Speedway News

Popular Australian Christian Henry is Newcastle's first signing for the 2007 season fresh from picking up the Rider of the Year award as voted for by the fans at the End of Season Dinner Dance last weekend.

The 'Lincs FM' Scunthorpe Scorpions' club captain, Wayne Carter, has decided to retire from the sport after eighteen years.

As opposed to the start of the 2006 season, where the fans were kept waiting 'till just before the start of the season, as far as 2007 is concerned all has been revealed before the official end of 2006!

Somerset 'Mike Manning Audio' Rebel number 1, Magnus Zetterstrom, was named as the Premier League's Rider of the Year at the Speedway Riders Association Awards ceremony in Coventry.

The Boston Barracuda-Braves Team Manager, Malcolm Vasey, has labelled the 'Lincs FM' Scorpions one of the Conference League's 'super teams' ahead of their Lincolnshire Cup clash on Monday night.

The 'Lincs FM' Scorpions face the Rye House Raiders in the second leg of the Playoff Semi-final this afternoon at the Scunthorpe Raceway. The racing starts at 3pm with the Scorpions holding a 14-point lead from Saturday's first leg in Hertfordshire.

Berwick's final meeting of the season went right to the wire, on 2 counts, firstly the meeting wasn't declared until after the final race was run, which finished right on the stroke of the curfew time of 9.30pm.

Both teams came to this 2nd leg playoff match with incomplete teams, and had to cope with a very tricky wet track after heavy rain in the area earlier in the day.

A large crowd turned out at Somerset's Oak Tree Arena last night, to bid farewell to one of Speedway's favourite sons, Matt Read, or "Readie" as he is known to his huge army of fans.

A fine performance by Oxford reserve Eric Andersson was not enough to save the Cheetahs from defeat at Coventry last Friday night in their penultimate away league match of the season.

Speedway results for Sunday 17 September. Premier League: Newcastle 49 - 41 Stoke Josef Franc 17 - Trent Leverington 13

Reading Bulldogs went down to a narrow 47-43 defeat at Poole on Wednesday evening, but they didn't leave Wimborne Road empty-handed, as the four-point reverse was enough for them to pick up the all-important aggregate bonus point.

With Matt's big day fast approaching, the final line up of riders is complete with the announcement that Craig Boyce and Chris Mills will riding in the meeting on September 22nd at Somerset's Oak Tree Arena track.

The disasterous events of Friday night at Rye House left a devestated Diamonds' team manager, George English, completley unavailable for comment.

Reading pulled off one of their best performances of the season and bounced back from Monday's home defeat in style, with an emphatic moral-boosting 58-37 win over Wolverhampton Wolves on Wednesday evening at Smallmead Stadium.

Kyle Legault will be given a celebration reception by Sheffield fans on Thursday night as he returns to Owlerton for the Premier League clash with Rye House (7.45pm).

BSI has agreed a contract with CANAL+ Cyfrowy, the owner of Pay TV CANAL+ Poland, to extend their exclusive live television rights contract for both the FIM Speedway Grand Prix (SGP) Series and the FIM Speedway World Cup (SWC) until 2011.

All indicators are pointing upwards towards a record breaking 31st Annual World Championship I.C.E. Racing Series. The added interest the new Manufacturers World Cup Bikes have brought to the series has allowed I.C.E. to increase their prize money by over 30% above last season.

Australian Jason Crump has won the 2006 FIM Individual Speedway World Championship having taken an unassailable 71-point lead in the series after the Prague round on the weekend.

The 'Lincs FM' Scorpions trophy aspirations have been dealt a massive blow after their number one rider and captain, Wayne Carter, was told he is likely to be out of action for twelve weeks with a spiral fracture of his left leg.

Despite the loss of Dave Norris and Dean Barker from his meeting due to rearranged commitments with Eastbourne, Matt is delighted to announced that one of the sport's all time top names, Sean Wilson, has agreed to ride at his Farewell Meeting on September 22nd.

Latest injury updates on Jamie Smith & Paul Fry as follows: Smith, who was broke his leg in a collision with the tractor grading the track at King's Lynn on March 29th has been back to hospital and had the second of four operations he is due to have on the leg.

Berwick's star man, Stanislaw Burza had a blistering night's racing at Edinburgh's Armadale Stadium on Friday night when he competed in the prestigious Keyline Scottish Open, an event he had already pin pointed as a trophy he desperately wanted to win one week earlier.

Reigning six times world champion Tony Rickardsson, widely considered Speedway's greatest ever rider, has announced his retirement.