Promoter Steve Rees, who has staged stock car and banger racing via his Startrax organisation for more than 25 years, has struck a deal to hold events at Odsal Stadium in Bradford in the coming months. Yorkshireman Steve has been looking for new northern venues for his beloved sport since the closure of the Belle Vue arena in Manchester and still harbours ambitions to bringing stock car racing to his adopted home on the Fylde coast. Now the venue is being prepared for a series of Steve’s sellout motorsport spectaculars, starting with National Bangers on May 22 and followed by BriSCA F1 stock car events on May 31 and June 12. But Odsal was also a hugely successful post-war speedway venue, and the track which surrounded the rugby pitch continued to stage motorcycling and stock car events until 1997. “If we had not stepped in it is fair to say that Odsal would have been empty for another year,” Steve added.

Source: Express March 29, 2021 11:26 UTC