Ian Thompson Cartwright (born 25 July 1954) is a former

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

rider from England.

Speedway career

Cartwright, a product of the Halifax training scheme, began his league career with

Crewe Kings The Crewe Kings was a British Motorcycle speedway, Speedway team which operated in Crewe, Cheshire from 1969 until its closure in 1975. History Origins A speedway track operated for a short time in the late 1920s / early 1930s, at the Londo ...

during the

1973 British League Division Two season The 1973 British League Division Two season was the second tier of motorcycle speedway in Great Britain. Summary The 1973 season saw the league expanded to 18 teams with the addition of Chesterton Potters. The team had last raced during the ...

. The following season he continued to ride for Crewe but was also introduced to the top tier of British Speedway with the

Halifax Dukes The Halifax Dukes were a speedway team which operated from 1949–1951 and again from 1965 until their closure in 1985 at The Shay Stadium in Halifax. The team were nicknamed the "Dukes" after the local Duke of Wellington's Regiment, whos ...

. He would spend the remainder of his career with Halifax, riding for them from 1974 to 1982. During his nine years with the club his average peaked in 1979 at 8.95 He reached the final of the

British Speedway Championship The British Speedway Championship is an annual motorcycle speedway competition open to British national speedway riders. The winner of the event becomes the British Speedway Champion. History Inaugurated in 1961 as a qualifying round of the S ...

on two occasions in 1980 and 1981. At retirement he had earned 6 international caps for the

England national speedway team The Great Britain national speedway team (formerly the England speedway team) is one of the major teams in international motorcycle speedway. The team is managed by former Great Britain riders Oliver Allen and Simon Stead, and captained by th ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cartwright, Ian Living people 1954 births People from Hambleton District British speedway riders Crewe Kings riders Halifax Dukes riders