Speedway

Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of dirt or loosely packed shale. Competitors use this surface to slide their machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the straight sections of the track the motorcycles reach speeds of up 70 miles per hour (110 km/h).

Speedway was originating in Maitland, New South Wales in the 1920s. But the first race didn't take place a couple of years later on 15 december 1923 according to Maitland Mercury newspaper.

Each speedway track is between 260 and 425 metres long and it takes approximately one minute to finish a race.