With a strong warmth chief trio now in place the Kent Eagles administration staff proceed to construct what they really feel certain shall be an equally strong engine room of the staff that may set out in pursuit of the Nationwide Improvement trophy in Season 2025.
Subsequent in line to place pen to paper to characterize them within the forthcoming marketing campaign is extremely rated Charlie Wooden.
By his personal admission Wooden has been across the sport and racing just about all his life, his earliest recollections embrace being transported across the nation by his dad and elder brother Georgie, watching them experience which in flip instilled an obsession with bikes inside him.
Across the age of 5 or 6 Wooden sat on a motorbike himself, a peewee 50 which he feels certain that many different riders can relate to and from there his confidence grew driving motorcross bikes round close by fields.
In 2015 Wooden’s curiosity renewed considerably after brother Georgie signed for Eastbourne, beginning at reserve and swiftly rising via the ranks to turn into a significant performer for the Eagles. That yr additionally noticed the youthful Wooden first compete on a speedway bike of his personal, his first proving to be a birthday current from his Mum.
Like many others he entered the British Youth Championship system, rising via the ranks within the coming years on the again of some good and notable performances.
In 2021 Wooden entered a grass observe assembly for a little bit of enjoyable, and although a couple of tumbles disclosed that it was not fully enjoyable, nonetheless he wasn’t daunted, the seasons spanning 2022 and 2024 seeing him focus extra on the grass observe self-discipline of racing.
He remained in contact with Speedway attending a handful of conferences every season to maintain him within the loop, nevertheless a crash on the Isle of Wight on the tail finish of 2023 set him again, main him to query his continued participation in that space of the game.
Wooden attended a couple of practise days in 2024 to see if his ardour for Speedway would return and admits that it did, a primary league degree assembly in Could through which he scored a paid most for the Hastings Saxons in opposition to the Cradley Heathens proving a big think about that.
Past that nevertheless Wooden, nonetheless solely 16, continued to focus extra on the grass, a profitable yr, in opposition to more and more powerful opposition, although nothing he couldn’t deal with, unfolded, one which proffered some impressed outcomes on the prime degree.
A dialog with Kent Eagles membership house owners David Graveling and Michael Grey satisfied Wooden {that a} extremely promising speedway profession might but exist alongside that of an already profitable grass observe operation.
The realisation that the speedway fixtures might work properly in tandem together with his grass observe commitments sparked a much-renewed curiosity within the former and Wooden swiftly agreed to signal on the dotted line and decide to the forthcoming Nationwide Improvement Trophy marketing campaign on their behalf.
‘I’m actually trying ahead to driving for the Eagles in 2025 as it’s a new problem for me’ Wooden commented.
‘We’ve got set some good targets, and my equipment would be the greatest to go well with me and my staff who shall be nearly as good as they all the time are’ he continued.
‘I’m actually happy to have been requested by David (Graveling) and the staff and I can’t thank them sufficient for the chance to indicate them and the followers what I can do. See you within the 2025 season’ Wooden concluded.
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