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BOSTON
Address: The Norfolk Arena, Saddlebow Road, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE34 3AG.
Race night:
Promoters: Dale Allitt and Mick Smith.
Manager: Dale Allitt.
Track length:
Track record: Boston (Kings Lynn) 342 m - 60.0 Trevor Harding - 15/6/2003
Admission: Adults £9, Concessions £7, Children (12-16) £3, Under 12s free when accompanied by a paying adult. (2007)
Programme: £2
Hotline: 09066 555969 (calls charged at 60p per minute.)
Website: www.bostonspeedway.net
Situated: On edge of town, near Saddlebow
Parking: Large tarmac car park on home straight side FREE, grass/mud (if wet) overflow car park on back straight side FREE. Disabled Parking near turnstile, show blue badge on entry to car park (best to get there early.)
Access: Excellent, flat access to all areas of the stadium. Access to stands and terracing can be more difficult. Dedicated wheelchair/attendant viewing in home straight stand.
Inside Stadium: Covered Stand on home straight accessed by steps includes ramp and wheelchair viewing. 3rd, bend wood and earth terracing and can be difficult to access without help altho viewing is good from the top 2 or 3 terraces. Concrete on 4th bend (not quite wide enough for wheelchairs) except on top tier. 1st and 2nd bend not concrete terracing (unsure about access.) Flat access completely round stadium including pits and bars (with ramps on 2nd bend.)
Toilets: Under home straight bar including disabled toilet and baby change facility. Toilets on back straight (no disabled)
Pits: On 1st bend. Viewing excellent from 1st bend and in front of pits and also from home straight stand. Not possible to see into pits from rest of stadium.
Food: Chips/burgers/pasta, etc, from home straight and 1st bend vans. Bars on home straight and 2nd bend (also 3rd bend for big meetings.)
Food nearby: Drive through McDonalds off Hardwick Roundabout.
Programmes: Purchase inside turnstiles.
Trackshop: Inside turnstile towards pits on right, bit of a step but access is possible with help.
Dogs: Allowed.
BUXTON
Address: Buxton Speedway Stadium, Hi-Edge Raceway, Buxton, Derbyshire.
Race night: Sunday at 3pm.
Promoter:
Team manager:
Track length: 240 metres
Track record: Buxton 240m - 52.9 James Wright - 27/6/2004
Admission: Adults £8.50, Concessions £6, Children £2
Programme:
Website: www.hitmen2000.co.uk
Situated: In glorious countryside. Use tom tom or good map and beware of sheep on road in! About three miles out of Buxton on the A53 Buxton-to-Leek road.
Parking: Inside stadium, £1 to park.
Access: Once in stadium, flat. Can be uneven in places.
Inside stadium: You can view from the car on back straight, can be warmer sometimes. Viewing possible from all parts of stadium, views across countryside are wonderful.
Toilets: On 1/2 bends (not sure about disabled)
Pits: On 1st bend, cannot be viewed from terracing.
Food: On home straight.
Dogs: Allowed
OXFORD
NOT CURRENTLY OPERATING.
Address: Cowley, Sandy Lane, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 5LJ.
Track Length: 297 metres
Track Record: 56.2 (Hans Nielsen - 13.10.88)
Conference track record: 60.89 (Andy Smith - 06.06.03, Dan Giffard - 06.10.05)
Track office: 07003 921257
Website: www.oxford-speedway.com
Situated: Off the Oxford ring road in Blackbird leys Estate, Sandy Lane, Cowley
Parking: Fully tarmaced and spaces marked
Access: Flat access to the turnstiles where a ramp is in place up to the turnstile.
Inside Stadium: Viewing is from a number of areas. Inside stadium complex access to the upper bar is through a lift. Access to the terracing is via a newly constructed ramp down to the terrace perimeter. Access to the actual terrace is not available by a ramp.
Toilets: Just inside the turnstile area on left hand side.
Pits: On 4th bend.
Food: Food outlet is now on the 4th bend and accessible for wheelchairs
Programmes: On sale in the turnstile area.
Trackshop: Housed in the main bar which is accessible via the lift.
Dogs: NOT allowed.
PLYMOUTH
Address: St Boniface Arena, Coypool Road, Plymouth, PL7 4NW.
Race night:
Promoter:
Team manager:
Track length:216
Track record: 51.7 (Tai Woffinden - 18.05.07)
Admission: Adults £9, Children £5, OAPs £6, Family ticket £23.
Programme: £2
Website: www.plymouthdevils.co.uk
Situated: Just off Marsh Mills in Plymouth.
Parking: Fully tarmaced and spaces marked
Access: Quite a big ramp going down to the gates although if disabled there are marshalls to help anyone out.
Inside Stadium: Viewing is all around the track on two very large banked areas and also down both straights. We also have a diasbled area.
Toilets: All around the track in the form of portaloos.
Food: Two burger vans.
Programmes: On sale in the turnstile area and also in the track shop.
Trackshop: Is located in the massive portacabin - it is very well stocked.
Dogs: Allowed
SITTINGBOURNE
Address: The Old Gun Site, Raspberry Hill Lane, Old Ferry Road, Iwade, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 8SP.
Race night:
Promoter:
Team manager:
Track length: 251 metres.
Track record: 58.4 Edward Kennett 4/7/2004
Admission:
Programme:
Telephone: 01795 430014 or 07928 884107
Website: www.sittingbournespeedway.co.uk
Any info welcomed
WEYMOUTH
Address: Wessex Stadium, Radipole Lane, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 9XJ.
Race night: Saturday at 7:30pm.
Promoter:
Team manager: Jem Dicken.
Track length:223
Track record:52.2 Lewis Bridger 11/5/2007
Admission: Adults £10, Concessions £8, Children (5-16) £3,
Under 5s Free.
Programme:
Website: www.wildcatsweymouth.co.uk
Situated: Next to football ground on edge of town.
Parking: Large tarmac car park – £1.
Access: Up slight slope.
Inside stadium: Flatish access to home straight. 3/4th bends up very steep slope but viewing excellent if you are brave.
Track shop: Situated in front of the start line and also in the Cats Whiskers bar.
Dogs: Allowed
Address: The Norfolk Arena, Saddlebow Road, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE34 3AG.
Race night:
Promoters: Dale Allitt and Mick Smith.
Manager: Dale Allitt.
Track length:
Track record: Boston (Kings Lynn) 342 m - 60.0 Trevor Harding - 15/6/2003
Admission: Adults £9, Concessions £7, Children (12-16) £3, Under 12s free when accompanied by a paying adult. (2007)
Programme: £2
Hotline: 09066 555969 (calls charged at 60p per minute.)
Website: www.bostonspeedway.net
Situated: On edge of town, near Saddlebow
Parking: Large tarmac car park on home straight side FREE, grass/mud (if wet) overflow car park on back straight side FREE. Disabled Parking near turnstile, show blue badge on entry to car park (best to get there early.)
Access: Excellent, flat access to all areas of the stadium. Access to stands and terracing can be more difficult. Dedicated wheelchair/attendant viewing in home straight stand.
Inside Stadium: Covered Stand on home straight accessed by steps includes ramp and wheelchair viewing. 3rd, bend wood and earth terracing and can be difficult to access without help altho viewing is good from the top 2 or 3 terraces. Concrete on 4th bend (not quite wide enough for wheelchairs) except on top tier. 1st and 2nd bend not concrete terracing (unsure about access.) Flat access completely round stadium including pits and bars (with ramps on 2nd bend.)
Toilets: Under home straight bar including disabled toilet and baby change facility. Toilets on back straight (no disabled)
Pits: On 1st bend. Viewing excellent from 1st bend and in front of pits and also from home straight stand. Not possible to see into pits from rest of stadium.
Food: Chips/burgers/pasta, etc, from home straight and 1st bend vans. Bars on home straight and 2nd bend (also 3rd bend for big meetings.)
Food nearby: Drive through McDonalds off Hardwick Roundabout.
Programmes: Purchase inside turnstiles.
Trackshop: Inside turnstile towards pits on right, bit of a step but access is possible with help.
Dogs: Allowed.
BUXTON
Address: Buxton Speedway Stadium, Hi-Edge Raceway, Buxton, Derbyshire.
Race night: Sunday at 3pm.
Promoter:
Team manager:
Track length: 240 metres
Track record: Buxton 240m - 52.9 James Wright - 27/6/2004
Admission: Adults £8.50, Concessions £6, Children £2
Programme:
Website: www.hitmen2000.co.uk
Situated: In glorious countryside. Use tom tom or good map and beware of sheep on road in! About three miles out of Buxton on the A53 Buxton-to-Leek road.
Parking: Inside stadium, £1 to park.
Access: Once in stadium, flat. Can be uneven in places.
Inside stadium: You can view from the car on back straight, can be warmer sometimes. Viewing possible from all parts of stadium, views across countryside are wonderful.
Toilets: On 1/2 bends (not sure about disabled)
Pits: On 1st bend, cannot be viewed from terracing.
Food: On home straight.
Dogs: Allowed
OXFORD
NOT CURRENTLY OPERATING.
Address: Cowley, Sandy Lane, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 5LJ.
Track Length: 297 metres
Track Record: 56.2 (Hans Nielsen - 13.10.88)
Conference track record: 60.89 (Andy Smith - 06.06.03, Dan Giffard - 06.10.05)
Track office: 07003 921257
Website: www.oxford-speedway.com
Situated: Off the Oxford ring road in Blackbird leys Estate, Sandy Lane, Cowley
Parking: Fully tarmaced and spaces marked
Access: Flat access to the turnstiles where a ramp is in place up to the turnstile.
Inside Stadium: Viewing is from a number of areas. Inside stadium complex access to the upper bar is through a lift. Access to the terracing is via a newly constructed ramp down to the terrace perimeter. Access to the actual terrace is not available by a ramp.
Toilets: Just inside the turnstile area on left hand side.
Pits: On 4th bend.
Food: Food outlet is now on the 4th bend and accessible for wheelchairs
Programmes: On sale in the turnstile area.
Trackshop: Housed in the main bar which is accessible via the lift.
Dogs: NOT allowed.
PLYMOUTH
Address: St Boniface Arena, Coypool Road, Plymouth, PL7 4NW.
Race night:
Promoter:
Team manager:
Track length:216
Track record: 51.7 (Tai Woffinden - 18.05.07)
Admission: Adults £9, Children £5, OAPs £6, Family ticket £23.
Programme: £2
Website: www.plymouthdevils.co.uk
Situated: Just off Marsh Mills in Plymouth.
Parking: Fully tarmaced and spaces marked
Access: Quite a big ramp going down to the gates although if disabled there are marshalls to help anyone out.
Inside Stadium: Viewing is all around the track on two very large banked areas and also down both straights. We also have a diasbled area.
Toilets: All around the track in the form of portaloos.
Food: Two burger vans.
Programmes: On sale in the turnstile area and also in the track shop.
Trackshop: Is located in the massive portacabin - it is very well stocked.
Dogs: Allowed
SITTINGBOURNE
Address: The Old Gun Site, Raspberry Hill Lane, Old Ferry Road, Iwade, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 8SP.
Race night:
Promoter:
Team manager:
Track length: 251 metres.
Track record: 58.4 Edward Kennett 4/7/2004
Admission:
Programme:
Telephone: 01795 430014 or 07928 884107
Website: www.sittingbournespeedway.co.uk
Any info welcomed
WEYMOUTH
Address: Wessex Stadium, Radipole Lane, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 9XJ.
Race night: Saturday at 7:30pm.
Promoter:
Team manager: Jem Dicken.
Track length:223
Track record:52.2 Lewis Bridger 11/5/2007
Admission: Adults £10, Concessions £8, Children (5-16) £3,
Under 5s Free.
Programme:
Website: www.wildcatsweymouth.co.uk
Situated: Next to football ground on edge of town.
Parking: Large tarmac car park – £1.
Access: Up slight slope.
Inside stadium: Flatish access to home straight. 3/4th bends up very steep slope but viewing excellent if you are brave.
Track shop: Situated in front of the start line and also in the Cats Whiskers bar.
Dogs: Allowed
