Words by Pete Barnes, picture by Lelona Clifford During the end of season Christmas meeting at Findon manager Tammy Clarke made a presentation to long standing club member Margaret Staunton in recognition of over 30 years involvement in various roles. Recent visitors to Findon during World events will recall her pleasant nature as bar manager and she will be sorelymissed, […]
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The Le Fevre club recently held its annual end of season presentation day and among the winners were Paul White in Division 1 with Robert Fleming a well deserved victor in the Veterans grade. In Division 6 Zack Pudney, son of former World Champion Daniel, was a popular recipient. Among the 2022 Life Membership inductees were former Australian International competitor […]
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Words by Pete barnes, photo by Tammy Clarke The penultimate meeting of the 2022 season saw a reasonable attendance of competitors with Australian International Shane Bentley taking the Open event from highly rated teenagers Blake Frencken and Ryan Knights. In the lower division it was a near faultless performance from Tian Love to head the scorechart from Hannah Powell and […]
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Words by Pete Barnes, Photos by Tammy Clarke As a result of a grant application the long awaited upgrade to the Findon clubroom and adjacent building has recently commenced with a projected cost in the region of $132,000. It will feature home and away changing rooms, toilet block and shower facilities. Another incentive is the redevelopment of the main clubroom bar […]
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Cody Chadwick has sent in this report of the 20″ Trevor Dutton and 26″ Brian Herd Invitationals: THE FUTURE STARS SHINE…….. The 2021 20″ Trevor Dutton Invitional was a thrilling show of racing with 16 brave riders taking to the track.In the earlier heats it saw two very promising podium place getters in likes of Kimberley Williams and Dylan Miller. […]
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Photos taken by Terry Scriven Sunday 1st of November saw the Australian titles held at the Findon Cycle speedway circuit and the sun was out in force. The dry track conditions saw many riders come to grief including defending Australian Champion and Aussie team member Daniel Robb who slipped and suffered a broken thumb forcing him to retire from the […]
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Australian Cycle Speedway is once again in mourning with news of the death of 11 year old Findon rider Connor Lawson, who died on Tuesday October 6th following an accident at home the previous evening. Here is how the sad news was reported on the Findon Skid Kids Facebook page It is with great sadness the Findon Skid Kids let […]
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On Tuesday Salisbury Cycle Speedway Club announced that Brian Herd would be presented with a plaque on behalf of the club to show their appreciation to Brian for his services to Salisbury Cycle Speedway and to the sport as a whole. Brian has been involved with Salisbury Cycle Speedway since 1987, so the Salisbury club would like to recognise this […]
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On 4 May 2020, Findon Skid Kids founder, Mick Harley, passed away peacefully in his sleep, aged 77, following a 2 year battle with cancer. Although everyone was aware of Mick’s battle, it still came as a shock to learn the sad news on Monday morning. A world without Mick Harley just seemed an impossibility, such was his stature and […]
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Report by Pete Barnes. Pics by Shane Below. The North Haven based club staged its annual birthday event last Friday evening with latest signing, former World Individual Champion Joel Chadwick, taking the major honour. Jack Norman would have been pleased with his runners up award on his return to racing after the long summer holiday break whilst Farren Wills and […]
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Report by Pete Barnes. Photos by Shane Below. Despite the meeting “clashing” with the Superloop 500 motor racing event in Adelaide well over 80 competitors nominated for the Findon Mitre 10 Annual Memorial Open Championship on Sunday. Staged over all the divisions it was the fiercely contested junior category over a series of heats and a “one off” final that […]
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Report by Pete Barnes. Pictures by Kyra Ricketts. The Le Fevre club staged over five hours of brilliant racing on Saturday with well over 100 competitors that fully justified the annual competition and in turn indicated the high esteem that former Club President Bill Rufus had within the sport in South Australia. All the categories completed a series of qualifying […]
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Salisbury Jets have got their 2020 season underway. After the first race meet of the year saw 80 riders only managing one race each before being rained out, the following week has seen a comfortable 75 riders out to hit the track for an entertaining 4 hours of racing in the warmer weather. Stand out riders on the day included […]
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Words by Pete BarnesPhoto by Shane Below Following the cancelled meeting last weekend the Le Fevre Club finally started their 2020 season with over 20 competitors involved in an individual format. Paul White took out the “A” final from ever improving Harrison Corbett,Warren Corbett and Farren Wills. The ” B ” final saw Andrew Nieuwenhoven clinch victory with Lockie Pearce,James […]
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Words by Pete Barnes. With the 2020 Australian season due to commence at the weekend thunderstorms and over 12 hours of rain on Friday cancelled out any option of racing at Le Fevere and Salisbury the following day. However on Sunday volunteers at Findon had prepared a near perfect circuit and combined with a nomination of 73 riders there followed […]
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Words by Pete Barnes. After the recent Australian Cycle Speedway Council meeting the successful applicants for the 2020 World Championship team manager roles were announced. Highly respected Le Fevre official Rob Fleming and double World Individual Champion Daniel Pudney will jointly take control of the Senior squad in the World Cup and Test match series versus Great Britain. Seasoned International […]
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Words by Pete Barnes, Pictures by Shane Below Despite the unseasonal weather a healthy attendance attended the final round of the Veterans Grand Prix event at Le Fevre last Friday evening. After seven very competitive rounds the overall victor would be decided after a tie break between the evenings top three who all just dropped a single point to each […]
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Words by Pete Barnes. Pics by Shane Below. With the temperature reaching over 30c at Findon on Sunday afternoon twelve of the home nations top Veterans contested Round 7 of the highly successful Veterans Grand Prix competition. Although he had an unfavourable draw Brad Hoppo raced unbeaten for a maximum scoreline that in turn will see him striving to gain […]
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