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Newport cycle speedways latest recruit Oscar Carmichael is seen here with his rider of the week award, presented by his dad, Welsh international and Newport legend Mark Carmichael. Oscar rode his first junior league match recently scoring a good 10 points in the under 8s group at Horspath.

A call up into a Great Britain “B” squad for a match at Le Fevre in 2017 prompted Norwich rider Steve Copping to return to racing on a regular basis in 2019. Steve purchased a brand new Archie Wilkinson bike for his first full season since 2015. He collected the bike the day before his club Norwich visited Leicester for […]

Open World Champion Ben Mould is one of 4 nominees for Welsh Cycling’s Performance of the Year award which will be awarded at the Welsh Cycling Awards Dinner on Saturday 12th October. There is a live poll which can be accessed by the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmyaWC_r1V-elHhoR7MvHPM181N64lH1o3dagpru76gR9INA/viewform The poll closes at 8.30pm on Saturday

Leicester rider Nicky whitehead will be running the London Marathon next year to raise money for a charity that works within a diverse and deprived estate in Leicester. The press release on this can be found here: https://www.stmatthewsbiglocal.com/london-marathon-2020?fbclid=IwAR0nfx-980A-2ybUk0XKkaM5UfSRw6aRac02YgVjFmkTTiNKdG5geX3Khr8    

Multi British Individual Champion Colin Wheeler is pictured at Harbourside Park on his original 1961 Phillips track bike. This is just one of four that Wheeler is renovating and his early plans for their use includes a series of “exhibition” heats during the staging of theAde Gale Laurels at Poole next season. Over 70 veterans who would like to challenge Wheeler should […]

Edinburgh rider jake Slight was the victim of a theft last night when his shed was broken into last night as a result his giant stance and his cycle speedway racing bike were stolen. Both bikes have parts on them that make them unique as illustrated in the pictures below: Jake is due to race at the weekend so is […]

Newport girl racer Kasey James had her hair cut at the Welsh Open in aid of the Little Princess Children’s Charity. The newspaper cutting is pictured below:

33/18 news has learnt that former Stoke & Horspath rider Lewis Bates was struck down with a nasty illness over the Christmas period and is currently fighting for his life in Staffordshire Royal Infirmary The thoughts of everyone in the cycle speedway world as well as those at 33/18 news are with Lewis and his family at this difficult time

A call-up into a Great Britain “B” squad for an unofficial Veterans Test Match against Australia during the 2017 World Tour has encouraged Norwich rider Steve Copping to return to regular racing in 2019 and try for the official GB Veterans squad Steve’s cycle speedway involvement actually started way back in 1988 where he overheard a conversation about it by […]

When Poole based Fraser Garnett thought his season was finally over he received a welcome call with the invitation to compete for Swietochlowice in their Polish League play off fixture with Leszno this coming weekend. There is no doubt that after his successful achievements during the 2017 World Championships in Adelaide in addition to his outstanding performance at both senior and […]

Ipswich riders Charlie-Jane Herbert & Chloe Pearce as well as Louisa Pearce(Chloe’s mother) will be starting a 300 mile cycle around a cycle speedway track in aid of Cancer Research in September, any donations would be greatly appreciated and can be made at the link below: https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/charlie-janes-team