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This Saturday night sees the first of several major Sidecar events scheduled for the closing weeks of Adelaide’s Gillman Speedway season, with the staging of the Downer Sidecar Masters...

Darrin Treloar/Blake Cox played a lone hand for the Australians in the Blackchrome Sidecar Grand Slam at Gillman Speedway last night, taking on a Kiwi and two Englishmen in the final, but Treloar was in vintage form all night and won the final easily to complete an untroubled maximum...

With only three meetings before the end of the season, the management of Gillman Speedway have been looking at plans for next season and have released the speedway’s dates for next season, 2014/15...

Full details of the venue, admission prices etc., on the Gillman website from Tuesday, but the line-ups for this weekend’s two meetings at Gillman Speedway are: CBS Bins Australian Under 21 Solo Championship, Saturday night, 25 January 2014 Jake Allen (Qld), Hunter Anderson (NSW), Mason Campton (NSW), Ryan Douglas (Qld), Jack Fallon (Vic), Max Fricke (Vic), Cameron Heeps (WA), Jack Holder (NSW), Tyler King (NSW), Brady Kurtz (NSW), Robert Medson (SA), Nick Morris (Qld), Tyson Nelson (NSW), Blake Russell (WA), Douglas Scoble (WA), Tyson Snow (Qld)...

Riders heading to Adelaide for the Australia Day weekend meetings are reminded International Solo rider Shane Parker will hold a coaching clinic at the Gillman Speedway Stadium on Friday, 24 January...

Those fans thirsting for more speedway action after last Saturday night’s Australian Solo Championship will be fully catered for at Adelaide’s Gillman Speedway over the Australia Day weekend with two high profile meetings over two days...

The final Australian Solo Championship points were: Rider 1 2 3 Total 1 Chris Holder 18 20 18 56 2 Jason Doyle 20 18 16 54 3 Josh Grajczonek 15 14 15 44 4 Rohan Tungate 11 13 20 44 5 Justin Sedgmen 10 17 14 41 6 Cameron Woodward 17 12 12 41 7 Mason Campton 9 11 17 37 8 Max Fricke 12 9 13 34 9 Sam Masters 13 10 11 34 10 Troy Batchelor 16 16 N 32 11 Dakota North 6 15 10 31 12 Jack Holder 14 2 9 25 13 Jake Anderson 7 7 6 20 14 Tyson Nelson 4 6 7 17 15 Daine Stevens 2 4 3 9 16 Kurt Shields 3 3 2 8 17 Matthew Day – 0 4 4 18 Robert Medson (res) – – 0 0 The overall top four after the three rounds...

2012 World Champion Chris Holder showed what a class rider he is at Undera Park Speedway in Victoria tonight, when he overcame a terrible start (only 3 points from his first three rides), and a heavy crash in the final when hit from behind and high-sided, to win the second round of the Australian Solo Championship...

This Saturday night (11 January) marks an exceptional achievement in Gillman Speedway’s history as it hosts its tenth consecutive Australian Solo Speedway Championship, and the highlight will be the first appearance in South Australia of New South Wales rider Chris Holder since he won the World Championship in 2012...

Last week we said it would be interesting to see, with such a strong line-up, if any rider could win both the Paintmaster SA Gillman Sidecar Championship, and the Speedway Racing News South Australian Sidecar Championship, but now the question is much simpler – can Mark Plaisted/Brian Anthony win the double and, in the process, retain the State Championship which Plaisted (with Sam Gilbert) won for the first time last season? Plaisted/Anthony won the Gillman Championship on Saturday night after a dramatic final saw first-across-the-line Mick Headland/Paul Waters excluded, but their win last weekend won’t make things any easier for them on Sunday night...

A rare mistake by Shane Parker cost him the Jack Young Cup at Gillman on Sunday night, but nevertheless he produced at least one bit of class riding which saved himself and Jye Etheridge from serious injury...

British under 21 champion Robert Branford capped what has been an impressive season at his Australian home track of Gillman with victory in the Jack Young Cup last night...