BIG EVENT LATESTBRITISH Youth co-boss Neil Vatcher has praised riders and track staff for ensuring last weekends Under-21 semi-final at Plymouth went ahead.The remaining seven riders for the Final at Dudley on April 23the first major SpeedwayGB event of the seasonwere confirmed at the St Boniface Arena with the meeting brought to a half after 16 heats due to the curfew.Danny Stoneman, Oliver Greenwood and Darryl Ritchings led the way on ten points, with Dan Greenwood, Josh Bates and Max Clegg also making it through one eightwhilst Buxtons Matt Williamson marked his first competitive meeting by taking the final qualifying place. Kings Lynns Shane Hazelden and Berwick asset Liam Carr will be reserves.Vatcher said: All credit must go to the Plymouth track staff, for getting a very wet track ready. After cancelling their own practice day for the Plymouth riders in the afternoon, they did a great job to get the track ready for the 7pm start time of this prestigious meeting so early in the season.Also credit to all 18 riders for completing 16 races in what were not ideal conditions. The Young Brits all put in great effort to try and score enough points to guarantee their place in the Final.The Isle of Wights Darryl RItchings and Danny Stoneman were the early leaders, with the two Greenwoods, Dan and Oliver, looking to be on the pace as well.Matt Williamson, who was racing in his first-ever competitive speedway meeting, set himself up nicely by winning his first two races in Heats 4 and 5.Young racers Max Clegg and Josh Bates also rode with their heads to amass enough points to make their British Under-21 Final debuts next month.After a number of fallers and re-runs the meeting come to a halt after Heat 16 when all riders had four rides, as it had reached the 9.30pm curfew, and six of the seven qualifiers had won two of their four rides.Matt qualified on seven points, just out-doing Shane Hazelden on count-back as Williamson had beaten him on the head-to-head, after they had both scored exactly the same.The seven qualifiers from Plymouth join the nine seeded riders for the Monmore Green-staged Final, where a new name will be added to the trophy.BRITISH UNDER-21 FINAL SEEDS: Kyle Howarth (Poole/Workington), Jason Garrity (Rye House), Tom Perry (Somerset/Isle of Wight), Ashley Morris (Workington/Dudley), Stefan Nielsen (Somerset/Mildenhall), Joe Jacobs (Glasgow/Coventry), James Sarjeant (Coventry), Ben Morley (Kent), Robert Branford (Unattached). SEMI-FINAL QUALIFIERS: Danny Stoneman (Isle of Wight), Oliver Greenwood (Coventry), Darryl Ritchings (Isle of Wight), Dan Greenwood (Dudley), Josh Bates (Scunthorpe/Mildenhall), Max Clegg (Dudley), Matt Williamson (Buxton). Reserves: Shane Hazelden (Kings Lynn), Liam Carr (Unattached).SPEEDWAYGB EVENTS SERIES 2013BRITISH UNDER-21 FINAL: Dudley, April 23BRITISH FINAL: Wolverhampton, May 13PREMIER LEAGUE PAIRS: Somerset, May 31PREMIER LEAGUE FOURS: Peterborough, July 14PREMIER LEAGUE RIDERS CHAMPIONSHIP: Sheffield, Sept 22ELITE LEAGUE RIDERS CHAMPIONSHIP: Swindon, Oct 12NATIONAL LEAGUE MAJOR EVENTS:NATIONAL LEAGUE PAIRS: Mildenhall, June 30NATIONAL LEAGUE FOURS: Stoke, August 18NATIONAL LEAGUE RIDERS CHAMPIONSHIP: Rye House, Sept 21BRITISH SPEEDWAY FIM EVENT DATES:WORLD UNDER-21 CHAMPIONSHIP Round 3: Berwick, August 10GRAND PRIX CHALLENGE: Poole, August 2NB: The following team line-ups for the 2013 season have all been issued by clubs to the BSPA Press Office.
ELITE LEAGUE LINE-UPSNB. A doubling-up riders Premier League club is also shown. Incoming details relate to the riders EL club from the end of the 2012 season, except in the case of riders switching from PL to EL full-time this year.
BELLE VUE: Matej Zagar, Magnus Zetterstrom, Artur Mroczka, Craig Cook (DU - Edinburgh), Kevin Wolbert, Kauko Nieminen (DU - Leicester), Ales Dryml.Incoming: Zagar, Zetterstrom, Wolbert (from Kings Lynn), Nieminen (from Lakeside).
BIRMINGHAM: Chris Harris, Danny King, Jason Doyle (DU - Somerset), Ben Barker (DU - Ipswich), Josh Auty (DU - Scunthorpe), Martin Smolinski, Nico Covatti.Incoming: Harris (from Coventry), Doyle (from Swindon).
COVENTRY: Krzysztof Kasprzak, Scott Nicholls, Grzegorz Zengota, Aaron Summers (DU - Redcar), Adam Roynon (DU - Leicester), Mateusz Szczepaniak, Michal Szczepaniak.Incoming: Kasprzak (from Poole), Zengota, Mateusz Szczepaniak (from Kings Lynn).
EASTBOURNE: Bjarne Pedersen, Simon Gustafsson, Adam Shields, Timo Lahti, Cameron Woodward, Lukas Dryml, Denis Gizatullin.Incoming: Pedersen (from Birmingham), Shields.
KINGS LYNN: Niels-Kristian Iversen, Rory Schlein, Mads Korneliussen, Simon Stead (DU - Sheffield), Nicolai Klindt, Sebastian Alden, Kozza Smith (DU - Berwick).Incoming: Schlein (from Belle Vue), Stead (from Swindon), Klindt (from Wolverhampton), Alden (from Swindon), Smith.
LAKESIDE: Peter Karlsson, Davey Watt, Piotr Swiderski, Lewis Bridger, Kim Nilsson, Robert Mear, Richard Lawson (DU - Workington).Incoming: Swiderski, Bridger (from Eastbourne), Lawson (from Peterborough).
PETERBOROUGH: Kenneth Bjerre, Linus Sundstrom, Kenni Larsen, Norbert Kosciuch, Ryan Fisher, Patrick Hougaard, Dakota North.Incoming: Bjerre (injured at end of 2012), Larsen (from Coventry), Fisher (from Plymouth PL), Hougaard (from Belle Vue), North (from Ipswich PL).
POOLE: Darcy Ward, Chris Holder, Maciej Janowski, Robert Miskowiak, Dawid Stachyra, Rohan Tungate (DU - Ipswich), Kyle Howarth (DU - Workington).Incoming: Janowski (from Kings Lynn), Miskowiak, Stachyra, Tungate.
SWINDON: Hans Andersen, Troy Batchelor, Peter Kildemand, Edward Kennett, Nick Morris (DU - Somerset), Kacper Gomolski, Ashley Birks (DU - Scunthorpe).Incoming: Kennett (from Coventry), Gomolski, Birks.
WOLVERHAMPTON: Tai Woffinden, Freddie Lindgren, Adam Skornicki, Ricky Wells (DU - Sheffield), Ty Proctor (DU - Plymouth), Sam Masters (DU - Edinburgh), Jacob Thorssell.Incoming: Skornicki, Masters (from Poole).
PREMIER LEAGUE LINE-UPSNB. A doubling-up riders National League club is also shown. Incoming details relate to the riders PL club from the end of the 2012 season, except in the case of riders switching from EL or NL to PL full-time this year.
BERWICK: Ricky Ashworth, Kozza Smith, Robin Aspegren, Matt Wethers, David Bellego, Alex Edberg, Nicky Barrett.Incoming: Smith, Wethers (from Edinburgh).
EDINBURGH: Craig Cook, Theo Pijper, Sam Masters, Derek Sneddon, Max Fricke, Joszef Tabaka, Marcel Helfer.Incoming: Masters (from Poole EL), Fricke.
GLASGOW: Joe Screen, James Grieves, James Wright, Henning Bager, Harley Horwood, Joey Ringwood, Joe Jacobs (DUCoventry Storm).Incoming: Wright (from Somerset), Horwood, Ringwood, Jacobs.
IPSWICH: Ben Barker, Leigh Lanham, Morten Risager, Rohan Tungate, Jari Makinen, Cameron Heeps, Adam Ellis (DUIsle of Wight).Incoming: Barker (from Plymouth), Makinen (from Leicester), Ellis.
LEICESTER: Kauko Nieminen, Lasse Bjerre, Kevin Doolan, Adam Roynon, Jan Graversen, Simon Nielsen, Lewis Blackbird (DU - Dudley).Incoming: Doolan (from Redcar), Roynon (from Workington), Nielsen.
NEWCASTLE: Stuart Robson, Andrew Tully, Christian Henry, Ludvig Lindgren, Richie Worrall, Steve Worrall, Lewis Kerr (DUKings Lynn).Incoming: Tully (from Edinburgh), Kerr.
PLYMOUTH: Ty Proctor, Mark Lemon, Ricky Kling, Cory Gathercole, Chris Schramm, Todd Kurtz, Ben Reade (DU - Stoke).Incoming: Proctor (from Wolverhampton EL), Lemon (from Newcastle), Kling (from Poole EL), Schramm (from Sheffield).
REDCAR: Ulrich Ostergaard, Aaron Summers, Matej Kus, Hugh Skidmore, Carl Wilkinson, Max Dilger, Micky Dyer.Incoming: Hugh Skidmore (from Sheffield), Micky Dyer (from Berwick).
RYE HOUSE: Olly Allen, Anders Mellgren, Tyson Nelson, Jason Bunyan, Jason Garrity, Simon Lambert, Kasper Lykke.Incoming: Allen, Nelson.
SCUNTHORPE: Josh Auty, David Howe, Thomas Jorgensen, Ashley Birks, Michael Palm Toft, Ryan Douglas, Josh Bates (DU - Mildenhall).Incoming: Douglas, Bates.
SHEFFIELD: Simon Stead, Richard Hall, Ricky Wells, Joe Haines, Damien Koppe, Facundo Albin, Jake Knight (DUKings Lynn).Incoming: Stead (from Swindon EL), Koppe, Albin, Knight.
SOMERSERT: Jason Doyle, Nick Morris, Josh Grajczonek, Alex Davies, Kyle Newman, Tom Perry (DUIsle of Wight), Stefan Nielsen (DU - Mildenhall).Incoming: Morris (from Scunthorpe), Grajczonek (from Glasgow), Nielsen.
WORKINGTON: Richard Lawson, Rene Bach, Rusty Harrison, Tero Aarnio, Kyle Howarth, Mason Campton, Ashley Morris (DU - Dudley).Incoming: Harrison, Campton (from Glasgow).
NATIONAL LEAGUE LINE-UPS
BUXTON: Charles Wright, Tony Atkin, Adam McKinna, Ryan Blacklock, Tyler Govier, Matt Williamson, Tom Woolley.
COVENTRY: Joe Jacobs, James Sarjeant, Oliver Greenwood, Brendan Johnson, Richard Franklin, Trevor Heath, Martin Knuckey.
DUDLEY: Ashley Morris, Lewis Blackbird, Dan Greenwood, Paul Starke, Gareth Isherwood, Max Clegg, Nathan Greaves.
ISLE OF WIGHT: Tom Perry, Byron Bekker, Ben Hopwood, Darryl Ritchings, Danny Stoneman, Adam Ellis, Brandon Freemantle.
KENT: Steve Boxall, Ben Morley, David Mason, Connor Coles, Adam Kirby, TBC, TBC.
KINGS LYNN: Darren Mallett, Tom Young, Lewis Kerr, Jake Knight, Shane Hazelden, Lewis Rose, Shane Waldron.
MILDENHALL: Stefan Nielsen, Jon Armstrong, Dan Halsey, Josh Bates, Aaron Baseby, Nathan Stoneman, Liam Rumsey.STOKE: Lee Smart, Ben Reade, Kyle Hughes, Luke Priest, Luke Chessell, Shaun Tedham, Emerson Jones.
FIXTURE PICTURE
WEDNESDAY MARCH 20:CHALLENGE: Birmingham v Belle Vue 7.30
THURSDAY MARCH 21:CHALLENGE 1st leg: Peterborough v Lakeside 7.30CHALLENGE: Swindon v British Lions 7.30
FRIDAY MARCH 22:CHALLENGE 2nd leg: Lakeside v Peterborough 8pmTRAVEL PLUS TROPHY 1st leg: Coventry v Dudley 8pmASHLEY JONES MEMORIAL: Kings Lynn 7.30CHALLENGE: Plymouth v Exeter Select 7.30
SATURDAY MARCH 23:SKY SPORTS ELITE LEAGUE: Eastbourne v Belle Vue 7.30
SUNDAY MARCH 24:DAVID HOWE TESTIMONIAL: Scunthorpe 3pm
WEDNESDAY MARCH 27:SKY SPORTS ELITE LEAGUE: Birmingham v Coventry 7.30
THURSDAY MARCH 28ELITE SHIELD 1st leg: Swindon v Poole 7.30TRAVEL PLUS TOURS CHALLENGE: Sheffield v Birmingham 7.45
FRIDAY MARCH 29:SKY SPORTS ELITE LEAGUE: Belle Vue v Wolverhampton 1pm, Coventry v Birmingham 8pm, Eastbourne v Lakeside 7.45, Kings Lynn v Peterborough 7pm, Lakeside v Eastbourne 1pm, Peterborough v Kings Lynn 2pmLEAGUE CUP: Ipswich v Rye House 2.30, Scunthorpe v Leicester 3pmELITE SHIELD 2nd leg: Poole v Swindon 12pmCOCK O THE NORTH 1st leg: Edinburgh v Berwick 7.30CHALLENGE 1st leg: Somerset v Plymouth 7.30
SATURDAY MARCH 30:LEAGUE CUP: Leicester v Sheffield 7.30COCK O THE NORTH 2nd leg: Berwick v Edinburgh 7pmCHALLENGE 2nd leg: Plymouth v Somerset 7.30IAN THOMAS SHIELD 1st leg: Workington v Newcastle 7pm
SUNDAY MARCH 31:SPRING TROPHY 1st leg: Glasgow v Edinburgh 3pmIAN THOMAS SHIELD 2nd leg: Newcastle v Workington 6.30
MONDAY APRIL 1:LEAGUE CUP: Rye House v Ipswich 2pm
TUESDAY APRIL 2:SKY SPORTS ELITE LEAGUE: Wolverhampton v Belle Vue 7.30
