{"id":907642,"date":"2026-09-27T18:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907642\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:16:12","slug":"norwich-speedway-star-robert-lambert-rides-to-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907642\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich speedway star Robert Lambert rides to world title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A speedway star from Norfolk has been crowned the new world champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norwich-born Robert Lambert, 28, clinched the title after winning the final Grand Prix of the season at his home track in Torun, Poland, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former King&#8217;s Lynn Stars rider told his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingslynn-speedway.com\/news.php?extend.31940\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first club, external<\/a>: &#8220;I&#8217;m super happy. I never expected or planned to do what happened in the second half of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lambert, whose international success emulates that of Norfolk&#8217;s last world championship winner Michael Lee in 1980, continued: &#8220;It kind of happened naturally and when it happens like that, it&#8217;s meant to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;It took hard work to get here, but when things are rolling, they&#8217;re rolling.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A speedway star from Norfolk has been crowned the new world champion. Norwich-born Robert Lambert, 28, clinched the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-907642","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\/907642","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=907642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}