Words by Mel Perkins, Photos supplied by Jenny Melvin HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES staged their annual Club Championships on a fast track made perfect by rain the previous day. A sunny afternoon saw 29 members take part contesting nine events over nearly six hours of wall-to-wall entertainment. Mason Martin could not repeat his triple champion feat of 2021 […]
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HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES brought the curtain down on their 2022 League campaign with three entertaining matches against Kesgrave on a pleasant autumn afternoon at the Memorial Playing Field. The Division 2 match against Kesgrave B was a title decider with the Hawks needing to win by more than five points to be champions. Ben Collins was drafted […]
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Coventry have arranged a free BC sponsored Referee course on Saturday 24th September 2022 and have 3 available places to offer other clubs. 1. Date: Saturday 24th September 2022 2. Venue: The Village Hotel, Dolomite Avenue, Coventry CV4 9GZ 3. Time: 11.00 4. Duration: 3 hours If you are interested or perhaps you know someone who might be interested in […]
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HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES’ youngest star brought home another national title to the Club. Luca El-Labany still reached the “A” Final in the final round of the Little League Under-10s Grand Prix Series in Astley & Tyldesley despite suffering an uncharacteristic fall in one of his heats. Drawn on the outside grid in the final he settled into […]
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HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES have announced the date of their annual Charity Cup which has been held every year since 1969 (except 2020). It is being staged on Sunday October 9th at 3 p.m. It will once again be sponsored by Breckland Autos, for which the Club are forever grateful. This year’s charity will be Finnbars Force, a […]
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The final round of the Norfolk Grand Prix for Under 8, Under 10 & Under 13 riders was staged at Harford Park on September 7th and saw 3 Norwich riders taking part and all 3 reached the A Finals in their respective events. Stanley Budds won the Under 10’s event which gave him 2nd overall on 88 points. Will Blackmore […]
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Saturday August 20th saw the 3rd British Youth & Junior League National round take place at Newport which saw Shaun Kell take 3rd place in the Under 14’s A Final ahead of series leader Ryker Jolly (Kesgrave) who finished 4th in the A Final. The gap between the 2 riders is 3 points going into the final round at Astley […]
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HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES had another successful weekend of racing around the country. Glyn Morgan led the way with runners-up spot in the Over-60s A Final in the Eurovets Series Round 6 at East Newport. This position assures him of being the overall series champion with one round to go in Birmingham. He also won the B Final […]
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Astley & Tyldesley have two more British Individual Cycle Speedway Champions! Wigan based 11 years old Frank White won the British u-12 Boys title at East Park, Wolverhampton on Sunday, after dropping just one point in the match. Racing at Birmingham on Monday, 18 years old Astley resident Emily Burgess retained her British Women’s title, winning all her five races […]
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HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES had three riders taking part in the British Individual Championships weekend and they had mixed fortunes. Lola Martin repeated her podium place of last season with a third place in the Under-12 Girls at Wednesfield. She rode consistently in all her heats while other fancied riders had races they would wish to forget. This […]
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Newport cycle speedway club staged National Round 3 of the British Youth & Junior League at Newport’s sports village, sponsored by Marsh Vision, 82 riders from a dozen clubs took to the track covering 7 different age groups and served up some great racing on the big Newport track. The home club had the following rider “A” final placings: Under […]
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Sunday July 17th should have seen the Stars in team action with a Norfolk derby at Hethersett in South-East Division 2 and the Youth League but the extremely hot weather caused the postponement of those matches ant these will provisionally take place on Sunday 18th SeptemberThe 2nd British Youth & Junior League national round took place at Wednesfield on Saturday […]
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HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES may not have any team fixtures during August but there has been plenty of action for all ages. Glyn Morgan looked set to consolidate his place as leader of the Eurovets Over-60s series in Round 5 at the nearby Eaton Park circuit but his closest rival, Ray Pyke (Kesgrave) passed him on the final […]
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Astley & Tyldesley Cycling Club were featured on TV on Monday evening, on ITV’s Granada Reports programme. The A&T club would like to thank Claire Hannah for leading and arranging this feature on their cycle speedway activities at Astley & Tyldesley. Also, see this feature on the A&T club on the ITV website. Again, many thanks to Claire Hannah. https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2022-07-18/cycle-speedway-the-sport-born-in-bombed-out-britain
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Norwich riders have been busy in the previous 4 weeks. The busy spell started on Saturday 18th June at Wednesfield where the host club were celebrating their 60th anniversary with 2 days of racing. 4 Norwich riders were involved and the action began with an Under 14’s Individual where Shaun Kell scored 19 points, dropping his only point to the […]
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Edinburhg Falcons Cycle Speedway Club have released the following statement which appeared on their Facebook page earlier this evening: “It is with great regret that we have to announce that the Falcons have dropped out of division 1 racing this year. “This year has been a tough season for the Falcons and in order to rebuild our club, we made […]
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Saturday May 28th saw 8 Norwich riders represent the club at the 3rd round of the British Youth & Junior League & South-East Grand Prix. Frank Spauls rode in the Under 10’s event and was 3rd in the A Final. The Under 12′ saw Will Blackmore finish 4th in the A Final whilst Zachary Eastwood overcame an exclusion in his […]
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HETHERSETT HAWKS / YELLOW BRICK MORTGAGES had a very busy and successful weekend. It included getting their first League wins of the season and hosting a staggering number of riders on Saturday after contractors finished laying concrete in the pits the day before!! Saturday’s South East Grand Prix Round 3 (which doubles as a regional round of the British Youth […]
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