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Steve Smith, & Carl Pugh -Multi British Sidecar ChampionsSteve Smith and Carl Pugh are a fomidable force in British 1000cc Sidecar Grass Track and Speedway racing. Steve, from Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, has won a total of six British Grass Track Sidecar Championships and is considered to be one of the greats in the sport's history. Carl has been passengering Steve for two seasons and has been a British Champion Sidecar passenger on two occasions. Steve and Carl race a very special light-weight Yamaha R1 Wasp grass outfit, fitted with 41mm Kehin Carbs, a Feral ignition system and Yoshimura exhaust. The speedway outfit is also an R1 Wasp but with different engine spec. They will be competing in all major national and international meetings in the UK. |
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Paul Cooper -Speedway & International Longtrack & Grasstrack RiderACHIEVEMENTS:
CAREER HISTORY: Dad was a grasstrack rider and so I have always been into racing bikes. Dad built me a bike out of an old Honda C50 when i was 3 years old. I would ride it round after the grass meetings he did. As i got older I progressed onto bigger bikes and at the age of 11 I started to race grasstrack myself. After nine years on the grass I decided to buy a bike for Speedway. The intention was to do a few second half races and maybe some Conference League meetings. In 2003 I made my debut for the Sheffield Prowlers and rode in their Trophy matches in 2004 when work and grasstrack commitments allowed. After a year I decided to take up Sheffield's offer to join them in the Premier League for my first full season of professional speedway racing. Towards the end of a successful debut Premier League Season I sustained a serious leg injury in a horror crash at Glasgow on 11th September 2005. At first Doctors believed my career was over and I underwent a series of operations to repair the damaged ligaments, tendons and muscles in my left knee, including a ligament transplant. A Winter of convalescing, physiotherapy and practice spins at Scunthorpe contributed to my recovery allowing me to be fit and ready for my return to ride for Sheffield for the start of the 2006 season albeit wearing a specialist brace to protect my injured knee. Although I suffered both mentally and physically with my injury I gained valuable points home and away to assist Sheffield reach the Premier League Play off Finals and two Major Cup Finals. My best away points haul was in our away win at Redcar in April scoring paid 16 on the unpredictable newly laid track. My home performance of the season was a paid 17 return against the Isle of Wight in June. In August 2006, I doubled up with Conference League team Scunthorpe Scorpions as cover for their injured Captain Wayne Carter. My first achievement for the Scorpions was winning the Conference League Best Pairs Meeting, riding with my Sheffield team mate Benji Compton. While riding for Scunthorpe we won an unprecedented amount of silverware, completing the Grand Slam at Conference level winning the League, Knockout Cup, Trophy and Shield. |
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Charlie SaundersDate of birth: Best acheivements: 3rd british under 21s, best pairs winner 350s, Jim Coles spectacular winner, 3rd west country winner, runner up masters qualifier, 12th british masters first attempt,made the final in the floodlit, 2nd ledbury leader, just missed out on a place at the final at the famous marmande circuit first visit, 2004 dutch indoor champion, youth bonfire burnup winner 2005, 6th in the youth gold cup in germany, 2nd youth inters british championship 2005.
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Barry PowellBarry hails from Cinderford in Gloucester. He is 28 years old and has ridden bikes since he was 6 years old.He works full time for the RAC,repairing & fitting windscreens (could be a handy guy to have around!).He is a Grasstrack rider.His acheivements throughout his riding career are,South West Championships,never failing to finish lower than 3rd place and last year, 2006,finishing 6th in the British Championships.he rides 350cc Jawa's and has recently bought a 500cc Jawa. His ambitions for 2007 are,to finish in the top 5 of the British Championships and to be in the top 5 of averages over the year for his meetings.
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Jack Hirst:Jack has been riding motorcycles since the age of 6, when he received a 50cc Yamaha for his birthday, which he rode on spare land, he enjoyed that bike untill he got too big for it. So we got him a 125 trials bike on which he learned clutch and throttle control. His dad started watching speedway on t.v. and Jack said he would like to have a go,so we arranged to go to Sheffield training track, we hired all the equipment and had a go, Jack loved it, we went back each week untill he got the hang of it, we then bought him his own 125 Honda in a upright frame within 3 weeks he was riding it flat out and could not progress any more,. So we got him a 500 Jawa, that week Sheffield closed down. We tried Stoke, Scunthorpe, Buxton but he struggled on these big tracks and he was loosing confidence,So we got in touch with Northside at Workington and they said bring him along and try here. since then he has come on leaps and bounds ,won a cup for best newcomer, been invited to Belle Vue practice which resulted in being invited to their pre season press and practice with a vue to getting on the Belle Vue Colts team.
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