East Newport Cycle Speedway Club created a bit of history this past weekend when they raced for the first time in the British Team under 10's championship at Exeter.
 
With the top two sides from the semi-finals qualifying for the final, the East End youngsters went on their quest to qualify for their first British Team Final, and this they did winning their semi final by 53 points over Ipswich 45, Horspath 39, Wednesfield 38 and Sheffield 25.
 
A jubilant Manager Tony Bennett said "to think that we have only been going 4 years, to make the Final is great for everyone connected with the club. Many of the other riders towered above our riders and the talk from some quarters had suggested that we would be an easy target, but how wrong they were! With many of the team still being in the same age group next year things are looking great for the Club."
 
In the Final East Newport came up against Exeter who ran out comfortable winners on 55 points, Kesgrave were 2nd on 47, East Newport 3rd on 36 points and Ipswich 4th on 22. There was no man of the match award as all of the East End riders; Taylor Carey, Ethan Lewis, Callum Goward, Tudor Coombs and Sean Bennett rode extremely well.
 
Then it was the turn of the under 16's to race in a rearranged South West Junior league GP, with East Newport leading on 232 and Exeter closely behind on 221 it was down to the u16 riders to try and win the Club's first ever Junior League victory. With two newcomers taking to the track for only their second time, both Jack Turner and Earl Bloomfield did very well, and their points together with the points of Aaron Hughes, Dan Bock and Ryan Lewis enabled the East Newport Club to come home in first place. Exeter finished 2nd on 235, they hadn't lost a South West GP in 3 years, Horspath 214, Newport 168, Poole 113, Southampton 20, Filton 15. With only 2 more South West GP to go and with more riders joining our club, it looks as if we will reach our goal of finishing in the top 3 this year.