Hull won round five of the Yorkshire League at their home circuit, to more or less confirm back to back titles. Should Sheffield win the final round at the Cookson track they would finish on level match points, Hull though have a commanding 17 point lead on race points.Hull scored four maximum seven point heat scores, including an important heat […]
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Report by Rob Mawhood The 2021 season was restructured due to Covid, splitting the league into three regions, Scotland, Lancashire and Yorkshire. The winners and runners up taking part in the play off finals at Bury’s Goshen track. DIVISION ONE This was the closest contested final of the afternoon, each team missing influential rlders. Sheffield were the least affected, going […]
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Report by Mike Hack, Photos courtesy of the Polish Federation President Marcin Niedzielski MS Slask Swietochlowice, of Poland, are the new European Cycle Speedway Club Champions! They took their victory after beating Torun, Horspath and Gniezno in the Grand Final at the TSZ Torun track in Poland.The match was closely contested, particularly early on. After three rounds of races, Swietochlowice, […]
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Report by Mike Hack Day 2 of the European Cycle Speedway Club Championships saw all twelve teams racing their second group qualifying matches, at the TSZ Torun track in Poland. Wroclaw took a convincing win in match D, with Swietochlowice finishing three points clear of Kaszczorek for second place, and Poczesna a distant fourth. Mateusz Pacek and Bartosz Grabowski both […]
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Report by Mike Hack Day 1 of the European Cycle Speedway Club Championships saw all twelve teams racing at the new Kaszczorek track in the Polish city of Torun.Swietochlowice took the win in match A, finishing three points clear of Torun, with Leszno third and Poczesna a distant fourth. No rider raced unbeaten, with Swietochlowice’s Dawid Zajac top scoring with […]
Read moreReport by Mel Perkins Photo by Jenny Melvin The sixth weekly Norfolk HSBC GO-RIDE and Senior Grand Prix round attracted 32 riders to Hethersett on a warm, dry and extremely dusty evening which led to some excellent racing with a lot of close finishes, especially among the younger and least experienced riders. One Series Champion was decided with two rounds […]
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The crazy action of the circus that is the weekly Wednesday Norfolk HSBC GO-RIDE and Grand Prix Series moved to Harford Park for Round 5 and the full range of Norfolk talent was on display. An incredible 40+ heats and finals were crammed into two hours and that included a long stoppage to attend to Will Blackmore, who had landed […]
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Astley & Tyldesley concluded a highly successful summer of recruitment, taster and Go-Ride events, with the 4th Round of the A&T Go-Ride Grand Prix series at Gin Pit on Tuesday. 16 riders lined up for the 20 heats match, including 10 first year riders. As always, riders were handicapped, to reflect the differences in age, ability and experience and a […]
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Report and photo by Mike Hack The Manchester League season wrapped up for another year with the Senior Individual Final staging, under the Goshen floodlights, at Bury, on Wednesday evening. An excellent race meeting took place, with keenly fought races throughout. Home favourites Danny Taylor and Kris Ramsden saw their chances of victory disappear early on. Taylor came last, off […]
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Astley & Tyldesley and Hull raced out an entertaining challenge match at Gin Pit on Sunday. The visitors were missing a few regular riders, so A&T loaned them Steve Harris, to make for a competitive match. And that’s exactly what happened, with A&T holding a slender 42-38 lead at the break. The second half saw A&T’s line up of young […]
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Poole’s Harbourside Park was the setting for the inaugural Ade Gale Veterans Laurels and 20 riders assembled for 2 12 heat semi-finals of 10 riders each with the top 8 from each going through to the final. The 2 semis were run together as 3 heats from semi-final 1 then 3 heats from semi-final 2 and so on. The 4 […]
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Report by Mike Hack, Photos courtesy of Alan Taylor Astley & Tyldesley hosted the second of this year’s Manchester League Individual Finals on Wednesday evening. There was a disappointing turn out of just five riders for the u-13 and u-19 championships. A&T’s Duncan Whalley raced to maximum scores in both competitions, to add to the two maximums he scored in […]
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Report by Rob Mawhood Sheffield Stars confirmed their place in the North and Scotland league first place play offs after a double victory over visitors Hull. Hull were without new Northern senior champion Andy Angell and Dan Teal. Sheffield had a late withdrawal when Ed Morton was forced into covid isolation. Hull got the Div One match of to a […]
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Report by Rob Mawhood, Photos by Nicola & Wil Banyard Hulls Andy Angell raced to a 20 point maximum score, to claim his fourth Northern individual title, at Sheffield’s Cookson track. Andy started by winning heat three from grid 4 in the fastest time of the day (38.51), defeating rivals Reece Pollitt and Kris Ramsden. He was headed only once […]
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Report by Mel PerkinsPhotos by Jenny Melvin The Norfolk HSBC GO-RIDE and Grand Prix Series finally got under way after a week 1 postponement when 25 riders took to the track at Spixworth – 18 from Hethersett, four from Norwich Stars and three Spixworth-based riders. Heats took place in three sections (Under-8 / Under-10, Under-13 and Under-16 / Senior) before […]
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Report by Alan Taylor The first of three Wednesday evening Manchester League Individual Championship events took place at Stockport with the Under 10, Under 16 and Veterans titles being raced for. The predicted afternoon showers never materialised so the track was well watered before racing began at 7.00pm with the Under 10s event. UNDER-10 FINAL Five riders from Bury and […]
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Report by Mike Hack, Photos by Len Priestley There was a great day of cycle speedway racing at Astley & Tyldesley on Saturday, for the re-arranged 2021 Home Internationals Day. The Gin Pit circuit was in pristine condition, as club members overcame the heavy thunderstorms during the week to prepare a venue befitting of the event. First up was the […]
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The Manchester League Grand Prix Series was concluded, when Bury staged Round 6, at a hot and sunny Goshen Sports Centre, on Wednesday evening.In the Division 2 match, Bury started the evening holding a 1 point lead over Astley & Tyldesley. Despite A&T setting up a new all time record team score of 78 points from their top 5 scorers […]
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