The Nelson Admirals were a

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 ...

team who operated from Seedhill Stadium in

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, England, from 1967 to 1970.

History

During March 1967, promoter Mike Parker applied for a speedway licence for Seedhill Stadium and the stadium duly hosted racing starting on 29 July 1967. The following season, Nelson were founder members of

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in 1968 and finished runners-up in its inaugural season. The following season the team finished 13th. In June 1970, halfway through the season, promoters Les Whaley, Mike Parker and Bill Bridgett moved the

side across the Pennines to

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. Parker moved the team following difficulties in finding available race days for speedway and stock car racing.

Season summary

References

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