Speedway
Friday, March 5, 2010
SPEEDWAYNEW Wightlink Islanders co-promoter Chris Hunt has said this season’s campaign should be successful for the National League outfit — providing they don’t encounter a horrendous run of injuries like last year.
Friday, February 12, 2010
SPEEDWAYTHE countdown to the new Wightlink Islanders’ season is gathering pace, with news of pre-season practices, its annual press night and the visit of an American dream team.
Friday, January 22, 2010
SPEEDWAYA BAND of Wightlink Islanders speedway club shareholders have been thwarted in their plan to take over the side.
Friday, January 15, 2010
SPEEDWAYTHE Wightlink Islanders announced their fifth signing for 2010 as they revealed they had agreed a one-year loan with last year’s league champions, the Bournemouth Buccaneers, to secure 26-year-old Danny Warwick.
Friday, January 1, 2010
TWO more speedway riders have put pen to paper and signed for the Wightlink Islanders.
Friday, October 30, 2009
SPEEDWAYSPEEDWAY side the Wightlink Islanders have confirmed they will remain in the sport’s third tier, the National League, next season.
Friday, October 23, 2009
SPEEDWAYBuxton Hitmen 50, Wightlink Islanders 40
ISLANDERS’ season drew to a close last weekend with a battling away performance at Buxton Hitmen, in the National Trophy.
Friday, October 2, 2009
SPEEDWAYMildenhall 57, Wightlink Islanders 37
THE Wightlink Islanders had no answer to a wonder show from Mildenhall Tigers’ youngster Taylor Poole in this National Trophy tie.
Friday, September 25, 2009
SPEEDWAYTHE Wightlink Islanders finished this season’s home fixtures on a high, with a 49-44 win over the Buxton Hitmen in the National Trophy.
Friday, September 18, 2009
SPEEDWAYWeymouth 45, Wightlink Islanders 43
FOR a second successive match, the patched-up Wightlink Islanders came tantalisingly close to winning only to miss out, going down to a two-point defeat in a last-heat decider in their National Trophy match at Weymouth, on Saturday.
Friday, September 11, 2009
SPEEDWAYWIGHTLINK Islanders’ hopes of finishing in the top four of this year’s National League table — and qualifying for the playoffs — came to an end on Saturday, when the Buxton Hitmen hammered the Rye House Cobras 55-41 in their final league match.
Friday, September 4, 2009
SPEEDWAYWIGHTLINK Islanders’ teenage speedway rider Brendan Johnson is continuing to make an excellent recovery from the high-speed crash which almost killed him a fortnight ago.
Friday, August 28, 2009
SPEEDWAYWIGHTLINK Islanders’ teenage speedway rider Brendan Johnson, who suffered serious head injuries in an horrific crash a week ago, is now in a stable condition at Southampton General Hospital.
Friday, August 28, 2009
SPEEDWAYWightlink Islanders 35 Plymouth 36 (meeting abandoned)
AS if the injuries to Tom Brown and Brendan Johnson were not enough, Wightlink Islanders now have two more riders on the sidelines.
Friday, August 21, 2009
SPEEDWAYWIGHTLINK Islanders pair Nick Simmons and Chris Johnson crashed out in Group A of the National League Pairs’ Championship, which took place at Smallbrook Stadium on Tuesday.