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  1. Are there no live updates this morning form Pardubice? The meeting was supposed to have started at 9am
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    Jamaican rider

    Exactly, that was Trevor Redmond. When his attempt to establish speedway in the Caribean did not work out as planed, he changed direction and went to Rhodesia, where he joined up with Scotsman Alex Hughson and quite successfully promoted speedway in Rhodesia/Southern Africa for a few years in the early 1970s. I'm not aware of any other attempt to take speedway to the Caribean, neither before nor after Redmond's venture.
  3. Tom Brennan as well. He will be chop lifted from Pardubice to Ostrow in a helicopter, because his meeting in Poland starts early at 2pm local time. Kvech has more time, his meeting at Zielona Gora is at 7pm
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    Jamaican rider

    By the way, does anyone of You guys know who tried to introduce speedway & stock car racing track to Jamaica in the late 1960s? It didn't really work out, as only some stock car racing ever took place there, but no motorcycle speedway. And, no, for once it wasn't Hoskins, but an other well known speedway promoter in Britain, in fact even a New Zealander by birth, too, just like Hoskins. Any guesses, who it was?
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    Jamaican rider

    That photograph with JSH looking up to that man Wilfred McIntosh standing tall over his speedway bike is well known. It can be found in Ron Hoare's book "Speedway Panorama" (page 144). But it was only a gag, a hoax, just one of Hoskins' many publictity stunts, and McIntosh never seriously considdered a career as a speedway rider. From his physical stature alone, this giant of a man he was totally unsuited to become a speedway rider. I don't know if he ever rode in an official race at all, possible not even in a second half heat race. He was only posing for this publicity picture with Hoskins and Chitty, I guess.
  6. Riss has been asked, but he can't make it and has declined. I don't know who will be guesting for Wright, but it won't be Erik Riss.
  7. Heat 13 was quite exciting, and Zmarzlik beaten for the first time tonight.
  8. Stal Gorzow v Apator Torun should live on YouTube tonight
  9. This will be live today on Canal+ Sport5
  10. This is the big meeting today, not only for the Polish Golden Helmet and the Szczakiel Memorial Trophy, this is the Polish qualifier for the individual World and European Championships rounds. It is live on Polish TV CANAL+ Sport 5 (12.30 UK time)
  11. Team Great Britain has not contested a single Test Match this year. The last one was a 42-48 loss against the Rest of the World on July 9, 2022, in Glasgow. Isn't it a shame that international team matches are so sadly neglected these days?
  12. Who will ride in the Women's races? Celina of course, but who else? Is that already known?
  13. I agree. Four would have been right. Six devalues the regular season.
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    Kent Speedway

    When will they form a NORA League? Isle of Wight, Kent, possibly Mildenhall, maybe Eastbourne to join them. How about Buxton, and Northampton?
  15. The USA takes on the Rest of the World in a Speedway Test Match at Bakersfield, California, this Saturday, February 17, 2024. Three Englishmen - Chris Harris, Tom Brennan, and Leon Flint - will ride for the World Stars. The British Speedway Network (BSN) shows the meeting live on Saturday night 8.45 GMT. https://watch.britishspeedway.co.uk/
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    Grosskreutz + the Golden Helmet Controversy

    This here is an actual picture of the Shanghai Greyhound Track, the Stadium, where speedway racing took place in June of 1930
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    Grosskreutz + the Golden Helmet Controversy

    I have just discovered on Wikipedia that in 1930 they had not just one, but in fact THREE greyhound tracks in Shanghai. Here is a 1930s picture with an outside view of the most impressive of the three Shanghai greyhound tracks, the "Canidrome" Greyhound Stadium. This was a pretty impressive building, but this is not the one, where the speedway racing took place. The speedway was staged at the Shen Garden Stadium, owned by the Shanghai Greyhound Racing Club. The "Canidrome" was one of three dog racing tracks to be built in Shanghai in 1927–1928. The first was Luna Park ("Ming Garden" in Chinese), opened in May 1928. In 1932, the Municipal Council of the Shanghai International Settlement closed Luna Park down because of concerns about gambling, and thereafter it became a general amusement park. The second was the Stadium ("Shen Garden" in Chinese), owned by the Shanghai Greyhound Racing Club, which was also closed down by the Municipal Council in 1932, and thereafter became a sports stadium, and is now the Jing'an Workers Stadium. The Canidrome, being under French jurisdiction in the French Concession, was the sole survivor after 1932. It was also the largest of the three stadiums. On SPEEDWAY PLUS there is a short article written byTony Webb about the Shanghai Speedway http://www.speedwayplus.com/Shanghai.shtml
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    Grosskreutz + the Golden Helmet Controversy

    Shanghai Speedway was promoted by an Australien entrepreneur, Mr. Les Levante, who leased the local greyhound stadium. The first speedway meeting in Shanghai was held on Sunday, June 1, 1930, featuring eleven Australian riders. There were no local riders involved. Levante's touring party had initially travelled from Brisbane to Manila, where a track was constructed in a baseball stadium. For some reason, speedway racing did not catch on in the Philippines, and after only a short stay, Levante and his troupe of riders went on to China. The arrangement with the stadium in Shanghai also was only for a short space of time, and according to the support given, would or would not become a permanent institution in Shanghai. But as in Manila, it didn't catch on in Shanghai, either. The names of the eleven speedway riders, who went on this enterprising tour of East Asia in 1930, they are Arthur Yenson, Jack Allen, Mannie Scofell, Harry Lillistone, Billy Lunn, Les Lawrence, Harold Meston, Harry Radford, Len Street, Bernie Rein, and Tommie Tompkins.
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    Grosskreutz + the Golden Helmet Controversy

    It's here https://speedwaychampions.yolasite.com/golden-helmet-champions.php
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    Australia

    Interview with Mick Holder on the prospect of a return of SPEEDWAY BIKES in Sydney at the new Eastern Creek Speedway
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    Workington 2024

    Bergé was doing great riding for my club Landshut in the Polish Div.1 in the past two years. Moody, yes, sometimes, but most of the time simply brillant. He concentrates on speedway now, and does not ride in long-track or grass track meetings anymore.
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    2024 Ice Speedway

    Every round of the Russian Individual Ice Speedway Championship is broadcast live on YouTube Round 3 (Day 1) tomorrow, on Saturday, January 13, starts at noon 12h UK time
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    Australia

    https://www.spacequakesports.com/broadcasts/australiansolochampionshipsround05?fbclid=IwAR3aGGqevRK2UI83YD6IuWI33ai134Xk9jUYOC3wHIiE7i-FeXtbg8Kk2Dc
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