2013 Elite League speedway season explained

The 2013 Elite League speedway season (also known as the Sky Sports Elite League for sponsorship reasons) was the 79th season of the top division of UK speedway and the took place between March and October 2013.^[1]

Summary

The Swindon Robins were the defending champions after winning in 2012.^[2]

Birmingham Brummies finished top of the regular season table but lost in the play off to Poole Pirates, who continued to enjoy British League success. It was their fifth success in ten years and was instrumented by their Australian duo Chris Holder and Darcy Ward and Poles Maciej Janowski and Przemysław Pawlicki.^[3]

League table

width=30 rowspan=2	Pos	Club	M	Home				Away					F	width=30 rowspan=2	A	width=30 rowspan=2	Pts
width=30	3W		width=30	2W	width=30	D	width=30	L	width=30	4W	width=30	3W	width=30	D	width=30	1L	width=30	L
1	Birmingham Brummies	28	9	4	0	1	3	1	2	2	6	1344	1218	56
2	Swindon Robins	28	9	2	0	3	2	4	0	3	5	1353	1216	54
3	Wolverhampton Wolves	28	10	2	0	2	1	3	0	4	6	1319	1232	51
4	Poole Pirates	28	7	3	1	3	4	0	0	2	8	1291	1236	46
5	Kings Lynn Stars	28	9	3	0	2	1	0	0	6	7	1265	1273	43
6	Lakeside Hammers	28	11	1	0	2	1	1	0	1	11	1257	1307	43
7	Peterborough Panthers	28	8	1	1	4	2	1	0	2	9	1293	1245	40
8	Eastbourne Eagles	28	9	4	0	1	0	0	0	2	12	1240	1339	37
9	Belle Vue Aces	28	7	1	0	6	0	3	1	1	9	1204	1309	32
	10	Coventry Bees	28	6	3	1	4	1	0	0	1	12	1185	1376	30

• Belle Vue were deducted 3 points after a Speedway Control Bureau hearing.

Home: 3W = Home win by 7 points or more; 2W = Home win by between 1 and 6 points
Away: 4W = Away win by 7 points or more; 3W = Away win by between 1 and 6 points; 1L = Away loss by 6 points or less
M = Meetings; D = Draws; L = Losses; F = Race points for; A = Race points against; Pts = Total Points

'B' Fixtures

Championship play-offs

Semi-finals

Leg 1

Leg 2

Grand final

First leg

Second leg

The Poole Pirates were declared Elite League Champions, winning on aggregate 104-79.

Knockout Cup

The Knockout Cup was not held during 2013.

Riders' Championship

Rory Schlein won the Riders' Championship for the second time. The final was held at Abbey Stadium on 19 October.^{[4] [5]}

width=25px	Pos.	width=200px	Rider	width=100px	Pts	width=50px	Total	width=50px	SF	width=50px	Final
1		ef 3 3 3	9	2	3
2		3 2 3 2	11	x	2
3		3 ef 3 3	9	x	1
4		3 1 2 2	8	3	ef
5		3 3 2 1	9	1
6		2 3 f/exc 2	7	0
7		1 2 1 3	7
8		2 2 3 f/exc	7
9		f 1 2 3	7
10		2 2 2 0	6
11		1 3 1 1	6
12		1 1 0 2	4
13		2 0 ef	2
14	Oliver Greenwood (res)	0 1 1	2
15		ef 1	1
16	Paul Starke (res)	1 0	1
17		ef ef ef 0	0
18		ef ef	0

• f=fell, exc=excluded, ret=retired ef=engine failure

Final leading averages

width=200	Rider	width=200	Team	width=40	Average
	Wolverhampton	9.93
	Poole	9.73
	Kings Lynn	9.68
	Wolverhampton	9.53
	Poole	9.44
	Swindon	9.24
	Belle Vue	9.12
	Peterborough	8.80
	Peterborough	8.78
	Wolverhampton	8.76

Riders & averages

Belle Vue

• 9.12
• 8.16
• 5.95
• 5.53
• 5.39
• 4.96
• 4.85
• 4.57

Birmingham

• 8.24
• 8.00
• 7.94
• 7.29
• 7.50
• 5.77
• 5.46

Coventry

• 7.88
• 7.85
• 6.73
• 4.41
• 5.47
• 5.45
• 5.19
• 3.11
• 2.15

Eastbourne

• 8.50
• 7.32
• 6.70
• 6.23
• 6.06
• 5.68
• 5.54
• 4.41
• 4.36

King's Lynn

• 9.68
• 7.64
• 7.60
• 7.08
• 6.53
• 6.19
• 5.45
• 5.19
• 4.65
• 4.00
• 3.65

Lakeside

• 8.52
• 7.86
• 7.01
• 6.84
• 6.70
• 6.02
• 5.74
• 4.94
• 4.17

Peterborough

• 8.80
• 8.78
• 7.82
• 7.62
• 6.80
• 6.59
• 6.41
• 5.46
• 4.87
• 3.15

Poole

• 9.73
• 9.44
• 8.63
• 7.44
• 7.28
• 6.06
• 5.33
• 4.56
• 4.35
• 3.86

Swindon

• 9.24
• 8.74
• 8.32
• 7.37
• 7.15
• 6.03
• 5.22
• 3.46

Wolverhampton

• 9.93
• 9.53
• 8.76
• 6.84
• 5.83
• 5.55
• 5.29

See also

List of United Kingdom Speedway League Champions

Notes and References

1. Web site: Historic league tables. Speedway Archive.
2. Web site: 2013 league tables. Speedway GB.
3. Web site: Speedway riders, history and results. wwosbackup. 1 August 2021.
4. Web site: Elite League Riders' Championship . WWOS Backup . 9 June 2023.
5. Web site: SPEEDWAY: Rory Schlein wins Elite League Riders' Championship at Swindon for second time . Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard . 9 June 2023.