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Hammers Captain Injured in Sweden
Yesterday
The Lakeside Hammers captain, Adam Shields, was injured in a crash in Sweden on Tuesday evening whist racing for his Swedish side Rospiggarna. It has now been confirmed that Shields dislocated his shoulder in a crash in his final race. Rospiggarna were competing at Indianerna in Sweden’s top league and Shields had already been instrumental in helping his side move into a match winning position. He had scored 11 points from his four rides but in his final race he took a fall and was unable to take his place in the re-run. Despite that Rospiggarna recorded an away win by just two points.
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Meklau Scores Podium at German SBK Opener
Yesterday
With a place in the front row of the grid at the Euro Speedway Lausitz, Andreas Meklau gained an excellent starting position to finish on the podium in the first race of the International German Superbike championship season.
The 40-year-old Austrian rider from Team SUZUKI International Europe took the chequered flag in third place after a tough, but fair, struggle with Jarg Teuchert (Yamaha), during which the two bikes even touched on occasion.
Meklau was third in the second heat again, following Bauer and Teuchert across the line after Dario Giuseppetti on the Ducati was penalised and moved five places down the list of finishers after a complaint for allegedly leaving and returning to the starting grid had been upheld.
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The Hammers Return to League Racing on Friday
30 April 2008
Following the successful staging of the British U-21 Final at their Raceway last Friday the Hammers return to Sky Sports Elite League action this Friday with the visit of their nearest rivals, the Ipswich Witches. The British U-21 Championship took place in front of a good sized crowd at the Arena Essex Raceway and was eventually won by Tai Woffinden from Adam Roynon and Ben Barker after 22 heats of enthralling racing. The last time the Ipswich Witches were at the Arena Essex Raceway was on Good Friday in the Craven Shield and despite the Hammers winning in the afternoon at the Witches home circuit at Foxhall Road they went down to the Witches in the home evening return fixture. The Hammers riders will, therefore, be looking to gain revenge over the Ipswich for that defeat when they meet on Friday in the League.
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Pietri Leads at Fontana & Finishes 4th in Superstock
29 April 2008
Team Roadracingworld.com Suzuki backed up their first-ever AMA Superstock podium finish a week earlier at Barber Motorsports Park with another tremendous showing this weekend at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA. Robertino Pietri scored his best finish of the season and equaled the best of his AMA career by finishing fourth in the AMA Superstock race aboard his Pirelli-shod GSX-R1000. Meanwhile, teammate Chris Ulrich fought up from outside the top ten to take seventh in the race and hold down third in the 2008 points race.
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Hammers Delight Over Win At Wolverhampton
23 April 2008
The Lakeside Hammers riders, management and supporters were all delighted with Monday evening’s superb victory in their Sky Sports Elite League match up at Wolverhampton. Despite falling behind in the early stages the whole team raised their games and eventually came out easy winners. The home side led by six points after just four heats and although the Hammers gained 4-2 heat wins in the sixth and seventh races the Hammers did not take the lead until heat 10, when Joonas Kylmakorpi and Adam Shields claimed a maximum 5-1 heat advantage over the Wolves No1 Fredrik Lindgren and Ales Dryml. That put the Hammers two points up but that soon doubled to four points when Andreas Jonsson defeated the in-form David Howe with the young Hammers reserve Ricky Kling picking up the point for third place.
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Pirates Forced to Make Changes Ahead of Hammers Match
11 April 2008
The latest news regarding the Lakeside Hammers home Sky Sports Elite League match tonight against the pre season favourites to take this season's League title, the Poole Pirates, at the Arena Essex Raceway is that the Pirates have been forced into making some last minute changes to their line-up.
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Jonsson Out For At Least Two Weeks
02 April 2008
Lakeside Hammers Number 1, Andreas Jonsson, received the news he and the Club did not want to hear late on Tuesday. Having felt confident of a quick return to Hammers action, the Swedish ace saw evidence of the effects of his high speed crash at Belle Vue on Monday night as the specialist x-rays revealed two broken fingers in the left hand and a further broken bone in the right hand, close to the wrist. Each of the injuries may possibly require operations to correct, and a further, conclusive examination will be carried out this morning (Wednesday) to ascertain the exact procedure required.
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Hammers Jonsson Still Struggling With Hand Injury
02 April 2008
The Lakeside Hammers will now be using Jonas Davidsson alongside Adam Shields in Saturday’s Elite League Best Pairs meeting at King’s Lynn as Jonsson is struggling with a hand injury. Davidsson has been selected ahead of Joonas Kylmakorpi based on their current form.
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Hammers Injury Update
01 April 2008
Following the crash in heat 11 at Belle Vue last night involving Andreas Jonsson and Leigh Lanham the Club is awaiting news from both riders. Jonsson flew back to his native Sweden this morning and on his arrival is going to have his hands examined. His has nail damage to one hand and has possibly broken a finger. His right wrist is very swollen.
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Hammers Tame The Panthers
29 March 2008
A resounding victory against the Peterborough Panthers on Friday evening was the reward of some extraordinary work by the Lakeside track staff to get this Craven Shield fixture on. The match saw the Hammers side dominate proceedings from the very first heat. The initial staging of that race was stopped on the second lap when the Panthers No.2 Zdenek Simota took a tumble on the exit to the second bend. At the time of his fall the Hammers pairing of Andreas Jonsson and Leigh Lanham were on their way to a maximum 5-1 heat advantage over Peterborough’s Danish Grand Prix star, Hans Andersen.
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Burst Bubble Might Be Good
22 March 2008
The Lakeside Hammers Speedway team fought a hard two matches on a freezing cold and windy Good Friday against the Ipswich Witches. Hammers boss Stuart Douglas reflected on a disappointing home performance against the Witches in philosophical fashion.
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Team RoadRacingWorld.com First on Board for the SunTrust MOTO-ST Series Opener
05 February 2008
First to sign up for the SunTrust MOTO-ST Series season opener March 2 at Daytona International Speedway is the two bike Roadracingworld.com Suzuki team. “We are ready to roll,” says Chris Ulrich who, along with co-riders Cory West and Michael Barnes will pilot the Number 18 Roadracingworld.com Suzuki in the Buell Motorcycle Company SuperSport class (SST). “We nailed the victory at the 8 Hours At Daytona at the end of last season and now we are back to do it again. Being Number One is what racing is all about and being the first team to enter the race at Daytona sends a message to the competition that we are definitely ready to go for it.”
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Stage Set & Players Ready For SunTrust MOTO-ST Series Opener
25 January 2008
The stage is set and the players are ready for the curtain to rise for the opening round of the 2008 SunTrust MOTO-ST Series, March 2 at Daytona International Speedway. The kick-off race for the world renowned Daytona 200 Week by Honda, this year’s 500 K SunTrust MOTO-ST Series season opener will give fans a chance to feel, hear and see the thunder as a full field of riders vie for glory and those all-important points on the famed 2.95-mile Daytona infield road course.
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SunTrust MOTO-ST Series Announces Provisional Schedule for 2008
22 January 2008
Ready to head into its second year is the SunTrust MOTO-ST Series – America’s newest two-wheeled professional racing tour – plans to deliver an incredible seven-race season of some of the most exciting team racing seen anywhere in the country.
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Wera Sportsman Series Event at Cal Speedway
11 January 2008
Graves Motorsports Super Moto Champion Mark Burkhart and Lites Champion Brandon Currie will be riding on Saturday in the Fast Track practice and racing, if they desire, in the WERA regional sprints on Sunday.
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Ben Wilson – Scunthorpe Short Track
10 January 2008
Ben Wilson rounded off the year with a ride at the festive season Shorttrack meeting held at Scunthorpe Speedway circuit recently. Despite a crash in which he was run over by another rider, Ben picked himself up and took part in the re-start. But because he was the cause of the stoppage Ben was placed at the back of the grid and although he rode through to a sixth place finish in his semi final he was not quite high enough up the order to gain a place in the final.
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Ace Cafe - Speedway Day
31 July 2007
Ace Cafe London is delighted to host one of the most successful speedway club's in history, the Eastbourne Eagles, at their annual Speedway Day, on Sunday 2nd September starting at 10am and finishing at around 5pm. Speedway was very much a part of the cafe's history. In the period following World War II, Speedway racing took place regularly, every Thursday night at the world famous Wembley Stadium, just a stones throw from the cafe, attracting tens of thousand of fans, with huge numbers visiting the cafe.
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AMA Taps Motorsports Professional To Lead AMA Racing
25 July 2007
The American Motorcyclist Association is pleased to announce the appointment of Dennis Rhee as Senior Vice President for Racing, overseeing the AMA's extensive racing properties. A professional with nearly two decades in motorsports, Rhee brings a strong background in race promotion and sports management to the job.
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Volunteer Speedway Hosting Its First Ama Grand National
02 June 2007
PICKERINGTON, Ohio (May 30, 2007) – Volunteer Speedway is set to host its first AMA Grand National Championship race this Saturday, June 2. Round two of the AMA GNC Twins Championship and round five of the AMA Ford Quality Checked Flat Track Championship comes to Eastern Tennessee and the fast half-mile track in Bulls Gap, Tenn.
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Suzuki's Mladin And Spies Dominate Fontana
02 May 2007
Team Yoshimura Suzuki's Mat Mladin and team mate Ben Spies dominated the second leg of the AMA Superbike Championship double-header at California Speedway in Fontana today, with Mladin taking the victory by just 0.035 seconds. The six-time AMA Champion reversed the places on his team mate as the two GSX-R1000s finished 21 seconds ahead of third-placed Eric Bostrom (Yamaha) in the 28 lapper.
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