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16th April The new era at Arena Essex has seen the club name change to the Lakeside Hammers and for the first visit of the Sky Sports cameras the new promotion at the club have taken the innovative step of offering completely free admission to the meeting. It’s a decision that has rightfully garnered them […]

9th April Another week, another Sky Sports live broadcast where the rhetoric outruns the reality of what’s on display. The presenters are impressed to be at Monmore Green for the first time this season. Kelvin luxuriates in the “triffic atmosphere in the stadium” and Jonathan is chuffed with the “fantastic crowd” huddled together in front […]

The first leg of the double header Easter Sunday meeting between Reading and Swindon is enticing enough to attract a good sized crowd to Smallmead. The number of spectators through the turnstiles has been swelled by a good sized contingent of Swindon fans who gather on the third bend, which allows the keener ones to […]

2nd April The latest televised broadcast from the speedway lovers at Sky Sports was mostly notable for its absences. New presenter Abi was very obviously missing from Sandy Lane – hopefully only for a further visit to the famed Sky presenter’s finishing school – as were any banal or meaningful interviews conducted in the pits. […]

Rumours have reached a crescendo that the relentless campaign to find a new home for speedway within the capital has identified a couple of exciting new possible stadium targets! A mystery man close to the search project, a Mr. D. Byrne said, “we are actively considering Upton Park because in recent years work has already […]

26th March The perils of live broadcasts are such that as soon as you’d uttered an authoritative prognostication on what has happened or what is about to happen, the evidence of the eyes of the armchair audience completely contradicts your claims. The latest Sky Sports live speedway broadcast of Belle Vue versus Poole provides a […]

After their winter break Speedway returned to Sky Sports and treated us to a double dose on successive nights of the latest Panthers versus Racerdogs encounter. They say lightening doesn’t strike twice and these programmes were living proof of that adage though they did give absolutely everyone the chance to repeatedly demonstrate their meteorological skills. […]

My first official meeting as Writer in Residence at Eastbourne Speedway started with his drama with a confrontation between Nicki Pedersen and Craig Boyce. To read my account of this and my other blogs click here I was also fortunate to be interviewed as part of the Eagles press and practice day.

I have had a long-standing invitation from Graham Cooke to come along and help the Swindon Robins track team with their winter work on the Blunsdon track. When he said “fencing” I imagined that I might have to buy an epee or foil specially or even perhaps help with some stolen goods but apparently he […]

A fun chance to win a signed copy of one of my Methanol Press books by submitting a speedway limerick. Please email your Speedway Limerick using the ‘Email the author’ link at the bottem of my website home page (put “Speedway Limerick” in the subject heading and include your postal address, phone number. Please state […]

I can wait for the season to start and will now be writing two blogs next season. I’m delighted that Bob Brimson has invited me to be Writer in Residence for the Eastbourne Eagles.He has kindly given me permission to write whatever I want in the style of my usual work, albeit with a couple […]

When Eagles Dared – by Jeff Scott. First I should say that I haven’t had time to read this entire book but I shall certainly finish it. This is a much more relaxed effort than Jeff’s first offering, Showered in Shale. His real love of Speedway and the Eastbourne Eagles in particular, and his sense […]

In this week’s Speedway Star the always-engaging Peterborough and Rye House presenter Craig Saul makes an interesting philosophical observation when he deliberately classifies speedway as “sports entertainment” The exact quote reads as follows:“What we – at least claim we – are promoting in 2007 is ‘sports entertainment’, rather than pure sport, but you must be […]

February 11th Telford* World IceFebruary 18th High Beech * My signed books will be on the always enthralling Enjay stall (also packed with other speedway merchandise) run by Nick and Johnny Barber as well as on the excellent stall run by the avunuclar Dave Rattenberry

Just like speedway is mostly ignored in the national print and broadcast media, so it has been with Internet search engines. If I type the title of my book Showered in Shale into google (as I do when vanity overcomes me and I have the odd idle minute), its not long before I’m lost in […]

“Jeff Scott, an avid and enthusiastic if not slightly eccentric speedway fan has written the book to fill those long winter evenings…[he] is a witty and articulate writer and in Worldspeedway.com’s opinion the book itself is probably the best speedway book written to date. Cleverly written, Scott not only tells his story of the season […]

Inevitably as soon as Tim Stone, the promoter of the Newport New Year Classic, spoke in congratulatory fashion to the Speedway Star about the fact that this winter speedway event could and had run in all weathers, he was bound to irk the speedway weather gods. In other years whether the wintry conditions ranged from […]

“There is something special about a long sultry night of racing at Arlington Stadium. Prolific speedway writer Jeff Scott has managed to capture that, and the less memorable meetings as well, in his latest book…[written] from down there amid the programme boards and baseball caps on the terraces as he brings us the characters, comics […]

If you haven’t already clicked on this link on this page then please do so immediately if you want an authentic insight into the trials and tribulations of track preparation. It really is quite something as the dedication, obsessiveness, skill and humour of the characters (including ‘Punch’ and Gerard Richter among a cast of not […]

Picking over the Eagles’ bones RARELY – if ever – can a club’s speedway season have been so picked over as the Eastbourne Eagles’ 2005 campaign.It’s been given the Jeff Scott treatment – the Brighton-based author and self-confessed speedway nut who earlier this year gave us Showered in Shale.That mammoth tome was a trip around […]