{{Short description|English motorcycle speedway rider}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Use British English|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox speedway rider | image = Pip Lamb 1977 02.jpg | name= Pip Lamb | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = {{birth date|1959|2|11|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://grasstrackgb.co.uk/pip-lamb/ |title=Pip Lamb |website=Grasstrack GB |access-date=5 April 2026}}</ref> | death_date = | birth_place = Hereford, England
| years1 = 1976-1979 | career1 = Oxford Cheetahs | years2 = 1978 | career2 = Coventry Bees | years3 = 1978, 1979 | career3 = Cradley Heathens | years4 = 1978 | career4 = Exeter Falcons }}
'''Phillip Derek Lamb''' (born 11 February 1959 in Hereford, England) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from England.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://britishspeedway.co.uk/docs/Ultimate_Index_1929-2022.pdf |title=Ultimate Rider Index |website=British Speedway |access-date=7 May 2023}}</ref>
== Career == Before undertaking an oval track speedway career Lamb rode in grasstrack events<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005211/19770521/175/0026 |title=Feathers fly at Arlington |work=Eastbourne Herald |date=21 May 1977 |page=26 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=5 April 2026}}</ref> and was the winner of the Midland Center Championship.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000769/19760917/331/0032 |title=Sport on Wheels |website=Coventry Evening Telegraph |date=17 September 1976 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 September 2024}}</ref>
He started his career with the Oxford Cheetahs in 1976 and is most associated with that club.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000769/19780718/144/0013 |title=Bees switch Shirra |website=Coventry Evening Telegraph |date=18 July 1978 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 September 2024}}</ref> He also rode a few of times for Cradley Heath.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719113710/http://www.cradleyspeedway.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/riders.htm |title=Cradley Heath riders |website=Craley Speedway |access-date=5 April 2026}}</ref>
He attended Peter Jarman's speedway school at Cowley Stadium in 1976.<ref>Lawson, K (2018) “The Cheetahs – The Resurrection”. {{ISBN| 978-0-244-69934-5}}</ref> It was on the track at Cowley Stadium, Oxford on 21 June, where he had a career ending accident.<ref>Bamford, R & Shailes, G (2007). “The Story of Oxford Speedway”. {{ISBN| 978-0-7524-4161-0}}</ref> An eyewitness described the accident as Pip having mechanical failure, putting his hand up to signal retirement and drifting out to the fence. He was suddenly thrown forward from his bike as if his footrest had entangled with the wire link fencing, going head first into a steel post. Lamb fractured his spine in the accident.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19791022/264/0015 |title=East Zone baffled by Aussie pace |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=22 October 1979|page=15 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=5 April 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002137/19791021/283/0041 |title=Speedway |work=Sunday Mirror |date=21 October 1979 |page=41 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=5 April 2026}}</ref>
In 2010, former multiple world champion Barry Briggs, aged 75, made a motorcycle journey around the United Kingdom to raise money for 12 ex-speedway riders who were now wheelchair users after racing accidents.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/tv_and_radio/newsid_8575000/8575200.stm |title=Barry Briggs begins tough Sport Relief Challenge |website=BBC News |date=19 March 2010 |access-date=5 April 2026}}</ref> They were Krzysztof Cegielski, Lawrence Hare, Neil Hewitt, Per Jonsson, Graham Miles, Paul Mitchell, Joe Owen, John Simmons, Gary Stead, Steve Weatherley, Alan Wilkinson, and Pip Lamb.
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * http://www.lovespeedway24.co.uk/teams/peterborough-panthers/legend_briggs_bike_ends_up_in_ipswich_1_750597 * http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speedwayyears/1978.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023050330/http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speedwayyears/1978.html |date=23 October 2012 }}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lamb, Pip}} Category:1959 births Category:British speedway riders Category:Cradley Heathens riders Category:Oxford Cheetahs riders Category:Coventry Bees riders Category:Living people