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Inside WEEK-ENDING April 8
THE first major silverware of the new season has been handed out already – and it’s King’s Lynn fans who are celebrating after Chris Holder and Robert Lambert were crowned SGB Premiership Pairs champions at Somerset. We have reports, pictures and interviews from the Oaktree Arena, plus an in- depth interview with Poole team manager Neil Middleditch on his quest for another league championship with the Pirates. Peter Oakes has a special report on the Ride ‘n’ Slide speedway experience day and we have all the early season news and reports from around the three leagues as usual.
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speedway Keith Chapman, Chairman of the B
welcome BT Sport as our broadcast partners for “They have successfully hosted both the Grand P alongside those tournaments on the same channe “We also believe this is good news for British vie tional level, on the same platform. “We sincerely hope we have an exciting and ente thrilling spectacle the sport is.” Terry Russell, of Go Speed International Ltd who coming British Speedway into their stable of spo “We are extremely pleased British Speedway has World Cup. It’s good news for the sport in genera “There will be 18 shows throughout the summer great drama and TV entertainment. “We are also working hard with the clubs to mak work for everyone.
World No.1 Greg Hancock Picture: JAREK PABIJAN
FOUR-time World Champion Greg Hancock insists he’ll never stop his search for speed and admitted “winning the title comes at a price.” The Californian hasn’t established his reputation as one of speedway’s all-time greats with daredevil moves or ruthless aggression. The 46-year-old likes to use his head in a bid to stay on top.
“These are exciting times and we look forward to
Despite winning the FIM Speedway World Championship for a fourth time last October, Hancock has still been grafting hard in the States along with Coast Fabrication, finding even more ways to pick up the pace. And with one of the strongest Grand Prix fields in history chasing him hard, Grin isn’t taking his position as world No. 1 for granted. Hancock said: “I’m happy with what we’ve had, for sure, but you can’t sit back and think that’s going to be the winning combination every year. There are a lot of guys who do that, but I can’t rely on this. I need to have something that gives me that carrot. Winning the title comes at a price.
“I’m pretty fortunate that I have some good people there working with me and helping out. They try
really, really good. We stay in touch quite often and he has always got his head in the game, looking for some other way to make something better or create an advantage. “There are many things we try and there are many things we have never tried before. I love when it’s something new that has never been tried. “Jeff never gives up and says, ‘if you want to win, this is the way you do it.’ It has been working for me. He has been working with me for three and a half or four years now and I’ve won a couple of world titles since we started that. I can’t complain.”
Asked what they have been working on this winter, Hancock
to make me faster, better and stronger. “We’re working with things on the bike all the time. Some things get thrown in the bin and others get pushed to the next level and we keep trying to find something better.”
Hancock admits testing never stops, even when the European season gets underway. He said: “We’re often doing things and I get equipment sent to me throughout the season for test periods. “Jeff Heywood from Coast is
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