Roger Mills (speedway rider)

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Roger Mills
Born (1948-12-07) 7 December 1948 (age 75)
Walsall, West Midlands, England
NationalityBritish (English)
Career history
1967 Long Eaton Archers
1968 Leicester Lions
1969-1970 Middlesbrough Teessiders
1971-1973 Long Eaton Rangers
1971 Hackney Hawks
1972 King's Lynn Stars
1973 Newport

Roger John Mills (born 7 December 1948) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from England. [1]

Career

Mills rode in two matches for Sheffield Tigers and Long Eaton Archers in 1967 before joining the newly formed Leicester Lions in 1968. [2] He rode in seventeen British League Division One matches for Leicester that year, averaging 2.58, dropping down to the second division in 1969 with Middlesbrough Teessiders, for whom he averaged over 7 points in two seasons there. [3] In 1971, wanting to ride for a team closer to his home, he moved to Long Eaton Rangers, for whom he continued to score highly until his retirement at the end of the 1973 season. [2] [4]

Mills represented Great Britain at junior level and England at Division Two level. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 Jones, Alan (2010) Speedway in Leicester: The Lions Roar, Automedia, p. 173
  3. ↑ Oakes, Peter (1991) The Complete History of the British League, Front Page Books, ISBN   0-948882-07-7, p. 35 (Division Two section)
  4. ↑ Bott, Richard (1972) The Champions Book of Speedway No. 3, Stanley Paul, ISBN   978-0091120207
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