West Cumbrian speedway hero Dan Bewley admitted keeping his normal league set-up was key to his brilliant victory in last night’s FIM Speedway GP of Great Britain.
The Maryport man thrilled the biggest-ever crowd at the National Speedway Stadium, where he races on a regular basis in the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership, and gave them the result the home fans were craving.
Bewley, who had previously won two British GPs at Cardiff, superbly overtook Sheffield’s Jack Holder in the Last Chance Qualifier to make it into the Final, where he came out on top in an intense battle with World Champion Bartosz Zmarzlik and his Aces team-mate Brady Kurtz.
Bewley said: “I didn’t really feel any extra pressure, I just came here like any other meeting.
“We race here in the league and some GP riders, some great riders, come here and sometimes they struggle, so I didn’t really want to change too much.
“I just used my English bikes and nothing really was different for me from coming to a normal league meeting.
“But the feeling from the crowd was pretty different to a normal league meeting, I wish we had that every week!”
Bewley and his rivals go again in the second Grand Prix of the weekend in Manchester tonight, where he will start in the top three of the overall standings in joint third place.
