Welcome + Disclaimer

Welcome to the unofficial website for the King's Lynn "Money Centre" Stars, the speedway team from King's Lynn in Norfolk. Here you'll find regular updates for the team and their current riders, from both here in the UK and internationally where possible. This website was created by a fan, for the fans. This website is in no way directly connected to any of the riders, management or promotion of the team. All information put on here will be sourced to the original person and/or website where it's necessary. All media files will be credited and sourced to the original owner. The views expressed on this website will not necessarily be that of the clubs.

NOTE ON BOOKMARKING THIS WEBSITE: Please make sure that you only bookmark the home page (www.kingslynnstars.e-fans.net). I think some people have been bookmarking some Cutenews pages where the news content is held. In future, please don't, as I'm continuing to get errors related to old deleted monthly archives still being accessed, even when the pages don't exist and haven't done for some time! If you have bookmarked one of these Cutenews pages, change the link to the home page link which is shown above in the brackets. Thanks.

HELP NEEDED: Look here to see if you can help identify some people in the collect of old photos that have been added.

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HOME MEETING

King's Lynn Stars    V    Stoke Potters
(Aug 13th @ 7.30pm - PL)

AWAY MEETING

Isle Of Wight Islanders    V    King's Lynn Stars
(Aug 12th @ 7.30pm - PL)

For more upcoming fixtures and events, check the calendar.

Latest News

No recent news showing here? Go to the archives to see old news.

Return Of The Real Tigers, posted on 5th Aug 2008 by admin
Rye House Rockets VS King's Lynn Stars - Premier League, posted on 3rd Aug 2008 by admin
King's Lynn Stars VS Mildenhall Fen Tigers - Premier League, posted on 3rd Aug 2008 by admin
Kevins Gets 10 For Reading, Tomas Gets 8+1 For Workington And Kozza Gets 6+1 For Stoke, posted on 2nd Aug 2008 by admin

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Check out Kozza's weekly Friday column 'Kozza's Korner' on EDP24.

2008 Team



L to R: Jonathan Chapman, Kevin Doolan, Rob Lyon, Simon Lambert, Tomas Topinka
John Oliver, Shaun Tacey, Kozza Smith, Rusty Harrison, Buster Chapman

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What Is Speedway

Some people that I've spoken to, don't have the foggiest clue of what speedway exactly is, let alone knowing a few rules etc, so for those of you that don't know, I'll try and explain. In Britain, there are three main speedway leagues: the conference league (bottom level), the premier league (middle level) and the elite league (top level - some races are shown on Sky Sports). There is now also an academy league, where British youngers can start out in speedway. There are only 4 riders in a team and 6 heats to race. These normally take place after a main league meeting as a "second half". King's Lynn have their own academy league side, King's Lynn Lightning.

Each team consists of 7 riders and they all race against one another over a series of 15 heats (or races). Each heat lasts for 4 laps and is raced by 2 riders from each team. The winner of each heat gets 3 points, the second place gets 2 points and the third place gets 1 point...sadly the guy at the back in fourth place gets nothing. For example, if the home side come first and second, that means that the home side have a 5-1 against the away side. If the away side comes first and the home side come second and third, then that's a shared 3-3. If the home side comes first and third, that's a 4-2 to the home side. I think you get the picture. It's not too hard to figure out. The total points scored from each rider are all added together to give a total score for the team at the end of the meeting. The team with the most points is the winner.

The home side riders wear red and blue crash helmets and the away side riders wear green and yellow/black crash helmets. The riders also wear small race jackets over their kevlars with their team logo on the front and also have their rider number placed on it somewhere. The earnings of each rider are decided by the amount of points they score in each meeting, so their own individual scores are just as important as the overall team result. Each rider has an average based on their point tally in every meeting. The averages are re-calculated every month by speedway's ruling body, the BSPA (British Speedway Promoters Association). The average affects where a rider is placed in the team.

Key To Match Reports

In match reports, there are several letters and symbols that can stand for certain things happening, like touching the tapes, someone's engine failing etc. Some of this key has been found in the speedway magazine, Speedway Star, but of course some other people may write these letters down in other ways, as I've tried to show.

* = A bonus point for following a man home.
^ = A tactical ride from the tapes (points are doubled).
! = A tactical substitute from 15 metres (points are doubled).
<> = The rider is handicapped 15 metres for touching the tapes or missing the 2 minute warning.
X = The rider is excluded (can be written as EX or FX for fell and excluded).
T = The rider is excluded for touching tapes.
M = The rider is excluded for delaying the start or missing the 2 minute warning.
R = The rider has an engine failure or retires (can be written as EF or RET).
N = The rider fell (can be written as F) or is a non-starter (can be written as NS).
DNS/F/R = The rider did not start, finish or ride.
F/REM = The rider fell and then re-mounted.