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Rye House SpeedwayOfficial WebpageHome Of the Rockets and Cobras Teams |
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Next Home Meeting: Date: Saturday 17th May Opposition: Somerset Competition: Premier League Time: 7pm
Next Away Meeting: Date: Wednesday 14thMay Opposition: Kings Lynn Competition:Premier League Time: 7.30pm
To See all fixtures then click here. Latest Results: Bank Holiday 5th May - Workington W 52-40 Sunday 4th May - Mildenhall W 56-36 Saturday 3rd May - Workington L 46-44
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First Time at Speedway? If you are planning your very first visit to Speedway, here are a few words to tell you just what is in store. Almost all meetings at Rye House are team events. The club runs two teams. The Rockets (sponsored by Silver Ski) compete in the Premier League, which is one of the two professional leagues operated in Britain. They are the reigning League Champions, having won the title for the second time in three years. The Cobras (sponsored by the Rye House Kart Raceway) compete in the Conference League, which is largely a youth development league designed to bring on the next crop of British riders. There are seven positions in each team, with the riders numbered one through to seven. The home team can be identified, not only by their team body colours, but by the fact that they wear red and blue helmet covers in every race. The visiting team, meanwhile, wears green and yellow covers in each race. Four riders compete in each race – two from each team. The riders will complete four laps of the oval track, broad-siding around the bends, and scoring three points for finishing first, two for second, one for third and nothing for last. There are fifteen races – or heats, as they are usually referred to – in the match. Add up the points progressively, heat-by-heat, and the team with the most points at the end of the match is the winner. Those are the basic rules. It can get a little more complicated than that as the team managers make tactical changes to their programmed racing line-up during the match, but the sport is generally very easy to follow from your very first race. We recommend that you buy a programme, which will make it easier to follow the match race-by-race. Also, make sure that you have a pen to fill in the results. If you have any problems, don’t be afraid to ask the person next to you for advice. Speedway prides itself on being a friendly and family sport. The bikes themselves are 500cc machines, powered by a lay-down engine. They are fuelled by methanol, and, imperially speaking, will go from zero to sixty mph in a little over two seconds. As such, they are, pound-for-pound, probably the most powerful racing machines on the planet. They are also remarkably simple, with just a single gear used in every race. Oh, and did we forget to add that they have ABSOLUTELY NO BRAKES??!! |
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