ONE OF Coventry’s most successful amateur sports clubs have announced a summer long expansion to its hugely popular junior section. Helped by the national boom in cycling, Coventry Cycle Speedway club – based in Hearsall Common – are to introduce extra Saturday morning ‘come and try it’ sessions aimed at newcomers. The new sessions will […]
COVENTRY Cycle Speedway couldn’t bounce back from an away defeat to Wednesfield several weeks ago as they lost 107-91 to Horspath in their latest Elite League fixture. Still without Bobby McMillan, who’s spending time at home in Adelaide, Coventry drafted in northern youngster Adam Watson and also called upon Coventry-based Kyle Roberts, who raised his […]
Kyle Roberts made a brilliant competitive return to the Coventry Cycle Speedway team last Sunday afternoon in top scoring as he inspired his weakened side to within one race of a dynamic shock victory against powerful East Park Wolves. Coventry were without four key riders and fielded a youthful and inexperienced side against the powerful […]
Coventry Cycle Speedway club entertain Elite League giants Horspath Hammers of Oxford at Hearsall Common in the biggest ever team match ever in the history of the sport in Coventry at Hearsall Common tomorrow (Sunday 12th June), commencing at 2pm. Joint league leaders Coventry will take on Horspath, the most successful team in Elite league […]
Coventry Cycle Speedway team are celebrating this week after a double podium finish in the British Club Championship finals, held last weekend at the well-appointed East Park track in Wolverhampton. Both their under 13s and under 16s teams jetted to third place in their respective finals. It represented Coventry`s best ever performance in the competition […]
FRESH from a solid performance in the British Open Club Championships, Coventry were boosted by the news that they are now ranked eighth in the UK following their bank holiday weekend endeavours. Coventry secured third in the Under 16s and Under 13s competitions while an eighth placed finish in the senior open confirmed the Godiva […]
COVENTRY slipped to an eight point loss at the hands of Leicester in their latest Midland League encounter at Hearsall Common. The Monarchs overturned a first half lead Coventry established and were helped by the superb Dave Hemsley who scored an unbeaten 20 point maximum. Incredibly, an opening heat 6-4 courtesy of Mason Phillips and […]
Coventry host their biggest match of the season tomorrow (Sunday 22nd May) at Hearsall Common when they entertain local rivals Leicester in the Midland League, starting at 2pm. Rivalry between the clubs dates back almost 40 years and the matches have been always been hotly contested with Leicester having the upper hand. Since Coventry were […]
In a superb afternoon of junior racing at Hearsall Common last Saturday afternoon in the British Junior league, Coventry Cycle Speedway junior wizz-kids posted a club record score of 175 match points in the competition. In another illustration of their relentless junior policy, the Coventry club also fielded a record number of riders for the […]
Coventry`s Elite League hopes have suffered a major blow with reports emerging from Poland late on Thursday night that their World junior number two Michal Sassek has broken a leg in a training accident in his hometown of Leszno in Poland. Team manager Lee Marsh said: “We have been receiving texts from Michal and pictures […]