Speedway是来自苏格兰的4人团体，主唱Jill Jackson，体内本来就流着表演的血液。她带着勇气初闯歌坛时，只有她独自一人带着一把吉他，演唱着乡村歌曲。后来她组成了一支乐团，1998年冬天乐团要征求一位鼓手，透过友人的介绍，她结识了 Jim Duguid，从此迸出两人间的音乐火花，共组的一支名为Speedway的团体。在2000年12月的一个晚上，一手捧红Atomic Kitten、Blue、Billie的Innocent唱片公司的老板Hugh Goldsmith坐在格拉斯哥一间酒吧的观众群中，那时他正在为自己的唱片公司找寻风格比较不一样的艺人。当台上演出两人团体正卖力的演唱着自己的创作，他们充满能量的原创作品与丰富中带有感伤意味、没有无意义缀饰的歌声，感动着在场的所有观众，于是他当下决定将这支团体签入旗下，这就是Speedway的前身。 　　Speedway were a Scottish pop rock group, who were formed in 2001, by Glaswegians Jill Jackson (lead vocals) and Jim Duguid (drums). The band acquired three more members in that year, with Bass guitarist Tom Swann from Droitwich plus guitarist Dan Sells, now lead singer of The Feeling (the latter of whom was later replaced by Chris Leonard), and signed with Innocent Records in 2002. Also recruited as a guitarist was Carlos Garcia of The Crave. 　　The band supported then labelmates Blue on their UK tour in early 2003, played a number of university gigs, and played to over 25,000 people in September 2003 at the KC Stadium in Hull as part of a charity event made by the local radio station, Viking FM. A recent mashup by The Freelance Hellraiser of the Christina Aguilera hit "Genie in a Bottle" and "Hard to Explain" by The Strokes had been a popular online and radio hit, but was refused commercial release by the record label. Seizing on this Speedway covered the Aguilera song to sound as close to the mashup as possible, and as a result it became their first single as a double A-side, with another song, "Save Yourself" and reached #10 in the UK Singles Chart. 　　Their second single, "Can't Turn Back" reached #12 in February 2004. Their third single, "In & Out", hit No.33 in June, and their album, Save Yourself was released just after "Can't Turn Back" came out. It did not fare well in the UK Albums Chart. Speedway thus left Innocent Records after their first UK tour, and later split up, later reforming briefly to support Bryan Adams on his ten date UK tour later that year. 　　Jackson later toured the material for an acoustic solo album in support of Nashville, Tennessee artist, Kevin Montgomery, formed a duo with the Irish singer-songwriter Gianna Cassidy called Jackson and Cassidy, and released her first solo album in 2006. Jackson is currently working with her own band, members include Alan Frew (guitar) Carl Taylor (drums) and Lorna Thomas (bass). 　　Duguid was until recently drumming and writing for the Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini (who supported Speedway at some of their later gigs in 2004) and can be seen in the videos to Nutini's singles。