The past 2 years of social restrictions correctly imposed by the Welsh government due to COVID 19 have had an adverse effect of a lot of voluntary organisations in the principality and East Newport Cycle Speedway Club are no exception to that. With little or no trackside activity due to lack of opportunity, the club has seen its young membership […]
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HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES were once again below full-strength for the visit of Kesgrave in the South East League. They had to rely heavily on the Martin family with strong riding from Daniel and Mason supported by father Dave chipping in with some teamwork for three rides. Paul Delaiche made up for some poor starts to produce some […]
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Wednesday September 8th saw the 6th round of the Norfolk Go-Ride and Senior Grand prix series take place at Hethersett. In the Under 10’s event Stanley Budds and Zackery Eastwood represented Norwich with Stanley taking 3rd place in the A Final and Zackery winning the B Final Connor Jarrett and Tabby Nierop rode in the Under 13’s event with Connor […]
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Words by Mel Perkins, Photos by Jenny Melvin HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES staged eight hours of activities to celebrate the Club’s 55th Anniversary. The day started with an open invitation to former riders to return and several did spanning all the decades. The majority of them got back on a bike to show that they had not lost […]
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Norwich Stars riders have seen plenty of action recently which started with the British Individual Championships over the August Bank Holiday Weekend. The action there began as far as Norwich were concerned in the Little League Under 10 Boys Individual Championship where Connor Jarrett took the runners-up spot with 19 points, losing only to Astley & Tyldesley rider Frank White […]
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HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES gave one of their best team performances for many a year when they were excellent tactically in defeating neighbours Norwich Stars by 11 points. The first half saw the Hawks build up a 12-point lead thanks to five heat wins and in the second half they saw off a mini revival from the Stars. […]
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The Hull club are staging a Derek Hilton memorial meeting at The Hessle Raceway on Saturday September 25th. The program includes racing for Hull’s under 10’s (12 noon), and open meetings for under 14’s (1pm), veteran’s (40+) (2-30pm) and open (4pm). Places are available for the under 14’s and veterans meetings – please contact Everettnathan37@gmail.com Derek was instrumental in setting […]
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Norwich riders have seen plenty of action so far in August. The first action was the opening Norfolk Go-Ride and Grand Prix at Spixworth on Wednesday 4th where Connor Jarrett and Zackery Eastwood’ recorded a 1-2 in the Under 10’s A Final. The same 2 riders represented Norwich in the Under 13’s event with Connor winning the A Final and […]
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Hethersett Hawks / Yellow Brick Mortgages were dreading a trip to Great Blakenham with so many of their squad unavailable but both clubs deserve credit – the Hawks for honouring the fixture and Blakenham for resting top riders to provide a more competitive match. Paul Delaiche and the Martin brothers did their utmost to keep the score respectable and others […]
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HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES have announced the date of their 55h Anniversary Celebration Day – Sunday September 19th. The day will also feature the Breckland Autos Hethersett Charity Cup, one of the longest running invitation events. As regular racing is still very much scarce for some it has been decided to open up the invitations to everyone in […]
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HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES finally got to stage a team match at the Memorial Playing Field for the first time since late 2019 when Ipswich paid a visit in the South East Leagues. However, the weather did try to intervene with heavy showers delaying the start of both matches but the track stood up well and some excellent […]
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4 Norwich riders were called up for International duty for the re-scheduled 2021 Home Internationals at Astley & Tyldesley on Saturday 31st July. Steve Copping & Dave Blackmore represented Ireland in the Veterans event with Steve scoring 6 of Ireland’s 23 points whilst Dave scored 5The Junior event saw Shaun Kell represent an Ireland Select where he scored 9 points […]
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Newport CSC are looking to put on their annual Welsh Open Womens Championships on Sunday 22nd August at 2pm. Colin Simmons is asking that regions email him what they have on that day, so all the women are ok to race. Colin’s email address is simmonscolin@aol.com.
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HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES had members preparing to set up the track and equipment for the first of eight Norfolk GO-RIDE Grand Prix on Wednesday when the most horrendous thunderstorm arrived stranding them there for over an hour and flooding the track. It is hoped that the Hethersett round will be staged later in September with the series […]
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HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES were frustrated again in their attempt to reintroduce team racing to the Memorial Playing Field track for the first time since 2019. The rearranged Norfolk League fixture, previously postponed by bad weather in June, was postponed by Norwich Stars, who could not raise a Youth team due to a variety of reasons including isolation, […]
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Mike Hack has released a statement about a series of events at Astley & Tyldesley for their “Let’s Ride Summer of Cycling Holiday Sessions”: “Next Monday (26th July) at 1.00 pm, we are staging the first of our Let’s Ride Summer of Cycling Holiday Cycle Speedway Taster sessions. We have five afternoon sessions lined up, throughout the school summer holidays, […]
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On Sunday 8th August 2021 East Park CSC are planning to run the Joe Guy memorial meeting where they are hoping to run a senior event and the usual under 16 Joe Guy Junior event.Both events will be dependent on the number of riders showing interest so if riders could contact the East Park CSC club secretary Rob Barnett ASAP […]
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HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES travelled to Ipswich for South East League fixtures and were again impacted by late call-offs and leading riders being unavailable In the Combination League fixture they filled the gaps with ex-youth rider Daniel Martin, who was on leave from the army, and some of the inexperienced youth team. Even though Ipswich left out some […]
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