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Speedway

August 2022

  • Two guys smoking cigarettes

    A night at the races: out on the Speedway – in pictures

  • (female driver) Yes, women do (and did) race but usually against each other. I suspect this has changed a bit, and there are now mixed races, but remember that these photos are histories—taken 50 years ago

    ‘You had to be quick!’: Henry Horenstein on his breathtaking Speedway pics

March 2019

  • In 1976 there were 37 teams across two leagues but now there are only 18 teams in the top two tiers.

    Out of time and on the skids: speedway’s struggle for survival

    Speedway, now little more than a relic of its 1970s heyday, is crying out for a Bernie Ecclestone or Barry Hearn to take it on and revolutionise it

April 2018

  • Ivan Mauger in 1980.

    Ivan Mauger obituary

    Speedway motorcyclist who won six world championships in the 1960s and 70s, during the golden years of dirt-track racing

March 2018

  • The World Speedway Championships final at Wembley Stadium in 1957. From left to right; George White, Aage Hansen and Peter Craven.

    YouTube archive
    Speedway memories, Mostovoi magic and bobsleigh's worst starts

    This week’s roundup also features tennis hot shots, a goalkeeping glitch and a snooker player riding his luck … and the table

March 2016

  • Dmirti Khomitsevitsj in on his way to winning the final heat of the Ice Speedway World Championship Final in Assen, Netherlands

    Sport picture of the day
    Sport picture of the day: cool heads needed for ice speedway

    Ice speedway riders are often seen as the bravest, with 90 spikes studded on the front tyre and up to 500 on the rear. Dmitri Khomitsevitsj won the all-Russian final heat of the Ice Speedway World Championship at the De Bonte Wever Stadium in the Netherlands

August 2015

  • Lewis Kerr Newcastle Diamonds Speedway

    Speedway rider Lewis Kerr in coma after ‘horrific’ crash in Peterborough

    The Norfolk rider was airlifted to hospital after a multiple-bike crash which propelled him into and through a barrier, after which the race meeting was abandoned

July 2014

  • Tai Woffinden

    Small talk
    Tai Woffinden: ‘I’ve broken my tibia, fibula, collar-bone, arm, ribs, fingers ...’

    Small Talk: The World and British speedway champion on racing, getting roaring drunk, chicken dinners, Rihanna and tattoos

October 2013

  • Richard Williams

    Sportblog
    Tai Woffinden's speedway triumph is uplifting tale for a sport on the wane

    Richard Williams
    Richard Williams: Fifty years ago Britain loved speedway but last season Sky Sports got fed up with poor ratings and dropped it altogether

July 2009

  • Classic YouTube

    YouTube archive
    The Ashes' best bits, Michael Jackson at Exeter City and speedway scrappers

    Classic YouTube: Milan players getting speed-gunned, Lance Armstong v Marco Pantani and how to spoil a religious goal celebration also feature

June 2009

  • Emil Sayfutdinov wins Swedish Speedway grand prix

    The Russian teenager powered home in the final to make it two wins out of three grands prix

May 2009

  • Crump in top form ahead of Sweden

    Championship leader Jason Crump is encouraged with the start he has made to the season
  • Jason Crump, speedway

    Jason Crump takes the spoils in Poland

    There were few shocks in the second round of competition as two-time champion Jason Crump collected 22 points

  • Speedway's Chris Harris

    Russian rookie Sayfutdinov aiming for second straight win

    Russian rookie Emil Sayfutdinov will have to face world champion Nicki Pedersen in a trickier second race after his triumphant debut

March 2009

  • Men's Keirin race

    24 hours in pictures
    Sport: 24 hours in pictures

    A selection of the best sporting images taken in the last 24 hours

October 2008

  • Pedersen burns off rivals to seal third world title

  • Gelsenkirchen track ruled unfit for Speedway finale

August 2008

  • Pedersen extends lead with first victory of the season

    Nicki Pederson won in Poland, his first grand prix win of the season, to stretch his world championship lead to 15 points

July 2008

  • Back-marker Iversen carries Danes to World Cup

  • Australia edge out Poles to book World Cup final spot

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