Speedway News

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.

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.