| Lakeside Hammers | |||||||||
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| Track address | Arena Essex Raceway A1306 Arterial Road Purfleet | ||||||||
| Country | England | ||||||||
| Founded | 1984 | ||||||||
| Closed | 2018[1] | ||||||||
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| Colours | Blue red and white | ||||||||
| Track size | 252 metres (276 yd) | ||||||||
| Track record time | 56.8 seconds | ||||||||
| Track record date | 30 May 2008 | ||||||||
| Track record holder | Andreas Jonsson | ||||||||
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The Lakeside Hammers (formerly the Arena-Essex Hammers) were a speedway team who raced in the British league system from 1984 to 2018, most recently racing in the SGB Championship in 2018. The team were nicknamed the Hammers after the West Ham Hammers, a speedway team that closed twelve years earlier.[2] The team's home track, the Arena Essex Raceway, closed shortly before the end of the 2018 season.[3]
- ^ "DOUGLAS TO STEP ASIDE – British Speedway Official Website". speedwaygb.co.uk. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
- ^ Bamford, R & Jarvis J.(2001). Homes of British Speedway. ISBN 0-7524-2210-3
- ^ "Arena-Essex Lakeside Speedway". Defunct Speedway. Retrieved 2 September 2021.