szkocjasid Posted June 23 Report Share Posted June 23 I'm a very keen speedway fan, but I've seen very little about Mildenhall, especially upcoming meetings. I'd suggest they need to advertise better, especially on free social media platforms. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Thumb Posted June 27 Report Share Posted June 27 On 6/21/2026 at 8:14 PM, Tom Thumb said: Next meeting 4th July. Scrap that, now 25th July. Taken from Facebook MEETING NEWS The next Mildenhall Speedway meeting at West Row will now be on Saturday July 25th with the staging of the inaugural ‘Racing In The East’ NORA Pairs Championship. The meeting scheduled for 4th July was to be a standalone challenge match vs Cradley but with a range of circumstances to consider following a disappointing crowd in the last meeting, this has led to a decision not to run against the football World Cup tournament likely to keep fans away and instead prepare for the big event later this month. Six pairs will be competing with Kent Eagles and Peterborough Panthers already confirmed as sending pairs to compete in this NORA national championship event. Supporters Community Trust chairperson Kieran Phillips spoke of the cancellation of the Cradley meeting. “It’s obviously disappointing to have to cancel next weekend but we have to accept (as very many others across the land looking to organise events during the period of the FIFA World Cup are doing likewise) that going up against the televised football with two major knock out round games effectively clashing with our meeting time, this would be a very risky thing to do. And with us already facing some financial jeopardy after a very disappointing attendance last time means we will not take that risk. “We are looking for our Trust members and loyal supporters to step up and for our appeal for a main team sponsor to provide the backing we need; and on top of that, our attentions are fully on promoting what is going to be a hugely memorable meeting on July 25th”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Thumb Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 (edited) Announced teams & riders for Nora Pairs Championships sponsored by "Racing in the East" Saturday 25th July 1. Mildenhall Fen Tigers Alfie Bowtell & Harry Sadler 2. Kent Eagles Ben Morley & Jack Kingston 3. Cradley Heath Heathens Luke Harris & Seth Norman 4. Anglian Angels Simon Lambert & Tayla Street 5. Wisbech Mickie Simpson & Sam Woods 6. Ipswich Adacamy Ashton Vale & Harrison Rogers As always subject to change (esp. Kenzie Cossey, who broke ribs at Iwade on Sunday) Edit Tayla Street replaces Kenzie Cossey. Edited July 15 by Tom Thumb Update 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Thumb Posted July 21 Report Share Posted July 21 From Mildenhall Fen Tigers Facebook page. Meeting preview: NORA British Pairs Championship - Mildenhall Stadium, Saturday 25th.July 2026 It’s a case of Two’s Company at Mildenhall Stadium on Saturday 25th. July with the NORA British Pairs Championship coupled with demonstration races from the leading riders from British Championship Sidecars providing a full programme of events for what promises to be an exciting evening of top-quality Speedway racing – gates at 6pm for a 7.30pm start time. The NORA Pairs event sponsored by ‘The Racing In The East’ project sees the welcome return to Fen Tigers’ colours of West Row favourite son, Alfie Bowtell; partnered by Aussie Harry Sadler – who scored a hugely impressive paid 12 on his Mildenhall debut last month. The home duo face stiff opposition from five visiting pairs. Fellow NORA League side Kent Eagles come with predictable strength, captained by a former National League Pairs Champion in the vastly experienced Ben Morley and a former Fen Tiger, returning after a mid-season break from action, one time British U19 rostrum man, Jack Kingston. Another former third tier Pairs Champion in the form of Simon Lambert fronts up the first of two Pairs brought to the meeting by the HG Aerospace Speedway Academy – the Anglian Angels. The Angels were the joint-side put together back in the late 1990s by East Anglian giants King’s Lynn & Ipswich and the Foxhall-based Academy has resurrected the team name for this meeting and future use. Partnering multi-British Finalist Lambert and making a West Row debut on her racing tour of Europe is World Women’s Championship number 4, Tayla Street. Team Managing the Angels is former Ipswich Witches rider and long-time Team boss at Foxhall, Ritchie Hawkins. The other HG Aerospace-backed team are Ipswich themselves – with two leading members of their Academy in Ashton Vale and Harrison Rogers looking to upset the odds. As will the remaining two pairs: Cradley A.R.H. Heathens’ Seth Norman and former GB Youth Champion, Luke Harris; and the Boston-based duo of Mickie Simpson and Sam Woods, wearing on the evening the colours of a team name from the Cambs & Lincs border of old, Wisbech. Making the meeting a double attraction will be the mighty 1000cc Sidecars featuring two legends of the discipline: former British Sidecar Speedway Champion, Paul Whitelam and multi-GB Champion in Grasstrack Sidecars, Will Penfold. Both crews have multi-appearances in the Sidecar Speedway World Championships and there couldn’t be more impressive ambassadors re-introducing this discipline to British Speedway tracks. The meeting is sponsored by the ‘The Racing In The East’ project. Details of this University of East Anglia ground-breaking project will be in the special souvenir meeting programme along with an exclusive article highlighting the very little-documented post-war Wisbech Speedway written by Speedway historian Derek Barclay. Chairperson of the Mildenhall Supporters Trust who run Speedway at West Row; Kieran Phillips states, “This is such a big meeting for the club – our biggest since we formed the Community Interest Company and reopened the sport at West Row. The field is of great quality and we’ve had tremendous sponsorship and support from fellow clubs which is so heartening to see. On track it’s going to be close and exciting for sure.” The NORA British Pairs Championship is at Mildenhall Stadium on Saturday 25th. July – gates at 6pm; tapes up at 7.30pm. Admission is £15 with youngsters aged 15 years and under, go free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris116 Posted July 21 Report Share Posted July 21 Sad to see no Isle of Wight pair in this event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEEDY69 Posted July 21 Report Share Posted July 21 Looks a good line up for this meeting, some evenly matched pairs there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEEDY69 Posted July 21 Report Share Posted July 21 Do spedeworth still own/lease Mildenhall because when i paid with my phone at Foxhall the payment details said it was to 'Mildenhall stadium'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris116 Posted July 22 Report Share Posted July 22 12 hours ago, SPEEDY69 said: Do spedeworth still own/lease Mildenhall because when i paid with my phone at Foxhall the payment details said it was to 'Mildenhall stadium'? Spedeworth own Mildenhall Stadium. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheCazzo Posted July 22 Report Share Posted July 22 22 hours ago, SPEEDY69 said: Looks a good line up for this meeting, some evenly matched pairs there. The same names for most NORA meetings. From what I have observed it's mostly the same core of riders wearing a different race jacket depending on the meeting. But if that keeps the wulfsport jacket brigade happy and they are happy to pay the admission to see it then so be it. I would imagine though that these would be the same band that complain about riders doubling up in the main leagues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Thumb Posted July 25 Report Share Posted July 25 Tonight Gates open 6pm Rider Parade & Practice 7pm Tapes Up 7.30pm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheCazzo Posted July 25 Report Share Posted July 25 1 hour ago, Tom Thumb said: Tonight Gates open 6pm Rider Parade & Practice 7pm Tapes Up 7.30pm £15 to see the same bunch of riders you will see in the same style of meetings you'll see at Iwade and IOW. Nah you're ok thanks. If I want to watch repeats I'll stick to BBC2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEEDY69 Posted July 26 Report Share Posted July 26 On 7/25/2026 at 10:27 AM, CheCazzo said: £15 to see the same bunch of riders you will see in the same style of meetings you'll see at Iwade and IOW. Nah you're ok thanks. If I want to watch repeats I'll stick to BBC2 £25 to see the same bunch in the championship and premiership, your point is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heathen52 Posted July 27 Report Share Posted July 27 On 7/25/2026 at 10:27 AM, CheCazzo said: £15 to see the same bunch of riders you will see in the same style of meetings you'll see at Iwade and IOW. Nah you're ok thanks. If I want to watch repeats I'll stick to BBC2 I would have thought that this applies to meetings throughout the UK, and if you really want to stretch a point the GP's seem to have mostly the same riders from meeting to meeting, try finding something else to moan about, or if you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheCazzo Posted July 27 Report Share Posted July 27 3 hours ago, heathen52 said: I would have thought that this applies to meetings throughout the UK, and if you really want to stretch a point the GP's seem to have mostly the same riders from meeting to meeting, try finding something else to moan about, or if you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all. Typical snowflake response. But if you can't offer any "nasty" constructive feedback then how can you improve on anything? My point is that I have been looking at these NORA meeting line ups for a while and it just seems to be the same non-contracted riders in every meeting. One week it will be a Rye House race jacket, the next it will be a Cradley. If you want to pay to watch that then fine that's your choice. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheCazzo Posted July 27 Report Share Posted July 27 11 hours ago, SPEEDY69 said: £25 to see the same bunch in the championship and premiership, your point is? Well at least you'll see a different 7 riders at the next meeting rather than the same away 7 you saw the other week in a Kent race jacket now wearing a Cradley one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Thumb Posted July 29 Report Share Posted July 29 Meeting report: 'Racing in the East' NORA British Pairs Championship - Mildenhall 25/7/26 The tightest of finishes (not without a dose of controversy) on Saturday 25th. July at Mildenhall Stadium saw the inaugural 'Racing in the East' NORA British Speedway Championship Pairs title go the way of the Kent Eagles, edging out Cradley in the Grand Final after a heavy crash involving Man of the Meeting, Seth Norman. The 15-year-old Norman had a sensational run of victories beating the hugely-experienced Ben Morley, Alfie Bowtell and Simon Lambert in successive races to ensure the Heathens pairing finished level on points after the qualifying heats with the Eagles, setting up an exciting dénouement. Sadly the Final was to end in painful disappointment for Norman though – crashing out on the third bend of the first lap, with the trailing Jack Kingston then running into the fallen teenager. The initial decision was to exclude Kingston much to the confusion of all watching on and a Speedway version of VAR (using footage recorded of the incident) was applied by the referee to correct his earlier mistaken interpretation of the crash. That effectively ended the Black Country side’s chances of a surprise victory and Norman himself ended the night in hospital with a nasty abrasion and back injury. Third place went the way of the Wisbech Cross Keys duo of Mickie Simpson and Sam Woods – the European Grasstrack Finalist Simpson delivering a hat trick of race wins himself, including one terrific scrap with the home pairing’s number one, Bowtell. Young Aussie World Women’s Championship number four, Tayla Street showed well from the gate in a number of her rides but was caught out by a track she’d never seen before and so was unable to contribute points to add to her partner Lambert’s individual haul of 13. The crowd were also entertained (and responded very enthusiastically to) the awesome sight of the two 1000cc Right Hand Sidecar Speedway bikes piloted by the country’s two leading exponents of this comeback formula, Paul Whitelam and Will Penfold. Next up for the Mildenhall Fen Tigers is on Saturday August 15th. with Kent Eagles visiting West Row, this time as a full team in the second leg of the major NORA League competition of 2026, the Pioneer Cup. Meeting scores: Kent Eagles 19 Ben Morley 3 2 2 3 3 13 Jack Kingston 2 1 0 2 1 6 Cradley Heathens 19 Luke Harris 3 2 1 2 1 9 Seth Norman 1 0 3 3 3 10 Wisbech Cross Keys 15 Mickie Simpson FX 3 3 2 3 11 Sam Woods 1 1 0 1 1 4 Mildenhall Fen Tigers 15 Alfie Bowtell 3 3 2 1 0 9 Harry Sadler 1 2 1 0 2 6 Anglian Angels 13 Simon Lambert 2 3 3 3 2 13 Tayla Street 0 0 FX 0 0 0 Ipswich Academy 9 Ashton Vale 2 1 2 1 2 8 Harrison Rogers 0 0 1 0 FX 1 Heat details: Key: IA = Ipswich; CH = Cradley; MFT = Mildenhall; AA = Anglian Angels; KE = Kent Eagles; WCK = Wisbech) 1 Harris, Vale, Norman, Rogers 54.1 [IA 2 CH 4] 2 Bowtell, Lambert, Sadler, Street 52.9 [MFT 4 AA 2] 3 (rerun) Morley, Kingston, Woods, Simpson (fell exc.) 53.9 [KE 5 WCK 1] 4 Bowtell, Sadler, Vale, Rogers 53.0 [MFT 9 IA 3] 5 Simpson, Harris, Woods, Norman 53.4 [WCK 5 CH 6] 6 Lambert, Morley, Kingston, Street 53.6 [AA 5 KE 8] 7 Simpson, Bowtell, Sadler, Woods (fell rem.) 53.3 [WCK 8 MFT 12] 8 (stpd – awarded) Lambert, Vale, Rogers, Street (fell exc.) no time [IA 6 AA 8] 9 Norman, Morley, Harris, Kingston 53.3 [CH 10 KE 10] 10 Lambert, Simpson, Woods, Street 53.6 [AA 11 WCK 11] 11 Morley, Kingston, Vale, Rogers 53.7 [KE 15 IA 7] 12 Norman, Harris, Bowtell, Sadler 53.7 [CH 15 MFT 13] 13 (stpd – awarded) Simpson, Vale, Woods, Rogers (fell exc.) no time [WCK 15 IA 9] 14 Norman, Lambert, Harris, Street 53.7 [CH 19 AA 13] 15 Morley, Sadler, Kingston, Bowtell 54.4 [MFT 15 KE 19] Final: (rerun) Morley, Harris, Kingston, Norman (fell exc.) 54.2 [Kent win] 1000cc RH Sidecars 1 P. Whitelam/R. Webb; W.Penfold/R.Pay 56.5 2 P. Whitelam/R. Webb; W.Penfold/R.Pay 56.0 3 W.Penfold/R.Pay; P. Whitelam/R.Webb 56.7 4 P. Whitelam/R. Webb; W.Penfold/R.Pay 56.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket007 Posted July 30 Report Share Posted July 30 What time start is the meeting with Kent Eagles. Also, it says 2nd leg, when will the first leg take place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheCazzo Posted July 31 Report Share Posted July 31 15 hours ago, rocket007 said: What time start is the meeting with Kent Eagles. Also, it says 2nd leg, when will the first leg take place. I would guess before the 2nd leg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Thumb Posted July 31 Report Share Posted July 31 23 hours ago, rocket007 said: What time start is the meeting with Kent Eagles. Also, it says 2nd leg, when will the first leg take place. Normally 7pm parade & practice with first race 7.30pm. First leg has already taken place. 10th May Kent 52 Mildenhall 38 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket007 Posted July 31 Report Share Posted July 31 46 minutes ago, Tom Thumb said: Normally 7pm parade & practice with first race 7.30pm. First leg has already taken place. 10th May Kent 52 Mildenhall 38 Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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