BETGOODWIN Oxford Spires will full their ROWE Motor Oil Premiership fixtures after they host Leicester Lions on the BetGoodwin Oxford Stadium on Thursday (September 25) at 7.30pm in a re-arranged fixture. However the assembly is far more than that – since will probably be the FINAL time that the Oxford Spires take to the observe.
Firstly of 2024, Oxford Speedway uniquely entered a crew in any respect three ranges of league racing in British Speedway, getting into the Oxford Spires on the prime stage of the game, along with the Oxford Cheetahs within the second-tier Cab Direct Championship and the Oxford Chargers within the third-tier growth league, the WSRA Nationwide League. Oxford Speedway repeated that daring three-team experiment for a second 12 months this season.
However, resulting from new thrilling forthcoming developments in 2026, with rising hypothesis that the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership and Cab Direct Championship are set to merge, there’ll solely be two groups at Oxford in 2026 – the Cheetahs and the Chargers.
Oxford promoter Jamie Courtney stated: “For 2 seasons, we’ve proudly entered Oxford Speedway in any respect three ranges of the British Speedway pyramid. Throughout that point, we’ve held over 30 conferences at dwelling per season and turn out to be the busiest speedway stadium on the earth.
“British Speedway is about to enter an thrilling new period. With that in thoughts, I can verify that the Spires will likely be concerned of their final-ever assembly on Thursday towards Leicester. The Cheetahs is the membership’s conventional identify and the identify that our supporters would need for us to proceed. We will likely be getting into simply the Cheetahs and Chargers to race on the BetGoodwin Oxford Stadium in 2026.”
Tickets for Spires’ last-ever assembly at the moment are on sale on the Oxford Speedway web site at: https://oxfordspeedway.club/tickets/
Admission is out there on the early chicken value of £23 for all adults, which will increase to £25 on Race Day. All under-16s go free. A reminder that Oxford Speedway is on-line ticket gross sales solely – tickets stay on sale on the web site till the start-time of the assembly. Spectators are additionally reminded that they might want to pay £2 if they’re planning to park within the Unipart automotive park.
The assembly was beforehand rained off on Thursday, September 4. Any tickets purchased on-line for the unique staging have mechanically transferred throughout to the brand new date. Supporters may have obtained an electronic mail that additionally supplied a refund if they can not make the brand new date.
There are two conferences on the BetGoodwin Oxford Stadium this week, for the reason that SD Timmo Automobile Gross sales powered by County Plumbing Provides will host Redcar Bears within the second leg of their MAXiCab Knockout Cup semi-final on the BetGoodwin Oxford Stadium this coming Sunday (September 28). Please be aware the start-time of 5pm. The primary leg is up at Redcar on Friday (September 26) and the combination winners will progress to the ultimate to face both Poole or Glasgow.
There are 4 conferences in 4 days that includes Oxford sides, for the reason that Actual Mini Firm Oxford Chargers are concerned of their remaining WSRA Nationwide League fixture at Redcar on Saturday afternoon (September 27) at 3pm. Victory towards the Middlesbrough Tigers would clinch a second NL title in three seasons for Chargers.
Phrases by Oxford Speedway – Function Picture by Mark Lee-Sing
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