The meeting started with a rare couple of 5-4’s, Paul Thompson falling in heat 1 for Northumbria, Colin Gray then coming a cropper after a bold attempt to pass Andy Knowles in heat 2. Glasgow took the lead with a 7-3 in heat 4, Joe Beuckmann and Gray taking a max in that race. Andy McDougal then held off Dan […]
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The return of former ‘Young England’ international Aiden Owen to the Sheffield line up, probably took away any doubts that the hosts would be troubled by Northumbria, a still competitive yet friendly encounter the result, with the Rockets racing away to a 20 point win. Jason Burke top scored for the Rockets, with Richard Hudson and Kyle Holland alongside Owen […]
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Edinburgh once again proved just too strong for the Vikings, a strong start from the Falcons seeing them establish a 12 point lead at the halfway stage. Only Gavin Parr was able to win a heat for the home team in that first half, Parr who is surely one of the most in form riders in the country at the […]
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A thriller of a meeting in the wind and wet, boiled down to a last heat decider as Northumbria’s Parr brothers faced off against Hull’s Andy Angell. Angell had ridden superbly throughout, his team riding getting his less experience team mates plenty of extra points, he needing to do so again here in the finale, with his team requiring a […]
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Northumbria were expecting little from this Northern League Division One match, but it soon became evident they were in with a chance against a Stockport side that was forced to track three U-13 riders in their team. The Vikings lead at half-time, but the league champions’ superior heat leader strength told in the end, though rather than their younger contingent […]
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Bury followed on from their narrow loss last week to Stockport, with a convincing win in the end at Northumbria in Northern League Division 1. Two good wins from Northumbria’s Dan Redshaw including one over Ben Scranage no less, along with a couple of machinery issues for Bury’s James Elston, meant that the scores remained tight at the halfway stage, […]
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Northumbria travelled to Heckmondwike in their first Northern League encounter of the season. This fixture perhaps came too early in the season for Northumbria, several of their number off their usual pace, they going behind early on to a now much stronger looking Heckmondwike outfit, although the Vikings did rally to share the 2nd half of the heats. Pawel Idziorek […]
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Northumbria’s Neil Magee has sent us a fantastic preview of the Northern League 2015 season. The season kicks off this weekend with Sheffield hosting the most pro-active club in the transfer window, Astley and Tyldesley. Hull make the long jaunt up to Edinburgh and Heckmondwike welcome Northumbria. Champions Stockport and Bury start their campaigns next weekend. Here is Neil’s break down of how […]
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Edinburgh Falcons took the Northern League Division 2 title in a play off against Sheffield at Northumbria’s Cramlington race track. Here’s an independent match report submitted by Northumbria Cycle Speedway, which poses an interesting question about play offs and regional racing, send us in your views!
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There will be a race off for the Northern League Division 2 championship between Sheffield and Edinburgh at Northumbria on Sunday 26th October 2014, tapes up at 2pm. Sheffield will have the home draw and the match will be refereed by Gavin Parr.
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With Michael Parr and Mark Mulvey missing, the Vikings expected a close match, but in the end pulled away to win comfortably thanks to some excellent riding from the engine room of the team.
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A tough day this one for the Vikings, the hosts a solid and consistent team, with the visitors relying heavily on a fast starting Jason Keith and the ever spectacular Gavin Parr to keep their heads above water as Bury continually racked up the wins.
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Northumbria made the long trip to Bury for the Northern league first, second and third division matches on Sunday and was blessed with really good weather for racing.
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Northumbria’s Terry Kirkup has written to us in response to Joe McLaughlin’s letter, “Northumbria Cycle Speedway – An inspiration for our sport“.
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A letter from Joe McLaughlin of Coventry, after his recent trip to Northumbria Cycle Speedway, where he competed in the Eurovets series.
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By Terry Kirkup via northumbriacsc.org The Vikings got their chance to once again play host to the Orchid Male Cancer Charity Euro-Vets, a privilege indeed to be allowed to host a round two years in succession outside of Wednesfield, so I doubt if we’ll make it a hat-trick as there are quite a few clubs who’d like to run one and […]
Read moreGreat news from the Freeman Hospital today was that George Hughes is to be released tomorrow and allowed to travel back to his North West base.
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The visitors who were missing a few riders, but considerably beefed up their team with their two Polish riders flying in for this meeting, resulting in a terrific nail biter of a contest between two well matched teams.
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