19 Facts About Phil Crump

Phil Crump won the 1976 Speedway World Team Cup with Australia in the same year.

Phil Crump won his first Australian Solo Championship in 1975 at the Sydney Showground Speedway and would go on to win another three national championships in 1979 and 1984 at Olympic Park and in 1988, at the Riverview Speedway in Murray Bridge.

Phil Crump finished 2nd to reigning World Champion Ole Olsen of Denmark in the 1976 Australian title after the Dane was a controversial inclusion in the Final at the Liverpool International Speedway in Sydney, despite protests from other riders about his non-Australian eligibility.

Phil Crump had a stranglehold on the Victorian State Championship winning 13 titles between 1972 and 1988, winning every year except 1976,1978,1983 and 1987.

Phil Crump took out the NSW State Championship in 1976 at the Sydney Showwground.

The Crump family had a home in Bristol while Phil was racing in the British League, which he started doing in 1971 with the Crewe Kings.

Phil Crump rode for the Newport Wasps, King's Lynn Stars, Bristol Bulldogs and Swindon Robins during his British career.

In 1972, Phil Crump won the British League Division Two Riders Championship, held at Wimbledon Stadium on 14 October and was the highest points average scorer for the 1972 British League Division Two season.

In 1974, Phil Crump won the "Westernapolis" meeting at Exeter and later won the meeting for a second time in 1978 and again in 1984.

Phil Crump won the inaugural Yorkshire Television Trophy meeting at The Boulevard in Hull in 1974.

Phil Crump left Bristol Bulldogs, when signed by Swindon Robin's promoter Wally Mawdsley, for the 1979 season and after a transfer battle between Reading Racers and Swindon.

Phil Crump rode in three World Finals during his career.

Phil Crump achieved his best placing at the Silesian Stadium in Katowice, Poland in 1976 when he finished in third place on 12 points behind English pair Peter Collins and Malcolm Simmons.

Phil Crump scored 4 points in his five rides on the night, all third-place finishes in his first four races.

Phil Crump rode in the controversial Heat 14 which saw the clash between defending champion Bruce Penhall of the United States, and Englishman Kenny Carter.

Phil Crump teamed with Queensland's John Titman to again finish fourth in Vojens, Denmark in 1979, and another Qld rider in Steve Regeling to finish sixth in 1985 in Rybnik, Poland, and ninth in 1986 in the West German city of Pocking.

Phil Crump senior was riding for the Newport Wasps speedway team when Jason was born in Bristol.

Until Jason's final Speedway Grand Prix season in 2012, Phil Crump was the senior member of his son's support team, as was his father in law, Neil Street.

Phil Crump was inducted into the Australian Speedway Hall of Fame in 2019.