{"id":857836,"date":"2026-08-17T00:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/857836\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:06:09","slug":"norwich-speedway-star-happy-after-winning-third-national-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/857836\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich speedway star &#8216;happy&#8217; after winning third national title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A speedway star said he was &#8220;happy&#8221; to get his hands on his third national title and second in a row. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robert Lambert, 28, from Norwich, crossed the line first in the Cab Direct British Final at the National Speedway Stadium, in Belle Vue, Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The biker, who will lead Great Britain in the World Cup Final later this month, scored a 15-point maximum in the qualifying races before carrying his good form into the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow Norfolk rider, 16-year-old Cooper Rushen, from King&#8217;s Lynn, also put in an impressive performance on what his debut appearance, finishing in fourth place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A speedway star said he was &#8220;happy&#8221; to get his hands on his third national title and second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-857836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}