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Gillman speedway in Adelaide, Australia, has just announced the staging of the Speedway Sidecar World Cup.

The meeting is scheduled for Saturday March 26, 2016. The following night, Sunday March 27, 2016. will see a round

of the Oceania Sidecar title being run.

 

Gillman Speedway manager, Mr Dave Parker and a team which included, Leigh Adams and Mark Lemon,

have worked for a long time with MA, (Motorcycling Australia) to get the FIM to resubscribe the event as an

official world title. I believe everyone is very pleased with the outcome.

 

Clearly Australia leads the way in the promotion, professionalism and developement of this exciting sport.

Think I can safely say all supporters and fans appreciate all the hard work these people have done behind the scene.

 

The world title meeting will feature riders and teams from the USA, GB, NZ and of course Australia. This will be

a great speedway weekend, with great racing. Ideal weekend away for some of you Europeans.

 

To early for rider list yet, but many of the international riders have been going around in Australia in the last

couple of years, achieving some impressive results along the way.

 

Cant upload the link, however Gillman web address is; www.gillmanspeedway.com.au.

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The 2016 FIM Speedway Sidecar World Cup is held this week on Easter Saturday at Gillman Speedway, Adelaide, South Australia.

Four nations are represented - Great Britain, United States, New Zealand, and Australia.

 

SIDECAR WORLD CUP

Starting list below in alphabetical order:

 

Dylan Blain / Hamish Golding (Aus)

Andrew Buchanan / Denny Cox (NZ/Aus)

Mick Cave / Sam Heath (GB)

Dave Gannon / Raymond George (NZ)

Mick Headland / Jesse Headland (Aus)

Trent Headland / Darryl Whetstone (Aus/GB)

Joseph Jones / Thomas Summers (USA)

Warren Monson / Andrew Summerhayes (Aus)

Bryan Motis / Cody Brant (USA)

Damien Niesche / Mitchell Spear (SA)

Mark Plaisted / Darcy Risstrom (Aus)

Derek Ramsay / Matthew Ramsay (NZ)

Aiden Thwaites / Shane Twiss (NZ)

Darrin Treloar / Blake Cox (Aus)

Paul Whitelam / Damian Egan (GB/Aus)

Rob Wilson / Liam Brown (GB)

 

Reserves:

David Bottrell / Christopher Bottrell (Aus)

Rob Patterson / Don Morris (Aus)

 

http://www.ma.org.au/index.php?id=12&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=15610&cHash=acf4e1ad6d

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The official FIM Speedway Sidecar 1000cc World Cup will take place at Adelaide’s Gillman Speedway Stadium on Saturday night (26 March). The World Cup will be the highlight of the weekend, but it is just one part of a three day speedway carnival.

 

On Good Friday the promoters will open the stadium with free entry to a “festival of speed” which will see over one hundred classic and current day speedway bikes and cars on display. There will also be interviews throughout the day with riders and drivers, including the visiting overseas sidecar riders here for the World Cup, plus a rock band and activities for kids – and repeating, all for free entry. The festivities will run from 10am until 4pm and then it will be time to shut up shop and start the final venue and track preparations for the World Cup 24 hours later.

 

Gates will open at 4pm on Saturday with racing starting at 7.30pm. Spectators arriving early will have free access to the pits to get a close up look at the bikes and their riders/passengers, and then the action begins, when seven of the best Australian riders, as determined by last season’s Australian Championship results, will take on riders from Great Britain, New Zealand and the United States of America.

 

The World Cup will be decided over 20 qualifying heats with the top three point scorers going into a final to decide the meeting winner. They’ll be joined in the final by the winner of a “last chance” semi-final for the next four highest scorers.

Favourites to win the World Cup will be Darrin Treloar/Blake Cox (NSW), Mick Headland/Jesse Headland (SA), Mark Plaisted/Darcy Risstrom (SA/Vic) and Warren Monson/Matt Morgan (Vic/Qld).

 

These riders are the best of the best. Treloar is the most successful rider in Speedway Sidecar history, Headland is a former World Track Racing Gold Trophy and World Championship winner, Plaisted is a former Oceania Champion and Monson is the current Australia #2, so the rest of the field will have their work cut out just to reach the final ahead of any of these riders. Fellow Aussies Trent Headland (and British passenger Darryl Whetstone) and Damien Niesche/Mitchell Spear have been two of the most in-form riders this season however, so it would not be a shock if either, or even both, qualified for the final.

Being able to put together five good rides to consistently beat the top four will be the key, and likewise with the overseas riders. They showed in trials last meeting that they are going to be very competitive and entertaining against each other, but can they take enough points off the Australians to be in contention for a place in the semi-final? The Kiwis Andrew Buchanan/Denny Cox, Derek Ramsay/Matthew Ramsay and Aiden Thwaites/Shane Twiss, and Americans Joe Jones/Tom Summers looked to be the best chances.

 

All You need to know http://www.gillmanspeedway.com/news/fim-speedway-sidecar-world-cup-at-gillman-speedway-on-saturday-night/

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