Dakota Max "Dak" North is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n motorcycle speedway

Motorcycle speedway

Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually...

 rider.

Biography

North, named by his father - former Stoke Potters

Stoke Potters

The Stoke Potters are a British Speedway team currently competing in the National League. The team races at Loomer Road Stadium.In the late 1940s, early 1950s and the early 1960s, the club was based in Sun Street in Hanley, and were originally known as the Hanley Potters when crowds of over 12,000...

 rider Rod North - after the Douglas Dakota aircraft, was born in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia in 1991. He took up speedway at the age of twelve and won the Australian under-16 championship and the Australian Junior Pairs title (with Justin Sedgmen

Justin Sedgmen

Justin Sedgmen is an Australian motorcycle speedway rider who ride for Hungarian Speedway Miskolc in the 2010 Polish Speedway First League...

) in 2007. After a few appearances in Britain in 2007, he signed with Mildenhall Fen Tigers

Mildenhall Fen Tigers

The Mildenhall Fen Tigers are a British speedway team, currently riding in the National League.The club moved up to the Premier League in 2006 after twelve seasons in the Conference League when new promoter Mick Horton took over. In 2007 Stadium owner Carl Harris formed 'Fen Tigers Limited' with...

 in 2009 but his season was cut short after chipping two vertebrae in a crash while representing Australia at under-21 level in July against Great Britain. In December 2009 he was signed by Elite League

Speedway Elite League

The Elite League is the top division of Speedway league competition in the United Kingdom and is governed by the Speedway Control Bureau , in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association . It is sponsored by Sky Sports...

 Peterborough Panthers

Peterborough Panthers

The Peterborough Panthers are a British speedway team based in Peterborough, England.They were the British Elite League Speedway Champions in 1999 and 2006...

 as a club asset and was loaned to Premier League

Speedway Premier League

The Premier League is the second division of Speedway in the United Kingdom and goverened by the Speedway Control Board , in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association . The Premier League was founded in 1995 when it replaced the British League as the first division...

 team Newcastle Diamonds

Newcastle Diamonds

Newcastle Diamonds are a motorcycle speedway team who compete in the British Premier League. The club has a reputation of importing young foreign talent and have given starts to the British careers of six times World Champion Ivan Mauger, three times World Champion Ole Olsen, 1974 World Champion...

 for the 2010 season. He signed for Somerset Rebels

Somerset Rebels

The Somerset Rebels are a Speedway team from Highbridge, Somerset. Founded in 2000, the club competes in the British Premier League. Their home track is located at the Oak Tree Arena.-History:...

for the 2011 season, also doubling-up in the Elite League with Panthers.