Jason Crump

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Jason Crump
Vetlanda
Golden Helmet of Pardubice (CZE)
2005, 2007, 2008Edward Jancarz Memorial winner
2005, 2006Peter Craven Memorial winner
1996Australian Long Track Champion
2002Australian Long track Grand Prix
2001Welsh Open winner
1998Master of Speedway (GER)
2002, 2003, 2004, 2006Golden Gala of Lonigo
2008Teesside Silver Helmet
1994Wolverhampton Olympique
Team honours
Polish Ekstraliga
Champion

Jason Philip Crump

World Under-21 Champion.[3][4][5]

In a 21-year career in Speedway, Crump finished with 7 World Championship titles to his name (4 individual including the U/21 title, and 3 teams), making him one of the most successful Australian motorcycle racers of all time (including road racing, speedway and motocross). He holds the all-time record for Grand Prix wins with 23.[6]

Family

His father,

Silesian Stadium in Katowice (Poland) when British star Peter Collins won the title, and as part of the Australian team had won the 1976 Speedway World Team Cup Final at the White City Stadium in London. The Crump family had a home in Bristol while Phil was racing in the British League. Jason's maternal grandfather Neil Street was a former speedway rider and former long time manager of the Australian speedway team.[8]
Jason Cump and his wife have two children.

Career

After finishing second in both 1988 and 1989, Crump won his first major junior speedway title in 1990 becoming Australian Under-16 champion at the

Bibra Lake Speedway in Perth, Western Australia (Crump defeated future Australian champion and teammate Ryan Sullivan
for the title), and he progressed through the ranks.

Crump began his European league career at the Poole Pirates in 1991, where his grandfather, Neil Street, was team manager.

His best placing in the

Riverview Speedway in Murray Bridge (South Australia) behind reigning Australian U/21 and senior champion Leigh Adams and second placed Jason Hawkes, making it an all-Mildura podium. Crump didn't place in the 1993 Australian U/21 Championship at his then home track, Olympic Park
, and like a number of young Aussie riders was denied the chance to win the title when it was not contested in 1994 or 1995. By the title resumed in 1996, Crump had turned 22 and the Aussie U/21 title would be one that got away in his career.

Just two weeks following his 19th birthday, Crump rode in his first World Final (1994) held at the Speedway Center in Vojens, Denmark, where he finished in 11th place with six points scored. After winning his opening ride, he failed to score in his next two races before finishing with a third and second placing. 1994 was notable as it was the last year the World Championship was decided in the traditional single meeting format that had been in place since the inaugural Final was held at the Wembley Stadium in 1936.

Crump, after moving his home base from Mildura to

Gosford Speedway, with the pair being the first (and only) father-son combination to win the title. Later that same year he made his Speedway Grand Prix debut as a wild card in the Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain at the Hackney Wick Stadium
in London – he won his first three rides, but fell in the B final to finish 8th overall.

Crump's first World Championship title arrived in

1994
in Norway.

His first Grand Prix victory came in

Australian team in 2001 in Wrocław, Poland and 2002 in Peterborough, England. In the 2001 World Cup, Crump became the first rider since the legendary Swede Ove Fundin in the inaugural Speedway World Team Cup in 1960 to go through the entire tournament (including qualification rounds) undefeated. Like their Australian Championship record as the only father and son to win the title, Jason Crump joined his dad as a World Team Cup winner by winning the 1999 Final in Pardubice
in the Czech Republic.

Crump won the 'treble' riding for the

Craven Shield.[10] Crump also won the 1999 Series 500 in Australia (also known as the Australian Masters Series
).

Crump's first world title came in 2004 when he beat then 5-time champion Tony Rickardsson, having won two of the nine Grand Prix that season. He dominated the 2006 season winning four out of nine Grand Prix to take the title for the second time, beating American Greg Hancock into second place.[11]

By winning the 2004 Speedway Grand Prix, Crump became Australia's first Individual World Champion since Jack Young and only the fourth Australian rider to win the World Championship. By becoming World Champion in 2004, Crump also became just the third rider after Per Jonsson and Gary Havelock to win both the Under-21 and Open Individual World Championships. He also became the first rider to win the Individual Under-21, Individual and Team World Championships.

He rode for the

2007 season, Poole announced that Crump would be leaving the club due to the large points limit reduction made by the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA) at their 2007 annual general meeting,[12]

Crump returned to Belle Vue for 2008 and signed a two-year deal to stay with the club.[13] However, in October 2008, Crump announced he will not be riding in the British Elite League in 2009 in order to reduce his fixture schedule, allowing him to concentrate on the Grand Prix series.[14]

He returned to Belle Vue in August 2009 to assist with their relegation fight and KO Cup campaign. On 14 September 2009, Crump fell during a last heat decider for Belle Vue against Ipswich, sustaining injuries to his left arm and shoulder. In spite of this he finally won his third world title in 2009.

He announced his retirement from Grand Prix racing at the end of the 2012 season on 24 September 2012. In December 2012 he confirmed that he was retiring from the sport altogether due to a back injury.

SGB Premiership 2020 season.[16]

Crump rode again for Ipswich in the SGB Premiership 2021 and the Plymouth Gladiators in the SGB Championship 2021[17] but finally retired for good in 2022 to take a team management role at the newly reformed Oxford Cheetahs.[18]

World Final Appearances

Individual World Championship

World Team Cup

World Cup

Individual Under-21 World Championship

Speedway Grand Prix results

Year Position Points Best finish Notes
1996 10th 45 Winner Won British Grand Prix
1997 18th 8 10th Only 1 ride – stand in for injured rider
1998 8th 62 Winner Won British Grand Prix
1999 8th 66 3rd Third in Czech Grand Prix
2000 4th 88 Winner Won Swedish Grand Prix
2001 2nd 113 Winner Won Polish and Swedish Grand Prix
2002 2nd 162 Winner Won Czech Grand Prix
2003 2nd 144 Winner Won Danish and Czech Grand Prix
2004 1st 158 Winner Won Czech and Danish Grand Prix
2005 2nd 154 Winner Won Swedish and Scandinavian Grand Prix
2006 1st 188 Winner Won European, Swedish and British (in succession) and Italian Grand Prix
2007 3rd 124 3rd Broken knee cap. Third in British, Scandinavian and German Grand Prix
2008 2nd 152 Winner Won British and Latvian Grand Prix
2009 1st 159 Winner Won European, Danish and British Grand Prix
2010 3rd 135 Winner Won European Grand Prix
2011 4th 110 2nd Second in Danish and Nordic Grand Prix
2012 6th 126 Winner Won Danish Grand Prix

World Longtrack Championship

One Day Finals

Grand-Prix Appearance

2004 1 app (20th) 12pts

See also

References

  1. ^ "Jason Crump - About the Rider". Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  2. ISBN 0-948882-81-6
  3. ISBN 0-7524-2402-5
  4. ^ "2008 Rider index" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  5. ^ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  6. ISBN 0-316-72645-1
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  7. ^ Randall, Charles (31 May 2006). "A Life in Sport: Jason Crump". London: The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 December 2007.[dead link]
  8. ISBN 0-9552376-1-0
  9. ^ "Hamill and Cross are the heroes in Cradley triumph". Birmingham Daily Post. 7 August 1995. Retrieved 10 March 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ISBN 978-0-7524-4250-1
  11. ^ "Crump claims world title". BBC. 3 October 2004. Retrieved 2 December 2007.
  12. ^ "It's over". Bournemouth Daily Echo. 3 December 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2007.
  13. ^ "Crump signs new deal". Manchester Evening News. 2008. Retrieved 15 October 2008.
  14. ^ "Crump quits Elite League". Sky Sports. 2008. Retrieved 15 December 2008.
  15. ^ Clark, Richard (2012) "Crump quits", Speedway Star, 22 December 2012, pp. 3-5
  16. ^ "2020 Witches...Jason Crump". Ipswich Withces. 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  17. ^ "Jason Crump". Ipswich Speedway. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  18. ^ "Speedway legend Jason Crump to manage Oxford Cheetahs". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 14 January 2023.

External links

2011 Speedway Grand Prix riders
1 Poland Gollob 2 Poland Hampel 3 Australia Crump 4 Poland Holta 5 United States Hancock
6 United Kingdom Harris 7 Denmark Bjerre 8 Australia Holder 9 Sweden Jonsson 10 Denmark Pedersen
11 Sweden Lindgren 12 Russia Sayfutdinov 13 Russia Laguta 14 Sweden Lindbäck 15 Poland Kołodziej
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