA/Eal',ad Test Series: 'iund4 . Yanks fie if up 'By John Hipkiss . ENGLAND, MAY 5 T he Americans knew what it meant to lose this meeting, losing the series, and with that in mind they went out onto the tra ck and each raced as though it were a World Fin al hammering England right into th e shale, 66-42, only allowing them to win two of the 18 heat s.