Newport Cycle Speedway Club officially opened their new covered pits area on the weekend. The track, located at the Olympic Village next to the velodrome in Newport, is one of the top facilities in the country. Councillor Allan Morris was in attendance and cut the ribbon before the match between Newport, Poole and Horspath in the SWW Spring Cup, with […]
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Hellingly Lions from Sussex travelled to Great Blakenham in Suffolk for a Division 1 and 2 encounter in the South East and Eastern league on Sunday. With the weather overcast and rather chilly, it did not deter Great Blakenham as they gave the Lions a right mauling. They provided 13 out 18 race winners, had only a single last place, […]
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Sheffield travelled to Humberside for their opening away North and Scotland League fixture of 2018, Hull happy to be having their first match after last week’s washout at Edinburgh. Hull showed no rustiness as they put Sheffield to the sword, racing to a convincing 111-67 victory. The Stars had no Ed Morton, Niall Morton or Sam Haines, but even with […]
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Coventry XL Motors Sabres Cycle Speedway fought all the way against their local rivals Birmingham Monarchs in their first Midland League home match of the season on Sunday, but ultimately succumbed to the strength of their neighbours. Despite the weather bringing many challenges over the winter, the track was in supreme condition and provided some excellent racing by both sides, […]
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The draws are in for the opening Saturday of the British Club Championships to be run at Kesgrave on Saturday 12th May. There is a disappointing amount of entries, with all three classes being a straight final and currently a blank space in the U12s. The introduction of the lower age bracket may have had an impact for the lack […]
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Following on from the inaugural event at Newport last year, there will be an U10 CS Little League Club Championship at Kesgrave on 12 May 2018 during the British Club Championship meeting. Six U10 teams contested a highly competitive championship at Newport in 2017 with Poole victorious. There was a run-off for second place with Coventry taking second ahead of […]
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Pierce Bacon (Ipswich) and Josh Brooke (Great Blakenham) took the honours at a sunny Cookson Park for the opening round of the HSBC UK Elite Grand Prix series, both riders heralding from the East and South East region,starting off how they finished the 2017 series, as winners. The junior event got the proceedings going, with a competitive field of 12 […]
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Birmingham Monarchs Cycle Speedway club finally got their season underway with a league win in Coventry on Sunday. The Sabres had already ridden one league match which balanced up the teams prior to start time. The first 5 heats were drawn and the racing super fast on an excellently prepared track. Heats 6 and 7 changed all that, with two maximums from […]
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Northern League Champions, Astley & Tyldesley, raced to another treble of victories in Sunday’s Northern League fixture at Bury. A&T recorded a convincing 102-75 win in the Division 1 match. The scores were level after heat 2, before A&T banged in five heat wins in the next six races, to hold a commanding 47-32 lead at the interval. The visitors […]
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Hethersett Hawks/Myhill Decorators secured their first win of the season when the B team travelled to Canning Town Rec and defeated East London, who dropped down a Division this season. Owen Wells, fresh from a promising debut in the British Elite Junior Grand Prix at Sheffield where he finished ninth with 13 points, had another good day in London. He […]
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Here are the results we have received so far from the fixtures for Sunday 15th April: Midland League Division One Coventry 82 – 96 Birmingham Division Two Coventry 79 – 71 Birmingham Division Three Coventry 51- 69 Birmingham Gold Cup Wednesfield – East Park North and Scotland League Division One Bury 75-102 Astley & Tyldesley Hull 111 – 67 Sheffield […]
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The opening round of the HSBC UK Elite GP comes to the North and Sheffield’s super fast Cookson raceway on Saturday. Josh Brooke, elite men’s winner from 2017, heads the entries – which is likely to include qualifiers for some of the riders. British champion and Cookson track record holder Myke Grimes will be the major challenger, along with 2011 […]
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Saturday 21 April sees the Eurovets bandwagon roll into Horspath. This is a non-Grand Prix event and takes the shape of two matches, the first starting at 1pm will be “The Revenge Of The Eurovets” ORCHID International which sees the Euro Stars taking on the 2017 British Lions that toured Australia, a repeat of the pre-tour international that took place […]
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Wednesfield’s first Midland League match of the season took place on Sunday. There was no Division 3 match as Wednesfield unfortunately couldn’t get together a team due to riders/parents having other commitments. However their Divisions 2 and 1 teams did not let the wet weather conditions dampen their spirits. Despite the weather not being on their side, the Division 2 […]
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Sheffield Stars and Bury Comets opened their North & Scotland League season with three evenly matched contests at the Stars’ Cookson Park raceway. The Comets took the honours in the League One match by a 97-83 score line, with a solid team performance. The Comets had fewer race winners (8) to the Stars (10). Crucially recording only two last places to the Stars […]
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Dan Chambers is undertaking some endurance events this year in order to fundraise money for charities. If you would like to donate to any of the charities mentioned in the article below then visit the mydonate page at the bottom of the article: Throughout 2018 I will be competing in several endurance sporting events whilst also raising £2700 for Macmillan […]
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Bill Gill has been in touch to say that the committee of the Veteran Cycle Speedway Riders Association is currently facing a dilemma about future activities. It has been reported in the past that the members of the committee are finding their age is preventing them from planning for the future. A few have stated their desire to finish in early 2019 and […]
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The Level 2 Cycle Speedway specific coaching course due to be held on 21st April has had to be cancelled due to a very low number of candidates. It will be rescheduled for October this year. British Cycling’s Cycle Speedway commissioner for coaching commented: “This is very disappointing and worrying. British Cycling’s insurance only covers coaches who are discipline specific qualified […]
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