The 2025 Australian Speedway Championship Senior Solo riders are selected for the four January rounds. The 16-rider line-up is brimming with talent, and includes the Holder siblings, Max Fricke, Brady Kurtz, Rohan Tungate, Jaimon Lidsey, Ben Cook, Ryan Douglas and Josh Pickering: Press: MA

That makes nine of the top 10 finishers in the 2024 championship. Tungate is the reigning champion after a stirring final round in Gillman (SA) earlier this year saw him overtake Fricke at the death knell, while current Speedway Grand Prix (SGP) No. 6 Jack Holder finished third overall ahead of Lidsey and Kurtz. It was Tungate’s second senior solo victory, with his first coming in 2018.

Rohan Tungate.

The 2025 field also includes 2022 Australian U21 champion Keynan Rew, who anchored Australia’s Speedway of Nations U21 team to a brilliant third place in this year’s final in Manchester. James Pearson, who rode alongside Rew in the SON2 final, will also ride in the championship.

Tate Zischke, who fractured multiple vertebrae and ribs and suffered a nasty posterior wound after a crash in the UK on July 1, has now recovered and will also take his place in the stacked roster, as well as former U16 front-runner Mitchell McDiarmid who has now moved into the senior ranks.

The 2025 Australian Speedway Championship calendar is as follows:

  • Rd1: January 3, Gillman Speedway (SA)
  • Rd2: January 5: Olympic Park, Mildura (Vic)
  • Rd3: January 8, Diamond Park, Wodonga (Vic)
  • Rd4: January 11: North Brisbane Speedway (Qld)

2025 Australian Speedway Championship selections:

  • Ben Cook
  • Zach Cook
  • Mitchell Cluff
  • Ryan Douglas
  • Max Fricke
  • Chris Holder
  • Jack Holder
  • Brady Kurtz
  • Jaimon Lidsey
  • Mitchell McDiarmid
  • James Pearson
  • Josh Pickering
  • Keynan Rew
  • Justin Sedgmen
  • Rohan Tungate
  • Tate Zischke

Reserves

  1. Fraser Bowes
  2. Michael West
  3. Harrison Ryan
  4. Jack Morrison
  5. Dayle Wood

Competitors in the 2025 Australian Speedway Championship, as well as the 2025 FIM Oceania Speedway Championship in Gillman on January 25, will also be in the mix for 2025 FIM SGP qualifying positions. The FIM has allocated three (3) positions to Motorcycling Australia (MA) for the 2025 FIM SGP qualifying events. As per the MA policy and, after consultation with the MA Track Commission, the positions will be allocated as follows:

The first qualifying position goes to first place in the 2025 Australian Championship;
The second qualifying position goes to first place in the in 2025 FIM Oceania Championship; and
The third qualifying position goes to second place in the 2025 Australian Championship.

Nominations for the 2025 FIM Oceania Speedway Championship are currently open on Ridernet, and close on December 19 at 4:30pm (AEDT).

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