Speedway

The Island Masters competition that sees grass track riders take to the shale track on their specialist equipment starts its 3-meeting series tonight (Thursday) at the Smallbrook Stadium in Ryde. A popular addition to the summer speedway programme in 2021,...

Success eluded Wightlink Warriors at Smallbrook against Cradley and Weymouth in the 1st leg of the Michael Richardson Trophy on Thursday (23rd June). Warriors team manager Steve Piper can be proud of the efforts of his quartet, but he will...

The 2022 speedway season will begin at Smallbrook as the Wightlink Warriors take on the Cradley Heathens and Weymouth Wildcats tomorrow (Thursday). The 3 teams will compete for the Michael Richardson Trophy in a series of 3 meetings. The destination...

The NORA 500cc British Sidecar Speedway Final, scheduled to take place at Smallbrook Stadium in Ryde on 7th July, has been pushed back until later in the year. It has been confirmed that the meeting has been deferred to Thursday...

Jack Scully-Syer. Photo: Robert Buckett 12-year-old Ryde Academy student Jack Scully-Syer has written to Island Echo for help in finding sponsorship so that he can progress further in the sport of speedway racing. Jack has been riding speedway bikes since he...

Steph Whitlock Shanklin resident Steph Whitlock won’t have far to travel far to take part in this season’s NORA British Ladies Speedway Championships at Smallbrook. Visitors to Smallbrook will be familiar with Steph because if she is not on track...

Katie Gordon Katie Gordon, from Knutsford in Cheshire will compete in this season’s NORA British Ladies Speedway Championships at Smallbrook. Katie, who has built up quite a fan following over the past couple of seasons, started racing on the grass...

Championship seed Darren Phillips is looking forward to lining up with former Speedway World number 2 Gordon Kennett at Smallbrook on 11th August. Phillips took part in the Upright Team Series last year at Smallbrook and was one of the...

Roksana Brzeska Roksana Brzeska will take centre stage at the NORA British Ladies Speedway Championship at the Smallbrook Stadium in July and August. Roksana (fondly nicknamed Roks) was born in Poland and moved to the UK aged 6 with her...

Tim Curnock is one of the final 4 seeds for the NORA British Upright Speedway Championship taking place at Smallbrook in August. Tim is interviewed by competition co-ordinator Lee Coleman... Lee: You have been an accomplished performer in the Upright...