BRITISH SPEEDWAY JUNE 13, 2025

(SPEEDWAY 1)

LAMBERT LOVES NATIONAL SPEEDWAY STADIUM

BRITISH Champion Robert Lambert is relishing the prospect of this weekend’s double Grand Prix in Manchester at a venue where he has previously enjoyed great success.
Both of Lambert’s British titles have been won at the National Speedway Stadium, the most recent coming just a month ago, and he has also been involved in both of Great Britain’s Speedway of Nations victories at Belle Vue.

The World No.2 goes into Friday and Saturday’s meetings needing strong results as he is currently eighth in the standings after collecting just three GP points in Prague last time out.
Lambert said: “I think Manchester is one of those tracks which are wide open and create plenty of lines.
“Hopefully the track is prepared in a good way, then it can create some magnificent racing.
“We saw it in the Speedway of Nations Final last year and the British Final this year in the Grand Final. I’m sure there will be many more great heats this weekend coming.”

(SPEEDWAY 2)

BRITISH Final runner-up Charles Wright has a dream chance to compete with the World’s best as wild card for this weekend’s double Grand Prix in Manchester.
Stockport-based Wright, a former Belle Vue rider, is assured of plenty of local support as well as from his current UK clubs, Oxford Spires and Redcar.

And Wright, who was also a wild card for the British GP at Cardiff in 2019 after he won the national title, believes the weekend should provide epic entertainment.
He said: “Belle Vue is one of the best tracks in the world to race on, as was proved in the British Final. It’s a lot about what you are on and how the engine performs on the night.
“In league matches you can’t practice, but here we get time trials to see which one works best and that’s really handy to know.”

(SPEEDWAY 3)

IPSWICH took all three points available in a thrilling finish to their ROWE Motor Oil Premiership clash with title rivals Sheffield.
The battle of the top two lived up to expectations with the sides trading the lead and then going into Heat 15 level, where Tom Brennan and Emil Sayfutdinov recorded a 4-2 to clinch a 46-44 win on the night.

That was a reverse of the result at Owlerton earlier in the season which meant a Super Heat for the aggregate point – and whilst Tigers No.1 Jack Holder won the race, second and third places for Brennan and Sayfutdinov over Josh Pickering was enough for the hosts, who went three points clear in the league standings.
Sayfutdinov and Brennan both scored 10 from the main meeting as Brennan recovered from a fall in his first ride to win his last three.

Rising Star reserve Leon Flint impressed for the Witches with 10+3 whilst Holder picked up 10 despite being disqualified from his second ride following a clash with Brennan.
Ipswich boss Ritchie Hawkins said: “It was a really tight, close meeting and both teams will feel they could have done better. We won a lot of races but ran a lot of lasts which has been the opposite of how we have been this year, we haven’t run many last places. “I’m delighted to be on the right end of the result including the aggregate point, but we had the home advantage and if the second leg was at Sheffield, they’d probably have won it, so I don’t take that much pleasure in that.
“We need to improve, and we are a bit lacklustre at the moment and we need to get the buzz back we had before the injuries.”
Sheffield manager Simon Stead said: “We had a little bit of good fortune throughout the meeting with Ipswich having a faller and a mechanical problem when in points scoring positions, but we were on the rough end of a couple of calls that I think the referee got wrong.

“The referee said there was no contact from Tom with Jack in Heat 5 – but the big rubber mark up his left leg says otherwise!
“We definitely didn’t get what we deserved, but that’s racing sometimes. The meeting itself was a good spectacle for the fans but we are disappointed because we’ve come away with nothing, and that is a tough one to take.”

(SPEEDWAY 4)

KING’S Lynn gave their play-off hopes a major boost with a 52-38 win at Oxford to move to within five points of the top four in the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership.
It was the Stars’ first away win of the season in the league although it came at the same venue where they had previously been successful in the KO Cup.

Danish star Niels-Kristian Iversen, who rode for Oxford 20 years ago, once again scored heavily at Cowley with 12+2 and was unbeaten after his opening ride, whilst last year’s Spires skipper Chris Harris scored 13 from five.
Harris effectively sealed the away win with a stunning move in Heat 13 to pass Erik Riss, who scored ten for the home side along with Rohan Tungate.

Stars manager Rob Lyon said: “We said at the start of the year that you target which teams you’re potentially going to be up against, and Oxford are one of those.
“We had to come here and get a result to give us any real consideration of making the top four, and the boys put on a great show.

“That’s five points from the week which is what we aimed for at the start of the week, and we move into Monday with hopefully a lot of confidence to keep this momentum going.”
Riss said: “As a team, we’re just not doing well enough in the home meetings. It was a different day, but the same story.
“We know we need to do better as a team for the supporters. We want to win at home for the fans, but it’s not happening.”

(FIXTURES)

FRIDAY JUNE 13:
FIM GRAND PRIX OF GREAT BRITAIN, MANCHESTER: Belle Vue 7pm

SATURDAY JUNE 14:
FIM GRAND PRIX OF GREAT BRITAIN, MANCHESTER: Belle Vue 7pm

SUNDAY JUNE 15:
WSRA NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE: Middlesbrough (42) v Edinburgh (48) 3pm
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TROPHY: Kent v Plymouth 12pm