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Uk's First Flat Track Meeting

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I think about 2005 Pete Boast started running meetings in the UK.

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This guy Derek Barclay was involved way back in 2006,talking about the second annual Christmas meeting,so one was held in 2005.Maybe worth getting in contact with him

 

http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=30836&hl=%2Bpete+%2Bboast&do=findComment&comment=794603

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My 10-year-old eldest grandson saw the OP and he said of the first UK meeting: "It could have been King's Oak in 1928 because the pictures of the bikes we see from then show they're more like flat track racing than what are speedway bikes."

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This youtube item gives an idea of the bikes in action at the UK's 'first speedway' meeting on February 19 1928. Could the racing be considered - as suggested in the preceding Post - as Flat Track rather than dirt track/speedway?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmLhqavChDs

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Sort of I guess but Speedway changed pretty quickly into something nearer what we see today.

 

What I do think is interesting is that I thought the first time I saw the F2 Speedway bikes that they were ridden very much like an old JAP or 2V Jawa which is the Speedway that many seem to feel was better than today (me not included). Yet some of the same people have seen and denounced F2 which just goes to show you can't please hardly any of the people at the same time!!

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This meeting at King's Lynn is thought to be the formula's first UK event. I am trying to establish what year this was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82TaUYlrBOw&feature=youtu.be

2005 . the rider who falls is Andy Muggleton , he suffered a punctured lung , broken arm and some damage to his back when he got clipped by 2 other riders , Andy actually helped Boast set up short track uk . never entered another meeting after that ,

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This meeting at King's Lynn is thought to be the formula's first UK event. I am trying to establish what year this was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82TaUYlrBOw&feature=youtu.be

 

 

I think about 2005 Pete Boast started running meetings in the UK.

 

 

2005 . the rider who falls is Andy Muggleton , he suffered a punctured lung , broken arm and some damage to his back when he got clipped by 2 other riders , Andy actually helped Boast set up short track uk . never entered another meeting after that ,

 

​As a reasonable time has passed since this threads OP, does anyone have further recollections in regard to the UK's first Flat Track meeting?

And delving back further in time - to the 1950s! - does any member recall the Stock Bike races (I suppose something akin to Flat Track?) that took place at Belle Vue, Wimbledon and West Ham in the 1950s? I recall seeing some of the races at Wimbledon where speedway junior Pete Rogers -who has sadly passed away - was the top performer. Here's a photo of Pete at a California-in-England speedway reunion a couple of years ago.

This photo of Pete Rogers was taken at the 2013 California-in-England Reunion.

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