Team manager Alun Rossiter Nation colour Blue Location United Kingdom | Team captain Tai Woffinden SWC Wins 9 | |
Squad Tai Woffinden (c)
Simon Stead
Chris Harris
Daniel King | ||
The Great Britain national speedway team (also known as Team GB) are one of the major teams in international speedway. The team is managed by former rider and Swindon Robins manager Alun Rossiter and the captain is the 2013 Speedway World Champion Tai Woffinden.
Speedway World Cup
The England national speedway team has won the Speedway World Team Cup on five occasions with the Great Britain side winning four times. They were a major force in the 1970s, winning five consecutive tournaments, three as England and two as Great Britain. Key riding members of the title wins include Peter Collins (five wins), Malcolm Simmons (four wins), New Zealand-born Ivan Mauger, Dave Jessup and Ray Wilson (all three wins). The cup has eluded them since 1989, although they came close in 2000, missing out when Mark Loram fell in a race-off, and 2004 where a team of Mark Loram, Lee Richardson, Gary Havelock, David Norris and Scott Nicholls missed out by one point. Both narrow defeats were at the hands of Sweden and both in somewhat controversial fashion.
Prior to 1974, the Great Britain team often consisted of riders from other Commonwealth Nations including Australia and New Zealand.