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| Born | 13 February 1975 Pembury, England |
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| Nationality | English |
| 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.
Contents
- Promotion
- Management
- World Longtrack Championship
- Individual Championship
- Team Championship
- European Grasstrack Championship
- Solos Finals
- Solos Semi-finals
- Sidecar Finals
- British Masters Grasstrack Championship
- Top Ten Finishes
- British Sidecar Championship
- British Sand Ace Championship
- Sources
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 Godden went in to 500cc Sidecar racing and had success in the UK and on the continent. 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
Using his track racing knowledge and engineering background Godden produces his own complete 500cc Sidecar machined known as Zircon Racing. The team Godden/Smith raced to an impressive 19 podiums from 22 starts in 2017, 18 podiums from 23 starts in 2018 and 21 podiums from 23 starts in 2019, and 15 podiums from 16 starts in 2022 including 8 first places, 21 podiums from 23 starts including 16 Gold medal positions in 2023, and the best yet 18 podiums in international events from 18 starts in 2024 with most (16) events being fought out of foreign soil.
Godden/Smith finished 4th in their first attempt at the European title in Tayac France July 2017, 2nd in the 2018 FIM-Europe Championship in Werlte Germany July 2018, 3rd in 2019 FIM-E Championship in Eenrum Netherlands August 2019, 2nd in 2022 FIM-E Championship in Eenrum Netherlands August 2022, and 2nd again in the 2023 FIME Championship held in Bad-Hersfeld Germany. This was followed with second again in 2024 making an impressive new record in the sport although the gold medal still eludes their grasp.
The team are the only British team in history to hold 5 European championships medals and the only team in British history to win a championship medal(s) on foreign soil.
4x British Champions. The team won their first British 500cc sidecar championship in 2021, after several near misses in the years before, taking the title with an unbeaten performance. This was followed by taking their second and successive British title in 2022 and the third in 2023. The impressive European form continued to make it the 4th consecutive title in 2024 with an unbeaten maximum ride.
