Coventry’s Elite League hopes have suffered a major blow with reports emerging from Poland late on Thursday night that their World junior number two Michal Sassek has broken a leg in a training accident in his hometown of Leszno in Poland. Team manager Lee Marsh said: “We have been receiving texts from Michal (pictured left with Marsh) and pictures of […]
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Reigning Australian Individual Champion, Ty Geertsen, is scheduled to fly into London Heathrow airport later this month to compete in the prestigious “Ade Gale” Laurels event. The highly respected event is to be staged at Harbourside Park on Whitsun Bank Holiday Sunday 29th May 2016. His visit will also enable him to compete for the Poole Sea View Coaches club in Elite League fixtures […]
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Elite League Champions Wednesfield Aces have made sure that their squad for the 2016 season is a competitive one by making a few crafty and clever signings over the close season as they prepare to defend their title. Wedensfield manager Wayne Aris explains, “Over the past couple of months we have made three new additions to the Aces squad after losing 2 […]
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Shane Bentley, the World junior champion, has signed for Coventry Cycle Speedway club in a signing which was concluded three hours ahead of last Sunday`s transfer deadline. The 18-year-old Australian becomes the clubs third winter signing, following the acquisitions of Polish World junior number two Michal Sassek and English teenager Adam Watson from Sheffield in the past month. Bentley, from […]
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Edinburgh Falcons have strengthened their side ahead of the 2016 Northern League campaign by signing the hugely experienced Scotland International Jason Burke from Sheffield Rockets. Burke, who finished second in last season’s TLI British Veterans Individual Championship and fourth in last year’s World Veterans Individual Final, faces a 500 mile round trip to the Redbraes Raceway for home matches but […]
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British Cycling have released all the winter moves on first licenses and Elite League licenses. The big news being Gavin Wheeler is most likely on his way to Horspath from Poole on a full transfer (paperwork pending). The Elite League clubs have been busy preparing for 2016, at this stage it looks like being a close series with good share […]
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Coventry Cycle Speedway club have moved to begin building their Elite League squad for 2016 by signing talented Adam Watson from Sheffield. Watson is expected to be the first of a flurry of new riders announced by Coventry ahead of the new season which starts in March. Based in Manchester, Watson joins Coventry on an Elite league `licence`, which allows […]
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Birmingham Monarchs’, Chris Timms has recently been in talks with Ostrow’s Szymon Kowalczyk to bring him to the second City. The Polish rider recently captured everyone’s attention with his impressive performance in the World Individual Final in August 2015. Kowalczyk finished on a solid 12 points, beating some of the Worlds best throughout the tour. Chris first met Simon in 2008 […]
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Ricki Johnson (pictured centre), the defending British Indoor champion, is looking for a quick-fire double success by declaring his aim to retain his championship title at the upcoming British Indoor Finals in Coventry. The Birmingham hotshot, who has also tasted British Final gold medal (under 19s) success outdoors, was the first visiting rider to arrive at the Sports Connexion venue […]
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Arguably the greatest ever Poole rider, Martin Gale called in at the Baiter Park track on the club’s end of season Clubnight to bid farewell as he heads off to Australia to take up a new job in Perth. After many youth and junior triumphs in the preceding years and becoming the youngest rider to be selected for the Poole […]
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Northumbria’s Gavin Parr has seen his season cut short by a few weeks, after finally getting a long awaited appointment for a back operation. The Vikings captain has ridden in pain for the most part this season, but it hasn’t stopped him having his most successful season to date. Parr finished top of the Northern League averages with an impressive […]
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Stockport’s Matt Lush was sent flying over his bars after tangling with Bury’s Danny Taylor at Goshen yesterday. Lush, clearly in a lot of pain after the accident, was diagnosed with a dislocated collar bone at North Manchester General Hospital. It could spell an early end to Lush’s season. Dave Sillett posted the racing incident on Facebook yesterday, and trusty […]
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For our final instalment of interviews ahead of this weekend, we speak to World and British Number two, Chris Timms and discuss his thoughts on going one better than his second place at Bury 12 months ago. First, we talk to Chris about his world championship campaign. You had an incredible World Championship campaign. How does it feel to be […]
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Yesterday we chatted to new World Ladies Cycle Speedway champion, Vicky Brown ahead of her challenge to win a second title in August at the British Championships in Ipswich this weekend. We start off by asking her how it felt to win her first world title. You powered to victory to become World Champion at Wednesfield in front of a […]
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World number four, Bobby McMillan (pictured leading) is on his way to Poland this time to become the first Australian to compete in the DMP Polish league. McMillan, who rides for Coventry in the Midland League and Wednesfield in the Elite League, signed for Torun at the start of the season and has been called into the team to face Swietochlowice […]
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Coventry Cycle Speedway Australian ace Bobby McMillan has been handed a major boost ahead of the World Championships and Ashes Test match series – by landing a major sponsorship. The popular Australian, who joined Coventry in a blaze of media coverage in January, has secured the backing of Collins Limited, an engineering consultancy based in the Godiva city. Collins Limited […]
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Wednesfield based Varlowe Industrial Services have stepped forward to support local schoolboy in his sporting quest. Haydn Rowley (pictured left), from Wednesfield attending Coppice Performing Arts School is a club member and rider for Ashmore Park based Wednesfield Aces Cycle Speedway Club. Joining the club and starting out in 2012, Haydn has already tasted success with an Under 13s British […]
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Northumbria and Sheffield Stars Captain Gavin Parr has been blown away by the level of support he has been given by local businesses in the North East region after putting out a plea on Facebook. Parr faces travelling nearly 2000 miles just this month alone in his quest for honours with the Stars, the Vikings and on an individual level. […]
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