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The Belle Vue Aces are a British speedway club, based in Manchester. The club hold the record of having won the top tier League championship 14 times. They currently compete in the SGB Premiership , racing at The National Speedway Stadium , with home matches usually taking place on Monday evenings.
Belle Vue Aces topped the regular season table and won the Knockout Cup. Their world champion rider Jason Crump was in superb form throughout the season. Fellow Australian Leigh Adams topped the league averages for Swindon for arguably the second consecutive season but it was Coventry Bees that experienced their first title success since the ...
Belle Vue Aces: 2023: Sheffield Tigers: 2024: Belle Vue Aces Most Tier One titles. Name Titles Belle Vue Aces: 14 Poole Pirates: 10 Wembley Lions: 10 Coventry Bees: 8 ...
Belle Vue Aces 10.19 3 Ronnie Moore: Wimbledon Dons 10.17 4 The late Peter Craven: Belle Vue Aces 10.13 5 Nigel Boocock: Coventry Bees 9.84 6 Ron How: Wimbledon Dons 9.68 7 Björn Knutson: Southampton Saints 9.27 8 Barry Briggs: Southampton Saints 9.13 9 Ken McKinlay: Coventry Bees 8.99 10 Peter Moore: Swindon Robins 8.98
Belle Vue Aces: 32 19 2 11 10 50 5 Coventry Bees: 32 15 3 14 8 41 6 ... Belle Vue 9.68 Kelvin Tatum: Coventry 9.49 Simon Cross: Cradley 9.13 Jeremy Doncaster: Reading
The Poole Pirates won the Elite League for a record third successive year, beating the Belle Vue Aces in the two-legged Grand Final. The Aces – in their first Grand Final since 2005 – hosted the first leg at Kirkmanshulme Lane , and at one point trailed by 13 points.
Belle Vue found consolation by winning the Knockout Cup. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In their last season at the Cowley track, Oxford Rebels won the Midland Cup, beating Wolverhampton Wolves [ 5 ] [ 6 ] but the competition was overshadowed by the death of rider Gary Peterson .
Belle Vue Aces won their third consecutive title. Their team was littered with great riders including Ivan Mauger, Sören Sjösten and the young Peter Collins; they were backed up by the consistency of Chris Pusey, Eric Broadbelt, Alan Wilkinson and Ken Eyre, which led to a comfortable title win by a clear 12 points.