Mitchel Godden

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Mitchel Godden
Born (1975-02-13) 13 February 1975 (age 50)
Pembury, England
NationalityEnglish
Individual honours
2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 British Sand Ace Championship Winner
1999, 2003, 2005, 2009 British Best Pairs Championship Winner
2001, 2003, 2008, 2012,2021 South-Eastern Centre Championship Winner
1999 Southern Centre Championship Winner
2018 Pokal Bergring Cup Winner
2007,2009,2011 MSC BadWalsee Wolfegg Winner
2016 Sidecars Super Series Winner 2021 & 2022 British Champion
Team honours
2015 Team Long Track World Championship Winning Manager

Mitchel Stuart Godden is an English motorcycle rider. He competes in longtrack and grasstrack racing for Solos (1992) and more recently 500cc Sidecars (2015). He is the son of Don Godden who won the Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship in 1969.

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Mitchel Godden followed in his fathers footsteps and started racing in 1992. He started on a 250cc (ex Jeremy Doncaster) Honda red Rocket and rode this for one season before using Godden works 350cc machine and then after a couple of seasons progressed to 500cc class. Godden later progressed to international racing becoming a specialists on German grasstracks and Dutch sandtracks.

In 2015 after 23 years of racing at the very top level Godden went in to 500cc Sidecar racing and achieved immediate success in the UK and the continent soon after. With his passenger, Paul Smith, he has won international events in Werlte, Ludinghausen, Schwarme, Herxheim, Osnabrook, Hertingen Berghaupten, Bielefeld, Rastede & Angenrod, (Germany) and Roden, Uithuizen, Joure, Stadskannal, Lopersum, Balkbrug, Staphorst & Eenrum in the Netherlands, and Tayac, StMacaire, in France amongst others.

Promotion

In recent year Godden has also turned his hand to promotion. He started the charity Kart meeting at Buckmore Park as well as promotion and running of the Invicta International Grasstrack meetings at the Hop Farm and Collier Street 'The Kings of Speed' in 2008, 2011 and 2012. In 2016 he started the Pit Bike Winter Series at Iwade Stadium.

Management

In 2013 Godden on behalf of the ACU took over the manager role of the Great Britain World Longtrack team. In 2013 he led the team to the bronze medal and 2015 he led the team to LTON championship Victory. The team consisted of Glen Phillips (c), Andrew Appleton, Richard Hall, and James Shanes. His last year in the role was 2018 with his team collecting world championship silver in Morizès France.

Mitchel has been drafted back into Team GB management on behalf of the ACU in 2025 and amazingly his team of track racing riders won FIM GOLD in Vechta Germany. Team GB’s second victory in this competition since its inception in 2007.

The 2025 team of Chris Harris, Zach Wajtknecht, Andrew Appleton, & Cameron Taylor were the top scoring team and went on to max score in the final race for gold.

World Longtrack Championship

Individual Championship

Team Championship

Rider

Manager

European Grasstrack Championship

Solos Finals

Solos Semi-finals

Sidecar Finals

British Masters Grasstrack Championship

Top Ten Finishes

Other Appearances: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2012.

British Sidecar Championship


British Sand Ace Championship

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