BRITISH SPEEDWAY JUNE 14, 2025

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BEWLEY KEEPS EVERYTHING THE SAME

BELLE Vue hero Dan Bewley admitted keeping his normal league set-up was key to his brilliant victory in Friday’s FIM Speedway GP of Great Britain.

The Aces man thrilled the biggest-ever crowd at the National Speedway Stadium, where he races on a regular basis in the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership, and gave them the result the home fans were craving.
Bewley, who had previously won two British GPs at Cardiff, superbly overtook Sheffield’s Jack Holder in the Last Chance Qualifier to make it into the Final, where he came out on top in an intense battle with World Champion Bartosz Zmarzlik and his Aces team-mate Brady Kurtz.

Bewley said: “I didn’t really feel any extra pressure, I just came here like any other meeting.
“We race here in the league and some GP riders, some great riders, come here and sometimes they struggle, so I didn’t really want to change too much.

“I just used my English bikes and nothing really was different for me from coming to a normal league meeting.
“But the feeling from the crowd was pretty different to a normal league meeting, I wish we had that every week!”
Bewley and his rivals go again in the second Grand Prix of the weekend in Manchester on Saturday, where he will start in the top three of the overall standings.

(SPEEDWAY 2)

BRADY Kurtz said he was delighted to return from injury with third place on his home Belle Vue track in Friday’s GP opener as he remained in World Championship contention.
The Aces skipper had not ridden since crashing heavily in the last GP in Prague, missing his club’s last match in the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership as a result.

He picked up one point on World Champion Bartosz Zmarzlik by passing him for second in the Sprint Race behind Leicester captain Max Fricke, before Zmarzlik outscored him by two points with runners-up spot in the Final, with Kurtz third.
It leaves him nine points behind the five-times champion as the Australian continues an impressive debut GP campaign.
Kurtz said: “I’m stoked with third. The first two rounds went a little bit too well probably you could say, and then Prague sucked, and then I thought today I really needed to get back up amongst it to stay in the points.

“It was good all night, I had loads of speed and I just missed out in the Final.
“The crash in Prague hurt me, I really hit the ground hard and I haven’t really felt like that after a crash and had nothing broken. I was not really in a good way for the next few days. I did a lot of physio and rehabilitation – anything I could to be as healthy as I could be come this weekend.
“It’s tough for the Aussies that we don’t ever get to have our own round, but I was super grateful for the support I had today. Obviously I’m not British but it definitely felt like a little bit of my own ground I guess, and it’s nice to be here.”

(FIXTURES)

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

MONDAY JUNE 16:
ROWE MOTOR OIL PREMIERSHIP R1: Birmingham (29) v Sheffield (61) 7.30, King’s Lynn (37) v Ipswich (53) 7.30

WEDNESDAY JUNE 18:
CAB DIRECT CHAMPIONSHIP: Oxford (40) v Edinburgh (50) 7.30, Poole (44) v Berwick (46) 7.30