Robert Eriksson visits Armadale

NEWS Wednesday 23rd April 2025, 9:00am

by Mike Hunter

  Edinburgh Monarchs

Robert Eriksson, our Super Swede of a few years ago, came across to see the Monarchs last Friday, and visit a few old friends in the course of making a podcast for the Solkatterna team with his friend Patrick Jarnstam.

Robert rode for the Monarchs in two spells through the late 90s and early 2000s and played an important role in our 1997 Cup triumph in our first season at Armadale.

Unfortunately of course there was no action for him to witness at Armadale, though Robert did make it out to the stadium during the afternoon and completed a walk of the track.

Robert has remained active in speedway ever since he finished racing in the UK, continuing to race in Sweden before moving into management. He has been closely connected with both our current Swedes Victor Palovaara and Jonatan Grahn, and Victor still rides for the team Robert manages at Solkatterna.

Robert and Patrick were intending to head down to Berwick to watch the Saturday night action there, and we hope they will be able to come back before the end of the season, on a dry day.

You can listen to their podcast now here:

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