CRAIG Cook shook off any fitness concerns to score an “imperious” maximum as Glasgow ran out convincing winners over Redcar on Friday.
The Tigers No 1 – bouncing back from a crash last week – sealed a perfect 15 points as the Bears struggled to lay a glove on a dominant home side at Ashfield.
Glasgow had pulled 10 clear inside three heats and had effectively won the match by heat 10.
The Bears managed to bite back with three race advantages of their own from the last five but the Tigers were still clear 57-33 victors.
Cami Brown’s men now find themselves 10 points off the top of the SGB Championship with three meetings in hand over leaders Leicester, with the chance to put up to four more points on the board next week.
Brown said: “It was the same kind of performance as last week – but the difference this week is Craig and the imperious maximum he had.
“It just shows how well your team fits together when your number one is doing a number one’s job. But again, everyone chipped in tonight.”
The spectacular Ben Basso fell while chasing the lead in heat 14 with Brown urging him to “reel it in a bit”.
He continued: “It’s great for the spectators but not for us, we need to keep a fit 1-7, and he’s a very important member of our team. But he’ll learn from that.
“We’re looking forward to going to Birmingham on Wednesday now and looking for an away win, which we really need.
“We have had some good away wins so far this season and a couple of disappointments – Oxford was one of them – but we hope we can go and win that on Wednesday. That is the next target.”
GLASGOW 57: Craig Cook 15, Tom Brennan 9+1, Ulrich Ostergaard 9+1, Connor Bailey 9, Danyon Hume 6+2, Benjamin Basso 5+1, Broc Nicol 4+1
REDCAR 33: Charles Wright 10+1, Erik Riss 6+1, Jason Edwards 6, Lewis Kerr 5, Kasper Andersen 4+1, Adam Roynon 1, Jordan Jenkins 1