PIC OF THE WEEK…
HERE’S the latest news and fixtures from around the tracks up and down the country.
BELLE Vue star Dan Bewley delivered a sensational unbeaten Easter Monday performance as the Aces outscored Leicester in their Knockout Cup double.
Bewley collected a 15-point maximum in an impressive 57-33 home victory for his side at lunchtime, and was then unbeaten from six rides at the Hydroscand Arena in the evening, coming from the back on multiple occasions to rack up a 17+1 total.
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2026 INS AND OUTS
ROWE MOTOR OIL PREMIERSHIP
(Starting averages shown. Ins and Outs refer to each club’s final team declaration of 2025.)
BELLE VUE: Brady Kurtz 8.97, Dan Bewley 8.64, Zach Cook 6.20, Peter Kildemand 5.28, Norick Blodorn 4.87, Tate Zischke 3.00, Will Cairns (RS).
IN: Kildemand (from Oxford), Cairns.
OUT: Jaimon Lidsey (to Northampton), Jake Mulford.
IPSWICH: Tom Brennan 7.05, Richard Lawson 6.83, Tobiasz Musielak 6.63, Danny King 6.50, Scott Nicholls 5.26, Philip Hellstrom-Bangs 4.50, Jason Edwards (RS).
IN: Lawson (from King’s Lynn), Musielak (from Birmingham), Nicholls, Hellstrom-Bangs.
OUT: Emil Sayfutdinov, Jason Doyle, Dan Thompson (to Leicester), Adam Ellis.
NB: Official ratified team declaration to be issued.
KING’S LYNN: Max Fricke 9.89, Jan Kvech 6.91, Chris Harris 6.53, Ben Cook 6.39, Paco Castagna 4.13, Cooper Rushen 3.00, Jody Scott (RS).
IN: Fricke (from Leicester), Castagna (from Birmingham), Rushen, Scott.
OUT: Richard Lawson (to Ipswich), Nicolai Klindt (to Northampton), Niels-Kristian Iversen (to Northampton), Luke Harrison (to Northampton).
LEICESTER: Ryan Douglas 8.12, Sam Masters 7.28, Nick Morris 5.89, Dan Thompson 5.87, Kyle Howarth 5.00, Drew Kemp 4.72, Joe Thompson (RS).
IN: Thompson (from Ipswich), Morris (from Sheffield).
OUT: Max Fricke (to King’s Lynn), Luke Becker.
*NOTE: Joe Thompson named as temporary replacement for Dan Gilkes at start of season.
NORTHAMPTON: Jaimon Lidsey 7.87, Niels-Kristian Iversen 6.71, Nicolai Klindt 6.46, Matej Zagar 6.46, Troy Batchelor 4.73, Kye Thomson 3.95, Luke Harrison (RS).
IN: Lidsey (from Belle Vue), Iversen (from King’s Lynn), Klindt (from King’s Lynn), Zagar (from Birmingham), Harrison (from King’s Lynn), Batchelor, Thomson.
OUT: Club new to Premiership this season.
NB: Official ratified team declaration to be issued.
SHEFFIELD: Jack Holder 9.08, Josh Pickering 7.76, Chris Holder 6.84, Anders Rowe 5.22, Leon Flint 5.05, Jye Etheridge 3.00, Luke Killeen (RS).
IN: Killeen (from Oxford).
OUT: Nick Morris (to Leicester).
CAB DIRECT CHAMPIONSHIP
(Starting averages shown. Ins and Outs refer to each club’s final team declaration of 2025.)
BERWICK: Peter Kildemand 8.05, Victor Palovaara 7.35, Nick Morris 6.86, Lasse Fredriksen 5.49, Jye Etheridge 5.45, Jack Smith 2.54, Reid Battye 4.00.
IN: Palovaara (from Edinburgh), Fredriksen, Etheridge (from Workington), Battye.
OUT: Jonas Jeppesen (to Workington), Drew Kemp, Sam Hagon (to Glasgow), Dayle Wood (to Oxford).
EDINBURGH: Dan Thompson 8.50, Justin Sedgmen 7.34, Paco Castagna 7.05, Kye Thomson 5.93, Jonatan Grahn 5.30, Mitchell Cluff 3.00, Jordy Loftus 2.14.
IN: Thompson (from Glasgow), Cluff.
OUT: Victor Palovaara (to Berwick), Michael Palm Toft (to Scunthorpe).
GLASGOW: Chris Harris 8.90, Kyle Howarth 7.92, Leon Flint 6.95, Kevin Juhl Pedersen 5.00, Mario Hausl 5.00, Sam Hagon 3.48, Freddy Hodder 2.63.
IN: Juhl Pedersen, Hausl, Hagon (from Berwick).
OUT: Dan Thompson (to Edinburgh), Villads Nagel, Max Perry.
NB: Official ratified team declaration to be issued.
OXFORD: Sam Masters 10.09, Anders Rowe 7.38, Erik Riss 7.12, Mitch McDiarmid 5.18, Luke Killeen 5.15, Darryl Ritchings 2.29, Dayle Wood 2.18.
IN: Rowe (from Poole), Riss (from Redcar), Ritchings, Wood (from Berwick).
OUT: Jordan Jenkins (to Redcar), Francis Gusts, Jonas Knudsen, Cameron Heeps.
PLYMOUTH: Danny King 8.59, Scott Nicholls 7.88, Ben Barker 6.12, Joe Thompson 5.87, Tobias Thomsen 4.81, Daniel Klima 4.00, Tom Spencer 2.00.
IN: King (from Redcar), Thomsen (from Poole), Klima (returns from injury).
OUT: Nicolai Klindt (to Redcar) , Lasse Fredriksen (to Berwick), Alfie Bowtell.
POOLE: Richard Lawson 9.58, Zach Cook 7.34, Lewis Kerr 6.77, Fraser Bowes 5.63, Kyle Newman 4.82, Will Cairns 3.81, Cooper Rushen 2.00.
IN: Bowes (from Workington), Newman, Rushen.
OUT: Anders Rowe (to Oxford), Tobias Thomsen (to Plymouth), Paul Starke.
*NOTE: Kyle Newman declared as temporary injury replacement for Dan Gilkes.
REDCAR: Nicolai Klindt 8.36, Jake Allen 6.53, Jason Edwards 6.44, Jordan Jenkins 6.00, Jake Mulford 4.26, Ace Pijper 4.04, Jody Scott 3.82.
IN: Klindt (from Plymouth), Allen (from Scunthorpe), Jenkins (from Oxford).
OUT: Charles Wright, Danny King (to Plymouth), Erik Riss (to Oxford).
*NOTE: Nicolai Klindt declared as temporary injury replacement for Charles Wright.
SCUNTHORPE: Josh Pickering 11.64, Michael Palm Toft 6.10, Connor Mountain 5.96, Luke Harrison 4.97, Nathan Ablitt 4.52, Simon Lambert 4.49, Ryan Ingram 2.00.
IN: Pickering, Palm Toft (from Edinburgh), Ablitt, Ingram.
OUT: Steve Worrall, Jake Allen (to Redcar), Zaine Kennedy, Declan Kennedy.
WORKINGTON: Jonas Jeppesen 8.20, Craig Cook 7.99, Troy Batchelor 7.10, Tate Zischke 5.76, Niklas Holm Jakobsen 5.00, Vinnie Foord 3.69, Jamie Etherington 2.00.
IN: Jeppesen (from Berwick), Cook, Holm Jakobsen, Etherington.
OUT: Antti Vuolas, Fraser Bowes (to Poole), Jacob Hook, Jye Etheridge (to Berwick).
NB: Official ratified team declaration to be issued.
FIXTURE PICTURE…
WEDNESDAY APRIL 8:
MAXICAB KO CUP 1st round 1st leg: Poole v Scunthorpe 7.30
BSN SERIES: Oxford v Plymouth 7.30
THURSDAY APRIL 9:
PREMIERSHIP KO CUP (SOUTH): Ipswich v King’s Lynn 7.30
FRIDAY APRIL 10:
MAXICAB KO CUP 1st round 2nd leg: Scunthorpe v Poole 7.30
BSN SERIES: Edinburgh v Glasgow 7.30, Redcar v Workington 7.30
SATURDAY APRIL 11:
BSN SERIES: Plymouth v Oxford 7pm
SUNDAY APRIL 12:
CHALLENGE 1st leg: Leicester v Buxton 3pm
BRITISH YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP: Glasgow 1pm
MONDAY APRIL 13:
PREMIERSHIP KO CUP (SOUTH): King’s Lynn v Ipswich 7.30
WEDNESDAY APRIL 15:
BSN SERIES: Oxford v Poole 7.30
THURSDAY APRIL 16:
PREMIERSHIP KO CUP (NORTH): Sheffield v Leicester 7.30
FRIDAY APRIL 17:
MAXICAB KO CUP Q/F 1st leg: Redcar v Edinburgh 7.30
BSN SERIES: Glasgow v Berwick 7.30
SATURDAY APRIL 18:
BSN SERIES: Berwick v Glasgow 7pm, Workington v Scunthorpe 3pm
SUNDAY APRIL 19:
WSRA NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE: Leicester v Middlesbrough 3pm
CHALLENGE: Buxton v NDL Nomads 3pm
MONDAY APRIL 20:
ROWE MOTOR OIL PREMIERSHIP ROUND 1: Belle Vue v Ipswich 7.30
PREMIERSHIP KO CUP (SOUTH): King’s Lynn v Northampton 7.30
WEDNESDAY APRIL 22:
CAB DIRECT CHAMPIONSHIP: Oxford v Berwick 7.30
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