Petition to save Wolverhampton Speedway continues to attract signatures as search for new home continues
A petition set up to highlight the plight of Wolverhampton Speedway and the desire for fans to keep it alive has continued to attract signatures.
The Change.org petition was started in April 2023 by supporter Chris Adams following news that Monmore Green owners Entain were forcing the team out of it long-term home.
He wrote: "Wolverhampton speedway has been thriving in the city for nearly 100 years and the landlord of the stadium will not extend the lease and no plans to another venue planned by the council.
"The people deserve better for the sport they love."
To date, the petition has received 22,768 signatures and has been endorsed by Wolves speedway promoter Chris Van Straaten, who wrote a message to supporters to let them know that work was still ongoing to find a new home.
He wrote: “Having investigated every suggested existing stadium within a 30-mile radius of Monmore, I have been unable to find one suitable to include speedway.
“This of course meant that the search for a site suitable to develop a speedway track became necessary, but with speedway currently at the smallest number of locations since the 1950s, it makes a much larger area necessary to incorporate other motor cycle disciplines, as to develop an area solely for staging speedway events is no longer financially viable."
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