Speedway Plus

September 2004 sees Speedway Plus celebrate its fifth birthday, not a bad milestone for any website to reach. The site was initially hosted by an ISP named Internations but graduated to become a fully fledged '.co.uk' during the summer of 2000. Speedway Plus, as the name hopefully suggests, was first formed with the intention of adding something di... fferent to the speedway content available on the internet. While most other sites tend to be dedicated to a particular club or rider, or offer a news service, we've always tried to be much more general in our approach and to provide features of interest to as wide an audience as possible. We realise that we're not everyone's cup of tea, but we do like to think that we appeal to the slightly more discerning surfer! The very first article on the site was a picture feature on the decaying Berrington Lough stadium in Berwick. The Bandits had moved out at the end of 1995 and our snaps showed the rather sad state of the stadium after four years of neglect. These pictures are still part of our ever popular archive of track photographs, the selection has now expanded to include many current and closed tracks. Sadly some of the circuits, such as Linlithgow and Trelawny, have made the transition from 'current' to 'closed' during our five years. Fans of this section of the site will be pleased to know that we'll be adding quite a number of tracks over the next few months. Speedway Plus has never been afraid to introduce new features, some of which have worked and some of which haven't. Two of the most successful additions have been the Match Report Generator and the Programme Generator. These popular utilities have both been part of the site since the start of the 2000 season. Regular updates have been made, both to improve the quality and to keep up to date with the latest regulations. Somewhat less successful was our 'Speedway Alphabet' feature that was going to run to twenty-six parts and feature a brief history of some of the sport's clubs and riders. The article that ...Read More