Motorcycle speedway was first staged in Leicester in 1928. It has continued on and off until the present day, with Leicester Lions currently competing in the...
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Leicester Lions are a speedway team which originally operated from 1968 until 1983 and again from 2011. The team race at the Beaumont Park Stadium (or...
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Ruapuna". Historic Speedway. Retrieved 24 July 2023. "Motorsport Memorial -". "Australian Speedway rider killed in Test". Leicester Daily Mercury. 21 December...
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Leicester Super was a motorcycle speedway team based at the Leicester Super Speedway near Melton Road. Promotion company Speedways and Sports Ltd initially...
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motorcycle speedway starting there five years later. It was also a venue for BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Cars. In 1923, the site chosen for Leicester Stadium...
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(1976) Who's Who of World Speedway, Studio Publications, ISBN 0-904584-04-6, p. 137 Jones, Alan (2010) Speedway in Leicester: The Lions Roar, Automedia...
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Win in Last heat". Leicester Daily Mercury. 20 October 1951. Retrieved 5 October 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive. "Bees great win in Speedway Cup...
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Leicester Stadium were a motorcycle speedway team which operated from 1929 until 1931. Speedway was first staged in Leicester in 1928 and the following...
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1931 Speedway Northern League. Wilkinson rode for England in the second Test match of 1931 against Australia, staged at Leicester Super Speedway, scoring...
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1980, in Odense, Denmark) is a former motorcycle speedway rider, who captained the Denmark national speedway team that won the Speedway World Cup in 2006...
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