Wessex Stadium on Radipole Lane, Weymouth opened for greyhound racing and speedway in 1954. A couple of stock car meetings were trialled in September and were a great success. The stadium held a few meetings every summer throughout the 1950s until the popularity waned. The August 1958 event attracted only 10 cars and a less than complimentary report in the local press, and no further meetings were staged until Spedeworth ran some F2 meetings in the 1960s. Speedway ran until 1985.
Today it is the site of the Bob Lucas Stadium, built in 1987, and home to Weymouth FC.
Date | Final Winner | |||
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1. | Sunday 19th September 1954 Sun 19 Sep 1954 |
25 Gerry Scali | ||
2. | Sunday 26th September 1954 Sun 26 Sep 1954 |
P36 Gerry Dommett | ||
3. | Sunday 28th August 1955 Sun 28 Aug 1955 |
52 Norman Brown | ||
4. | Friday 2nd September 1955 Fri 2 Sep 1955 |
9 Jack Cunningham | ||
5. | Sunday 11th September 1955 Sun 11 Sep 1955 |
Unknown | ||
6. | Wednesday 10th July 1957 Wed 10 Jul 1957 |
101 Norman Brown | ||
Wednesday 24th July 1957 Wed 24 Jul 1957 |
Meeting Cancelled | |||
7. | Wednesday 7th August 1957 Wed 7 Aug 1957 |
38 Fred Mitchell | ||
8. | Tuesday 5th August 1958 Tue 5 Aug 1958 |
32 Ellis Daw | ||
9. | Wednesday 13th August 1958 Wed 13 Aug 1958 |
97 Gerry Dommett |