Speedway World Champion Robert Lambert also learnt to ride in Germany

In the summer of 2012, SPEEDWEEK.com profiled a young Englishman who had made a name for himself in Germany at the age of 14 and joined MSC Cloppenburg. We are talking about Robert Lambert, who, 14 years after his first appearances in Germany, became Speedway World Champion and claimed the crown in the sport. As he was not permitted to compete in the 500cc class in England at the age of 14, Lambert’s path led him to Germany, where, thanks to good contacts with the then team manager of the German national team, he impressed during several training sessions and race appearances, thus securing more and more race starts. The young Robert caused a sensation, and as soon as he was able to, he also entered league competition in Great Britain.

From 2017 onwards, Lambert won his first junior titles: the U19 European Championship and the British U21 Championship. His first successes at senior level came with the 2018 British Championship and his triumph in the 2020 European Championship. The European Championship title enabled Lambert to compete in his first full Grand Prix season, which he finished in the top ten. In the years that followed, he continued to improve; in 2024, he secured his first Grand Prix victory in Denmark as well as his first World Championship medal – a silver. He also won gold with Team GB at the Speedway of Nations in 2021 and 2024.

Robert Lambert: Consistency as the key to the World Championship title

The 2025 season proved to be a setback for Lambert, as the focus suddenly shifted from World Championship medals to qualifying for 2026, since he was unable to reach the final. Finishing 7th, he nevertheless secured his place in this year’s GP, where he reached the final straight away in Landshut. After the first four races, Lambert was once again in seventh place, but after the 28-year-old emerged as the most successful rider at the Grand Prix in Wrocław – despite finishing second – thanks to the points he scored in the sprint, everything went like clockwork: In the final six races of the 2026 World Championship, Lambert won three times and finished second three times, which brought him ever closer to the top. Ahead of the season finale in Toruń, he took the World Championship lead for the first time, kept his nerve in the nail-biting showdown and, 14 years after first making a name for himself in Germany, became World Champion.