BRITISH SPEEDWAY ROUND-UP #1

HERE’S our latest news and fixtures from around the tracks up and down the country.

PIC OF THE WEEK…

SHEFFIELD continued their perfect start to the season beating defending Premiership Champions Belle Vue 47-43 at the National Speedway Stadium. This followed-up last week’s 48-42 success against the Aces at Owlerton and in the process also became the first team to take advantage of this season’s new aggregate bonus point rule.
Photo credit: IAN CHARLES

PREMIERSHIP INS AND OUTS…

NB. Ins and Outs refer to each club’s final declaration of the 2022 season. Rider movement relates to their clubs in the Premiership last year.

BELLE VUE
Dan Bewley 8.91, Brady Kurtz 8.24, Charles Wright 6.26, Norick Blodorn 5.45, Jaimon Lidsey 5.16, Tom Brennan 4.40, Jake Mulford (RS).
IN: Bewley, Lidsey, Mulford.
OUT: Robert Lambert, Matej Zagar, Jye Etheridge.

IPSWICH
Jason Doyle 10.32, Emil Sayfutdinov 8.00, Danny King 6.41, Erik Riss 6.00, Keynan Rew 5.00, Danyon Hume 3.07, Joe Thompson (RS).
IN: Sayfutdinov, Rew, Thompson (from Wolverhampton).
OUT: Troy Batchelor, Aaron Summers (retired), Anders Rowe.

KING’S LYNN
Nicolai Klindt 7.39, Michael Palm Toft 6.86, Krzysztof Kasprzak 6.86, Thomas Jorgensen 6.35, Josh Pickering 6.14, Frederik Jakobsen 5.04, Jason Edwards (RS).
IN: Palm Toft (from Peterborough), Kasprzak.
OUT: Richard Lawson (to Leicester), Richie Worrall (to Peterborough).

LEICESTER
Max Fricke 8.55, Richard Lawson 7.71, Chris Harris 7.40, Nick Morris 6.48, Justin Sedgmen 4.44, Jake Allen 4.00, Dan Thompson (RS).
NB. Club new to Premiership this season. Morris and Thompson both raced for Leicester in the Championship last year.
IN: Fricke*, Lawson (from King’s Lynn), Harris (from Peterborough), Morris (from Wolverhampton), Sedgmen (from Sheffield), Allen, Thompson (from Sheffield).
*Fricke raced for Belle Vue in the league stages last season but was injured prior to the play-offs and replaced by Robert Lambert.

PETERBOROUGH
Nicki Pedersen 8.61, Niels-Kristian Iversen 7.59, Benjamin Basso 6.81, Richie Worrall 6.15, Hans Andersen 4.93, Ben Cook 4.06, Jordan Jenkins (RS).
IN: Pedersen, Iversen, Worrall (from King’s Lynn), Cook.
OUT: Chris Harris (to Leicester), Michael Palm Toft (to King’s Lynn), Scott Nicholls, Ulrich Ostergaard (retired).

SHEFFIELD
Jack Holder 8.61, Tobiasz Musielak 7.91, Adam Ellis 6.72, David Bellego 5.80, Kyle Howarth 5.28, Lewis Kerr 4.59, Dan Gilkes (RS).
IN: Bellego, Gilkes.
OUT: Justin Sedgmen (to Leicester), Connor Mountain.

WOLVERHAMPTON
Sam Masters 8.00, Rory Schlein 7.14, Luke Becker 7.11, Ryan Douglas 6.31, Steve Worrall 6.13, Zach Cook 4.00, Leon Flint (RS).
IN: Schlein, Cook.
OUT: Nick Morris (to Leicester), Drew Kemp.

*CHAMPIONSHIP and NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE Ins and Outs will follow after the issuing of team declarations for those leagues.

FIXTURE PICTURE…

WEDNESDAY MARCH 29:
CHALLENGE: Oxford v Swindon Robins Select 7.30
STEVE WORRALL TESTIMONIAL: Poole 7.30

THURSDAY MARCH 30:
PREMIERSHIP KO CUP 1st round 1st leg: King’s Lynn v Sheffield 7.30, Leicester v Ipswich 7.30

FRIDAY MARCH 31:
CHAMPIONSHIP KO CUP 1st round 1st leg: Redcar v Berwick 7.30

SATURDAY APRIL 1:
CHAMPIONSHIP KO CUP 1st round 2nd leg: Berwick v Redcar 7pm

SUNDAY APRIL 2:
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE: Mildenhall v Kent 4pm

MONDAY APRIL 3:
PREMIERSHIP R1: Wolverhampton v King’s Lynn 7.30
PETER CRAVEN MEMORIAL: Belle Vue 7.30

TUESDAY APRIL 4:
PAUL STARKE TESTIMONIAL: Plymouth 7pm

WEDNESDAY APRIL 5:
BSN SERIES: Oxford v Poole 7.30

THURSDAY APRIL 6:
PREMIERSHIP KO CUP 1st round 2nd leg: Ipswich v Leicester 7.30, Sheffield v King’s Lynn 7.30

FRIDAY APRIL 7:
BSN SERIES: Edinburgh v Glasgow 7.30, Poole v Oxford 7.30, Scunthorpe v Redcar 5pm
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE: Belle Vue v Berwick 1pm

SATURDAY APRIL 8:
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE: Leicester v Berwick 7pm

SUNDAY APRIL 9:
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE KO CUP S/F 1st leg: Kent v Mildenhall 12pm
BSN SERIES: Glasgow v Edinburgh 5pm

MONDAY APRIL 10:
PREMIERSHIP R1: Peterborough v Leicester 7.30