East Newport Cycle Speedway Club riders recently took part in the British Individual under 10's, under 16's and Ladies Championship's which were being held in the Midlands this past bank holiday weekend.
 
Bretford was the first port of call where the under 10's and Ladies Championship was taking place. All the East End u10's Sean Bennett, Callum Goward, Ethan Lewis and Tudor Coombes made it through to their first British Final and all did extremely well on the tight and well prepared Bretford circuit. Next up was Laura Bennett who gave a good account of herself but unfortunately missed out on the final of the Ladies.
 
Then it was the turn of Aaron Hughes and Ryan Lewis to fly the flag for the Go-ride/Clubmark Club in the u16's at Wednesfield, both qualified comfortably for the semi finals where a top eight finish would guarantee a place in the final the following day at Leicester. Aaron made his first British final scoring 15 points, but a fall by Ryan in his last race put an end to his chances.
 
In the Final itself Aaron put in a very gusty performance scoring 10 points which included a very good win in his fourth ride when in 3rd place at one point.
 
A spokesman for the Club said "The City of Newport should be proud of the fact that there were three Welsh riders in the u16's final  Aaron Hughes, Horspath's Mark Carmichael who came home in 2nd place after a runoff and Poole's Ben Mould who is now British u16's Champion. Ben joins East Newport's Louis Harvey u13 in becoming the 2nd Welsh rider this year to win a British Individual Championship. It was also 30 years to the date at the same Leicester track that Newport Dragons rider Nicky Davies won the British u18 Championship.