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    Hamburg Lokstedt Dirt Track

    To confirm this Franz Heck of Berlin was indeed the rider who won at the Nürburgring in 1928. If he had been practising "dirt-track" in Berlin before making his debut at Hamburg-Lokstedt in that 1929 season, he can only have ridden on one of the Berlin horse trotting tracks at Mariendorf and Ruhleben (long-tracks of 1,000 and 1,200m length), which were used for motorcycle track racing at the time. In 1929 there was no shorter "dirt-track" speedway in Berlin. Such a track was eventually opened in Berlin in March of 1930, but was not a great success. It was a much smaller oval compared to Hamburg Lokstedt. The Berlin Dirt Track was only 333m long and was built inside the existing 400m cycle track at the Olympia-Radrennbahn in Plötzensee. Other tracks for dirt-track racing in those "boom" years of 1929 and 1930 in Germany were opened at Breslau, Munich, Stuttgart, Oberhausen, Cologne, and a number of other towns, but soon the novelty factor wore off, and most of these enterprises did not last very long. In fact , Oberhausen was the only pre-war track track that was still used (revived) for Speedway after WW2, and well into the 1960s.
  2. True, but it should not be so. One man, one team. Each rider should only have one league club to ride for, but there should be other national representative teams for teh best riders to be selected to ride for. Just as it is done in all the other popular team sports, such as Cricket, Rugby, or Football. Create international competitions for the national teams, be it Test matches, Cup tournaments, or International tours. That's what's currently missing in Speedway.
  3. That's it - great post @RobMcCaffery Speedway is much more similar in ist fan culture to team sports like Rugby or Cricket, rather than other motorsports (F1 or MotoGP) were teh Team aspect is totally missing. Speedway has been most popular with league and national Teams racing. Look at Poland, where nothing is as popular as their speedway league. Individual or Pairs meetinsg are just a gimmick nobody really gets very excited about, except maybe for the national Championships and SEC/SGP.
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    GB speedway team

    How much longer will Hans Nielsen keep his job as Denmark team manager?
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    NEW LOOK FOR STAR

    I love the new look, it is very refreshing, and more interesting to read as it is now. Great work, Speedway Star !
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    Umbrella girls

    The President of the Monaco Motorsports Federation has said that he is all for retaining the tradtion of having glamorous grid girls. He said that there will be grid girls at the Monaco GP this year, come what may, in one form or another. If F1 demands Kids to hold the umbrellas and/or name plates for the drivers, the grid grils will be get other things to do but they will still be there at Monaco!
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    GB speedway team

    Test matches could bring those international star riders back to the UK that don't ride in Your league anymore ! I guess there would be good crowds in the UK for any official Test Match when the Great British "Lions" take on the best of Poland, Sweden, Russia, or Denmark ! Now that there are so few of the world's best rider in the Britsh Leagues, it would be the perfect time to bring back Test Matches ! Club Promoters must cope with the demands of the Great Britain Speedway Team, just like in any other serious sport.
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    Umbrella girls

    I'd rather keep the grid girls in speedway, but do away with the silly champagne splashing at the victory ceremonies. Why do we have to celebrate victory in a motorsports event with alcohol ? That is much more "embarrassing" than having a few good looking girls show the helmet colours of the riders at the start.
  9. The podium of tonight's FIM Speedway Sidecar 1000cc World Cup. A Final Results: 1. Darrin Treloar / Jesse Headland 2. Mark Mitchell / Tony Carter 3. Andrew Buchanan / Denny Cox 4. Trent Headland / Darryl Whetstone http://www.australianspeedwaychampionships.com.au/news/treloar-and-headland-claim-the-fim-speedway-sidecar-1000cc-world-cup-at-gillman-speedway/
  10. The 2018 F.I.M. Sidecar World Cup Final at Gillman Speedway in Adelaide is now under way ! Live scores and some pictures may appear on this Facebook link https://www.facebook.com/AustralianSpeedwayChampionships/
  11. Darrin Treloar is the 2018 Oceania Champion https://www.gillmanspeedway.com/news/another-title-for-darrin-treloar-and-jesse-headland/ Full results: https://www.gillmanspeedway.com/category/results/ 2018 F.I.M. OCEANIA 1000cc SIDECAR SPEEDWAY CHAMPIONSHIP Final: 1 - Darrin TRELOAR & Jesse Headland (AUSTRALIA) 2 - Andrew BUCHANAN & Denny Cox (NEW ZEALAND) 3 - Mark MITCHELL & Tony Carter (AUSTRALIA) 4 - Warren MONSON & Andrew Summerhayes (AUSTRALIA)
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    SBP best pairs 2018 live on Eurosport

    Leon Madsen is really impressive today
  13. ... and three Regional Solo Championships: Canterbury - 3 February 2018 - Moore Park: 1st Andrew Aldridge, 2nd Jake Gillespie, 3rd Wayne Drake Auckland - 4 March 2018 - Rosebank: 1st Jake Turner, 2nd Ryan Terry-Daley, 3rd Dylan Hancock Southland - 10 March 2018 - Oreti Park: 1st Jake Turner, 2nd Andrew Aldridge, 3rd Jake Gillespie
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    2018 Warsaw Gp

    Czestochowa is the venue for POLAND v DENMARK
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    Rhodesian Speedway

    Discovered this unique Speedway Videoclip from South Africa on YouTube - It is from Johannesburg, South Africa, and features Mr. Bobby Hack, a former Rhodesian speedway rider, now living in South Africa, where he is a promoter of flat track and quad bike oval track racing events. A few years ago he even attempted to revive speedway bike racing at a couple of venues in the Cape Province of South Africa - with little success, though.
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    Belle Vue Abroad

    Not quite sure what beacme of it, but it definitely gone now and the grounds have been built on with probably houses or a super market, I can't remember exactly what it was. But for certain this speedway track in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) does not exist anymore.
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    Belle Vue Abroad

    Above is a picture of Ove Fundin and the rest of the Belle Vue gang in the streets of Leningrad during their Russian trip of October 1967.
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    Belle Vue Abroad

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    Belle Vue Abroad

    The above photograph shows the touring Belle Vue riders lining-up at Leningrad, along with the local Russian riders, prior to the individual meeting on October 8, 1967. On the previous day, October 7, the Belle Vue Aces and Barrikada Leningrad had contested a teams match at the same track.
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    Belle Vue Abroad

  21. Victorian Sidecar title results: 1st Andrew Buchanan / Denny Cox 2nd Trent Headland / Daz Whetstone 3rd Mark Plaisted / Ben Pitt 4th Warren Monson / Andrew Summerhayes New South Wales Sidecar title results: 1st Darrin Treloar / Jesse Headland 2nd Andrew Buchanan / Denny Cox 3rd Hamish Golding / Liam Cox 4th Stephen Saunders / Clarissa Saunders
  22. ... and there are a lot more nations who will take part in this brand new FIM pairs team competition, in fact it is now 15 compared to the 12 we had in the SWC ! Slovenia and Finland return, and Slovakia is a new entry !! Isn't that great ? I wonder why Castgana thinks that this SoN will help the smaller speedway nations, especially those struggling badly in Southern Europe (Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) and Overseas (Argentina, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand), to find new riders. Why would youngsters there suddenly be eager to take up the Sport, just because we now have a SoN pairs instead of the Speedway World Cup. Most of the above mentioned countries did not take part in the SWC, and most of them dont participate in the new SoN either. There should be a development programme by the FIM to help these smaller countires with logistics and knowledge, and if possible money and equipment, as is done in other sports such as Football, Rugby and Cricket. The Speedway of Nations will achieve nothing at all, it is just blurring the sad fact that many countries are no longer able to track a national team of more than two or three riders.
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    Rhodesia/zimbabwe Top Five

    I don't know much about Stan Paulsen, but wasn't he from Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) ? By the way, in the mid 1970s (1975/6) a rider by the name of Dennis Paulsen took up speedway and rode in the meetings held at Salsbury's Glamis Stadium. I wonder if Dennis was perhaps Stan's son? Of the Southern Rhodesian (now Zimbabwe) riders of the 1950's I guess that Bev Bird was the most successful. Bird rode in a Test Match for South Africa against England at Bulawayo in January of 1957, and indeed he top scored for the Springboks with nine points. Of the 1970s Rhodesian speedway riders I always fancied Zak Koekemoer, who was one of the leading riders in those days. Also, the two brothers Squack and Pip Harris come to mind, and that Salisbury tobacco farmer Ian McMillan. Then Chris Prinsloo was another good speedway rider, and so was Ray Barcley. In the last season of speedway racing in Rhodesia, Mike Ferreira and his brother rode together at Salisbury. Does anyone remember Mike's brother, the name escapes me at the moment ?
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    Rhodesia/zimbabwe Top Five

    No Peter Prinsloo? Come on, man, You must be joking ! But with Peter Prinsloo replacing the unknown Stan Paulsen, this Zimbabwe/Rhodesia Top Five looks quite good !
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