Vic Huxley
Victor Nelson Huxley was an Australian speedway rider who won the Star Riders' Championship, the forerunner of the Speedway World Championship, in 1930 and finished runner-up in 1931 and 1932.
Career
Huxley won the Dirt Track Championnat du Monde at Stade Buffalo in Paris during 1931.Huxley won the 1934 Australian Championship in front of his home crowd at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground.
He won the London Riders' Championship in 1936, whilst with the Wimbledon Dons but retired from British speedway at the end of the 1936 season and returned to Australia where he rode in the Winter test series against England. He lived in Ashgrove in Brisbane, and set up a motorcycle business in Adelaide Street called the "British Motorcycle Corporation" which he ran until the mid-1960s.
Huxley died in his home town of Brisbane on 24 June 1982 at the age of 75, just 3 months shy of his 76th birthday.
World Final appearances
- 1936 – London, Wembley Stadium – 8th – 17pts