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Julie Martin - Weymouth Wildcats
This Saturday we welcome the stars of
the future to the Wessex Stadium as
the Weymouth club kicks off the 2008
season with the last of the qualifying
rounds of the Great Britain Under 21
Championship.
This opening meeting for Weymouth speedway
promises to be a night to remember where
the stakes are high, with all riders
aiming to book themselves a place in
the final at to be held at Lakeside
on the 25th April. Pre-meeting favourites
and last years finalists - Lee Smart
and Mark Baseby will both be hoping
to repeat their previous success, with
Daniel Halsey and Barry Burchatt aiming
to go one better than last season which
saw them both reach the semi-final.
However, as part of the Somerset Rebels
contribution to junior racing, promoter
Mike Golding established a tie with
Polish club - Czestochowa enabling members
of the Somerset’s junior racers some
valuable overseas experience. Kyle Newman,
Brendan Johnson, Matt Bates and Andrew
Braithwaite have been getting in some
early season practice in Poland this
week which should set them in good stead
for their assault on the qualifying
round. Speaking from Poland, Brendan
Johnson said they have been very impressed
with the way speedway is approached
at the Extraleague club “We have been
learning about set-ups and Czestochowa
organised a junior UK v Poland meeting
for us. We have all been very impressed
with the approach to speedway over here
and can’t wait to return to England
and get this years campaign started”
‘Young Lions’ co-ordinators – Graham
Reeve and David Croucher will be in
attendance and will no doubt be keeping
a close eye on the action, where there
may very well be a future World Champion
in the making.
The meeting starts at 7.15pm at the
Wessex Stadium this Saturday 12th April.
The meetings provisional line up is
as follows:-
1 Lee Strudwick
2 Oliver Gay
3 Andrew Braithwaite
4 Lee Smart
5 Kyle Newman
6 Barry Burchatt
7 Daniel Halsey
8 Mark Baseby
9 Niall Strudwick
10 Timothy Webster
11 Adam Chandler
12 Aaron Baseby
13 Gareth Isherwood
14 Matthew Bates
15 Gary Irving
16 Nick Laurence
17 John Macphail
18 Brendan Johnson
John Resch
Michael Bovis
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