December 13, 2024

Plymouth Gladiators are delighted to announce the signing of 24 year old Australian rider Mitchell Cluff for the 2025 GB Championship season.

Cluff, who hails from Blackalls Park in New South Wales, has built an excellent reputation in his homeland in recent seasons and was recently crowned the 2024 South Australian Speedway Champion by beating a good quality field at famous Gillman Speedway on the 30th November.

Mitchell has global speedway experience representing Australia at Under 21 level on a number of occasions and spent the 2024 European Summer season riding for Czestochowa in the Polish Under 24 League where he impressed many observers in his third season at that level.

Mark Phillips, the Plymouth Gladiators Owner and Promoter and Team Manager Garry May are delighted to have secured the services of Cluff for his debut season in the British Championship League.

Phillips is clearly buoyant to have signed the newcomer;

“This is a deal that Garry and myself have been working on behind the scenes for quite a while and we believe that Mitchell is a newcomer to British Speedway who can make a significant impact for us in the present and in the future. 

He has had an excellent grounding in the Polish Under 24 League over the past 3 seasons, riding for a very professional Club in Poland and that experience and his maturity and enthusiasm allied with his clear ability to adapt to being away from his homeland, will stand him in great stead on his first venture into British Speedway.

We very much look forward to working with Mitchell and are sure that our wonderful supporter base will welcome his arrival with a little bit of surprise but growing excitement when they look at his progress and pedigree in the past few seasons. We believe that we have signed one of the best newcomers to UK Speedway in the past few seasons.

Michell is the fourth part of the jigsaw that we are building around having very strong reserves and second strings and he joins Lasse Fredriksen, Alfie Bowtell and Joe Thompson in the engine room of the team.

The Club is in active discussions with 3 bona fide Heat Leaders at the time of writing and hope to make further Championship Team announcements before the New Year.” 

Negotiations and discussions are also well advanced in building the new National Development League National Trophy Team and Team Management structure; with more news on that front soon with a number of deals already agreed.

A reminder that a Fans Meeting to discuss 2025 plans and aspirations and all things Plymouth Speedway is being held this evening (Friday 13th December) at the Railway Club, Mullet Road, Laira, Plymouth PL3 6TD from 7pm

Please note – 500 Club and Season tickets are also now available to purchase online here.