ZBIGNIEW Suchecki dedicated his brilliant rider-of-the-night performance to his mechanic brother Jaroslaw.

The young Pole was electric from the tapes as he continued to make big strides at home for Pirates.

Zibi looked sharp all night as he won his first two outings.

Then he joined Karol Zabik from the back for a vital penultimate race 5-1 that propelled Poole on course for the Craven Shield knockout stages.

He won smartly from the traps in heat two, team rode superbly on the outside line with Chris Holder to peg Troy Batchelor and Mads Korneliussen behind them in race five, then trailed in last third time out.

Zibi's piece-de-resistance came in heat 14, with Pirates badly needing more points to boost their qualification hopes.

Last away from the gate, he sliced under Korneliussen and Batchelor in separate moves on the second lap to follow Zabik home.

It was a quality effort that brought the house down, especially after Zabik had gone so unbelievably wide on the pits bend to squeeze past Korneliussen and snatch the lead in the first place.

Looking back on his best Pirates display since joining them in the winter, Zibi said: "I brought my brother Jaroslaw over from Poland tonight.

"This was very important for me because I feel more comfortable on the track, and I think my score was definitely so good because my brother was here.

"I feel I have family here. I feel better because of that.

"When I first sat on a bike he was always behind me, supporting me as my mechanic.

"He has helped me in Poland all my career. He does my bikes everywhere there.

"Jaroslaw was helping for the first time in England and he will be at Swindon tomorrow, and I'm very happy with that.

"He's only here for two nights because I have more meetings in Poland and he looks after my equipment and transports it to meetings over there while I fly.

"I'm happy because this is the first time in England this year when I have felt relaxed throughout the whole meeting. Before I've been nervous too much.

"I only had one bad heat, and that was when I think we had the wrong sprocket, gate four was very slick and I didn't have a good start.

"But three of the heats were perfect."

If Zibi was top notch, so was Bjarne Pedersen for the first time this season.

One of only two riders to defeat the impeccable Leigh Adams, the Dane showed he was back to his best when he dived hard under Travis McGowan on the fourth bend to win heat six.

It was a timely because Swindon had silenced the Poole fans in a poor crowd of 2,000 by surging into a 14-10 lead after Robins riders had taken the chequered flag in three of the opening four races.

After that, it was almost all one-way traffic, though, with Davey Watt, Holder, Adam Skornicki, Freddie Eriksson and Zabik taking it in turns to turn on the style.

Zabik's unsuccessful bid to keep Adams in third in heat five was electrifying, but Swindon's skipper topped that by giving a team-riding masterclass' with James Wright to claim an 8-1 in race 11.

In fact, without Adams' class, Pirates would probably have already all-but booked their semis or final place.