| Sport | Speedway |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1969 |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Most recent champion(s) | Sam Hagon |
The British Speedway Under-21 Championship (also known as the British Junior Speedway Championship) is an annual speedway competition open to riders of British nationality aged at least fifteen on the date of the first meeting, and under twenty-one on 1 January in the year of the competition. [1] [2] The winner of the final is declared British Under-21 Champion. Previous winners include former World Champions Mark Loram and Gary Havelock.
Sixteen riders plus three reserves take part in 20 heats with each rider facing each other once. The two riders which accumulate the highest number of points over the heats go straight to the final. The next four highest point scorers take part in a race-off, with first and second place riders also progressing to the final.
Seven riders are seeded straight to the final round while nine other riders qualify through three qualifying rounds held on a regional basis which use the same format as the final round. The first, second and third placed riders from each qualifier ride in the final round and fourth place riders take part as reserves. In the final round the reserves may take the rides of any incapacitated rider, replace any rider excluded for a starting infringement, or replace any rider excluded for exceeding the two minute time allowance except in the semi-final or final.
The top three riders go through to the British Speedway Championship final and the winner qualifies for the World Junior Championship semi-final round. The next five finishers qualify for the World Junior Championship qualifying rounds.
The Berwick Bandits are a British speedway club, based in Berwick-upon-Tweed. They currently compete in the SGB Championship, racing at Shielfield Park, with home matches usually taking place on Saturday evenings. They also run a second team in the National Development League, known as the Berwick Bullets.
Kenneth Malcolm Carter , was a British motorcycle speedway rider. He was a World Pairs champion and British champion. On Wednesday, 21 May 1986, he shot dead his wife, Pam, and then killed himself, orphaning their two young children in the process.
The Stoke Potters previously the Hanley Potters were a British speedway team. As Hanley Potters they raced at the Sun Street Stadium from 1929 to 1963 and as Stoke, the team raced at Loomer Road Stadium in Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1973 to 2019.
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.
Leicester Lions are a speedway team which originally operated from 1968 until 1983 and again from 2011. The team race at the Beaumont Park Stadium. Since 2019, the club have also ran a junior side known as the Lion Cubs.
David John Jessup is a former motorcycle speedway rider from England. He was a world championship runner-up, world pairs champion, world cup winner and British champion. He earned 97 international caps for the England national speedway team.
1960 Speedway World Team Cup was the first edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions. The final took place in Gothenburg, Sweden. The World Champion title was won by Sweden team who beat England, Czechoslovakia and Poland.
The Individual Speedway European Championship is an annual individual speedway event organized by the European Motorcycle Union (UEM) to determine the champion of Europe. The competition was founded in 2001 and was initially staged as a one-off meeting before the single event was replaced by the Speedway European Championship series in 2012.
The British League was the main motorcycle speedway league in Britain from its formation in 1965 until 1995 when British speedway was restructured. It initially had a single division, with a second division starting in 1968.
The 1979 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 34th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider.
The 1977 Speedway World Team Cup was the 18th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.
The British League Division Two Riders Championship was a motorcycle speedway contest between the top riders from each club competing in the second tier of British speedway.
The Intercontinental final was a Motorcycle speedway final sanctioned by the FIM as the final qualifying round for the Speedway World Championship between 1975 and 2001.
The British Nordic final was a short lived Motorcycle speedway final sanctioned by the FIM as a qualifying round for the Speedway World Championship.
The 1978 British Speedway Championship was the 18th edition of the British Speedway Championship. The Final took place on 16 August at Brandon Stadium in Coventry, England. The Championship was won by Michael Lee.
The 1977 British Speedway Championship was the 17th edition of the British Speedway Championship. The Final took place on 13 July at Brandon Stadium in Coventry, England. The Championship was won by Michael Lee.
The 1976 British Speedway Championship was the 16th edition of the British Speedway Championship. The Final took place on 2 June at Brandon Stadium in Coventry, England. The Championship was won by Malcolm Simmons.
The 1973 British Speedway Championship was the 13th edition of the British Speedway Championship. The final took place on 21 June at Brandon Stadium in Coventry, England. The Championship was won by Ray Wilson.
The 1972 British Speedway Championship was the 12th edition of the British Speedway Championship. The final took place on 2 August at Brandon Stadium in Coventry, England. The Championship was won by Ivan Mauger.
The 1971 British Speedway Championship was the 11th edition of the British Speedway Championship. The final took place on 16 June at Brandon Stadium in Coventry, England. The Championship was won by Ivan Mauger.
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