Mitchel Godden

Mitchel Godden

Born	(1975-02-13)13 February 1975 Pembury, England
Nationality	England
Individual honours
2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011	British Sand Ace Championship Winner
1999, 2003, 2005, 2009	British Best Pairs Championship Winner
2001, 2003, 2008, 2012	South-Eastern Centre Championship Winner
1999	Southern Centre Championship Winner
2018	Pokal Bergring Cup Winner
2007,2009,2011	MSC BadWalsee Wolfegg Winner
2016	Sidecars Super Series Winner
Team honours
2015	Team Long Track World Championship Winning Manager

Mitchel Stuart Godden (born 13 February 1975) is an English Motorcycle rider who compete's in Longtrack and Grasstrack Racing for Solos and more recently Sidecars. He is the son of Don Godden who won the Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship.

Mitchell Godden followed in his fathers footsteps and started racing in 1992. He started on a 250cc (ex Jeremy Doncaster) Honda red Rocket and rode this for one season before using Godden works 350cc and then after a couple of seasons the 500cc. Mitch progressed to international racing becoming a specialists on German Grasstracks and Dutch Sandtracks. He often travelled to many of his European meetings with other riders notibly Trevor Banks and the late Vincent Kinchin.

In 2015 Mitchell went in to 500cc Sidecar racing and has again had plenty of success in the UK but especially on the continent. Along with his passenger Paul Smith they have quickly become one of the best crews in Europe. He has won events in Werlte & Angenrod, (Germany) and Roden in the Netherlands amongst others and with his never say die racing attitude they have delighted the European crowds with fantastic racing action. A close connection with long time friend and ex racer Gary Southgate helped and encourage the change in direction from 2 wheels to 3.

Using his track racing knowledge and engineering background Mitchel is now making and producing his own complete 500cc Sidecar machined known as Zircon Racing. Although this is not on a commercial basis if his own results are anything to go by they have already proven themselves to be world beaters. The team Godden/Smith raced to an impressive 19 podiums from 22 starts in 2017, with most events being fought of foreign soil.

• UPDATE* Mitchel and team partner Paul Smith have finished 2nd in the 2018 FIME European sidecar championships. The highest ever result from a British team on foreign soil. Following on from the teams 4th position in the 2017 Euro final and 2nd in 2018 in only 2 attempts within this class, who knows whats next!!

Promotion

In recent year Mitchell has also turned his hand to promotion. He started the charity Kart meeting at Buckmore Park as well as promotion and running of the Invicta International Grasstrack meetings at the Hop Farm and Collier Street 'The Kings of Speed' in 2008, 2011 and 2012. In 2016 he started the Pit Bike Winter Series at Iwade Stadium.

Management

In 2013 Mitchell on behalf of the ACU took over the manager role of the Great Britain World Longtrack team. In 2013 he led the team to the bronze medal and 2015 he led the team to their only championship. His last year in the role will be 2018.

World Longtrack Championship

European Grasstrack Championship

British Masters Grasstrack Championship

British Sidecar Championship

• 2016 Frittenden (Second)
• 2017 Ledbury (Second)
• 2018 Chelmsford (Third)

British Sand Ace Championship

• 2006 Guernsey (Champion)
• 2007 Guernsey (Champion)
• 2008 Guernsey (5th)
• 2009 Guernsey (Champion)
• 2010 Guernsey (Champion)
• 2011 Guernsey (Champion)
• 2012 Guernsey (Third)
• 2013 Guernsey (18th)
• 2014 Guernsey (5th)
• 2015 Guernsey (6th)

Sources

• "mitch-godden". Grasstrack GB. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
• http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/zawodnik.php?imie=Mitch&nazwisko=Godden
• http://speedwaygodden.tripod.com/Index.html