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(Report by Myke Grimes) Coventry XL Motors Cycle Speedway enjoyed a return to racing on Sunday, with 30 riders taking to the track across two matches after British Cycling moved […]

Graham Sutton has been in touch to say that there will be a webcast for Rod Witham’s funeral on Wednesday August 5th. Details are below: Website: https://www.obitus.com/ Username: Rore8829Password: 155111 […]

Les Gustafson has been in touch to say that Colin Booth may still has some availability of 50 years of Cycle Speedway on DVD or download, and if there is […]

Tarn Fynn has been in touch to share the latest guidance enabling competitive events to go ahead from the 1st August. This information may already have been sent out via […]

Les Gustafson has sent in this tribute to Rod Witham, who passed away 2 weeks ago Of his many achievements for the sport, the publication of ’50 Years of CS’ […]

33/18 News has received the sad news that Gerald Sedgeley, Birmingham Lions stalwart of the 1950’s, died last weekend. Gerald was the last survivor of the great Birmingham Lions team […]

More tributes are coming in for former Cycle Speedway Commission Chair Rod Witham, who died last week ” Very sad to hear of the death of Rod Witham. Rod was […]

Mel Perkins has sent in this tribute to his old school friend Rod Witham, who died last week: “It was with great shock and deep sadness that I heard of […]

International Cycle Speedway Federation secretary Mike Hack has been in touch with a statement regarding the International calendar and age eligibility for the 2021 World Championships in Australia, the latter […]

Poole Cycle Speedway Club is set to be handed a boost over long-term security for its track at Harbourside Park. Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council is currently considering offering the […]

Tarn Fynn has been in touch with an update from British Cycling: “A quick update from a British Cycling point of view, before I return to furlough for another four […]

The 2020 World Championships, which were due to be staged in South Australia from 17th November to 6th December, have been postponed. ICSF secretary Mike Hack broke the news this […]

British Cycling have released a statement regarding the suspension of all cycling activity, including cycle speedway. The statement is below: Suspension of sanctioned cycling activityAll sanctioned cycling activity is currently […]

Following the sad news of the death of Mick Harley on 4th May, 33/18 News has learned that Brian Herd, father of 1993 World Champion Tony Herd, has passed away […]

On Tuesday Salisbury Cycle Speedway Club announced that Brian Herd would be presented with a plaque on behalf of the club to show their appreciation to Brian for his services […]

Steve Copping has added to the tributes to Mick Harley, who died last week: The heavenly cycle speedway track gained one of the pioneers of International Cycle Speedway racing on […]

Pete Barnes has written in with his own tribute to Mick Harley, who died last week: Photos below taken by Mick Priest and supplied by Tammy Clarke

On 4 May 2020, Findon Skid Kids founder, Mick Harley, passed away peacefully in his sleep, aged 77, following a 2 year battle with cancer. Although everyone was aware of […]

Steve Copping is currently working to try and bring the Results Archive section of the website up to date but there are several gaps which Steve would like to fill. […]

Words by Rod Witham The word ‘legend’ is liberally over-used these days but surely there can be no better word to describe two of the all-time greats of our sport, […]