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 to Salisbury Cycle Speedway and to the sport as a whole. Brian has been involved with Salisbury Cycle Speedway since 1987, so the Salisbury club would like to recognise this […]
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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 Mick’s battle, it still came as a shock to learn the sad news on Monday morning. A world without Mick Harley just seemed an impossibility, such was his stature and […]
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Due to the new Government Guidlines on social gatherings the next Academy Day at Leicester, scheduled for Saturday March 28th, has had to be cancelled. In a statement posted in the Australia Worlds 2020 group on Facebook Steve Mullinder said ” Really sorry for this but as you know it’s out of our hands now. Please all riders try and […]
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A solid start was the verdict following yesterday’s wins again Bury in all three divisions of the cycle speedway’s North & Scotland League. In division one Hull were just too powerful for a solid looking Bury team. In command from the very first heat, team yellow built up a comfortable lead and by the halfway stage were leading 51 points […]
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Report by Mike Hack Astley & Tyldesley opened the North & Scotland League season with a marathon bill of racing at Gin Pit on Sunday. A&T won all three divisions last year, but fielded much changed line ups, as part of the club’s policy this year to blood their young talent in all three teams, so as not to stifle […]
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The first Regional League matches took place on Sunday March 15th and the results are below: Midland League Gold Cup Coventry – Birmingham Leicester – East Park (Staged at Wednesfield) North and Scotland League Division One Astley & Tyldesley 88 – 91 Edinburgh Fife 82 – 91 Stockport Hull 95 – 83 Bury Division Two Astley & Tyldesley 135 – […]
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A busy weekend of cycle speedway action kicks off at Wednesfield on Saturday with the Dash Trophies Midland Grand Prix for Under 23’s, Over 40’s and Open. The under 23’s are first up at 1pm with the Over 40’s scheduled for a 3pm start and the Open event scheduled for 5pm. Wednesfield will also have racing on Sunday with the […]
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Al Bentley from East Park has been in touch to say that the East Park v Leicester Midland League fixture scheduled for this coming Sunday (March 8th) has been reversed and will now become Leicester v East Park The return match will take place at East Park on Sunday July 5th
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Report by Pete Barnes. Pics by Shane Below. The North Haven based club staged its annual birthday event last Friday evening with latest signing, former World Individual Champion Joel Chadwick, taking the major honour. Jack Norman would have been pleased with his runners up award on his return to racing after the long summer holiday break whilst Farren Wills and […]
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Report by Pete Barnes. Photos by Shane Below. Despite the meeting “clashing” with the Superloop 500 motor racing event in Adelaide well over 80 competitors nominated for the Findon Mitre 10 Annual Memorial Open Championship on Sunday. Staged over all the divisions it was the fiercely contested junior category over a series of heats and a “one off” final that […]
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The 2019 season was an historic one for Ireland which culminated in the crowning of their 1st World Individual Champion in Poland in August. The International year for Ireland started at Ipswich with the 2019 Home Internationals where Ireland had teams in all 3 categories. The Over 40’s were first up where the same 4 riders who rode in the […]
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Report by Pete Barnes. Pictures by Kyra Ricketts. The Le Fevre club staged over five hours of brilliant racing on Saturday with well over 100 competitors that fully justified the annual competition and in turn indicated the high esteem that former Club President Bill Rufus had within the sport in South Australia. All the categories completed a series of qualifying […]
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Ireland joint team managers Steve Copping and Gary Colby are looking to increase the pool of riders available for selection for Ireland at Junior, especially so at Junior (Under 18) level. Such riders would need to have been born in Ireland, or have Irish parents or grandparents Any riders who feel that they meet this criteria should contact either Steve […]
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Salisbury Jets have got their 2020 season underway. After the first race meet of the year saw 80 riders only managing one race each before being rained out, the following week has seen a comfortable 75 riders out to hit the track for an entertaining 4 hours of racing in the warmer weather. Stand out riders on the day included […]
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Words by Pete BarnesPhoto by Shane Below Following the cancelled meeting last weekend the Le Fevre Club finally started their 2020 season with over 20 competitors involved in an individual format. Paul White took out the “A” final from ever improving Harrison Corbett,Warren Corbett and Farren Wills. The ” B ” final saw Andrew Nieuwenhoven clinch victory with Lockie Pearce,James […]
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A meeting and fitness day has been announced as part of the preparations for the 2020 World Championships in November. Details are on the poster below:
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Scotland manager Niall Morton is seeking Senior and Veteran Scottish riders. With the Home Internationals in Scotland & the return of the Celtic Cup, there will be several opportinities to race for Scotland. Anyone with Scottish parents or grandparents is eligible. Contact Niall on niall.morton17@gmail.com if interested or for further information.
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Words by Pete Barnes. With the 2020 Australian season due to commence at the weekend thunderstorms and over 12 hours of rain on Friday cancelled out any option of racing at Le Fevere and Salisbury the following day. However on Sunday volunteers at Findon had prepared a near perfect circuit and combined with a nomination of 73 riders there followed […]
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