Ringwood Speedway were a British

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 ...

team who operated between 1937 and 1993, they were based at Matcham Park Stadium (modern day Ringwood Raceway) off Hurn Road in Ringwood, Hampshire.

History

Open meetings were staged at Matcham Park Stadium during 1930 and 1931 and again from 1946 to 1947. After training in 1950 and more open meetings from 1951 to 1953 a team called the Ringwood Turfs entered league competition for the first time in 1954. Their debut

1954 Southern Area League The 1954 Southern Area League was the first season of the newly named regional third tier of speedway racing in the United Kingdom for Southern British teams. It replaced the defunct Southern League. With most of the Southern League teams moving ...

season ended with a 2nd-place finish. The following season the team withdrew mid-season and had their results expunged. Further open meetings and training took place sporadically with a last recorded training and long track meetings in 1993.

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Defunct speedway teams in the United Kingdom

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