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Interested to know if anyone has the results of this global series in 1985? Can't find any record of it online. Was there an overall winner at all?

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1 hour ago, falcace said:

Interested to know if anyone has the results of this global series in 1985? Can't find any record of it online. Was there an overall winner at all?

Hans Nielsen was overal winner of the Australian Series on 108 points according to Peter Oakes 1986 Year Book. The European Series is less straight forward with individual winners declared at each meeting held (seven in total)

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15 hours ago, steve roberts said:

Hans Nielsen was overal winner of the Australian Series on 108 points according to Peter Oakes 1986 Year Book. The European Series is less straight forward with individual winners declared at each meeting held (seven in total)

Thanks Steve. Be interested to see those. I went to the Belle Vue one and I know there were ones at Edinburgh, Poland, Germany, New Zealand...also USA possibly? Be interested to see any record of those.

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3 hours ago, falcace said:

Thanks Steve. Be interested to see those. I went to the Belle Vue one and I know there were ones at Edinburgh, Poland, Germany, New Zealand...also USA possibly? Be interested to see any record of those.

List of the winners of the European Rounds were

Neunenknick (West Germany) - Chris Morton

Landshut (West Germany) - John Davis

Gniezno (Poland) - Roman Jankowski

Leszno (Poland) - Preben Eriksen

Edinburgh - Peter Collins

Bremen (West Germany) - John Cook

Belle Vue - Erik Gundersen

Hope this helps?

 

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47 minutes ago, steve roberts said:

List of the winners of the European Rounds were

Neunenknick (West Germany) - Chris Morton

Landshut (West Germany) - John Davis

Gniezno (Poland) - Roman Jankowski

Leszno (Poland) - Preben Eriksen

Edinburgh - Peter Collins

Bremen (West Germany) - John Cook

Belle Vue - Erik Gundersen

Hope this helps?

 

Thanks Steve :-)

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I was at the Belle Vue one…didn’t they have the big mudguard on the bikes and a lot of them fell off  ?

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On 12/19/2021 at 9:53 PM, Bruiser said:

I was at the Belle Vue one…didn’t they have the big mudguard on the bikes and a lot of them fell off  ?

For some reason I missed this meeting. Was it held on a different night to the usual Saturday meeting? Was it this meeting that Penhall was a no -show?

The meeting's available on dvd from Jan Steachmann. 

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On 12/19/2021 at 1:53 PM, Bruiser said:

I was at the Belle Vue one…didn’t they have the big mudguard on the bikes and a lot of them fell off  ?

Yes.  Mudguards covering all the way down to where modern-day dirt deflectors go.  They kept snapping off on the bends.

4 minutes ago, waiheke1 said:

For some reason I missed this meeting. Was it held on a different night to the usual Saturday meeting? Was it this meeting that Penhall was a no -show?

It was a very cold Sunday afternoon in November 1985.

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1 hour ago, PotteringAround said:

 

It was a very cold Sunday afternoon in November 1985.

Thanks. Normally we still made the Sunday meetings at Hyde Rd, will have to ask my parents why they didn't take me to this one :D

Also missed the Peter Craven meeting in the same year (won by Andy Smith) for some reason as well.

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13 minutes ago, waiheke1 said:

Also missed the Peter Craven meeting in the same year (won by Andy Smith) for some reason as well.

That was a Friday as the Aces were away at Coventry on the Saturday

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1 hour ago, PotteringAround said:

That was a Friday as the Aces were away at Coventry on the Saturday

Missing a Friday meeting makes sense, as we'd have had to travel down from Huddersfield after my dad had finished work. Suspect we went to the Coventry meeting on the Saturday instead. 

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On 11/24/2021 at 3:18 PM, steve roberts said:

List of the winners of the European Rounds were

Neunenknick (West Germany) - Chris Morton

Landshut (West Germany) - John Davis

Gniezno (Poland) - Roman Jankowski

Leszno (Poland) - Preben Eriksen

Edinburgh - Peter Collins

Bremen (West Germany) - John Cook

Belle Vue - Erik Gundersen

Hope this helps?

 

Some pics of the Neuenknick meeting 07.04.1985

https://www.speedway-yesterday.de/html/body_neuenknick-85.html#Neuenknick1985

 

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On 11/24/2021 at 2:18 PM, steve roberts said:

List of the winners of the European Rounds were

Neunenknick (West Germany) - Chris Morton

Landshut (West Germany) - John Davis

Gniezno (Poland) - Roman Jankowski

Leszno (Poland) - Preben Eriksen

Edinburgh - Peter Collins

Bremen (West Germany) - John Cook

Belle Vue - Erik Gundersen

Hope this helps?

 

Funny I remember the series being bigger than that..I was much younger though. I'll file it away with curly wurlys and monster munch. 

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15 hours ago, steve roberts said:

Some great images there!

Must say, this thread was a bit of a revelation to me

I was going regularly in 85 and travelling the country for the first time without it being on a supporters club bus or my old man ferrying me around. But had totally forgotten about this, among other things i have totally forgotten about :D

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