Ipswich 2025 title-winning hero Jason Doyle is back in Tru7 Group Witches colours to complete a power-packed top trio for 2027.
The 2017 Speedway GP world champion raced at Foxhall from 2022 until 2025 in a spell that culminated in the Witches landing their first Rowe Motor Oil Premiership title since the club’s famous treble season in 1998.
Based near Norwich, Doyle made history in 2026 as part of Australia’s FIM Speedway World Cup winning side in Warsaw. He became the first rider ever to complete the modern-day grand slam of Speedway GP, SWC and FIM Speedway of Nations world titles.
Despite initially sitting out British racing this year, Doyle returned to the UK midway through the campaign, replacing new Witches teammate Dan Bewley at Belle Vue as the Aces won the Rowe Motor Oil Premiership title.
Starting the season at No.1, Doyle now bids to win a third Premiership crown in as many years, and he’s excited to join forces with British action man Bewley and Witches skipper Danny King in the top three, with 2026 Belle Vue teammate Will Cairns at reserve.
He said: “I was very shocked with the riders they have signed – and for a good reason. When I spoke to Andy (Chisholm), he was telling me the riders they have, and I know we are going to be strong again next year.
“I was very shocked to see Dan coming to Ipswich. I thought he was Belle Vue through and through. It’s a massive scalp for Ipswich to steal him from Belle Vue, and it’s great to have him in the team. I haven’t ridden with Dan here before – I have in Sweden, but not in Britain. We are really looking forward to being No.1 and No.5. Hopefully I can battle all the way through and stay at No.1. I’ll be battling him all year, but that’s a good thing for the club.”
Doyle looks forward to being part of the new-look Witches under the leadership of chairman Richard Coleman, general manager Andrew Chisholm and team manager Paul Hurry. And he hopes racing closer to home in 2027 will bring out his best form.
He added: “I’ve had a year out of the Witches, and I guess a lot has changed at the club. I am really looking forward to a new challenge and a new chapter with Richard Coleman in charge at Ipswich.
“Ipswich is very family orientated. Being up the road from home really helps. As you get older, it’s a little bit harder to travel.
“I found the hardest part of going to Belle Vue this year was the travelling. Sometimes it was 12 to 14 hours when I did the whole round trip, so to be only an hour up the road helps a lot, especially with family.
“I am hoping to go back there, do a job and enjoy my racing again. That’s the main thing I want to do next year.”
Doyle has won an incredible six league titles with four different top-flight clubs in Britain – three with Swindon and one each with Poole, Ipswich and Belle Vue. It’s a record he admits is a mixed blessing.
“It’s good and bad, I guess,” he smiled. “Either I have jumped too many times or I’m their lucky charm! In 20 years, it has been remarkable really. Some riders don’t even get one. It has been an honour to have ridden for the teams I have been riding for, and I have enjoyed it.”
Pushed on a favourite league win in the UK, he admits one triumph stands above the rest. “I think it was Ipswich in 2025,” he said. “After not winning one for so many years, to go out there and win it after so many tries was definitely memorable. But they all have their own nice feeling.”
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