b. 6th August 1975 (age 32)

Bristol, England

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THE high-flying Australian is back at Belle Vue for the 2008 season with a double mission after a season away at Poole.

Crump won the World title as an Aces' rider in 2004 and 2006 and will be looking for a third championship - but not before he's played his vital role in restoring the club's fortunes which dipped in his absence.

Belle Vue desperately missed a cutting edge No 1 rider last season as they were too often struggling to contain the star men in opposing sides.

Not only will Crump right that major problem, he will bring his vast experience to bear on helping the rest of the side, especially those who are newcomers to the Elite League.

He is never slow to offer a helping hand so there's little doubt he can have an impact on the scoring power of riders like Steve Boxall, Lukasz Jankowski and Michal Rajkowski.

He was the fifth Ace to be crowned World Champion to be ranked alongside Peter Craven, Ove Fundin, Ivan Mauger and Peter Collins.

He was Belle Vue's number one for five years before his brief sojourn at Poole and he's amongst a handful of Belle Vue greats in recent history who have achieved 10-point averages in the red, white and black.
Jason Crump is certainly one of the most thrilling broadsiders in world speedway. He definitely has that extra hunger, determination and ruthlessness to get what he wants from the sport and that was what brought him the world title after being runner-up three times.

Born in Bristol, England, on August 6 1975, multi-world cup winner Jason is the son of ex-Newport, Bristol and Swindon rider Phil Crump, and the grand-son to Neil Street, the former Australian team manager and the man who built one of the first 4-valve speedway motors in the mid-seventies. Street and Crump senior were racing for Newport at the time of Jason's arrival, and wet the baby's head two days after Jason's birth with a maximum apiece for the Dragons, Cradley United being the victims in a 49-29 hammering at Somerton Park in the Speedway Star Cup.

Jason began his apprenticeship at the Olympic Park Raceway, Mildura, before moving on to Queensland's Gold Coast, in 1993. He started racing as a junior in 1987, aged 12, and by 17 had joined Peterborough Panthers in the British League Division Two. He was an integral part of a Panthers' side that completed the double, increasing his assessed 2.00 starting average by more than six points.
Jason's rise continued to be meteoric. Within two years the multi-world cup winner had reached his maiden World Final and had steered Poole Pirates towards the 1994 First Division Championship. In 1995 he became World Under-21 Champion and, in 1996, he won his first British Grand Prix at London Stadium.
He qualified properly for Grand Prix '98, finishing eighth after six rounds and giving himself an early present by winning the British GP at Coventry a day before his 23rd birthday.

Peterborough achieved the treble in 1999 with Jason at the helm, proving his dominance by taking top spot in the national averages and striking gold in the Elite League Riders' Championship, a title he also won two years later.
Jason finished runner-up in the Grand Prix in three consecutive years in 2001-2003, with the latter being a major disappointment as he went into the last round as strong favourite only to crash and suffer exclusion, subsequently handing Nicki Pedersen the title.

But 2004 was Jason's year, as he faced his demons in the final round in Norway. Jason needed just nine points to assure himself the championship silverware irrespective of Tony Rickardsson's result. But the title guarantee came as early as heat nineteen and Crumpie became the fourth Australian to win the title and the first since 1952.
Jason has ridden three separate seasons with Peterborough, the club that signed him in a record £35,000 transfer deal in 1996, but The Aces are the club he has served the longest.