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Josh Lane, from SG Petch of Middlesbrough, last weekend climbed Ben Nevis for Charity. Once at the summit, he showed his support for the SG Petch Bears by waving a couple of Bears flags.

A great effort from Josh – congratulations on reaching the summit from all at Redcar Speedway!

Reminder to fans that the Meet the Riders night will take place tomorrow night at the Bears Bar, with a 7pm start. Admission is £3,and all your 2017 SG Petch Bears riders will be present. 

Then on Saturday the press and practice session will take place, with gates opening at 10:30am . All the Bears and Cubs riders will be present, plus a few guests. Refreshments will be available. Admission for this is £1,with all money going to Zoes Place

​Redcar Bears duo Charles Wright and Jacob Bukhave represented the S.G.Petch Bears at the Northern press day held at Newcastle today. 

With the regions TV camera’s present and numerous radio and newspaper’s seeking news it was a chance of some track time for the duo and for Jacob to remind people he is still available for a team place somewhere.

Both BBC and ITV will be showing the footage on the local news channels later this week.

As you can see from the below picture taken at the weekend, the air fence has now gone up at the Media Prima Arena.

 

That can mean only one thing, must be almost that time of year…

New Redcar number one Jason Garrity began his preparation for the forthcoming season last weekend and has plenty more practice in the pipeline before  making his SG Petch Bears debut at the club’s Julie Lewis Memorial Trophy meeting on March 30^th.

Garrity, who joined the Teessiders from Sheffield during the winter, will be one of the favourites for the season opener at the Media Prima Arena and hopes a good performance will prove the perfect springboard for a successful campaign.

“I was at Scunthorpe practising last Saturday and I’ve got Redcar’s press and practice day at the end of next week,” said the 23-year old from Manchester.

“I’m also riding in the 50^th Anniversary meeting at Berwick (tonight – Saturday) and again for ‘Coventry’ in a challenge match at Peterborough on Sunday.

“So I’ll have definitely got a few laps under my belt before the season starts properly.

“Coventry pulling out so late wrecked a lot of my plans but I’ve moved on and am getting things sorted now.

“I’ve had some very loyal sponsors who have been with me a few years now but others are always welcome.

“I’ve got two bikes fully running and three spares in case I need them.

“I’ve ridden at number one a few times before but staying there is going to be hard.

“Riding at number two at Coventry last year means I got used to going out in heat one and riding against two top riders – that has done me the world of good.

“I’m not really bothered which heat I start in – it’s racing at the end of the day and numbers are numbers – but in heat one there is usually little chance to pass so it’s vitally important to make a good start.

“I now have to prove that I can do it consistently.”

The 2011 British Under-19 and National League Riders Champion, has not given up on a place in the Premiership this year and many fancied the Droylsden-based rider might be snapped up by his local track. But Garrity explained:

“I spoke to Belle Vue but they already had their team in mind but I’m hopeful that someone in the Premiership will pick me up before too long.

“I want to try and get back to race again at Cardiff in the Grand Prix; I’ve done it twice before and it was a lot of fun.

“I did two on the trot, in 2014 and 201, but last year’s British Final didn’t go to plan.

“I’d ridden at Belle Vue a few weeks before and it was dry and I’d been on really low sprockets but when I went there again for the British Final it worked in the first race, which I won, but I was too low geared after that.

“I know where I went wrong and you learn from experience.

“Obviously Danny King won the British Final last year and I’ve ridden alongside him at Coventry so that gives me confidence that I could do it too.

“Danny’s ridden in Poland for a while, on big tracks, and I think that has benefited him.

“Riding at Sheffield for a year and a half has helped me and now, as I’m not riding for Coventry, it would be nice to get more bookings abroad and maybe find a club out there?”

Garrity will link up again in the Redcar pits with former Buxton team-mate Charles Wright, with whom he shared treble success with the Hitmen at the beginning of his career in 2010.

“I’m looking forward to being in the same team as Charles again – we’ve don’t live too far apart and have been mates a long time,” he said.

Jonas B Andersen is expected to fly in from Denmark next Monday with Bears other overseas star Tobias Busch, fresh from a winter’s ice racing, returning from Germany later in the week in time for the club’s open to the public press and practice on Saturday, March 25^th, with riders expected on track from noon.

The annual meet the riders talk-in, at the trackside bar, will this year take place the evening before, Friday 25th, with a start time of 7pm.

Article courtesy of Keith McGhie and the Speedway Star

Redcar ‘SG Petch’ Bears reserve Ellis Perks has been drawn at number 8 for the British U21 Semi Final, to be held at Peterborough on Tuesday April 11th.

The top ten scorers on the night will go on to join the likes of Robert Lambert and Dan Bewley in the final, to take place at Poole on Wednesday April 26th.

Good luck Ellis!

​The S.G. Petch Bears are pleased to announce that we now have a Bear’s telephone ‘club line’. 

Thanks to our friends at E-Squire business centre fans can dial 01642 040302 and get directed through to the resource they require to satisfy their enquiry.

This will be helpful to fans with future race day information  particularly on potentially damp Thursday’s !

All at Redcar Speedway are saddened to hear of the serious injuries suffered by Richard Hall’s father, John Hall, in a recent car accident.

John is currently beginning the long road to recover and all associated with the Bears send their best wishes to him, Richard and all his family.

Redcar Bears Tobias Busch concludes his first season of ice racing this weekend when he lines up as reserve in round four of the World Championship buoyed by a sensational fourth place in the German title race on Thursday night.

Tobi, 28, was among the least experienced of the 16 competitors at the Horst-Dohm Eisstadion in Berlin, yet only missed out on a podium placing by two points.

The rider who became an instant fans favourite after signing for the SG Petch Bears midway through last season, needed to finish second in the last of his five rides to earn a run-off for the bronze medal with Marcus Jell.

But unbeaten Max Niedermaier, who took the title with a 15-point maximum, and Jell both led Tobi home in the 20^th and final race.

That left Tobi on 11 points but with the satisfaction of finishing ahead of Luca Bauer, who was controversially awarded a wild-card entry for the two-day World Championship meeting in preference to the Redcar racer.

Tobi is one of only two survivors from last season’s Bears line-up and will now begin his preparation for the summer season on Teesside which begins with the Julie Lewis Memorial Trophy on Thursday, March 30^th.

GERMAN ICE SPEEDWAY FINAL, Berlin (German unless stated)

 

Max Niedermaier (3,3,3,3,3) 15,

Hans Weber (3,3,2,3,3,) 14,

Markus Jell (2,3,3,3,2) 13,

Tobias Busch (2,3,2,3,1) 11,

Sebastian Gegenbauer (2,2,3,2,1) 10,

Luca Bauer (3,2,1,3,0) 9,

Jonas Andersson (Sweden) (1,fd, 2,2,3) 8,

Simon Reitsma (Netherlands) (0,2,1,1,3) 7,

Franz Marebuchler (2,1,1,1,2) 7,

Bart Schaap (Netherlands) (1,1,2,0,2) 6,

Jasper Iwema (Netherlands) (0,1,2,2,1) 6,

Gunter Bauer (3,D,N,N,N) 3,  

Reinhard Greisl (0,0,0,1,2) 3,

Albin Lindblom (Sweden) (1,2,0,0,0) 3,

Erwin Schuster (Austria) (1,R,0,1,1) 3

Article courtesy of Keith McGhie and The Gazette, pictures copyright of LS-PHOTO