So on our way to a large manor house explore Mo told us to pull over and head to a local venue, the Coventry Brandon speedway. was a great day there as we got to see pretty much it all and were there for the day with the only interruption being a few traveller folk at the end looking for tatt. great place to see plenty of history of the sports dotted around, very happy we got to see this one.
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Brandon Speedway information:
Brandon Stadium also known as Coventry stadium was a speedway track just outside of Coventry that held its first speedway meeting on the 29th September 1928. Since then it has been home to the Coventry Bees speedway team, the Brisca F1 Stock car racing since 1954 and the Greyhound racing since 1978. Midlands sports stadium owned the arena until 2003 when it was sold to Avtar Sandu. Although the capacity is around 5000 its record was around 25,000 during the speedway. The shale speedway track, which is inside the dog track is 301 metres (329 yards) in length while the greyhound track is 409 metres (447 yards) in length. The stadium has held many events and championships over the years including but not limited to -
Speedway world finals:
1993
2000 (Last ever world team cup)
under 21 world championships:
1991
Speedway Grand prix:
1998
1999
2000
After Boxing Day 2009 the company went into liquidation and closed. Just three years later the well-known professional gambler and owner Harry Findlay re-opened Coventry until 2014 when it shut once again. Independent racing (unaffiliated to a governing body) then took place until January 2016.
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