Seymour Dix 1,984 Posted October 29, 2016 Just heard the sad news of the passing of the original voice of Speedway Dave Lanning - the original and the best Just noticed an earlier thread, please could this be closed Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PHILIPRISING 7,298 Posted November 3, 2016 RECEIVED this lovely email from Eric Linden, one of the truly great speedway journalists and pioneer Editor of Speedway Star back in the fifties ... Phil: Breaking a long silence, having read Star's brilliantly informative obit on Dave. I took him on for TVTimes and we worked closely together for years, most of them with he as my deputy Features Editor and then Deputy Head of Future Planning, taking the big one over when I retired. Major jobs in addition to all you included in the article. I thought our closeness over so many years as colleagues and, more especially as friends and mates, told me everything about Dave but your article brought up many instances new to me. Congrats to all who did the final research. I would have said it's the type of piece that Dave would have written except I know he would never have had that much to say about just how good he was at his job - or life. Regards to all on what I still regard as my mag - although you have achieved wonders with it since then. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
