BRITISH SPEEDWAY OCTOBER 25, 2024

Date: Friday October 25, 2024

(SPEEDWAY 1)

BRENNAN FULL OF PRAISE FOR PIRATES

TOM Brennan has paid tribute to the overall club atmosphere at Poole as they celebrate their Treble success of 2024.
Brennan ironically was a member of the Glasgow team who clinched the Cab Direct Championship title at the Pirates’ expense last year.

But his move to Wimborne Road has seen him part of a side which has swept the board with all three major team trophies.
He said: “It’s been a pretty incredible season for myself and obviously to be part of the Pirates has shown me a new way in speedway. I think that’s the only way I can put it.

“There’s kind of something about this club that will obviously stick with me forever. It’s an absolute honour to represent the Pirates this year and it’s everything the club deserves.
“Everything seems to click here at Poole and Danny and Matt (Ford) create a really good environment here and everybody works as a team, which is obviously what makes a winning team.”

(SPEEDWAY 2)

OXFORD’S stand-in captain Sam Masters said he could take mild consolation from his final meeting of the season at Poole on Wednesday.

A patched-up Cheetahs side, who included only Masters and Ashton Boughen from their regular septet, were beaten in the Cab Direct KO Cup Final but Masters himself scored 11+1 and provided two of their race wins.
He said: “No Poole rider scored a maximum, so it was good that we managed to beat them all over the night.

“It would have been nice to have our captain Scotty (Nicholls) here and the rest of the boys who have been racing for us all season, but we ended the season with lots of injures – that’s the way it can go.
“Both Pete (Schroeck, manager) and my mechanic (Neil Evitts) told me: ‘go out and win the final race of the season and you can leave happy’ so that’s what I went and did. It is nice to finish the season by winning Heat 15.”

CONGRATULATIONS to all of the teams and individuals who secured titles during the 2024 season.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR 2024 BRITISH SPEEDWAY

BRITISH SPEEDWAY ROLL OF HONOUR 2024

ROWE MOTOR OIL PREMIERSHIP CHAMPIONS: Belle Vue
ROWE MOTOR OIL PREMIERSHIP RUNNERS-UP: Leicester
PREMIERSHIP KO CUP: Sheffield

CAB DIRECT CHAMPIONSHIP CHAMPIONS: Poole
CAB DIRECT CHAMPIONSHIP RUNNERS-UP: Oxford
CAB DIRECT KO CUP: Poole
BSN SERIES: Poole
CHAMPIONSHIP LEAGUE RIDERS’ CHAMPIONSHIP: Josh Pickering (Edinburgh)
CHAMPIONSHIP PAIRS: Redcar

WSRA NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Leicester
WSRA NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE RUNNERS-UP: Belle Vue
NL RIDERS’ DEVELOPMENT SERIES: Sam Hagon (Belle Vue), Joe Thompson (Leicester), Freddy Hodder (Belle Vue)

MIDLAND DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE: Birmingham Bulls/Buffaloes
NORTHERN JUNIOR LEAGUE: Workington Meteors

BRITISH CHAMPION: Dan Bewley (Belle Vue)
BRITISH UNDER-21 CHAMPION: Sam Hagon (Leicester/Poole/Belle Vue)
BRITISH UNDER-19 CHAMPION: Ace Pijper (Scunthorpe/Sheffield)
BRITISH YOUTH CHAMPION: (500cc) William Cairns ; (250cc) Cooper Rushen ; (125cc) Oliver Bovingdon

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL EVENTS…
WORLD CHAMPION: Bartosz Zmarzlik (Pol)
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RUNNER-UP: Robert Lambert (GB)
WORLD UNDER-21 CHAMPION (SGP2): Wiktor Przyjemski (Pol)
SPEEDWAY OF NATIONS: Great Britain
SPEEDWAY OF NATIONS 2: Poland