2016 speedway practice dates

Joe will try to run the following fixtures with Dragons armature club this year

Sunday April 3rd - King's Lynn 1pm start time
Saturday April 23rd - Mildenhall 11am
Sunday June 5th - King's Lynn 1pm
Sunday June 26th - King's Lynn 1pm
Saturday July 16th - Mildenhall 11am
Sunday August 14th - King's Lynn 1pm
Sunday September 4th - King's Lynn mid-day
Saturday October 1st - Mildenhall 11am
Sunday October 23rd - King's Lynn mid-day
Saturday November 12th - King's Lynn 'Big Bash Evening Event' 4pm start

And with Southern Track Riders

Remaining meetings

tomorrows STR meeting is off 

We are still hoping to run Saturday evenings  Dragons Big Bash on14th November that is a 4 pm start hopefully under the lights

Next meetings

Next race day will be 18th October kings lynn 12:00 start

Following that Sunday 8th November 

Then last meeting will be Dragons

Sat 14th November evening start time

All meetings kings lynn 12:00 start

Sunday 27th September southern track riders junior results

Today's speedway times 

Heat 6. 2nd

Sprocket 15/58

24.4

21.6

22.1

21.6

89.7 

Heat 15  2nd

Sprocket 

15/60

90.2 

No splits 

Heat 23 2nd

Sprocket ?

22.9

21.7

20.9

21.0

86.5 

Heat 31 3rd

Big issues with flooding carby

Sprocket 14/58

26.5

23.0

22.8

22.7

95.2

Heat 40 2nd

1/58

Lead fro two laps

22.7

20.5

20.6

20.2

84.0

Problems getting the speed all day ,carby overflowing blah blah

Eventually found piece of plastic swarf  in the fuel inlet port ,once this was removed and the float reset bike ran well but that was the last race anyhow

Hard lines to Duane who suffered a leg injury today.

Next meeting TBC

18th October as joe has another DoE trip next weekend

22nd August mildenhall speedway southern track riders

Track conditions very poor that day with temperatures over 30 degrees 

Midway point the riders were invited to vote to continue as it was impossible to grade the track 

Result Joe got 3rd place in a field of 5 junior riders

Photo of bike ready to go 

Bad luck to Andrew leech who had an expensive and nasty looking crash

http://youtu.be/Oz-Vc704RfI

next meeting 6th September kings lynn 12:00 dragons Adrain flux arena

Joe Bown back on track at kings lynn 19th July Southerntrack Adrain flux arena

Following big off at mildenhall last week joe Bown will make a comeback using his new 150cc motor

Racing starts 12 noon free entry through pits.

Joe suffered wrist and leg injuries but insisted he would be back on track for the souterntrack meeting this week.

Many thanks to Jamie at speedway service for straightening out the bike in time for this weekend.

Joe will also be on track next Sunday at the Adrain flux arena for the rations armature meeting.

Joe came second to Taylor Hampshire last week and put in Track times of 70 and 67secs his best time last year for mildenhall was nearly 5 secs slower

See video

http://youtu.be/xEBfUKIjcqE

http://youtu.be/T82k64v5w8M

Photos 

See table below this was incorrect joe had a third in his first followed by 4 2nds

 

28th June dragons kings lynn

28th June Dragons Amateur Team Kings Lynn - Adrian Flux Arena

Joe had 6 rides today the first two didn't go well this was due to a blocked vent line on the carburettor 

After at things really got going.

This was the first time joe actually did full corners at the massive lynn circuit .

Lap times were pretty good he is lapping in 20.9 -21.8 secs per lap ave

Great result following his fantastic performance at Scunthorpe 
A new Engine is now on order so thanks goes out to Robin cousins at Rob Racing
www.robracing.co.uk
 

Please see video links.

 

Link for video

Link for video 2

photos

getting it sideways on turn 1 there's no airfence in the shot ! 

Also thanks to everyone who helps Joe via sponsoring and other support even if its just coming to watch it all helps.

Special Thanks to -
 Dane Brown (Dodfreys Engineering) for repairing my footwear
 Chris, Graham and James for helping out on the mechanical / engine side
Best wishes to Graham who is recovering from an eye Op but still does things to help
lastly Steve for trackside stuff

Without that things would be very difficult

thanks

Joe

Next meetings
Saturday 11th July Mildenhall Dragons Club
Sunday 19th July southern track riders - Kings Lynn
Sunday 26th July Dragons Club - Kings Lynn