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Post by speedyguy on Jan 27, 2016 18:21:17 GMT
CLUB STATEMENT: CONNOR LOCKE
The Kent Speedway management have today had second thoughts about signing 17 year old grass track rider, Connor Locke, to be a member of the Kings team and have released him from any contractual commitment.
Co-promoter, Len Silver said: "It was impossible for the club to deliver the full team place which Connor and his family were seeking, and rather than have disharmony, it was felt that it was better in the long term for there to be a parting of the ways.
"Of course the club wish Connor all the very best for what could be a very bright future in the sport."
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Post by speedyguy on Jan 27, 2016 21:23:13 GMT
Kent Speedway have announced their season ticket prices for the forthcoming National League [NL] season.
The price of an adult season ticket for the Central Park, Sittingbourne-based Speedway is £250. For teenagers aged between 13 years and 17 years the annual season ticket is £100. Both will include a match programme (cover price £2.00).
Co-promoter Len Silver, in announcing the season ticket deals stated, “With what will probably be the largest number of meetings to be staged in any previous season, this really does represent an excellent deal for our loyal supporters. We continue to give free admittance to all children aged 12 years and under, making Speedway at Central Park a MUST for all families”
For all season ticket enquires please telephone the stadium on 01795 47 55 47 during office hours.
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Post by speedyguy on Jan 28, 2016 16:46:40 GMT
This is te website for Kent Kings. Click on the Link for all the latest news: www.kentkings.co/
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Post by speedyguy on Feb 12, 2016 22:42:11 GMT
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Post by speedyguy on Feb 14, 2016 23:05:50 GMT
From the Kent Kings website:
KINGS 2016 SQUAD COMPLETE
MONDAY 04 JANUARY 2016
Kent SLYDE Kings have named former Premier League title winner, Luke Bowen as their new number one and skipper as the Sittingbourne Central Park based Speedway side declare their 1-8 - a tantalising blend of experience and youth as they set their sights on success in the 2016 National League (NL).
Co-promoter Len Silver explains how the process of building a side has progressed, "Our management team has spent the months since the end of the 2015 season researching the availability of riders both experienced and newcomers in an effort to produce a side that can challenge for honours in the forthcoming 2016 NL campaign. With the Monday evening early curfew a distinct disadvantage to us, it became vital not only to choose the correct riders, but additionally those that can actually fulfil all of the team's fixtures. "
Retained from last year are the hugely popular Danny Ayres - who finished last campaign as the in form man in the division, taking second place in the NL Riders Championship; James Shanes, the most promising teenager in the sport with two national titles added to his prolific track racing CV in 2015; and given a further chance to progress from the reserve berth, local rider Danno Verge.
Out is Aaron Baseby after the Sevenoaks rider found it increasingly difficult last term to fulfil away fixtures in particular; and mainstay heat leader since the Speedway club opened up at the Sittingbourne Greyhound Stadium in 2013, Ben Morley has been recalled by his parent club, Rye House to appear for them at both NL and Premier levels.
The Kings' original skipper back in 2013 was the hugely experienced former Divisional Riders Champion David Mason and it's welcome news indeed that ,after a season spent at rivals Eastbourne, the popular 'Magic' man is back. Mason's renowned expertise around the Central Park circuit and his huge influence in the pits bring great solidity to the squad.
Team manager, Chris Hunt was concerned at the lack of progress made by a number of the "tail- enders" of 2015 and this area of the SLYDE Kings was a major target for improvement.
Rookie Jack Thomas will be joined by another recruit completely new to NL racing for 2016 in the form of Maidstone-born teenager Connor Locke.
The Kings' management have put together an eight man squad which looks to be an ideal combination of experience and youth. With a 40.00 point target allowed for team building in the 2016 NL, the initial SLYDE Kings side will add up to 39.88 for seven men and the riders are (in alphabetical order)
Danny Ayres 7.05 Luke Bowen 8.52 Luke Clifton 3.50 Connor Locke 3.00 David Mason 6.96 James Shanes 7.85 Jack Thomas 3.00 Danno Verge 3.00
Hunt is optimistic that this squad can deliver the goods,
"Luke Bowen is a major capture for the club and is surely destined to become one of the League's top performers.
"Much has already been written about our signing, Luke Clifton, awarded a 3.50 average by the BSPA in view of his previous experience and I see him as the key to a powerful "engine room" of the team alongside returning favourite, David Mason, now fully fit and in daily training following his serious leg injury sustained at Central Park last season. It was the punishing training schedule which David set for himself which convinced us to include him, plus his sheer enthusiasm for the Kings.
"Our two new teenagers Jack and Connor have been placed under full contracts following very promising career beginnings"
Meanwhile Mr Silver is happy with behind the scenes arrangements for the ambitious club's fourth season in the sport, "Street Life Young Drivers Education (SLYDE) will once again be the main sponsors and this year intend to become even more closely involved on the presentation and publicity side to increase awareness throughout Kent. My personal thanks go to Karl Rushen of SLYDE who has already given me great personal assistance with the upgrading of our track equipment. We are already proposing a number of areas of joint co-operation to publicise the Kings, no club can have a better sponsor"
"With expenses rising inevitably, particularly in the area of rider costs, it has been felt necessary to raise admission prices slightly and these will be , for 2016, Adults at £13...teenagers at £6 with children Under 13 remaining FREE. Programme charges will be as previously, £2.
"A strong link with the nearby training track at Iwade, where the Kings have provided an "air" fence to comply with SCB regulations is hoped to solve the problem of training for local youngsters and making Swale as an area a hub of excellence in the world of Speedway."
The season will get underway on Good Friday with home and away fixtures with local rivals, Eastbourne for the "Good Friday Chase" at Eastboune at 12 noon and at Central Park at 6.30pm.
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Post by speedyguy on Feb 16, 2016 8:01:39 GMT
O the Kent Kings website:: :::: PLANNING APPLICATION UPDATE
MONDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2016
YOUR CLUB NEEDS YOU! - As supporters will be aware, this year is the fourth season of Speedway at Central Park and the initial Planning Consent to stage the sport there is for a four year period only.
So the club are having to go to Planning to get an increase - hopefully an indefinite one this time - in this period, as well as getting the curfew lifted to allow Friday night racing with a later finishing time.
The application is live now with Swale Council, the local Planning Authority and you can view the application at: pa.midkent.gov.uk/online-applications/ And then enter the reference number: 15/510605/FULL
Persons are able to make submissions in support or to oppose this. Some residents have put in objections; a majority of local residents though have expressed their support.
But we cannot be complacent and it is imperative that as many people as possible express their support for Speedway to continue and to thrive at Central Park.
The more local you are the better that is but it's also good to show support wherever you live - pointing out perhaps how you travel to the area, use local facilities etc. as part of your day out at the Speedway.
Though not a definite date yet it is possible that the hearing will be as soon as March 10th., which is less than four weeks time now. So not only are submissions vital in support of the club, it's vital that you do not delay in making such submissions.
The website gives more details and if you want to make a submission the reference is: 15/510605/FULL
Please send supporting representations to Swale Borough Council for the attention of Rob Bailey quoting this application reference. The address is:
Swale House East Street, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 3HT
This needs to be done as soon as possible so that comments are included in the Planning Officer's report to Committee.
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Post by speedyguy on Feb 16, 2016 8:04:32 GMT
On the Kent Kings website::: ::::::::
IWADE PRACTICE FOR KINGS
TUESDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2016
Four of the 2016 Kent SLYDE Kings took the opportunity the Sunday before last to use the good (if slightly cold) weather and the local facilities at Iwade just a couple of miles from Central Park. James Shanes, Danny Ayres, Danno Verge and new King Luke Clifton were in action blow away the winter cobwebs and mince pies.
All four riders looked sharp as they took to the track to put in some laps. With Luke Clifton looking good after his long exile from the sport which saw him ride as a reserve for Arena Essex in 2001.
Young Danno Verge also looked quick and his work with Aaron Rowe fitness seems to be paying dividends with the new season a little under seven weeks away.
Danny and James also looked as if they hadn’t been off a bike. Which is good news for the pair as Danny prepares to take his first foray into Premier League racing with Glasgow after a handful of guest appearances at the end of last season including one for Somerset at Glasgow; and James looks to build on the success he had last year becoming the youngest ever winner of the British Masters Grasstrack Championship.
A further note is that Cooper Rushen young son of our sponsor Karl Rushen also put in a few laps on the track alongside a number of other young riders. His most impressive moment came when he led Danny Ayres for a few metres’ in a gate and go exercise!
A good number of Kent Kings fans also went along to have a look at how their riders were shaping up as the season approaches. It was also good to see the popular visitor Brendan Johnson on track at Iwade - a rider who the Kent fans have always made feel welcome in appearances at Central Park. Bren is Isle of Wight bound in 2016.
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Post by speedyguy on Feb 23, 2016 8:36:00 GMT
KINGS ON U21 TRAIL
TUESDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2016
The line-up for one of the most prestigious meetings to be held at Kent Speedway’s Central Park home has been confirmed: 16 of the nation’s top motor cycle dirt track racing starlets will be going hell for leather on Monday 4th. April at the track in Sittingbourne – looking for progression to the championship final in the Great Britain Under 21 Semi-final.
Leading the way as far as the SLYDE-sponsored Kings’ fans will be concerned will be home favourites, the teenaged pairing of Danno Verge and James Shanes. Shanes is a former national Under 21 champion at Speedway’s sister sport of Grasstrack and is looking to make the Final (to be held ten days later up in Sheffield) of the shale sport’s main junior championship for a second consecutive year – hoping to improve on his sixth place last term. Meanwhile,for the Shorne-based Verge (who’s been impressing onlookers in his recent practicing at the Iwade training circuit) it’s another attempt to progress to the main stage of this prestigious championship.
The Under 21 event dates all the way back to 1969 and was staged at the now defunct Canterbury Speedway stadium for many years – an early winner was that great servant of Kentish Speedway, Barry Thomas who triumphed on his then home track at Kingsmead in 1970. Shanes will have the legendary Thommo’s example in mind as he sets off on this title race as a real contender and also will be aware that all of England’s World Speedway champions of modern times (Peter Collins, Michael Lee, Gary Havelock and current World number one Tai Woffinden) have taken this particular title along their track to international glory.
Joining the two homesters in the 16 man field is 2013 Kings’ man and still hugely popular down Murston-way, Jack Kingston: the Dagenham born racer who took third place in the GB Under 19s Championship staged at Central Pak in 2014 is lining up in this forthcoming season for twice National League (NL) champs, Cradley. From the reigning champs and also of course the West Midlands, come reigning GB Youth (that’s the Under 15 classification) champion Jack Parkinson-Blackburn who will be making a much anticipated first appearance at Central Park and an Under 19 finalist from two years back, Danyon Hume. From Kingston’s previous side, Mildenhall based in the Fens of Suffolk, come the highly rated Connor Mountain and a rider who was a Rye House Raiders team mate of Hume’s last term, Alfie Bowtell, along with Luke Ruddick. From the Hertfordshire side’s 2016 line up is George Hunter; whilst the Kings’ main local rivals Eastbourne Eagles provide squad man young Kelsey Dugard, son of former GB Grand Prix champion Martin Dugard.
Eastbourne will already have visited Central Park by the time this meeting happens on April 4th. as they are the first opponents to take on the Kings on Good Friday and the same is true of the King’s Lynn Young Stars who complete the Easter weekend on the Bank Holiday Monday when their signing from Coventry Ryan Kinsley, the highly rated Josh Bailey and their big name new signing Nathan Greaves will have an invaluable opportunity to sound out the newly banked Central Park circuit prior to the big championship event a week later. The three biggest challenges to James Shanes are probably, though, the experienced Tweedsider Liam Carr who has shown his liking for the Kent track before; Stoke’s ever-improving Danny Phillips (a previous NL title winner with Cradley); and the exciting Ellis Perks – the Anglo-Aussie who always gives full value for money and may just excel (as Shanes is likely also to do) on the newly improved racing lines around the boards at the revamped Central Park circuit.
The top ten on the night will move onto the Championship Final itself at Sheffield’s Owlerton Stadium on April 14th where the qualifiers will join the seeded GB World Cup hero, Robert Lambert; former GB Under 19 champ (winning his crown at Central Park the season before last) Oliver Greenwood; ex-champ at U-21 level looking to regain his title, Josh Bates; Cradley skipper Max Clegg; the French-born racer Adam Ellis, runner up to Bates in 2014, who is racing now for Elite League big boys Poole Pirates,; and Shanes’ long time rival from junior racing across the Continent, Birmingham’s prodigious teenager, Zach Wajtknecht.
BRITISH U-21 SEMI-FINAL LINE-UP (in draw order): James Shanes (Kent SLYDE Kings), Liam Carr (Coventry Storm), Ellis Perks (Isle of Wight Warriors), Nathan Greaves (King’s Lynn Young Stars), Connor Mountain (Mildenhall Fen Tigers), Danny Phillips (Stoke Potters), Josh Bailey (King’s Lynn Young Stars), Jack Kingston (Cradley Heathens), Ryan Kinsley (King’s Lynn Young Stars), Kelsey Dugard (Eastbourne Eagles), Alfie Bowtell (Mildenhall Fen Tigers), Danyon Hume (Birmingham Brummies), George Hunter (Rye House Raiders), Luke Ruddick (Mildenhall Fen Tigers), Jack Parkinson-Blackburn (Birmingham Brummies), Danno Verge (Kent SLYDE Kings).Attachments:
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Post by speedyguy on Mar 1, 2016 7:53:38 GMT
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Post by speedyguy on Mar 9, 2016 20:21:07 GMT
From the Kent Kings website::: ::::::::
Kent SLYDE Kings’ 2016 new signing Luke Clifton came through his first major competitive meeting since getting onto the comeback trail on Sunday (6/3) – scoring a creditable nine points from four rides and finishing in seventh place in the 20 rider field contesting the final round of this year’s Scunthorpe Speedway Winter Series.
The field contained some quality opposition providing a real test for the Canterbury born racer who returns to action this year after a 12 year break from the shale sport, in which he’d previously made a name for himself as a rider with the then Premier League (PL) side, Arena Essex Hammers in the early noughties.
Looking fit and growing in confidence, Clifton won two of his races beating the rider he’s effectively replaced in the Central Park-based Kings’ side for 2016, Ben Basford and 2014 Kings’ rider Luke Harris.
There was PL opposition for Clifton and co to compete with in a high quality field and little surprise then that the home club Scunthorpe Scorpions’ Aussie heat leader Ryan Douglas went through the card undefeated. Honours on the afternoon in terms of the ‘A’ Final went to a rider well known to Kent SLYDE Kings’ fans, the 2014 winner of the GB Under 19s championship staged at Central Park, Oliver Greenwood; but a notable stat for Clifton – who last rode league Speedway for the Rye House Raiders in 2004 – was that he finished level on points with experienced Travel Plus National League [TPNL] and former Bronze Helmet holder, Oliver’s namesake, Daniel Greenwood.
Clifton commented, “It was a challenging afternoon – with a couple of accidents and two riders taken to hospital which delayed the meeting but I’m overall pleased with how it went at this stage. Two race wins from four rides is obviously pleasing. I’m still not 100% happy as I want to go faster but I found some setups that worked. I need to sharpen up at the start but I’m happy to be making progress.”
This was the final round of this year’s Winter Series and Josh Bailey who rides in the TPNL for the SLYDE King’s Easter Trophy opponents on Bank Holiday Monday later this month, King’s Lynn Young Stars as well as Scunthorpe in the PL, took the overall series title receiving the Kenny Smith Memorial Shield.
A regular in the Series this close-season has been the SLYDE Kings’ other new boy, Jack Thomas. The Norwich based teenager wasn’t riding in this meeting but the overall result is based on the best three scoring rounds and Thomas finished ninth overall – a promising effort in what is the youngster’s first foray into senior racing.
Thomas and Clifton make their Kent SLYDE Kings’ debuts on Good Friday (25/3) with away and then home matches in quick fire holiday succession against reigning National Trophy, Knock-out Cup and Gold Cup ‘treble’ winners from last term, the Eastbourne Eagles. Qualifying Scores (Winter Series Final Round 6 March 2016): Ryan Douglas (Scunthorpe Scorpions) 15, Dan Bewley (Belle Vue Colts) 13, Jack Parkinson-Blackburn (Birmingham Brummies) 12, Josh Bailey (King’s Lynn Young Stars) 11, Oliver Greenwood (Buxton Hitmen) 10, Eryk Borczuch 10, LUKE CLIFTON (Kent SLYDE Kings) 9, Dan Greenwood (Coventry Storm) 9,
Final Kenny Smith Memorial Shield Winter Series standings (top three rounds count): 1st Bailey 57 (19-18-19-19); 2nd Parkinson-Blackburn 55 (18-19-18-17); 3rd Bewley 50 (17-15-18); 4th. Jamie Halder Coventry Storm) 45 (17-13-12-15), Luke Harris 44 (15-15-14-5), Eryk Borczuch 41 (11-16-14), Stoian Stoianov 40 (14-16-10-3), Ben Basford (Cradley Heathens) 36 (16-13-7), JACK THOMAS (Kent SLYDE Kings) 34 (13-14-7) Attachments:
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Post by speedyguy on Mar 10, 2016 21:05:27 GMT
On the Kent Kings website: :::::::: Central Park will literally be rocking on Good Friday (March 25th.) – and not only because the long wait for the 2016 season is over and the Kent SLYDE Kings will finally be back on track!
Because in a unique ‘double header’, following the second leg Good Friday Chase Speedway match versus local rivals Eastbourne Eagles (start time 6.30pm), there’s a double helping of live rocking blues music for fans to enjoy!
Free of charge to all fans who’ve come to the Speedway, and starting after the racing finishes at 8.30pm, two of Kent’s finest rock and blues combos take to the stage in the main restaurant/bar at Central Park.
First up will be Medway’s finest up and coming rockers, Mean ‘n My Lady – the all action three piece delivering truly frantic, jagged music entertainment with storming vocals, guitar, harmonica and drums. The band who are one of the most respected on the thriving circuit in the county have been described as "a cool, urban juggernaut crashing the blues rock party!”
Following what promises to be a memorable set from Mean ‘n My Lady, the 'Feelgood' factor continues quite literally with a packed evening’s entertainment being brought to a rocking conclusion by The Grimms – the veterans of the Kent pub rock scene delivering classic British R’n’B with a solid combo (like the band themselves indeed) of covers and original rocking tunes.
With refreshments available for the whole family (dare I say, ‘Milk & Alcohol..!) the night promises to be a fantastic way to get the long Easter weekend off to a rocking start: with a perfect mixture of top quality Speedway action (including the home debut of the Kent SLYDE Kings’ new signings, Jack Thomas and the two Lukes, Clifton and skipper and number one, Bowen) and then two great bands to boogie the night away to.
The doors open at 5pm and admission inclusive of the gig is £13.00 for adults, £6.00 for teenagers aged between 13 and 17 years and children 12 and under GO FREE!
The special bumper 20 page souvenir programme on the night will be £2.50 and will include also the race card and match details for the Easter Monday Speedway meeting (3pm start time on 28/3) vs. King’s Lynn in the Easter Trophy.Attachments:
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Post by speedyguy on Mar 16, 2016 10:07:12 GMT
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Post by speedyguy on Mar 21, 2016 17:05:19 GMT
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Post by speedyguy on Mar 25, 2016 22:41:29 GMT
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Post by speedyguy on Apr 5, 2016 8:48:18 GMT
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