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Track address | Pidcock Motorcycles Arena Beaumont Park 1 The Lions Leicester LE4 1DZ | ||||||||||||||||
Country | England | ||||||||||||||||
Founded | 1968, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
Closed | 1983 | ||||||||||||||||
Promoter | Paul Cairns & Stewart Dickson | ||||||||||||||||
Team manager | Stewart Dickson | ||||||||||||||||
League | SGB Premiership National Development League | ||||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||||
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Colours | Red and Yellow | ||||||||||||||||
Track size | 300 metres (330 yd) | ||||||||||||||||
Track record time | 58.06s | ||||||||||||||||
Track record date | 17th July 2023 | ||||||||||||||||
Track record holder | Max Fricke | ||||||||||||||||
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Leicester Lions are a speedway team which originally operated from 1968 until 1983[1] and again from 2011. The team race at the Beaumont Park Stadium (or Pidcock Motorcycles Arena for sponsorship purposes). Since 2019, the club have also ran a junior side known as the Lion Cubs.