Current season, competition or edition: 2024 British Speedway Championship | |
| Sport | Speedway |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1961 |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Most recent champion(s) | Dan Bewley |
The British Speedway Championship is an annual motorcycle speedway competition open to British national speedway riders. The winner of the event becomes the British Speedway Champion. [1] [2]
Inaugurated in 1961 as a qualifying round of the Speedway World Championship it was open to riders from Britain and the British dominions. [3] It was initially dominated by riders from New Zealand such as Barry Briggs and Ivan Mauger because of the British Final forming part of the World Speedway championship qualifying rounds. [4] Briggs and Mauger were multiple world champions. It was not until 1975 that the final was restricted to British riders. Countries such as Australia and New Zealand then held their own World Individual Speedway championship qualifying rounds. In the first dozen finals, it was only won twice by a British born rider, both times by Peter Craven. [5]
Australians Rory Schlein and Jason Crump rode under an ACU (British) licence.
| Pos | Rider |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Scott Nicholls | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| 2. | Barry Briggs (  ) | 6 | 4 | 1 |
| 3. | Ivan Mauger ( ) | 4 | 2 | |
| 4. | Chris Harris | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 5. | Dan Bewley | 3 | 2 | |
| 6. | Tai Woffinden | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 7. | Mark Loram | 3 | 1 | |
| Andy Smith | 3 | 1 | ||
| 9. | Joe Screen | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 10. | Kelvin Tatum | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 11. | Michael Lee | 2 | 3 | |
| 12. | Chris Louis | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 13. | Kenny Carter | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 14. | Peter Craven | 2 | 1 | |
| 15. | Simon Wigg | 2 | 1 | |
| Gary Havelock | 2 | 1 | ||
| 17. | Craig Cook | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 18. | Dave Jessup | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 19. | Peter Collins | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Chris Morton | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Andy Grahame | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Danny King | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 23. | Eric Boocock | 1 | 2 | |
| Malcolm Simmons | 1 | 2 | ||
| 25. | Neil Evitts | 1 | 1 | |
| 26. | John Louis | 1 | 1 | |
| Robert Lambert | 1 | 1 | ||
Rory Schlein (  ) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Charles Wright | 1 | 1 | ||
| 30. | Ray Wilson | 1 | ||
| Steve Bastable | 1 | |||
| Adam Ellis | 1 |
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