FANS attending Sheffield’s exciting Premier League clash with Edinburgh at Owlerton on Thursday are in for an added treat.
Tigers bosses are set to welcome the vintage speedway bikes and their riders for a series of ‘Blast from the Past’ races after the main meeting.
The project has been pulled together by Nigel Hinchliffe, who is ironically the club’s youth development co-ordinator – but this Thursday he has gone to the other end of the age scale!
He said: “They will be displaying their vintage speedway bikes just inside the turnstiles prior to the start of the meeting, and will then be taking us back in time with three demonstration races in the second half, with six riders in each race.
“Anyone who has not witnessed these fantastic machines in action before is in for a real treat and the amazing sound from their straight-through pipes is not to be missed.”
The riders taking part are in the Northern Riders Championship are:
Alan Palmer (Sheffield) riding a Rotrax Mk1 JAP. Keith Gardiner (Belle Vue) riding an Erskine JAP. Ron Jones (Fleetwood) riding a Mk1 Rotrax JAP. Graham Tattersall (Nelson) riding a JAP in a JAWA frame. Steve Cook (Crewe) riding a Mk1 Rotrax JAP. Alec Gooch (Odsal) RIding a Mattinglay JAP.
