Hethersett’s Olly Buxton won his third consecutive Gas Hill Gasp on Friday night. The popular event sees riders across disciplines sprinting up the steep Gas Hill in Norwich, and attracted a big crowd with 89 competitors. Here’s how the Cycle Speedway riders finished up: U16 1st Daniel Longlands (Hethersett) 2nd Paul Delaiche (Hethersett) Adult 1st Olly Buxton (Hethersett) 2nd Jamie […]
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Ewan Hancox raced to a magnificent 19 points as the Monarchs took victory over Newport in Cross Over league action on Sunday at Perry Hall Playing Fields. The 17 year old coming of age as he top scored for Birmingham with the home side winning 94-82. Both teams had riders missing, with second team riders filling in, resulting in fairly […]
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Hethersett Hawks/Myhill Decorators entertained Hellingly Lions from Sussex in the South East & Eastern Leagues and ran out winners in both matches by ten points. The first team established a six point lead in heat 5 with a 7-3 win from Olly Buxton and Josh Herring. After that the Hawks did just enough to maintain or extend the lead before […]
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Here are the fixtures and results (when they arrive) from today’s action in the Midlands, North & Scotland, South East and East and South West and Wales leagues. Midlands Division One Wednesfield v East Park Division Two Wednesfield v East Park Division Three Wednesfield v East Park North & Scotland Division One Hull v Bury Northumbria 103 – 76 Sheffield […]
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Joint Welsh team managers, Mark Carmichael and Jack Harrold, have released their squad for tomorrow’s Home International in Bury. Adam Bennett, Carl Parfitt, Dean Hook, Mark Winwood and Jack Harrold make up the senior team. The juniors sees Carl Parfitt doubling up, with Sean Bennett, Callum Goward, Ryan Winwood and Billy Winwood completing the line up. The veterans features Mark […]
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England Veterans’ manager, Steve Mullinder, has selected a strong side to contest the Veterans Home International at Bury this Saturday. Leicester’s Craig Marchant and Norman Venson, join Swindon’s Steve Harris, Wednesfield’s Mark Griffiths and Bury’s own Neil Howarth, to make up the England team. The Home International features senior, junior and veteran teams from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and are […]
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Stockport hosted the fifth and penultimate round of the Manchester League Grand Prix series on a warm summer evening on Wednesday 5th July. Although numbers in the junior (Div 2) categories were slightly down, Astley & Tyldesley still provided the bulk of the competitor numbers with 14 entries, Stockport fielded 5 and Bury 3. In the U10s, Astley’s Tom Morrissey […]
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Sutton based youngster, Charlie Buet-Gannon (pictured right by Andrew Parr) took 3rd place in the Midlands Under 10s British Youth and Junior League (BYJL) in June this year. Charlie only tried the sport last year at the Sutton Games, where again Birmingham Monarchs will have a stall and a mini track for youngsters to come and try in 2017. Charlie […]
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Exeter Aces were narrowly defeated by reigning league champions Newport, in a thrilling SW&W league encounter at Cofton Road last weekend. The Aces took an early lead, by taking advantage after the exclusion of Newport’s Sean Bennett for foul riding in heat 3. Exeter built on this lead, with Craig Nethercott, Dan Winchester, Owen Tidball and Connor Tucker all achieving […]
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Mark Winwood (pictured left in cover photo) moved into third place in the Eurovets 40s series finishing third in the A final at East London on Saturday. Mark took 3 victories on his way to fourteen points in the heats. Reigning veterans world champion, Craig Marchant, took his second victory this series to move atop the leader board on 92 […]
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Last Sunday, Horspath welcomed local rivals Swindon Robins to the Village Recreation Ground. Unfortunately for Swindon, top rider Steve Harris was racing in Poland, and with Shaun Rudman unavailable and Jim Bailey currently sidelined, the Robins could only track five riders against the Hammers, who were only missing Dave Liebermann with the back injury picked up at Poole last weekend. […]
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Wednesfield went to Coventry today for a Midland League match Division 1,2 and 3 encounter on Sunday afternoon. The sun was shining and the track had been well prepared. The first match on track was the division 3 fixture. The young riders from both clubs came out to show what we can expect to see in the future. Some great battles […]
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Hethersett Hawks/Myhill Decorators kept their play-off chances alive after two wins in seven days in the South East & Eastern League Division 1. Having completed the double over local rivals Norwich Stars in an typically action-packed local derby, they took a much weaker team to face bottom club East London and came away from the capital with the points. Scott […]
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Here are the fixtures and results (when they arrive) from today’s action in the Midlands, South East and East and South West and Wales leagues. Midlands Division One Coventry 69 – 109 Wednesfield Division Two Coventry 74 – 75 Wednesfield Division Three Coventry 84 – 66 Wednesfield South East and East Division One East London 78 – 82 Hethersett Hellingly […]
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Josh Brooke and Pierce Bacon once again took home to top cash prizes in the third round of the HSBC | UK Elite GP at Great Blakenham this afternoon. Josh Brooke came from behind to win a key heat off the outside of Lukas Nowacki and Paul Heard in the fourth round of races, which set the Great Blakenham rider […]
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As the Cycle Speedway HSBC | UK Elite GP party crashes into the South East and East region this weekend, Newport’s Ben Mould and Sheffield’s Ed Morton are currently heading the standings with just two rounds remaining. Mould’s lead, after a first and third, is especially healthy, but with all riders able to drop one round of scores from 4, […]
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This week’s Anglo-Welsh cross over league fixture between Birmingham and Poole has been cancelled at the request of Poole due to unavailability of riders. A Birmingham spokesman said: “We assume this fixture will not be re-run unless dates are offered for restaging by Poole, and the points therefore claimed by Birmingham.” Cover photo by Graham Robins.
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There is a final opportunity for volunteers to take part in a study that Hull coach Andy Schofield is conducting into the physiological and performance characteristics of cycle speedway riders, as part of his postgraduate MSc in strength & conditioning at York St John University. Participants must be at least 18 years old, of general good health and be competing […]
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