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CREDIT CRUNCH WEEKEND AT NEWPORT SPEEDWAY
By Newport Speedway ~ Wednesday 4th August 2010
There will be special admission price offers for this Sunday's Premier League clash between the Newport Wasps and the Somerset Rebels. Adults will be admitted for a tenner and a family ticket will be available at £25. The match starts at 2.30pm.
Explained club owner Steve Mallett: 'It will have been a busy weekend at our Queensway Meadows Stadium with the staging of the National League Pairs Championship on the Saturday and the local derby on the Sunday afternoon so we want help fans with that. Also Speedway is a family sport and so two adults and two children can come in at a special rate. We are expecting a fair number of Rebels fans to make the journey over the Severn Bridge on Sunday so there will be a really good atmosphere.'
The Rebels have a very Australian flavour to their team with five of the seven on parade having been born Down Under. They are led by veteran skipper Shane Parker who first rode in the UK in 1990 while Sam Masters and Jake Anderson are in their first full season of British Speedway. Number one Cory Gathercole is the cousin of one of the World's leading riders Leigh Adams and the youngster career has been upward and onward since his first appearance on these shores in 2007. Making up the quintet of Aussies is former Wasp James Holder who was an ever present with the South Wales club last season.
Recent signing Christian Hefenbrock is a former German National Champion with Elite League experience primarily with the Wolverhampton Wolves while Englishman Ritchie Hawkins has rekindled his career since returning to the Highbridge-based club this season.
The Wasps retain the winning combination that has seen post three home victories in succession plus two scores in the sixties in the past fortnight. Robin Aspegren is coping well with the tough number five spot while teenage reserves Alex Davies and Todd Kurtz have been piling up the points recently. It is also expected that Canadian Kyle Legault will continue his excellent form in this second half of the season. He returned a paid maximum last Sunday being unbeaten by an opponent.
NEWPORT 'DARLOWS' WASPS
1. Leigh Lanham (C), 2. Craig Watson, 3. Kim Nilsson, 4. Kyle Legault, 5. Robin Aspegren, 6. Alex Davies, 7. Todd Kurtz
SOMERSET REBELS
1. Cory Gathercole, 2. Ritchie Hawkins, 3. Christian Hefenbrock, 4. Sam Masters, 5. Shane Parker (C), 6. James Holder, 7. Jake Anderson
The Wasps next home fixture is on Friday August 13th at 7pm against the Rye House Rockets with the Newport Hornets taking the Sunday 2.30 slot with a National League clash with the Weymouth Wildcats on August 15th.
NEWPORT SPEEDWAY STAGES NATIONAL EVENT
By Newport Speedway ~ Tuesday 3rd August 2010
The National League Pairs Championship will be staged at Newport Speedway this Saturday afternoon from 2.30pm with all ten National League clubs competing and the home club defending the title won at the Isle of Wight Speedway last August. On that occasion the Newport Hornets were represented by Tony Atkin and Grant Tregoning. With Tregoning not returning from New Zealand for the 2010 campaign then 17-year-old Todd Kurtz will team up with his 44-year-old skipper in the attempt for the South Wales club to retain the title on home territory.
The opposition will be formidable especially in Group A which Newport has been drawn in as the Plymouth Devils pair of Nicki Glanz and Mark Simmons are well fancied by the sport's pundits while the Bournemouth Buccaneers pair of James Brundle and Kyle Howarth are certainly a strong duo. In Group B the Weymouth Wildcats combination of Byron Bekker and James Cockle are experienced despite their comparative youth while Buxton's Adam Allott and Robert Branford were very effective in a recent victory for the Hitmen over the Hornets at Queensway Meadows.
Throw into the mix the fact that Nicki Glanz plus the Isle of Wight pair of Nick Simmons and Danny Warwick are ex-Newport riders and that Shane Hazelden(Rye House) was a Hornet at the latter part of the 2009 season and there is nothing predictable in this prestigious national event which will attract speedway fans from far and wide.
GROUP A:
DUDLEY: Jake Anderson, Michael Dyer
BOURNEMOUTH: James Brundle, Kyle Howarth
PLYMOUTH: Nicki Glanz, Mark Simmonds
NEWPORT: Tony Atkin, Todd Kurtz
IOW: Nick Simmons, Danny Warwick
GROUP B:
WEYMOUTH: Byron Bekker, James Cockle
RYE HOUSE: Lee Strudwick, Shane Hazelden
KINGS LYNN: Simon Lambert, Adam Lowe
SCUNTHORPE: Steve Worrall, Scott Richardson
BUXTON: Adam Allott, Robert Branford
There will be 10 races per group and the 21st heat will be a one-off decider between the respective group winners. The scoring system has been amended to 4-3-2-0 for the four riders in each race.
Admission prices are £12 adults, £10 concessions, £4 children aged 5 to 15 with under fives free. The event programme will be £2.
Speedway continues at Newport on the Sunday afternoon when the Wasps face the Somerset Rebels in Premier League action from 2.30 with a special admission promotion of £10 for adults with a family ticket available at £25 covering two adults and two children.
NEWPORT SPEEDWAY STATEMENT: KYLE NEWMAN
By Newport Speedway ~ Thursday 29th July 2010
On behalf of Steve Mallett and Newport Speedway; "At present Kyle Newman remains an asset of Newport Speedway. No deal has been agreed or formal agreement made for him to join any other club."
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