Jens Rasmussen (speedway rider)

The Oxford team had returned to the British League and the other signings to start as the top five riders for the season were Hans Nielsen for a record £30,000, Simon Wigg for £25,000, Marvyn Cox for £15,000 and Melvyn Taylor for £12,000, with Ian Clark and Nigel Sparshott at 6 & 7.

[4] He moved to and rode for Ipswich Witches in 1986, breakng his collarbone early in the season.

After much debate he was allowed to race due to the fact he had already been living in the United Kingdom for the previous five years and that he had an English wife and child.

[6] The move made history when he signed for the Rye House Rockets in the National League because he was the first non-Commonwealth rider to be allowed to ride at that level.

After Rye House he rode for Middlesbrough Bears,[7] King's Lynn Stars and Peterborough Panthers.