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The final was held on 8 June at the National Speedway Stadium in Manchester. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Dan Bewley won the title, beating Tai Woffinden , Tom Brennan and Chris Harris in the final. [ 4 ] It was the third successive time that Bewley had won the title, and was the first time a rider had won three in a row since Woffinden in 2015.
Inaugurated in 1961 as a qualifying round of the Speedway World Championship it was open to riders from Britain and the British dominions. [3] It was initially dominated by riders from New Zealand such as Barry Briggs and Ivan Mauger because of the British Final forming part of the World Speedway championship qualifying rounds. [4]
It is probable however that the first speedway meeting in the UK to feature bikes with no brakes and broadsiding round corners on loose dirt, probably the main tests of real speedway, was the second meeting held at High Beech on 9 April, where Colin Watson, Alf Medcalf and 'Digger' Pugh demonstrated the art for the first time in Britain.
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