Ian Clark (speedway rider)

Ian Russell Clark (born 23 December 1958) is a British former motorcycle speedway rider.

[1] Born in Sandon, Essex, Clark's early experience came in grasstrack, in which he was the British Schoolboy Champion in both 1973 and 1974.

[2] He took up speedway in 1973 at the training school at Hackney Wick, and made his competitive debut in 1975 for the Peterborough Panthers.

[4] In 1977, he helped the Peterborough Panthers win the Fours Championship during the 1977 National League season.

[5] In 1980, he signed for British League Leicester Lions in a £2,750 transfer, reaching the semi-final of the World Championship the same year.