Simon Wigg
Simon Antony Wigg (15 October 1960 – 15 November 2000) was an English speedway, grasstrack and longtrack rider who won five World Long Track Championships and finished runner-up in the Speedway World Championship in 1989. Education Wigg went to school at the John Hampden School in High Wycombe. Leaving in 1977 after taking his O'levels. After relocating with his family several times as a child, he gained a scholarship to Woodbridge School in Suffolk, where he and his brother began their interest in motorcycle racing, attending Ipswich Witches meetings at Foxhall and riding in grasstrack competitions. Career Wigg was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. In 1980, later he joined his first speedway club, Weymouth Wildcats. In 1982, Wigg won the British League Division Two Pairs Championship with Martin Yeates, and in 1984 qualified for his first World Final. In 1984, he was signed by Oxford Cheetahs who bought him from Cradley Heath Heathens for £25,000. The Oxford team had returned to the British League and the other signings to start as the top five riders for the season were Hans Nielsen for a record £30,000, Marvyn Cox for £15,000, Melvyn Taylor for £12,000 and Jens Rasmussen, with Ian Clark and Nigel