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Birmingham raced to a comprehensive victory at East Park on Thursday. The seniors were nigh on unbeatable with only Groves and Chris Timms sportingly allowing the understrength Wolves to take some scalps. The Monarchs carried too much strength to be seriously challenged by a largely inexperienced and youthful East Park team. The likes of Adam Mabberley and Nataniel Pikor have made some decent progress […]

Birmingham Monarchs Cycle Speedway Club finally managed there first victory in the Gold Cup at the home of the League champions Wednesfield. Both clubs were missing key riders however it was the lack of Junior riders that proved costly for the home side. Heat one saw the Aces open with a heat advantage but this proved to be the one and only […]

Hethersett Hawks / Myhill Decorators almost had the perfect ending to their 2018 season in the South East and Eastern Division 2 Cup Final at Eaton Park. League champions Kesgrave had the early lead but a 6-4 win by Liam Webster and Glyn Morgan put the Hawks in front at heat 11. A further 6-4 in heat 14 by Harley […]

Birmingham Monarchs Cycle Speedway Club are preparing for a weekend of action with racing on both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday will see a class field assembled for an England versus Rest of the World challenge fixture followed on Sunday by a visit from Midland Champions Wednesfield in Gold Cup action. On Sunday the Gold Cup meeting at East Park was called off due […]

HETHERSETT HAWKS / MYHILL DECORATORS brought down the curtain on weekend racing at the Memorial Playing Field for 2018 by staging a successful Hethersett Charity Cup, sponsored by Breckland Autos. With half the field travelling from outside the County it was very competitive and former winner Ashley Hill from Ipswich regained the Cup after a race-off with veteran Craig Marchant […]

Birmingham fell to a 3rd Gold Cup defeat on Sunday as Leicester came to Perry Hall Playing Fields and took a narrow win in a highly entertaining encounter with some spectacular racing on show. In the early stages of the meeting Leicester were solid by not allowing the home side any advantages and only 1 heat advantage in heat 5 to the […]

HETHERSETT HAWKS / MYHILL DECORATORS reached the final of the South East & Eastern Division 2 Knock Out Cup by making it three wins out of three in the final leg at Eaton Park. The match was abandoned with two races to go due to an on-track long-term injury delay but the Hawks were already in an unassailable position. Owen […]

Astley & Tyldesley are delighted to announce that the club has secured £4,000 funding during the past week! Club Development Officer Mike Hack has secured £1,000 from Forever Manchester’s Bardsley Fund, for the purchase of two full size racing bikes. Another £2,000 was received from Wigan Council’s Brighter Borough Fund, via the Tyldesley Ward Councillors, to purchase four full size […]

2 visits to the East Midlands this week saw conflicting results for the Monarchs. The Juniors taking a 2 point victory in Coventry in Division 3 action whilst the opening match of our Gold Cup campaign ended with defeat in Leicester on Sunday. The Gold Cup formula is new for this season, which sees both Senior and Junior teams points counting as […]

HETHERSETT HAWKS / MYHILL DECORATORS had four riders competing in the East Anglian Championships and South-East & Eastern Ladies & Girls Championships at Kesgrave. Shaun Kell continued his good run of form by scoring 18 points in the Under-10s. That put him in a race-off for second / third places but he had to settle for third behind home rider […]

HETHERSETT HAWKS / MYHILL DECORATORS contested the Regional Play-Offs of the CS Knock Out Cup at Ipswich. The “A” section found the going tough with the stars of Ipswich and Great Blakenham battling for supremacy but in the “B” section there were some excellent performances from experienced David Adams and Glyn Morgan, both of whom registered a race win, and […]