The ACU is delighted to announce formal arrangements for the new Flat Track British Championship in 2025.
The series is set to take place over five rounds on four British Speedway tracks, starting at Scunthorpe’s Eddie Wright Raceway on Sunday March 30.
There will then be an event at King’s Lynn on the weekend of May 3-4, followed by a double-header at Workington on the weekend of June 28-29, and the series will conclude at Leicester on Saturday August 16.
Flat track events have taken place in the UK in recent years with rounds of the FIM World Championship at Belle Vue and King’s Lynn, but this will be the first staging of an ACU British Championship.
ACU Secretary General Matthew Edwards-Wear said: “Whenever we’ve run the World Championship meetings, they’ve always been completely stand-alone, and there’s really been no base in the UK to feed them.
“Now by bringing Flat Track to the ACU it gives us a much better grounding for when we bring the World Championship back here, and it also gives speedway promoters something else to put on for the fans.
“The ACU are very keen to bring it in as a new discipline. We’re excited by how big this is overseas, and we feel potentially it could really kick off and create plenty of interest, which will help the promoters who are putting the events on and looking to fill some blank dates.
“It’s an entertaining discipline, I think the volume of riders on track is quite a selling point and I know people who have been to the meetings have enjoyed them.
“Flat track has also been attractive to speedway riders in the past. Dan Bewley competed in a meeting at Belle Vue in 2021, and he was really good at it and finished runner-up, and I know some speedway riders in other countries do it too.
“It also seems to attract motocross riders, who I think go into Flat Track seeing it as potentially an opportunity for them to then be able to make the switch into speedway.
“We’re really pleased to be running this as an ACU event and hopefully it can grow in the future.”
British Speedway chairman Rob Godfrey will be hosting the first event at his own Scunthorpe venue, and he’s excited to be part of the new era.
He said: “We’ve had Flat Track before at Scunthorpe and it’s really exciting and eventful, and I think it’s great that the ACU are now taking it on.
“What we do this year will hopefully be just the start, and certainly to have the four British Speedway tracks involved at this stage is very positive and something we will be looking to build on.
“We’re very much looking forward to the opening round on March 30, and to the series as a whole.”
For further details and entry information please contact Kirsty Telford on 01788 566408 or kirsty@acu.org.uk