The 1962

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was the 28th season and the seventeenth post-war season of the highest tier of

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only ...

in Great Britain.

Summary

With the withdrawal of

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and with

Leicester Hunters The Leicester Hunters were a motorcycle speedway team which operated from 1948 until 1962.Bamford, R & Jarvis J. (2001) ''Homes of British Speedway'', , p. 147-149 History Speedway had operated before the war at both Leicester Stadium and the Lei ...

moving down to the

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, the entry list was 8 teams and so home and away fixtures were raced twice. The teams were reduced to just 7 with the mid-season closure of

Ipswich Witches The Ipswich Witches are a British speedway club based at Foxhall Stadium near Ipswich, Suffolk. They compete in the British SGB Premiership. Meetings are staged on most Thursdays from March until October, normally commencing at 7.30pm (first ra ...

Southampton Saints Southampton Saints were a speedway team which operated from 1928 until its closure in 1963. Its track was located at Banister Court Stadium in Southampton, Hampshire. History Southampton was one of the founder members of the 1929 Speedway Sout ...

broke the domination of

Wimbledon Dons The Wimbledon Dons were a professional motorcycle speedway team who operated from the Wimbledon Stadium, Plough Lane in London.Jacobs, N. ''Speedway in London'', The track opened in 1928 and the Dons operated there from 1929 until 1991. They w ...

by winning their first

title.

Final table

resigned in mid-season.

Top Ten Riders (League only)

National Trophy

The 1962 National Trophy was the 24th edition of the Knockout Cup. Wimbledon were the winners. First round Semi-finals

Final

First leg Second leg Wimbledon were National Trophy Champions, winning on aggregate 94–74.

Riders & final averages

Belle Vue * 9.75 * 8.23 * 7.95 * 7.33 * 4.44 * 4.00 * 3.67 * 3.60 * 3.27 * 3.17 * 2.50 * 2.33 Coventry * 8.74 * 8.63 * 8.20 * 7.61 * 6.33 * 6.11 * 5.33 * 4.47 * 3.35 Ipswich (resigned mid season) * 8.73 * 6.63 * 6.06 * 6.00 * 5.85 * 5.17 * 4.44 * 2.24 *

Trevor Blokdyk John Trevor Blokdyk (30 November 1935 in Krugersdorp, Transvaal – 19 March 1995 in was a South African motorcycle speedway rider and Formula One driver who participated in two World Championship Grands Prix, although qualifying for only one. ...

3.33 * 1.33 Norwich * 9.80 * 9.30 * 6.78 * 6.49 * 6.07 * 5.56 * 5.48 * 4.67 * 4.39 * 2.74 * 2.67 Oxford * 6.91 * 6.88 * 5.84 * 5.56 * 5.20 * 5.20 * 4.93 * 4.42 * 2.73 Southampton * 9.89 * 9.64 * 7.49 * 7.33 * 7.10 * 6.54 * 6.37 Swindon * 9.71 * 8.27 * 8.00 * 6.94 * 6.21 * 6.00 * 5.62 * 5.30 * 4.45 * 2.67 Wimbledon * 10.14 * 9.30 * 8.82 * 7.03 * 6.50 * 6.00 * 5.14 * 4.82 * 3.35

References

{{National League speedway seasons 1932–1964 Speedway National League 1962 in speedway 1962 in British motorsport