Norfolk Cycle Speedway staged its first midweek action for three years, when the first of a six-round Go-Ride Grand Prix series was held at Hethersett, on a night when the rain got progressively heavier. The series, organised by coaches Gary Colby, Jamie Medler and Kevin Wells, attracted 11 juniors, including four girls, while eight seniors also took advantage of a […]
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The Lions circuit was saturated after heavy rain by the time officials arrived at 10:30am. Only after hours of raking, rolling, tyre packing and watering by Hellingly’s volunteers was the track raceable, and in the end turned out to be a first class raceway in time to welcome Kesgrave Panthers. Dubbed “the battle of the wilcats”, it began with the […]
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Sheffield host this Sunday’s Supertrax Battle of Britain Round 2 at Cookson Park, off Halliwell Crescent, S5 8LY. The Stars’ Graves track, which traditionally hosted big meetings like previous Elite League matches, was taken out of action in 2015 due to building work at the neighbouring sports centre. The Graves is still intact but not quite ready to host elite racing, so […]
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Astley & Tyldesley hosted Round 2 of the A&T Go-Ride Grand Prix series at Gin Pit on Tuesday evening. An excellent turn out of 25 riders included four members of the Bolton Hot Wheels Club, who slipped in some practice in readiness for the forthcoming North West Youth League round. As ever, riders were handicapped according to age, ability and […]
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Exeter’s Aaron Herbert took home the top amateur award at the Exeter Express & Echo Sports Personality awards last month. Aaron, who’s legal name is Sellick but has been known as Herbert since he was 3, qualified for his first senior open British final at his home track in 2016 and had his best season in the sport to date. Proud […]
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On Sunday 14 May, East Park Wolves provided their facilities for British Cycling to run a Cycle Speedway specific coaching course for three club coaches from Wednesfield, East Park and Birmingham. Rob Mace from British Cycling put the three coaches through an intense coaching course, using East Park Riders and two Birmingham riders of all ages. Five hours of training with the […]
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There was a good turn out of sixty five riders at Norwich on Saturday. The weather was unsettled, being mainly dull with occasional bright intervals and showers. Twenty one U8s contested the heats, with four riders on maximum points. A highly competitive A final was therefore expected with championship leader, Oliver Edmunds (Kesgrave), drawn in gate two and Luca Woodhouse […]
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What a great day’s racing that was – 63 young riders, including a number of first timers, plenty of good racing and a few upsets, who could ask for more? Hopefully a couple of passing youngsters who came to watch will take up an invitation to have a go themselves at Coventry’s next training night. The U8s set the tone […]
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Exeter were the hosts on Saturday for 79 riders in round 3 of the South West and Wales British Youth and Junior League, and with the army of volunteers, it proved to be another great days racing for all involved. U8 category was first up at 12 noon. Charlie Martin from the home track was on the inside of fellow team […]
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Norwich were the hosts of the South East and Eastern British Youth and Junior League/SE GP. Here are the results: Under 8 – 1st Luca Woodhouse (Kes), 2nd Oliver Edmunds (Kes), 3rd Harvey Shumake (Kes), 4th Freddie Fullilove (Ips) Under 10 – 1st Charlie Parr (Kes), 2nd Ryker Jolly (Kes), 3rd Magnus Vincent (Kes), 4th Detlan Baker (Ips) Under 12 […]
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With the Astley & Tyldesley club providing almost half of the 27 contestants in today’s poorly attended BYJL Regional Round 3 at Stockport, it was little surprise that they easily topped the team score sheet with 136 points, ahead of second placed Sheffield on 88 points with hosts Stockport third on 48 and Bury in fourth place on 26 points. […]
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Birmingham Monarchs took victory in Poole on Sunday in the opening meeting of the new Anglo-Welsh league, with a strong team showing, leading from the off. The Anglo-Welsh league is a cross over league between the Midlands and South West and Wales, which gives teams some extra fixtures to fill up their calendar. The Monarchs started with a 6-4, Ewan Hancox […]
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In their second home match of the season, Fife took on Sheffield in front of a healthy crowd of approximately 60 spectators. You couldn’t tell that Fife hadn’t ridden for 3 weeks, with 11 of the 15 races won by a Fife rider and taking 5 7-3s in the meeting, for what was a comfortable win in the end, 82-67. Heat […]
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Wednesfield went to Leicester yesterday in the Midlands League, and proved to strong for the Leicester squad. In Division 1, the match went the same as last weekend, with Paul Heard and Carl Parfitt back in the squad, with Lee Kemp on Division 2 duties. The Aces only dropped points in heat 13, when Chris Jukes was just pipped on the line. Wednesfield ran […]
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Astley & Tyldesley posted three league wins for the third week running of the North and Scotland League season, at a sunny Gin Pit on Sunday. Points were shared in the first heat of the Division 1 match, before A&T took first and second places in the next five races, to open up an unassailable 40-20 lead. A&T continued to […]
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Swindon Robins hosted local rivals Horspath Hammers in their second home meeting of the season. Both teams looked fairly even on paper but a late withdrawal for the Robins tilted the tie probably in the visiting teams favour, which ended 85-91. The meeting started with multiple drawn heats, until Swindon did find the edge to lead by a point at […]
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Hethersett Hawks/Myhill Decorators had a weakened team against a full-strength champions, Ipswich, but competed very well in the first half, with Dan Chambers and Dan Butler notably impressive. The Hawks were pleased with this effort to trail by just four points at the break. After the interval, a first-bend mistake let in Ipswich for a 7-3 win and they just played the […]
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There was a modest amount of racing today, here’s the results we’ve had in so far. Check back for updates. Midland League Division One Leicester 71 – 108 Wednesfield Division Two Leicester 66 – 84 Wednesfield Division Three Leicester 40 – 40 Wednesfield North and Scotland League Division One Astley & Tyldesley 114 – 66 Northumbria Edinburgh 98 – 77 […]
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