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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Nearly reformed Brandon Bees host their “Clubman’s Trophy” at Brentford Playing fields tonight. The match starts at 7:30pm and features many of the “club men” from around the Midlands (and beyond!). Full line-up in draw order: 1 Dan Drewett (Coventry) 2 Ray Oliver (Coventry) 3 Dave Frith (Leicester) 4 Joe Andrews (Coventry) 5 Adam Tipton (Wednesfield Aces) 6 Ollie Morris […]
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Graham Robins was in Southampton for the South and South Wales clash between Southampton and Poole on Sunday, where youngster Ben Tinsdale was the star for the away side, bringing in 16 points. Tinsdale was ably assisted by his Poole team mates, with the Southampton team contributing to a close match, which saw Comet, Dean Hook, guesting for the home side. […]
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Birmingham’s 100% Midland League record is intact after victory over an understrength East Park side on Sunday. A couple of early maximums in heats 3 and 4, Johnson and Paul Timms the race winners, gave the Monarchs a ten point cushion. 10 points was still the difference at the interval, a couple of swapped 7-3s in heats 7 and 8, […]
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Swindon now sit at the top, all be it temporarily, of the South and South Wales Cycle Speedway League. On a sunny afternoon at the Oasis Leisure Centre, a tight contest was always in order, with both teams trading blows to see Swindon take the victory in the last to win by 5 points. Pick of the visitors was Mark Carmichael, […]
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As expected Edinburgh continued on their title challenge with a resounding win. The margin could have been more but for Kamil Greszla having a nightmare at the starts, twice being excluded after big jumps at the tapes, while Craig Newsome also had to sit out a ride after falling and being excluded following a strong inside pass from home maximum […]
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The new date for the Norfolk Championships has been announced as Sunday 25th September 2016. The event takes place at Hethersett starting at 1pm, after it was postponed due to the heavy rain leaving standing water on the track last Wednesday evening.
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Astley & Tyldesley took on league champions, Stockport, in a Northern League fixture at Gin Pit on Sunday. A depleted A&T fielded just 5 riders and were heavily beaten in the Division 1 match, 57-105. Paul Graham, Lee Phillips and Reece Pollitt all won races for A&T, but the team line-up of veterans and juniors were no match for the […]
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Hethersett Hawks/Myhill Decorators tracked a full-strength team for the first time this season and duly saw off the challenge of local rivals Norwich Stars in the South-East League at Eaton Park. A solid and tactically perfect first eight heats put the Hawks 12 points ahead until an exclusion gave Norwich their first race win. Dan Chambers and Leigh Cossey completed […]
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There’s a full schedule of regional racing this afternoon, tune into 33/18 News later on to find out who beat who, as we delve deeper into the season. Midland League Division One Birmingham 105 – 74 East Park Coventry 80 – 98 Wednesfield Aces Division Two Birmingham 58 – 63 East Park Coventry v Wednesfield Aces Junior League Birmingham 46 […]
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Ipswich hosted the East Anglian Individual Championships yesterday. The winners included Australian Cody Chadwick, Paddy Wenn, Dan Knights, Pierce Bacon, Lewis Brinkoff, Charlie Beeton and Magnus Vincent. Check out all the scores below: Under-8 Magnus Vincent (Kesgrave) 16 Luca Woodhouse (Kesgrave) 15 Oscar Hammond (Kesgrave) 14 Stanley Bailey (Gt.Blakenham) 13 Freddie Fullilove (Ipswich) 11 Lily Parr (Kesgrave) 11 Thomas Jackaman […]
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Birmingham hosted round 2 of the M6 trophy on Saturday, with a hugely disappointing turn out. Only one non-Birmingham rider turned up for the event, with 6 adults and 6 U14’s. This meant a formula with all abilities was thrown together. The Senior final was won by Scott Millward with Mark Winwood 2nd, Nathan Groves 3rd and Steve Hodgkinson 4th. The […]
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Hethersett’s Olly Buxton showed his fellow CS compatriots how to climb a massive steep hill, by winning the Cycle Speedway category at the Gas Hill Gasp on Friday evening. Norwich provided the other finishers, with Gary Colby and Paddy Wenn in second and third, while Jamie Medler and Michael Jones finished fourth and fifth in both races. Buxton then went into […]
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Hethersett Hawks/Myhill Decorators led off the runners in the annual “Run The Square” village fun run as part of their Golden Jubilee celebrations. Hawks members paraded round the two-mile course on closed roads five minutes ahead of the 200 runners. As a recognitiion of the Club’s anniversary all runners and riders received a souvenir medal with a cycle speedway anniversary ribbon, […]
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Astley & Tyldesley Cycling Club are pleased to announce that through the efforts of Club Treasurer, Catherine White, they have secured £500 funding from the Wigan branch of the Unite trade union. Club Secretary Mike Hack said “We thank the Unite Union Wigan branch secretary, Paul Kenny, for securing this funding for the club, which will assist the club with its […]
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Neil Vincent has sent us a link to photos on the Kesgrave Panthers website from the first national round of the British Youth and Junior League last Saturday. Click the link below to see them all. PHOTOS: BYJL round one from Leicester Once we have the results from round one we’ll publish them on 33/18 News.
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On Friday evening, Norfolk riders including Norwich’s Paddy Wenn, Gary Colby, Jamie Medler, Michael Jones and Hethersett’s Olly Buxton, will be racing up Norwich’s steepest hill on their speedway bikes. Kesgrave riders Peter Ingram and Danny Zagni are also racing but they choosen, perhaps wisely, to ride in the road bike category, along with former British Champion Ipswich rider Tim Snook. […]
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Birmingham Monarchs youngster, Dylan Hawtin (pictured leading by Les Brewin), made a dream debut in the opening National round of the BYJL in Leicester on Saturday. Hawtin, in his first full season, raced to 3 wins to qualify for the U10’s A Final and put in superb effort to just lose out on a top 3 spot. Meanwhile reigning Midlands […]
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