Rayleigh Rockets

Rayleigh Rockets

Infobox Speedway team
clubname = Rayleigh Rockets


track = Rayleigh Weir Stadium
Southend Arterial Road
Rayleigh
Essex
country = England
founded = 1949
closed = 1973
manager =
captain =
league =
website =
colours = Blue and Yellow
tracksize = 365 yards
track record time=
track record date=
track record holder=
teamhonour =Southern League Champions
Provincial League Champions
teamyear = 1952, 1953, 1960
1960

The Rayleigh Rockets were a Speedway team which operated from 1949 until their closure in 1973 from the Rayleigh Weir Stadium. [Bamford, R & Jarvis J.(2001). "Homes of British Speedway". ISBN 0-7524-2210-3] The Rockets closed in 1958 but re-opened again in 1960 and entered the Provincial League and then the Metropolitan League in 1964. However that was the last league racing seen until 1968 when Len Silver took over as promoter.

The Rockets rode at the stadium until 1973 when it was announced that the stadium had been sold to developers and the Rockets would need to find a new home. Len Silver took the Rockets to Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire to start the 1974 season as the Rye House Rockets. [ Jacobs, N. "Speedway in East Anglia", ISBN 0-7524-1882-3 ] .

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