{"id":2943,"date":"2024-11-04T09:06:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T09:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedwayhub.com\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2024-11-04T09:06:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T09:06:20","slug":"tom-brennan-to-leave-the-poole-pirates-steps-away-from-championship-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedwayhub.com\/tom-brennan-to-leave-the-poole-pirates-steps-away-from-championship-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brennan to leave the Poole Pirates &#038; steps away from Championship Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POOLE star Tom Brennan has announced he will step away from racing at Cab Direct Championship level next season.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan won a trophy treble in his first campaign at Wimborne Road this year whilst also impressing in the top-fight and increasing his racing commitments on the continent, leading him to take a similar decision to Pirates captain Ben Cook.<\/p>\n<p>Said Brennan: <em>\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of fun during my time in the Championship since 2021 and have learnt a lot in my time representing Eastbourne, Glasgow and Poole.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHowever, there comes a time where I have to take the jump to try and do what I think will progress my career the most, and unfortunately dropping the Championship is part of that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI couldn\u2019t have wished for a better way to end my time in the Championship than completing the treble with Poole.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve made no secret that my time with the club has been extremely enjoyable and a large part in teaching me a different way of racing and my improvement this year.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Words and Feature Image by British Speedway<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POOLE star Tom Brennan has announced he will step away from racing at Cab Direct Championship level next season. Brennan won a trophy treble in his first campaign at Wimborne Road this year whilst also impressing in the top-fight and increasing his racing commitments on the continent, leading him to take a similar decision to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,51],"tags":[8,100,86,9,87],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-speedway","category-speedway","category-the-championship","tag-british-speedway","tag-championship","tag-poole-pirates","tag-speedway","tag-tom-brennan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tom Brennan to leave the Poole Pirates &amp; steps away from Championship Speedway - Speedway Hub UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/speedwayhub.com\/tom-brennan-to-leave-the-poole-pirates-steps-away-from-championship-speedway\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tom Brennan to leave the Poole Pirates &amp; steps away from Championship Speedway - Speedway Hub UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"POOLE star Tom Brennan has announced he will step away from racing at Cab Direct Championship level next season. 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