Hethersett Hawks/Swinton & Co brought down the curtain on the 2015 season at the Memorial Playing Field when they staged the East Anglian Championships. There were some excellent performances from Hethersett riders but all the titles were captured by riders from over the Suffolk border. Dan Chambers came the closest to a title as he contested a race-off for second […]
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Northumbria’s Gavin Parr has seen his season cut short by a few weeks, after finally getting a long awaited appointment for a back operation. The Vikings captain has ridden in pain for the most part this season, but it hasn’t stopped him having his most successful season to date. Parr finished top of the Northern League averages with an impressive […]
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Certificates of Commendation were presented to six members of Poole Cycle Speedway by the Mayor of Poole, Cllr Ann Stribley at the recent Sports Council Awards evening. In recognition of the club’s continuing success in the British Youth and Junior League, one award was made to a member of each racing category:- Girls – Bethany Briggs Under 8s – Oli Saunders […]
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Newport Cycle Speedway race their final Elite League fixture on Sunday, when they take on Poole at Newport’s Sports Village. The meeting will mark the end of the club’s two year Elite League adventure. Newport have not applied for the Elite League in 2016. Reasons include referee and travel costs, together with a lack of strength in depth at the Welsh […]
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Cycle Speedway will have a new roster of British champions to celebrate this weekend, when top promotor Fred Rothwell stages the inaugural TLI Cycling British Vets Championships at Sheffield this Saturday. Championship finals for over 40s, over 50s and over 60s will take place at Cookson Park in Sheffield. Rothwell, who also promotes other cycling sports, reports an excellent entry […]
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Nine year old Jack Reynolds recorded an immaculate 20 point maximum in the Galaxy Seating Coventry Junior Prix, under floodlights on Wednesday evening. It was a very mild October evening, which saw a commercial floodlight tower erected in the middle of the centre green to accommodate the 15 young riders from Coventry’s ever growing youth system. The 20 heat formula […]
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Coventry Cycle Speedway club look set to join the sports top league in 2016 – setting the seal on a remarkable recovery in fortunes by the Hearsall Common based club. Coventry`s application for Elite League status, which included financial matters, club management structure, development and facilities, was officially lodged with the sport’s governing body, British Cycling, this week. British Cycling’s […]
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East Park Wolves chairman, Al Bentley has written to the Midland League committee outlining his club’s desire to pursue racing under British Cycling for 2016. The Midland League ran their racing under the TLI umbrella in 2015 after a unanimous decision to take their regional racing commitments away from British Cycling. Now, Bentley wants to see the Wolves back under […]
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This year’s Welsh Riders Championships will take place at Underwood Cycle Speedway track on Saturday 7th November, tapes up at 2pm. Entries are requested to go to Chris Wright (chris38wright@sky.com) or Colin Simmons (simmonscolin@aol.com). Entry fee is £3 per age group.
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Poland now has it’s own Cycle Speedway dedicated website, featuring news from Poland and the rest of the world. cyclespeedway.prv.pl has been set up by Konrad Cinkowski and has also launched a Facebook page to keep on top of social media. Make sure you like the page here: https://www.facebook.com/cyclespeedwayprvpl-speedrower-1629040097369193/ If you can’t read Polish, you can use Google Translate, which does […]
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The Coventry Junior Prix takes place tonight at Hearsall Common, Coventry at 6:45pm. The event features 16 of Coventry’s under 12 riders from their successful Wednesday club night, which has seen a surge of new riders in 2015 thanks to the promotional efforts of the Coventry members along with well structured and enjoyable coaching sessions. The event is sponsored by Galaxy Seating and supported […]
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Great news coming from Poland. Wroclaw, a city of two former World Champions, will have its own Cycle Speedway track. The amazing development has been greeted with delight by both champions Marcin Szymanski and Lukasz Nowacki. The two started their respective careers at the local club of Sparta Wroclaw at the same time as formal racing begun in Poland in 1995. They had been […]
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Six months after John Whiting`s untimely passing, Cycle Speedway riders from throughout Great Britain stood in sombre silence last Saturday week to remember one of the sport’s greatest ever servants. The Eurovets riders were in Bury – John`s last club – for this season’s final round. Many of the Eurovets riders were firm friends of John`s. Some, like Wednesfield`s legend […]
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Newport made it a hat-trick of South and South Wales Division One titles after winning the league play off at Exeter, scoring 96 points ahead of Poole Comets on 87 and Swindon 81. Poole and Swindon suffered tape exclusions early on and Newport capitalised, taking an early 9 point lead with wins from fast improving Sean Bennett, Nick Evans and Oli Sidwick. The […]
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The Junior Monarchs were confirmed as Midland League Junior Champions, despite losing the final match on the day. Both teams were locked on points, however Birmingham’s huge points difference of 47 overall was the only thing that could split the two sides. Birmingham badly missed Billy Winwood and were giving a debut to a new young rider. It was close for the first […]
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Coventry went down 73-105 to their West Midlands rivals, Birmingham, in a feisty encounter that boiled over at times. Coventry sportingly delayed the fixture by 30 minutes to allow Ricki Johnson to arrive at the track after an accident on the A45 and the visitors were merciless in the opening half, with the hosts only able to secure one shared […]
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Astley & Tyldesley ran out easy winners in both matches in the final Northern League fixture of the season at Heckmondwike on Sunday. A&T took the lead with a 6-3 heat win to Paul Graham/Lee Phillips over Adam Watson in the first race of the Division 1 match. This was after Heckmondwike’s Mick Knowles took a heavy fall on the […]
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Northumbria must surely feel somewhat disappointed to have lost their final league meeting of 2015, an exclusion at the tapes for Jason Keith and a later fall for Daniel Wharrier costing them dearly. With Michael Parr missing from the line up due to injury, the Vikings needed everyone to be on their game and putting in maximum effort to compensate, […]
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