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Edinburgh Reporter
07-07-2025
- Sport
- Edinburgh Reporter
Hume injury update from Bandits bosses
Berwick Bandits skipper Danyon Hume suffered two fractured vertebrae in the crash which brought their Cab Direct Championship match against Edinburgh Monarchs to a premature end on Saturday. The English-born rider may face surgery. Hume (pictured by Taz McDougall) is being assessed at the Northumbria Specialist Care Hospital in Cramlington following the heat 12 crash which also involved Edinburgh reserve Jonatan Grahn who hit the fence heavily as he exited the final bend of the race. He has been a popular racer during spells with Glasgow, Redcar, Ipswich and Sheffield and paramedics spent over half an hour treating him trackside. The 28-year-old was then transferred to hospital where he remains with his partner, Jade, who was in the crowd watching the match when the incident happened. Hume's parents travelled overnight from their Buckinghamshire home to be at his bedside and Jade posted on Facebook: 'Obviously the news is not what we want, but we are thinking positive at the moment. 'We would both like to thank everyone, all Berwick management, the track staff, ambulance crew, our friends, family and all the fans at Berwick speedway. Everyone rallied around.' Berwick owner Jamie Courtney said: 'Our paramedics and track staff were able to give Danyon the best possible care trackside and get him on his way to hospital safely. 'The fans in the stadium and all the riders were aware of the potentially serious nature of the crash and I can only thank them for their patience and understanding as the medical team did their work.' He added: 'This crash underlines just what a dangerous and unforgiving sport speedway can be and how a race, which seemed to be heading for an uneventful shared heat, can suddenly have huge consequences. 'Danyon is one of the sport's real good guys and we are keeping our fingers crossed. We will support him and his family in every way necessary.' Berwick's strict 9.30pm curfew meant that the meeting was abandoned but the results stands and Bandits are next in action at Oxford on Wednesday. Like this: Like Related
Edinburgh Reporter
03-05-2025
- Sport
- Edinburgh Reporter
Speedway – Monarchs get first home win of the season
The Stellar Monarchs made it over the line tonight for their first home win of the season by a narrow 46-43 margin, largely thanks to a memorable personal performance by Victor Palovaara. Team manager Alex Harkess said 'I'm very pleased we won obviously but we didn't half make it hard for ourselves. We only had two riders who won a race but Victor won six of them! I was very sorry he didn't get his maximum because he deserved it. We need improvement elsewhere in the side.' The Swedish reserve won heats 2, 4, 8, 12, 14 and the last heat decider against top Bandits Cook and Kemp on a night neither he nor the home fans are likely to forget. The racing fell short of the high standard set the previous week but the closeness of the scores kept things tense. Both sides can look back on heats in which they might have scored additional points. Oskar Polis had been the star of the show for Monarchs the previous weekend but it would not be fair to expect that level of performance every week this early in his UK career on a track which he admits to not having mastered yet. He did make the start in his second ride ahead of Drew Kemp but he spun off on the first corner. Heat 12 should have been an opportunity for a home advantage and at the first running Swedes Palovaara and Grahn were away. Dayle Wood seemed to fall on his own at the first bend but the referee called all four back, and in the restart Grahn was held at the back. Justin Sedgmen was the only other Monarchs' race winner, taking heat 1 and heat 13. In the latter race he was brought down by an uncharacteristically rash inside passing move by Craig Cook, who (after some delay) was excluded. That gave Monarchs the chance of the first of two successive 4-2s – Palovaara dropping his only point in the heat 13 rerun in which he piled pressure on Kildemand for second spot. Palovaara finished the job with a tapes-to-flag win in the last heat decider, but Sedgmen though well placed in the early stages was pegged back by Cook and Kemp. For their part Bandits will rue the last place Cook opened with and his heat 13 exclusion, plus a failure to take an advantage of what seemed a certain 5-1 in heat 7. With Polis excluded Matt Marson was left on his own, but Kemp and Hagon tangled up when well clear and all they could get was a 3-2. Kemp was outstanding for Berwick, backed up by Cook, Kildemand and their gritty captain Danyon Hume. They did get the aggregate bonus though they would probably need to win at Glasgow to progress in the competition. Edinburgh Monarchs played Berwick Bandits on 2 May 2025 at Armadale Stadium. Result Details Edinburgh Monarchs (46): Justin Sedgmen 10+0, Kye Thomson 5+3, Jonatan Grahn 3+1, Paco Castagna 5+1, Oskar Polis 2+0, Victor Palovaara 19+0, Matt Marson 2+0 Berwick Bandits (43): Craig Cook 7+1, Danyon Hume 8+1, Sam Hagon 2+0, Drew Kemp 12+1, Peter Kildemand 10+0, Dayle Wood 3+1, Jack Smith 1+1 Victor Palovaara Like this: Like Related
