Here is the footage of the Northern League Division 1 clash between Edinburgh and Stockport at Redbraes Park on Sunday, courtesy of Alan Hewitson. The Falcons defeated the champions ending their impressive run of going over two years unbeaten in the league.
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It didn’t quite live up to the pre-meeting hype, but Edinburgh finally shook off their bogey team for these past number of years. Although Stockport arrived minus Jake Read, a much determined and focused Falcons Team duly went about their business, pleasing the larger than normal, noisy crowd. The first two races were a trade of 5-5s, Mat Lush losing […]
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The return of former ‘Young England’ international Aiden Owen to the Sheffield line up, probably took away any doubts that the hosts would be troubled by Northumbria, a still competitive yet friendly encounter the result, with the Rockets racing away to a 20 point win. Jason Burke top scored for the Rockets, with Richard Hudson and Kyle Holland alongside Owen […]
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Poole Comets captain Greg Gluchowski (pictured leading by Peter Payne) topped the rostrum in a hotly contested Senior Laurels, sponsored by Daytec Communications, and just to emphasise the international flavour of the event, top Aussie Bobby McMillan joined him on the podium as runner-up along with British Champion Andy Angell who took third place. Angell started with 3 wins then […]
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Hethersett Hawks/Swinton & co will welcome all the top female Cycle Speedway riders to the Memorial Playing Field on Sunday when they stage Round Two of the Women’s League. The event will see teams from Eastern, North & Scotland, Midlands and South & South Wales regions face each other starting at 12 noon. Home rider Katie Adams is in the […]
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Astley & Tyldesley ran out convincing 90-59 winners over Heckmondwike in Sunday’s Northern League Division 1 match at Gin Pit. A&T took the lead in heat 2 and the result was never in doubt from then on. A&T’s Radek Handke and Damian Zareba both lost once only to fellow Pole, Pawel Idziorek, who in turn lost twice to former World […]
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Astley & Tyldesley Cycling Club celebrated their 25th anniversary season in fine style at a hot and sunny Gin Pit on Saturday. A full programme of racing was held, catering for riders of all ages and abilities, with riders travelling from afar as Norwich and Swindon to compete. Official guests present were: The Mayor of Wigan, Councillor Phyll Cullen; Deputy […]
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East Park Junior Invitation, sponsored by Olympic Transport Logistics, which took place on Saturday, was again a great success. The racing started unfortunately minus two riders, leaving 18 riders in the field. This did not affect the superb racing from the juniors. As expected, Wednesfield’s Brandon Whetton went through with a perfect score and then on to win the A final. Second place went […]
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Stockport have lost their first match on over 2 years at Redbraes Park, throwing the Northern League wide open. Edinburgh 97 – 79 Stockport (NL1) Edinburgh (74+57) 131 – 71 Stockport (NL2) Edinburgh 24 – 16 Stockport (NL3) Astley & Tyldesley – Heckmondwike (NL1) Sheffield 100 – 80 Northumbria (NL1) Sheffield 88 – 62 Northumbria (NL2) Hull 63 – 115 […]
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It’s a bumper weekend of individual action, with Astley and Tyldesley hosting their 25th Anniversary Meeting at Gin Pit tomorrow, which sees many categories catered for and finishing off with a social gathering in the adjacent Miners’ Welfare Club after the racing has ended. Likewise, East Park host their Junior Invitational, which we previewed earlier this week. We start off this […]
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Ipswich Eagles youngsters, Ben Clarke and Charlie Johnson, were in the Ipswich Star yesterday, having raised £900 between them by riding the 100km Suffolk Sunrise for Action Medical Research to raise funds for medical research for children. Massive congratulations to both of them for their impressive work.
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Stockport staged the 3rd Round of the Manchester League Grand Prix series on Wednesday evening. Due to Stockport not having any floodlights, the u-10 and u-13 categories only were staged, with the other categories to be held next Wednesday (27th May). In the u-10s match, A&T’s Joe Quarmby raced to a 16 points maximum score, holding off a strong challenge […]
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Coventry Cycle Speedway club enjoyed their best ever performance in the British Junior & Youth League in the Midlands Regional round 3, staged at Hearsall Common last Saturday. The event took place in glorious sunshine and the sun shone on the Coventry riders as they racked up their biggest ever score in the British Junior & Youth League since their […]
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Cycle Speedway has received a massive early season boost with the news that’s activity at one of its former strongholds is to be revived. Stoke Cycle Speedway club are to be officially reformed in the next week. The news follows a Public Meeting held in Stoke on Thursday evening. Over 30 people were present, including representatives from Stoke City Council, […]
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Riders from six of the seven Midland League clubs competed in the Midland Best Pairs last night, where last place in each race counted for nothing. Wednesfield’s first team pairing of Lee Aris and Paul Heard secured the win after a “winners take all race” against Coventry’s Bobby McMillan and Myke Grimes, which had to be re-run after Grimes came […]
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Great Blakenham made the short journey to local rivals Ipswich, looking to upset the reigning champions for the second time this season and claim an unlikely double having lowered their colours earlier this campaign. However, the Whirlwinds were in no mood to let lightning strike twice and with a full set of riders to call upon, set about restoring order to […]
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A last heat 6-4 salvaged a draw for Leszno in the DMP this weekend. Arkadiusz Zając was impressive and took victory from Bartosz Grabowski in the final heat, with Kamil Naskręt finishing ahead of Marcin Kołata to save a point for the home side. Full scorers: Leszno 79 Patryk Kriger 15, Piotr Kupczyk 8, Arkadiusz Zając 18, Mateusz Ludwiczak 4, Kamil Naskręt 16, Hubert […]
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The Public Meeting to help revive the dormant Stoke Cycle Speedway track has been given a terrific boost with a late surge in Media interest. Earlier today (Wednesday), ex Stoke officials Avon Allcock and Gene Bailey were both interviewed by BBC Radio Stoke at Etruria Park. The interviews took place with a imaginative BBC interviewer conducting the interview as she […]
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