Date of Birth : 27th November 1991

Place of Birth : Blackpool, Lancashire

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Blackpool born and bred Adam started racing grass track aged 8. He quickly progressed and two years later he was the British Junior Grass Track Champion. A step up to the Intermediate Class (ages 12-14) in 2004 saw him finish fourth in the British Championship and at the end of that season he started to practice on a 500cc speedway bike. 2005 saw him finish 6th in the British U-15 Championship but he missed three rounds because of a broken arm. Without that he would have been challenging for a rostrum spot but a year later that came when he was 3rd behind Joe Haines and Ben Hopwood.

2007 saw him start the season in the Oxford Cheetahs Conference League side but disaster struck in his very first meeting when both he and his bike cleared the safety fence at Oxford. He suffered a broken right leg, broken left hand, broken left and right shoulders, broken collarbone, compartment syndrome in an arm, severe bruising to his lungs and most worryingly bruising to his head with some internal bleeding on the back of the brain. He was in intensive care and spent 24 days in an Oxford hospital before they could move him closer to home.

As soon as he was home he was asking when he could ride a speedway bike again but doctors suggested it would be a year before he could contemplate that. Thankfully Adam’s recovery went well and in January 2008 he returned to the track at Scunthorpe. Understandably tentative to start with Adam has built his speed up and the Scunthorpe management are delighted he chose Scunthorpe as the place to rebuild his career. After concentrating on passing his GSCEs he rode in the last seven meetings averaging 4.14. In his last meeting of the season he produced three outstanding rides to register 7+1 but then crashed and broke his arm in his final programmed ride.

2009 was Adam’s first full season of racing and he rode in 19 of the 20 Saints’ meetings. Despite spending some of it in the main body of the team he scored 104 points and averaged 6.18 over the final seven meetings of the season.