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There is still a few Race Jackets of Jason Lyons for sale. If interested please get in contact via email kaisasjoholm@hotmail.com

There is s few race jackets left from Jason Lyons career... Various Aussie ones, testimonial and club ones... If interested please email! kaisasjoholm@hotmail.com

Jason Lyons is selling all his race jackets he's had during his career. If interested please get in contact for photos etc.... As you know we are now residing in Australia so any purchase will have to include delivery.

I believe there is coaches coming down from Edinburgh and Belle Vue for this meeting....hopefully it will be a good turnout!!!

Only a couple of days until this huge meeting will take place. I'm for one are so excited to come down to watch a meeting that should be a great send off to a very popular rider that has served the UK with some very entertaining speedway for over 22 years. I reckon if Jason didn't broke his leg so badly last year he would still be going strong this year. Let us all turn out and show our appreciation for Jason on Thursday....I really think he deserves it!

Rusty Harrison is only banned from riding in any competitive form of any BSPA event... This will be a great opportunity to see Rusty this season again!

Four more riders added to the list.....Tai Woffinden, Tomasz Jedrzejak, Joe Screen and Ty Proctor!

Riders confirmed so far....Freddie Lindgren, Piotr Protasiewicz, Rory Schlein, Davey Watt, Adam Skornicki, Chris Harris, Cameron Woodward and Ryan Sullivan. I have heard more will be released next week!

Chris Harris and Cameron Woodward added to the riders list...

Lyons tribute to ex boss Perrin JASON Lyons has paid tribute to the role played in his career by the late Belle Vue promoter John Perrin, saying ‘he was like a father to me.’ Lyons ends his 22-year racing career in Britain with a Farewell meeting at Birmingham on August 23 when there will be a strong turnout of fans from the Manchester club who called him Mr Belle Vue. It was Perrin who spot...ted the potential of Lyons and offered him the chance to move up into the Elite League after only two seasons with Premier League Glasgow, who he had joined as a 19-year-old unknown. Perrin was a stormy character but he and Lyons struck up a friendship which went beyond the speedway track. Lyons said: “John must have noticed what I was doing for Glasgow and he invited me to ride in the Peter Craven Trophy meeting. It was my first taste of a first division track apart from Coventry where I’d raced in the World Under-21 championship. I scored nine points. “Glasgow had won the league and had the opportunity to come up into the top division but they didn’t want to. I did so I finished there after two seasons. John was the only promoter to want me and I got the job on the phone. “Buster Chapman tried to get me to Kings Lynn for a year or two after I’d joined Belle Vue but John always said No. “John was a real good guy. He ran the club himself with a few mates and he worked so hard. Belle Vue was his pride and joy. He put his money where his mouth was. “I stayed with Mike and Joan Rushworth in my first year at Belle Vue and then rented a place across the road from the stadium before going to stay with John and his wife, Trish, in Salford. I did my bikes in his garage. “Like most people I had my fall-outs with John but then we’d have a beer and a laugh. He was like a father to me. “He was a kind, generous man, too. One year he bought me an engine for my birthday. He’d given me a GM bike for signing on and things went well. It was a fast bike and I scored a lot of points. “I’d learned a lot in Scotland but I still had a lot more to learn when I moved up to Belle Vue and John helped me so much.” There are still some sponsorship packages available for the Farewell meeting. Anyone interested can please contact jason_lyons.farewell@yahoo.com

I have seen on Jason Lyons Farewell on Facebook that Ryan Sullivan and Adam Skornicki will ride in his meeting in August. I think his line up is starting to look really good!

That is good news....very pleased for Jason that a rider like Freddie id doing his farewell just 2 days before the GP in Cardiff. Alot of riders wouldn't risk doing a meeting like this before such a big event. Just goes to show how popular Jason must have been amongst other riders! Bring it on.....

Taken from worldspeedway.com Old boss Neil backs Jason Farewell JASON Lyons will renew an old friendship with one of the biggest influences on his 22-year British career when he holds his Farewell meeting at Birmingham on August 23. Neil Macfarlane was the Glasgow promoter who signed Lyons without ever having seen him ride and brought him over from Australia as a 19-year-old novice who had never been out of the country before. Macfarlane has left the speedway scene since that eventful decision in 1990 and is now involved in golf. He signed Lyons after telling Glasgow rider Sean Courtney, who was going to Australia on holiday, to look out for a promising young rider. Macfarlane said: “I only keep a passing interest in speedway these days because of my other commitments. But when I read about Jason’s Farewell meeting I checked my diary and saw that I would be able to make it. “He’s a great rider and a great person and I am pleased that I was able to play a part in his speedway career. I haven’t seen him for a while but I mean to be at the Farewell.” Lyons said: “Sean watched a meeting at my home track, Mildura, and came to talk to my Dad and I afterwards. He said he would recommend me to a promoter in Scotland called Neil Macfarlane. “A few months later I was on the plane. I didn’t have to think twice about accepting the chance but I had no idea where I was going when I sat on that plane. I finished up in Berwick with Sean and his wife, Susan, and they looked after me for a few months before I moved to Glasgow. “I crashed a lot and bent a lot of bikes but I enjoyed it. Neil was the team manager – and he didn’t like losing! “I couldn’t afford to get my bikes fixed after crashing. Neil called me in one day and gave me a pay rise so I could. It will be great to see him again. I owe him such a lot.” Piotr Protasiewicz, Davey Watt and Rory Schlein have accepted invitations to ride in the meeting and more riders will be revealed shortly.

Great post Rod Butler.....but I think he joined Belle Vue from Glasgow....I might be wrong. I really hope he gets a great send off from people all over in the Speedway World!

Have seen today that Davey Watt and Rory Sclein are doing Jason's meeting on August 23rd at Birmingham.....three good riders announced so far!