Despite being slim favourites and with the luxury of rising star Blade Blatchford at reserve, the Bandits suffered early setbacks with exclusions to both Darren Schultz and Jayden Ray. However the Bush Rangers then took advantage of the situation with match winning performances from Andrew Blatchford and Kayleigh Clarke, and in turn, victory by a solitary point. Bush Rangers 59 Andrew […]
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The Division 4 League (Under 13 on 20″ wheels) Grand Final between Salisbury Jets and Findon Comets was a great match, where the score line didn’t reflect the closeness of the racing. Using the 12 heat formula, there was just 6 points between the two teams, but with a couple of 6-4s in the second half sealed it for the Jets. […]
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The wet and windy unseasonal weather conditions failed to deter supporters of the competing Le Fefevre and Salisbury clubs from attending the Australian League Grand Final, at the Reserve Parade, Findon on Sunday. With both sides tracking the cream of Australian senior talent, a closely contested outcome was predicted, and this proved the case when Ty Geertsen defeated newly crowned Australian Individual Champion […]
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With less than a year before the commencement of the 2017 World Championships, the Australian Cycle Speedway Council has recently announced their team manager appointments for the World Cup and Test Match series. The vastly experienced Brad Hoppo has retained the senior role from the 2015 World Series staged in the United Kingdom and victory on “home ground” is a challenge […]
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On a warm sunny day with in excess of 120 nominations contesting the various grades, the capacity attendance at the progressive Findon Club were treated to five hours of racing, that culminated with Salisbury based, Joel Chadwick, capturing the 2016 Australian Open Individual final. Although one of the favourites for the title, there is no doubt that the luxury of four […]
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The 2016 Australian Championships are scheduled to be staged at Findon on Sunday 6th November. Nominations were announced this week and the draw sees home based Angus Freeman, Braden Makepeace, Bobby McMillan and World Junior Individual Champion Shane Bentley in the line up. Joel Chadwick and Ryan Edson will represent the Salisbury Club, whilst junior competitor Jack Norman has made the brave decision to contest a […]
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This year’s Brian Herd and Trevor Dutton Invitationals were raced and won last weekend at Salisbury Cycle Speedway, which saw some great competitive racing. Joel Chadwick won the Brain Herd 26 inch invitational. Joel top scored on the day with 19 points, followed by Ryan Edson on 17 points and a three way tie for the last 2 spots between Shane Bentley, […]
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Interclub round 3 ended up to be the Grand Final as it is a ‘best out of 3’ series and both Salisbury Jets and Findon Comets were on 1 win each. The beauty of Interclub racing is that a club only needs two good riders in each grade to have a chance of winning, whereas the Leagues require more depth. […]
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It was action packed at Findon for round 3 of the Club Leagues with LeFevre Dolphins, Salisbury Jets and Findon Comets battling it out to progress to the Grand Final in November. The Division 4 (Under 13) League was first cab off the rank and the main battle was between the Jets and Comets with the Jets winning the day by 4 […]
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The Outlaws finally got it all together to win round 4 of the “A” League last Sunday at Findon. With two races to go the Outlaws were on 35, Bush Rangers 29 and Bandits on 25. Bandits came home with two strong 7-3s to finish on 39 and the Bush Rangers scored 10 points in their last two outings, also […]
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Findon Little League is for riders under the age of 13 and racing on 20 inch bikes. Round 5 was held last weekend and was won by the Outlaws with great leadership from Braylan MacDonald, who scored 14 +3 bonus points for his 4 rides. Tylar MacDoanld took the Bush Rangers into second place with 14+1 bonus point for his […]
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The Bandits had their first win in round 4, which puts them just 2 points behind the Ladder leaders Bush Rangers on 9 and 1 point behind the Outlaws. The two leading Bandits were Cooper Osborn on 15 points and Brad Curnow on 11 points. The Bandits held their lead throughout the match by 1 or 2 points and ended […]
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Seven pairs took centre stage at LeFevre for the annual LeFevre Pairs Challenge, which was sponsored by Manoel Carpentry. The pairing looked quite even on paper and at the end of the day that’s how it turned out with very close results. The pairing were: Jack Norman/Nash Manoel – finished on 25 points Bobby McMillan/ DJ Thompson – 29 Joel Chadwick/Adam […]
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Interclub No. 2 got under way at Findon on a cold and overcast day. With 6 on the grid (2 from each club) it’s always going to be spectacular racing and today was no exception with a ‘few’ pileups spread out amongst the 8 grades. There are 3 rounds of racing and after round 1 it was the Findon Comets […]
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The Brian O’Neill Memorial was held at Findon last Sunday, with a gala atmosphere and the Sun shining on a winters day. It is an Open Championship where riders from all clubs compete in the various grades. Most grades had sufficient entries to have heats with the top 6 point scorers going into a ‘sudden death’ final. Trophies were awarded […]
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Round 3 of the Findon “A” League was another closely fought match with a ‘few’ pileups and exclusions. Unfortunately for the Outlaws, Jayden Ray was injured in race 2 when he, along with Jackson Dobie of the Bandits, hit the fence. Ray was unable to continue the meeting. Sarah Kinross of the Bandits was adjudged by the referee Michael Bahalis […]
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Round 2 of the Findon A League was a close and exciting match. After each team had 4 races the scores were Bush Rangers 22, Outlaws 20, Bandits 18. The lead changed at race 9 with the Outlaws on 32, Bush Rangers 31 and the Bandits on 27, but then the Outlaws fell into a hole and only scored 6 […]
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Interclub No.1 for 2016 was held at LeFevre last Saturday. It is always a great event as there are two riders from each of the three suburban clubs on the start line, changing grid positions in each of the three rounds of heats. Round 1 saw LeFevre Dolphins on grids 1 and 4, Findon Comets on 2 and 5 and […]
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