Editing Cumbria (section)

===Racing===
Cumbria Kart Racing Club is based at the Lakeland Circuit, [[Rowrah]], between [[Cockermouth]] and [[Egremont, Cumbria|Egremont]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120421201446/http://www.cumbriakrc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43&Itemid=48 Lakeland Circuit]. The track is currently a venue for rounds of both major UK national karting championships [https://web.archive.org/web/20120421212608/http://www.cumbriakrc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=19 About Cumbria Kart Racing Club]. [[Formula One]] world champions [[Lewis Hamilton]] and [[Jenson Button]] both raced karts at Rowrah many times in the formative stages of their motor sport careers,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cumbriakrc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=19|title=About Cumbria Kart Racing Club|date=21 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421212608/http://www.cumbriakrc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=19|archive-date=21 April 2012}}</ref> while other F1 drivers, past and present, to have competed there include [[Johnny Herbert]], [[Anthony Davidson]], [[Allan McNish]], [[Ralph Firman]], [[Paul di Resta]] and [[David Coulthard]], who hailed from just over the nearby Anglo-Scottish border and regarded Rowrah as his home circuit, becoming Cumbria Kart Racing Club Champion in 1985 in succession to McNish (di Resta also taking the CKRC title subsequently).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.egremont-today.com/812rowrah.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111011816/http://www.egremont-today.com/812rowrah.htm|title=Rowrah Paves Way for Next Lewis Hamilton|archive-date=11 January 2012|url-status=usurped|work=Ergemont Today}}</ref>

[[Workington Comets]] were a Workington-based professional [[Motorcycle speedway|speedway]] team,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.workingtoncomets.co/ | title=Workington Speedway | website=Workington Comets | access-date=18 July 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719024357/http://www.workingtoncomets.co/ | archive-date=19 July 2018 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> which competed in the British Speedway Championship.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.british-speedway.co.uk/plteams.html | title=British Speedway's Premier League | website=British Speedway | access-date=18 July 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603223200/http://www.british-speedway.co.uk/plteams.html | archive-date=3 June 2010 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref>