Steve Schofield (speedway rider)
Born | Carshalton, England | 27 February 1958
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Nationality | British (English) |
Career history | |
Great Britain | |
1980–1983 | Weymouth Wildcats |
1982–1983 | Reading Racers |
1984–1985 | Wolverhampton Wolves |
1986–1988, 1991–1997 | Poole Pirates |
1989–1990 | Hackney Kestrels |
1998 | Oxford Cheetahs |
Poland | |
1992–1996 | Gdańsk |
Individual honours | |
1997 | Long Track World Championship silver |
1998 | Long Track World Championship bronze |
1990 | Southern Riders' Champion |
1988 | British Masters (Grasstrack) |
Team honours | |
1994 | League champion (tier 1) |
1994 | Fours winner (tier 1) |
1986 | National League Riders' runner-up (tier 2) |
1990 | Pairs champion (tier 2) |
Steven Schofield (born 27 February 1958) is a former motorcycle speedway rider who competed in speedway, Longtrack and Grasstrack Racing.[1] He earned 12 international caps for the England national speedway team.[2]
Career
[edit]Longtrack and Grasstrack
[edit]Schofield reached eight World Longtrack world championship finals and won the silver medal in 1997 and the bronze medal in 1998. He also reached seven European Grasstrack Champion finals and was the British Masters 500cc grasstrack champion in 1988, following seven consecutive 350cc titles from 1980 to 1986.[1]
Speedway
[edit]Schofield began his British leagues career riding for Weymouth Wildcats in 1980 but it was not until the 1981 National League season that he became a first team regular.[3] He enjoyed two more seasons of consistent riding at Weymouth recording an average of 8.97 in 1983.[4]
He spent two seasons at Wolverhampton Wolves from 1984 to 1985 before joining Poole Pirates in 1986. In his first season at Poole he finished runner-up in the National League Riders' Championship and averaged 10.36.[5] He topped the Poole averages for the next two years in 1987 and 1988.
For the 1989 National League season, he joined Hackney Kestrels and topped the league averages for the London club.[6] The following season the success continued as he topped the league averages for a second consecutive season and won the National League Pairs, partnering Andy Galvin for Hackney, during the 1990 National League season.[7][8] In 1990, he won the Southern Riders' Championship.[9]
After two very successful seasons with Hackney, Schofield re-joined the Poole Pirates, where he would spend seven more seasons.[10] With Poole, he won the 1994 league title and fours championship.[11] His final season was the 1998 Elite League speedway season, with Oxford Cheetahs.[2]
He retired through injury having been involved in a bad crash with Jason Crump and Joe Screen at the Bonfire Burn-up.[12]
Major results
[edit]World Longtrack Championship
[edit]- 1987 Semi-final
- 1988
Scheeßel (14th) 6pts
- 1989
Marianske Lazne (12th) 12pts
- 1990
Herxheim (13th) 9pts
- 1991
Marianske Lazne (13th) 5pts
- 1992
Pfarrkirchen (15th) 2pts
- 1993
Mühldorf (5th) 14pts
- 1994 Semi-final
- 1995
Scheeßel (19th) 1pt
- 1996
Herxheim (8th) 8pts
- 1997 5 app (Second) 85pts
- 1998 5 app (Third) 85pts
- 1999 5 app (Fourth) 76pts
Best Grand-Prix Results
[edit]Abingdon - third 1998
Cloppenburg - first 1997
Jubeck - third 1999
Marianske Lazne - first 1997
Marmande - second 1998, Tthird 1999
Mühldorf - third 1998 & 1999
European Grasstrack Championship
[edit]- 1981 Semi-final
- 1982
Damme (5th) 15pts
- 1985
La Reole (7th) 11pts
- 1986
Eenrum (second) 21pts
- 1994
Cloppenburg (third) 19pts
- 1995
Joure (8th) 11pts
- 1996
St. Colomb de Lauzen (second) 21pts
British Grasstrack Championship
[edit]500cc Finals
- 1982 second
- 1983 third
- 1988 first
- 1992 second
- 1994 second
- 1996 second
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Steve Schofield". Grasstrack GB. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ a b "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "1981 season" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Rider averages 1929 to 2009" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Year by Year". Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Steve Schofield". WWOS Backup. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "1990 fixtures" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "Potters pairs bid comes unstuck". Staffordshire Sentinel. 18 June 1990. Retrieved 26 May 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "1990 fixtures" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ "Poole history". Poole Pirates. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "1994 season" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
- ^ "BACK FOR BOYCEY". Bournemouth Echo. Retrieved 26 May 2023.