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Olympic Edition
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Comment now on the latest news at the Forum SEVENTH HEAVEN Regulars return to GP schedule Totton and Mansfield are back on the Grand Prix calendar after breaks of two and three years respectively. For both it’s a seventh meeting in the series 18 year history, with Totton becoming the first ever club to stage the European round twice as a result of the selections. At 36,125 their Testwood Arena is the biggest speedway venue in the country, the Tigers one of five current league clubs with a stadium which is considered large enough to stage a GP round. Mansfield’s Gandor Green is the fifth of those five, the 22,000 capacity arena will stage the British GP in SL18, that the sixth time they’ve hosted that particular meeting, but some seven years since they last did so. Bradford (3rd round) and Houston (2nd round) host later stage qualification meetings in this years World Championship, while other big winners in the OLSA allocations include Long Eaton (British Final) and Stirling (Division One Riders Championship). Swinton is the stage for the first major club final of SL18, they host the decider of the Pairs at the beginning of the second month of the new season. On the track Houston completed the only 100% pre-season record with a 44-46 victory at Abdy, the Colts—who last won it SL10—have been made favourites for this years league title ahead of Belfast and Long Eaton. Paul Griffin (13) meanwhile used home track knowledge to become only the second 16 year old ever to win the BU19 title, he topping the final standings on at Belfast by a point from the unattached Daniel Barnes, Stirling’s Alex McFadden finished third. Griffin is expected to make his league debut next week when the Sinks get their title challenge underway against Bradford.
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