BEWLEY ELATED WITH FIRST BELLE VUE ACES TROPHY

Great Britain racer Dan Bewley is elated to have won his first trophy with the Belle Vue Aces after blazing to home and away maximums in the Rowe Motor Oil Premiership Grand Final against the Leicester Lions.

Bewley went unbeaten on 15 points at the Pidcock Motorcycles Arena on Thursday – following up his 15-pointer in the home leg at the National Speedway Stadium on September 23.

It has been a sensational finish to 2024 for this year’s FIM Speedway GP of Great Britain – Cardiff and British Championship winner, who has also achieved a career-best fourth place in the Speedway GP series and reached the PGE Ekstraliga play-off final with Wroclaw and the Bauhaus Elitserien play-off final with Swedish side Dackarna.

Belle Vue won their first league title since 1993 in 2022, but without Bewley in the side, so he was elated to finally get his hands on a top-flight trophy with the Manchester club, where he first competed at National League level in 2016.

He told the official British Speedway social media channels: “It’s probably even more special for me. I am sure the whole team is over the moon – everyone is. It’s the first time I have won anything with the Aces. I won a couple of things in the National League, but never for the Aces, so it’s pretty special.

“I think this is my first full max home and away this season, so it’s a good time to do it. All the boys chipped in over the two legs, though, so it is a good result for everybody.

“I have just been enjoying my riding. I feel like when you have a good team – and we are all mates in the team – it’s fun coming here.

“We will have a bit of a celebration – maybe a trip to Wales to go mountain biking. I think we are looking forward to that. Thanks to all the fans who made it to Leicester. That was pretty awesome.”

Aces captain Brady Kurtz jets to Czech Republic to compete in tonight’s FIM SGP Challenge in Pardubice, where the top four riders secure places in the 2025 Speedway GP series.

Kurtz also went unbeaten at Leicester, scoring 11 paid 12 from four, and he was pleased to see a Belle Vue team that was written off as underdogs going into the play-offs finish as British speedway’s top dogs in 2024.

Kurtz said: “There’s nothing wrong with being underrated! We always had the team. We have such a good line-up. We had the boys who stepped up and did the business when it mattered, and I think that’s all you need in the play-offs.

“It has been a cool season with such a good group of guys. It has been a fun team, and it was really fun to finish off like that.

“It’s such a good club to be part of. I am honoured to be captain. It’s nice to hold that trophy up.

“We have such good fans at Belle Vue and it’s really sick to see them turn out in force. I am happy we brought the trophy home for them.”