RESULTS: Welsh Riders Championship
Newport Cycle Speedway Club staged the annual Welsh Riders Championships last weekend. The results were as follows:
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RESULT: Schmidt wins GG Express Couriers Women’s GP
Poole hosted the annual GG Express Couriers Women’s GP yesterday, and home rider and British Champion, Macie Schmidt, raced to victory. Meanwhile, Ipswich’s Gemma Hill took the Cancer Research UK Final. During the day, the Great Britain Women’s team were presented with their new British Cycling race tops (pictured). Here’s the results:
Read moreMATCH REPORT: Taylor on top in Bury Club Championships
With the season at a close, and Autumn well and truly with us, it was time for the Bury club to finalise their racing events for the season, in the shape of the club junior and senior indie, and the Ken MacCreesh junior and juvenile event. First off was the two club individuals, with the additional event of a short […]
Read moreMATCH REPORT: Brooke claims maiden Jim Peck Memorial crown
Great Blakenham held the fourth staging of the Jim Peck Memorial Trophy last weekend. The pre-match down pour stopped just in time for the racing to start and provided near perfect racing conditions on the flood lit Mill Lane circuit. With a national level field assembled to entertain a large crowd, racing got underway. First up Richard Fellgett held off […]
Read moreNEWS: 5th Annual GG Express Couriers Women’s GP set for Poole
The 5th Annual GG Express Couriers Womens GP takes place on Sunday October 15th at Poole Cycle Speedway. This will be a festival of womens’ Cycle Speedway, starting at 12.00 noon with a Team GB select v Womens League select test match as part of the preperation for the Australian tour. Teams have been evened out. GB line up as; […]
Read moreCOMING UP: Ross Mee junior Invitational and Jim Peck Memorial
There’s still plenty of racing taking place over the next two weekends, starting with the Ross Mee Invitational match at East Park tomorrow at 12 noon. The event costs £3 and is open to all juniors. Here’s the poster: Next weekend, the Jim Peck Memorial takes place at Great Blakenham under floodlights in aid of East Anglican Air Ambulance, in […]
Read moreVIDEO: 2017 Ade Gale Laurels
South Coast Journalism have been in attendance at Poole again to film the very wet Ade Gale Laurels last weekend. Check out the highlights and full match video of the senior and women’s event below: Highlights Senior Women Photo by Graham Robins.
Read moreMATCH REPORT: Nowacki, Schmidt and Morton Laurels champions
After a series of rostrum places stretching back to 2005, Lukas Nowacki finally added the top prize to his impressive CV, dropping just one point to fellow countryman Dawid Bas on the way to a notable success in far from perfect conditions. The Laurels usually enjoys good weather at Harbourside but wind and rain swept across the South Coast creating challenging racing conditions throughout all […]
Read moreTODAY’S RESULTS: Final day of season before play offs
As the evenings draw in and the weather starts to turn, all league matches have concluded ahead of two weeks of play offs, first regional finals then the grand final at Coventry on 18 September. Here’s how the final few matches finished up including the Ade Gale Laurels results from Poole. Midlands Division One Birmingham 98 – 78 Coventry Division […]
Read moreMATCH REPORT: Read races to victory in Manchester League final round
The 2017 Manchester League season concluded with the Senior Individual Final held at Bury on Wednesday evening. Stockport’s Jake Read took a vital win from grid 4 in heat 1, passing his team mate Ben Higham. Higham and Read both went on to win their next races. Meanwhile, Astley & Tyldesley’s Reece Pollitt won his opening two races. Higham took […]
Read moreMATCH REPORT: Burgess and Pollitt take home Manchester League titles
Stockport hosted the second of the Manchester League Individual Finals evenings on Wednesday. Seven riders contested the under 13 event, which went to a decider in heat 11. The unbeaten Astley & Tyldesley pair of Emily Burgess and John White lined up on grids 1 and 2. Emily was the quickest away from the tapes and she pulled away to […]
Read moreMATCH REPORT: Norfolk Go-Ride GP Round 5
The fifth Norfolk Go-Ride Grand Prix of the season at Hethersett was the least attended so far, thanks mainly to school holiday activities and a seven-day delay following last week’s deluge. A perfect evening’s weather this Wednesday meant that the 10 riders who did take part could have a relaxed evening’s racing without the pressure to qualify for “A” Finals […]
Read moreDRAW: 2017 Christine Ellis Memorial Trophy
The draw has been made for the Christine Ellis Memorial meeting, which takes place at Ashmore Park, Wednesfield on Saturday 19 August 2017, tapes up at 3:30pm. Here’s the competitive looking draw:
Read moreCLUB NEWS: First win for Birmingham’s Charlie
Birmingham’s Charlie Buet Gannon took his first title win at East Park on Saturday in the Under 10s of the Joe Guy Memorial (cover photo). Charlie was the stand out rider of the field, racing to 4 wins and a full maximum and was never headed throughout. The youngster is in his first full season of racing and has progressed […]
Read moreMATCH REPORT: Whetton and Buet Gannon take inaugural Joy Guy Memorial titles
34 youngsters (22 U16 and 12 U10s) took part in the inaugural Joe Guy Memorial in memory of the youngster who lost his life last month in tragic circumstances. His parents, Steve and Angie, along with Rachel and his brother Craig were in attendance to present the trophies, along with a Shield they have provided for the under 16 category. […]
Read moreNEWS: Dash Trophies GP line ups revealed
Next Saturday, the U12, Veterans, Junior and Women’s Dash Trophies GPs take place at Ashmore Park, Wednesfield. The day kicks off at 11am with the U12 final, followed at 1pm by the veterans. The juniors begins at 3pm with the women wrapping up a busy day at 5pm. £1.50 rider levies need to be paid. Here are the line […]
Read moreMATCH REPORT: Osborne takes major honours in East Anglian Championships
Hethersett Hawks/Myhill Decorators staged the East Anglian Championships at the Memorial Playing Field with the track in excellent condition for racing. Although entrants were lower than expected, some excellent racing transpired, no more so than in the Senior event, which also provided Hethersett with their only success. Dan Chambers and Olly Buxton were involved in a three-way tie for third place […]
Read moreNEWS: Bas confirmed for 2017 Laurels
The Poole / SeaView Coaches event promotion have confirmed that Dawid Bas, runner up in the 2016 European Individual Championships, has accepted his welcome invitation to contest the prestigious senior category at Harbourside Park on Sunday 3rd September. The event has moved from its usual Whitsun Sunday slot to September due to the British Club Championships being hosted in the South West this month. […]
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