Speedway

British Speedway League Championship

Friday 25th July 2025

Tapes Up 19.30

Glasgow Tigers 47 Berwick Bandits 43, attendance 600

@ Ashfield Stadium

404 Hawthorn Street

Possil Park

Glasgow

G22 6RU

£20 Admission

£3.50 Programme, 36 Pages.

This was only spotted during the day and as it was only 20 minutes from our overnight hotel, then it would have been rude not to go. It was my first speedway meeting since visiting Newcastle Diamonds in 2017 and only my second in more than 30 years. These days Glasgow Tigers ride at Ashfield Stadium, where I’d previously visited for football, having seen Ashfield beat Newmains United 4-2 there, back in August 2006.

General admission was £20, or an extra £2 if you wanted a seat. Rather than risk street parking, we paid £5 to park in the secure parking at the stadium, with allowed a surprisingly swift getaway afterwards. The match day programme, which doubles as a scorecard, was £3.50 and looks like there’s plenty of reading, but I’ll probably never look at it again. There was a good variety of food and drink available, which wasn’t the greatest quality, but was cheap enough.

Chris Harris and Villads Nagel got Tigers off to a perfect start, giving them a 5-1 lead after the first heat, with the fastest heat of the night, dead on 58 seconds. The same two took first and second again in heat 6, this time Nagels winning, which opened up a 21-15 lead and they completed a 1-2 hattrick again in heat 10, which saw Tigers increase their lead to 37-23 and Bandits looked to be too far back to recover from this, although they did take four of the next five heats to only lose by a respectable 47-43 in the end.

Chris Harris top scored for Tigers with 11 points (+2 bonus) with Villads Nagel backing him up with 10 points (+1 bonus), whilst both were outdone by the top two riders for Berwick, with Jonas Jeppesen getting 13 points (+2 bonus) and Drew Kemp 12 points.