Report by Mick Aris
Slater Street, Leicester was the location for the Midland Individual Championships on Sunday 18th August and on a superbly prepared surface the meeting kicked off with the u12s & u14s combined to produce 10 heats of brilliant raw cycle speedway. The eventual winner of both events was Carson East who went through the meeting unbeaten, Nyla Aris 2nd & Mason Hoyland 3rd completed the u12s rostrum and Callum Szymanski 2nd & Hattie Hughes 3rd the u14s.
Next up were the o40 vets. Lee Aris seemed the likely winner after he beat the home favourite Mark Whitehead but a superb pass by Kev Burns to demote Aris to third with Nicky Whitehead winning a later race left things balanced. Mark duly won his last race to take the title but a run off was needed for 2nd which Aris made no mistake, this time against Burns.
The Ladies turn now and a mixture of experience and youth made up the field nevertheless the formula threw up some interesting battles to keep the crowds enthusiasm Birmingham’s Rebekah Humphries eventually triumphed over Lucy Whitehead, Michelle Whitehead and Georgia Burt.
The last meeting of the day was the Open the big hitters flexed their muscles to do battle but it was 5 lightning starts from Chris Timms never headed out the first bend which took the title. One race of note was Timms 1, Paul Heard 2, Chris Jewkes 3 and Lee Aris 4. Lee got the better of CJ to finish 3rd and that was the rostrum. Special mention for Luke Draisey beaten only by the top 3 and Tom Berwick for some entertaining racing from the back
Slater Street, Leicester was the location for the Midland Individual Championships on Sunday 18th August and on a superbly prepared surface the meeting kicked off with the u12s & u14s combined to produce 10 heats of brilliant raw cycle speedway. The eventual winner of both events was Carson East who went through the meeting unbeaten, Nyla Aris 2nd & Mason Hoyland 3rd completed the u12s rostrum and Callum Szymanski 2nd & Hattie Hughes 3rd the u14s.
Next up were the o40 vets. Lee Aris seemed the likely winner after he beat the home favourite Mark Whitehead but a superb pass by Kev Burns to demote Aris to third with Nicky Whitehead winning a later race left things balanced. Mark duly won his last race to take the title but a run off was needed for 2nd which Aris made no mistake, this time against Burns.
The Ladies turn now and a mixture of experience and youth made up the field nevertheless the formula threw up some interesting battles to keep the crowds enthusiasm Birmingham’s Rebekah Humphries eventually triumphed over Lucy Whitehead, Michelle Whitehead and Georgia Burt.
The last meeting of the day was the Open the big hitters flexed their muscles to do battle but it was 5 lightning starts from Chris Timms never headed out the first bend which took the title. One race of note was Timms 1, Paul Heard 2, Chris Jewkes 3 and Lee Aris 4. Lee got the better of CJ to finish 3rd and that was the rostrum. Special mention for Luke Draisey beaten only by the top 3 and Tom Berwick for some entertaining racing from the back
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