Speedway News

Sheffield Pirtek Tigers are through to the Final of the Premier Trophy - but only after an almighty scare at Rye House.

Reading Bulldogs slipped to a shock 47-43 home defeat to the Wolverhampton Wolves On Wednesday evening at Smallmead Stadium.

Sweden's Tony Rickardsson, who is suffering from double vision when riding, has been ordered by doctors to rest for 14 days and therefore has withdrawn from Saturday's FIM Italian Speedway Grand Prix at Lonigo (29th July).

Denmark are the 2006 Speedway World Cup Champions after a night of high drama in the Final at Reading's Smallmead Stadium.

We are thrilled to report that we have just received stunning news and that news is that Ales is fully conscious, talking coherently to his family and doctors in both English and Czech as he sits up in his hospital bed at the neurological unit at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.

As reported yesterday, doctors treating seriously injured Czech Republic star Ales Dryml at Oxford's John Radcliffe hospital took the decision to move him out of the Intensive Care Unit to the specialist Neurological Unit which is still housed in the old hospital, the John Radcliffe Infirmary.

Glasgow is next on the agenda for the Pirtek Tigers with a rare Monday evening trip to Ashfield ahead. The match sees two of the in-form teams in the Premier League going head-to-head with Sheffield in good heart after the resounding win over Newcastle last week.

Doctors treating seriously injured Czech Republic star Ales Dryml at Oxford's John Radcliffe hospital took the decision to move him out of the Intensive Care Unit to the specialist Neurological Unit which is still housed in the old hospital, the John Radcliffe Infirmary.

Oxford Cheetahs star Ales Dryml remains in a 'critical but stable' condition following his horrific accident during Wednesday night's Elite League match which resulted in him sustaining severe head injuries.

Oxford Cheetahs Czech Republic star Ales Dryml is in a 'critical but stable' condition after sustaining severe head injuries during the Sky Sports Elite League 'A' event against Wolverhampton at Cowley last night.

Speedway results for Tuesday 11 July. Prmeier League: Isle of Wight 50 - 40 Kings Lynn Krys Stojanowski 13+3 - Daniel Nermark

The cream of young speedway talent took centre stage at The Scunthorpe Raceway yesterday afternoon and Manchester's Ben Hopwood edged out Bolton's Joe Haines, Hull's Kye Norton and Blackpool's Adam Wrathall in a great final.

Oxford Cheetah Todd Wiltshire has completed one of the sport's most remarkable comebacks by being named in the Australian team that will contest this year's FIM ASL Freight Movements Speedway World Cup.

With the senior side taking a break from the Premier League, the track action switched focus to the Somerset Junior Rebels, and their challenge match against the Newport Mavericks Conference League outfit.

Berwick Speedway has finalised its line-up for the 2006 Bordernapolis Championships and, following talks with several well known names, has decided to introduce a young rider who can mix it with the best on the Border track and is a renowned Berwick crowd pleaser.

Hans Andersen wrote his own Danish fairytale in Copenhagen on Saturday with a stunning victory in the fifth Grand Prix of the 2006 series.

Reading Bulldogs put in one of their best performances of the season on Monday night at Smallmead Stadium, with a 57-35 demolition of local rivals Swindon Robins.

West Country Speedway fans were heartened by the sight of the Exeter Falcons Race Jacket once again taking to the track, as the Somerset "Mike Manning Audio" Rebels hosted a representative Exeter Falcons side in the "West Country Challenge.

Berwick plummeted deep into the very depths of on-track disaster on Wednesday night at King's Lynn with a display only described as abysmal.

The Oxford Cheetahs travel to the Monmore Green, Wolverhampton, home of the Parry's International Wolves tonight (Monday) in search of Elite League points from a match that gets underway at 7.30 p.m.

After five consecutive rain-offs and four weeks without taking to the track the Lincs FM Scorpions came back with a bang. They destroyed the Newport Mavericks with a final score of 75-15 and it was the very first time that a team had scored maximum points in the Conference League.

Berwick Bandits have lodged an immediate appeal to the Speedway Control Bureau following their home meeting against Isle of Wight on Saturday.

The "Mike Manning Audio" Rebels are currently enjoying a rich vein of form, and will look to continue that on Friday (2nd June) when they entertain the Berwick "Anderson's Quality Butchers (North Berwick)" Bandits.

Speedway results for Sunday 21 May. Premier League: Mildenhall v Somerset Meeting postponed. Premier Trophy: Glasgow 57 - 38 Berwick Danny Bird 14+2 - Michal Makovsky 13+1