Sidecar speedway

Sidecar Speedway is a motorcycle sport involving 4 crews of a rider and a passenger competing over 4 laps on an oval shale surface.

Sidecar speedway events are also held in New Zealand, South Africa and United States of America.

Because of the nature of the sports hotbeds being spread so wide across the globe, organising an official World Championship has been an arduous task, though in 2006 the first successful Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme World Track Racing Sidecar Championships (Sidecar Gold Cup) were held at Isle of Wight Speedway stadium.

The passenger plays a major part in controlling the amount of traction being created on the rear wheel.

The 2015 Australian championship was scheduled to be held at the Arunga Park Speedway in Alice Springs on 4 and 5 April.

In the early 1990s the 'World Of Rebels' series was run, involving sidecars from England, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

The Supercup was re-established in 2008 as a one night event at Isle of Wight Speedway and was won by World Champions Darrin Treloar/Justin Plaisted.

The 2010 World Championship was won by Australian father/son team Mick and Jesse Headland at the Brandon Stadium in Coventry, England on 14 August 2010.

Jesse Headland substituted for his fathers regular partner Paul Waters who was still recovering from injuries sustained earlier in the year in New Zealand.

[1][2] The other major event in world sidecar speedway is the FIM Track Racing Gold Trophy.

Riders from Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain and Holland have competed, though the Australian teams have dominated the events to date.