Great Britain

Revenge, as the saying goes, is a dish best eaten coldand following a year’s break for the FIMS peedway World Cup, the FIM Speedway of Nations (SoN) returned to the calendar in 2024 with Great Britain attempting to regain its mantel as the sport’s dominant country after losing to Australia in 2022.
With Great Britain fielding Robert Lambert, Dan Bewleyand reserve rider Tom Brennan from its victorious 2021 squad–and Lambert and Bewley also in the team that narrowly lost out to Australia in Denmark the following season–there was a definite score to be settled by the home teamat the National Speedway Stadium in Belle Vue, Manchester.
After safely progressing through to the Grand Final Qualifier in second with either Lambert or Bewley winning every one of the four Heat races they contested, the British pairing then defeated Sweden to set up a winner-takes-all showdown in the Grand Final with the defending champions.
Cheered on by strong home support, Lambert and Bewley would not be denied and they took control when it mattered most, powering to a one-two finish to regain the coveted SoN title in style and cement Great Britain’s status as Speedway’s number one nation

PALMARES 

FIM Speedway of Nations World Champions - 2021, 2024

BELLE STARS! 

Competing on home turf at Manchester’s Belle Vue Speedway and roared on by a fiercely partisan crowd, Great Britain’s quartet of Robert Lambert, Daniel Bewley, Tom Brennan and Tai Woffinden wrote their names into the history books with a famous FIM Speedway of Nations victory. 

The sensational win ended three years of MFR dominance of the event following its rebranding in 2018 and represents Great Britain’s first team World Championship title since 1989. 

Run over a two-day format, Poland cruised to a comfortable win on the Saturday with captain Bartosz Zmarzlik leading his team to a ten-point advantage over Great Britain. Home hopes, however, suffered a body blow when Woffinden crashed hard in race eighteen and was sidelined for day two with Daniel Bewley stepping in for the stricken triple World Champion. 

In a sport as dramatic as speedway it was only fitting that the Grand Final showdown on Sunday was action-packed with the Polish pairing of Zmarzlik and Maciej Janowski going toe-to-toe with Lambert and Bewley, neither of whom had been alive the last time Great Britain triumphed at the event. 

Zmarzlik won the Grand Final, but his team-mate crashed out on the opening lap and with four points for a win, three for second, two for third and nothing for last, Great Britain was back on top of the World for the first time in thirty-two years by the incredibly narrow margin of five points to four. 

PALMARES 

FIM Speedway of Nations World Champions - 2021