Ray Cresp

Raymond Maurice Cresp (25 August 1928 - 20 August 2022) was an international speedway rider from Australia. He earned 4 international caps for the Australia national speedway team and 6 caps for the Great Britain national speedway team.

Speedway career
Cresp was a professional boxer as a teenager before taking up road racing and moto cross. He was mentored by Jack Biggs before he moved to the UK in 1956. He rode in the top tier of British Speedway from 1956 to 1966, riding for various clubs. He gained four Australian caps and six British caps (when riders from Oceania were allowed to represent Britain.

Cresp reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1961 Individual Speedway World Championship.

He was a builder by trade and when he returned to Australia he enjoyed fly-fishing. He died in 2022.

Individual World Championship

 * 1961 – 🇸🇪 Malmö, Malmö Stadion - 14th - 3pts