Dudley Heathens Speedway: JAKE ANDERSON

JAKE ANDERSON

DATE OF BIRTH: 7 October 1989, Ardmona, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia.

BRITISH CAREER: (2010) Birmingham, Dudley

2010 STARTING AVERAGE: 3.00 (PL), 6.00 (NL)

ADDITIONAL INFO: Anderson starting racing junior speedway when aged thirteen, at the Undera Park raceway. He subsequently began practicing on the full-size 500cc machines two years later, before racing them properly at sixteen years-of-age.

In December 2009, ‘Ando' was named as the final piece in Birmingham's team-building jigsaw for the 2010, joining five fellow riders from Down Under in Jason Lyons, Steve Johnston, Richard Sweetman, Justin Sedgmen and Aaron Summers.

This came after the youngster had gained some British track time during the 2009 season, when he was a member of the Australian Under-21 team that toured National League tracks during the summer, racing against their British counterparts.

Much earlier in the year, on 31 January, he had ridden in the Australian Under-21 Final at Gosford, New South Wales, in a meeting won by Darcy Ward. Prior to the announcement of his signing for the Brummies, he took fourth place in the Victorian State Championship at Broadford on 12 December.

The highly-rated youngster starts the season on a 3.00 Premier League average due to the fact that his grandfather was Scottish.

Following an early season injury to Dudley's winter recruit Adam McKinna, Anderson was drafted into the Heathens squad as cover.

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