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British League Riders' Championship
The British League Riders Championship was an individual motorcycle speedway contest between the top riders (or two riders) with the highest Calculated Match Average, average from each club competing in the British League in the UK, or the top division of the league during the period when it had two or more divisions. History Similar tournaments had been held before the formation of the British League in 1965, including the Provincial League Riders' Championship, open to riders from the Provincial League. The championship has been sponsored by John Player & Sons, Player's No 10, Skol, British Leyland, Leyland Cars, Gauntlet, Daily Mirror, Thomas Nationwide Transport, TNT Sameday and Dunlop Tyres, Dunlop. The championship continued until the British League Riders' Championship was replaced with the Premier League Riders Championship in 1995. Results See also *List of United Kingdom Speedway League Riders' champions *Speedway in the United Kingdom References {{Speedw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only one gear and have no brakes. Racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of soil, dirt, loosely packed shale, or crushed rock (mostly used in Australia and New Zealand). Competitors use this surface to slide their machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the straight sections of the track, the motorcycles reach speeds of up to . There are now both domestic and international competitions in a number of countries, including the Speedway World Cup, whilst the highest overall scoring individual in the Speedway Grand Prix events is pronounced the world champion. Speedway is popular in Central Europe, Central and Northern Europe and to a lesser extent in Australia and North America. A variant of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Gooch (speedway Rider)
James Everard Gooch (16 November 1928 – 18 June 2011) was an international 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 clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ... rider from England. He was capped by England and Great Britain. Speedway career Gooch reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1965 Individual Speedway World Championship. In 1966, he was runner up in the Australian Championship. He rode in the top tier of British Speedway from 1950 to 1970, riding for various clubs. Successes included winning the league championship four times and the London Cup three times with Wembley Lions. He was capped by the England national speedway team ten times and Great Britain three times. World final appearances Individual World Championship * 1965 – London, Wembley S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Eaton Archers
Long Eaton 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 clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ... teams operated from 1950 until 1997 in Long Eaton, England. Teams have raced at the Long Eaton Stadium as the Long Eaton Archers, Long Eaton Rangers, Nottingham Outlaws and the Long Eaton Invaders. The team briefly returned between 2011 and 2016 but raced in Leicester. History Origins In April 1929, it was announced that a speedway track under the supervision of F. Hatton, would be constructed inside the greyhound track at Long Eaton Stadium. The first meeting was held on 18 May 1929. The '' Derby Evening Telegraph'' described the oval circuit as having four laps to the mile, with straights and the bends 'to allow broadsiding at 60 mph'. After only two meetings the track required addit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Wilson (speedway Rider)
Raymond Wilson (born 12 March 1947) is a British former international motorcycle speedway rider. He was World Pairs Champion in 1972 and British Speedway Champion in 1973, and was also England Team Captain for five years in the early 1970s. He was the first Englishman to record a maximum score in a World Team Cup Final. He earned 72 international caps for the England national speedway team and 36 caps for the Great Britain team. Domestic career Wilson was born on 12 March 1947 in Merton, Surrey, England.Oakes, Peter & Mauger, Ivan (1976) ''Who's Who of World Speedway'', Studio Publications, , pp. 113–114 He was born to a speedway family because his father Ron Wilson was a speedway rider for Leicester and Oxford in the early 1950s.competed in cycle speedway for Leicester Monarchs before following his father into a career in motorcycle speedway. He first rode at Leicester Stadium in 1962 after a league meeting and after occasional visits to the training track at Rye House ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coventry Bees
Coventry Bees are a motorcycle speedway team that existed from 1929 to 2018. They raced at Brandon Stadium, Brandon, Warwickshire, Brandon near Coventry, England. They are eight times champions of Britain. History Origins and 1920s The first speedway in Coventry arrived during the inaugural year of UK speedway on 21 July 1928, at the Lythalls Lane Stadium. The racing was organised by Midlands Speedways (a Manchester company) with a series of open and challenge events. In September 1928, rival venue Brandon Stadium began to host events. The first match to feature a Coventry team was an away fixture to Liverpool on 24 October 1928. The first league speedway saw Coventry (based at Brandon Stadium) compete in the 1929 Speedway Southern League, which was the inaugural season of the Southern League (1929–31), Southern League. The team featuring some of the most famous names the era, including Jack Parker (speedway rider), Jack Parker and Tom Farndon finished third behind Stamfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Boocock
Nigel Boocock (17 September 1937 – 3 April 2015) was a motorcycle speedway rider from England. who appeared in eight Speedway World Championship finals. He holds the record number of caps for Great Britain (64) and the record for total number of caps, when including England (154). Career Born in Wakefield, England, Boocock started his career with the Bradford Tudors during the 1955 season and stayed there until the end of the 1957 season (Bradford replaced Birmingham Brummies during August of the 1957 season). After spending the 1958 season with the Ipswich Witches, he moved in 1959 to the Coventry Bees. He found a permanent home with the Bees and spent the next eighteen seasons with them. His career also took off in terms of success and was regularly called up to represent his country. In his first season with the Bees he topped the Coventry averages and won the Midland Cup in 1960. As one of Coventry's leading riders he was called up by England for the 1960 Speedwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 British League Season
The 1967 British League season was the 33rd season of the top tier of Motorcycle speedway, speedway in the United Kingdom and the third season known as the British League. Summary The league was made up of the same 19 teams that competed in the previous year. Swindon Robins led by the world champion Barry Briggs won their first top-tier league title but were pushed all the way by Coventry Bees and West Ham Hammers. Swindon finished with four riders with averages over eight, Briggs topped the entire league with 11.05 but the contributions from Martin Ashby (8.83), Bob Kilby (8.61) and Mike Broadbank (8.55) were pivotal in the Swindon's success. Coventry Bees gained some consolation for finishing runner-up two seasons running by winning the British League Knockout Cup 1967, Knockout Cup. Final table M = Matches; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; Pts = Total Points Fixtures & results Top Ten Riders (League averages) Knockout Cup (speedway), Knockout Cup The cup was wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Ham Hammers
The West Ham Hammers were a speedway team that raced at West Ham Stadium in London, England, from 1929 to 1971. The team were twice champions of the United Kingdom. History Origins and 1920s Speedway arrived at West Ham in 1928, the inaugural year of the new dirt-track racing sport that had arrived from Australia. The first event was held at the West Ham Stadium (known as Custom House Stadium in speedway circles) on 28 July 1928, with an individual meeting won by Sprouts Elder. Over 30 fixtures followed that year. West Ham were founder members of the 1929 Speedway Southern League, one of two leagues that came into existence that year (the other being the 1929 Speedway English Dirt Track League or Northern league). The team promoted by Jimmy Baxter finished 6th behind Stamford Bridge in the league standings. 1930s West Ham finished 9th and 3rd respectively in 1930 and 1931 before being founder members of the new National league (a merger of the Southern and North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Hunter (speedway Rider)
Norman Frederick Hunter (born 21 February 1940 in Willesden, London) is a former motorcycle speedway rider who won the London Riders' Championship in 1963 and again in 1966 and the Midland Riders' Championship in 1969. He was also a member of the Great Britain national speedway team that won the World Team Cup in 1968. Biography Hunter worked as an electrician and was a successful cycle speedway rider with Wembley before, winning scores of honours.Oakes, Peter (1976) ''Who's Who of World Speedway'', Studio Publications, , p. 64 After taking up motorcycle speedway in 1961 at the Rye House track, his first team place was with the Leicester Hunters in 1962, reaching the Provincial League Riders Final in his first season.Rogers, Martin (1963) "Hackney Hawks Here to Stay?", '' Speedway Star'', 1 June 1963, p. 16 He then joined the newly formed Hackney Hawks in 1963, captaining the team in their first season, and won the London Riders' Championship at the first attempt. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wimbledon Dons
The Wimbledon Dons were a professional motorcycle speedway team who operated from the Wimbledon Stadium, Plough Lane in London from 1929 until 1991. The team were seven times champions of Britain. History Origins The speedway track opened at Wimbledon Stadium during the pioneer days of speedway in the United Kingdom on the Bank holiday of 26 May 1928 with an open meeting. The stadium had been opened one year previous for greyhound racing and the speedway track was constructed inside the greyhound track. The Wimbledon Dons were founder members of the 1929 Speedway Southern League and held their first home league fixture on 6 May against Birmingham Brummies, Birmingham Perry Barr. 1930s The Dons improved to a fourth place finish in 1930 and then finished 5th in 1931, struggling to match fellow London team, the Wembley Lions (speedway), Wembley Lions who dominated the league. Wimbledon signed some of the sports early stars, such as Jim Kempster, Dicky Case, Billy Lamont (sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olle Nygren
Harald Olof Ingemar Nygren (11 November 1929 – 13 February 2021) was a Swedish motorcycle speedway rider, who reached the finals of the Speedway World Championship five times. He earned 90 caps for the Sweden national speedway team. Career Nygren was the inaugural Swedish Champion during the 1949 Swedish speedway season. He also helped his Swedish team Vargarna win the Swedish Speedway Team Championship. He started riding in Great Britain during the 1951 Speedway National League, when he joined the Harringay Racers. He soon established himself as a leading rider, recording exceptional averages for New Cross Rangers and then Bristol Bulldogs during the 1953 Speedway National League season. After a season with Wimbledon Dons in 1954 he would not ride in Britain again until 1960. In the meantime, he reached several world finals and was considered a world class rider, winning his second Nordic Championship and the World Team Cup in 1960. He returned to British spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 British League Season
The 1966 British League season was the 32nd season of the top tier of speedway in the United Kingdom and the second season known as the British League. Halifax Dukes won the league and then secured the league and cup double. Summary The League expanded to 19, with a new team, the King's Lynn Stars. Halifax Dukes won the league after 36 games and finished three points clear of Coventry Bees. The Halifax team success was due to the consistency of their riders, in particular Eric Boocock, Eric Boothroyd, Dave Younghusband and Tommy Roper who all scored heavily throughout the season. Halifax also completed the double winning the British League Knockout Cup. In the final, they easily beat Wimbledon Dons. The four times world champion Barry Briggs topped the averages for Swindon Robins during the same season in which he sealed his fourth world title. The dangers of speedway were highlighted once again however when Welshman Ivor Hughes was killed during the league match ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
