Potential stadiums

[steve roberts 9,242]

9 minutes ago, customhouseregular said:

Is this the site of York Autograss track?

That's just on your right before you approach the junction to Moor Monkton (surprised it's not been used for a Grasstack event?) The Trotting track is opposite the petrol garage (Kirk Hammerton) as you turn right towards Nun Monkton. I visited once and was quite a spectacle but it's something I would do only the once...closest thing to chariot racing I guess?

Edited December 2, 2021 by steve roberts

[customhouseregular 1,651]

5 minutes ago, steve roberts said:

That's just on your right before you approach the junction to Moor Monkton (surprised it's not been used for a Grasstack event?) The Trotting track is opposite the petrol garage (Kirk Hammerton) as you turn right towards Nun Monkton. I visited once and was quite a spectacle but it's something I would do only the once...closest thing to chariot racing I guess?

I have often thought the Autograss site would have been good for grass track.

[steve roberts 9,242]

6 minutes ago, customhouseregular said:

I have often thought the Autograss site would have been good for grass track.

I would agree. I've been to couple of events just outside Pickering which were basically one-off meetings in a field with no facilities.

[tyretrax 2,252]

Anyone know where The Backstreet Bangers track featured on a BBC TV link is?

[martinmauger 584]

Meanwhile back in Hull; White City is under a block of flats, Hedon is just a field but in NIMBY land and earmarked for yet another energy park (there is already one such site in Hull), the Boulevard, actual stadium is now under an academy, Craven Park was squared off at turns 3 & 4 & the KCOM Stadium (Hull City footie & Hull FC rugby) has always been square, bit like a mini Cardiff.  The only nearby stadium facility physically capable of staging speedway (yet has no chance) is the under-used (or so I'm told) Costello Athletics Stadium, so similar to IOW, but in addiction to being in NIMBY land housing is really close anyway.  So no joy in Hull as yet, though as I mentioned previously there is plenty of brown and green field land.....

Edited December 2, 2021 by martinmauger
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[Skodaman 192]

On 11/30/2021 at 6:30 PM, 25yearfan said:

Norfolk showground,

 

Brandon stadium, Coventry.

 

Smallmead, Reading.

 

Buxton.

 

Eastbourne

 

Hove Greyhound stadium

 

Ingliston showground, Edinburgh.

 

Rye House

 

Brafield stock car track.

 

Swaffham stadium

 

Crayford greyhound stadium

 

Hednesford raceway

 

Cowdenbeath stadium

 

Lydd speedway

 

Iwade

 

Great Yarmouth stadium

 

Somewhere on Olympic site

 

Crystal Palace stadium

 

Exeter racecourse, Haldon.

 

Westpoint showground, Exeter

 

Par moor, St Austell.

 

Any Imerys pit in Cornwall.

 

Tottenham Hotspur stadium

 

West Ham stadium

 

Wembley

 

Odsal

 

Doncaster Greyhound stadium

 

Northside, Workington

 

Weymouth FC.

 

Harlow greyhound stadium

 

Romford greyhound stadium

 

Sunderland greyhound stadium

 

Swindon

 

Any other greyhound stadium

 

Any other horse racing course

 

Any other showground

 

Skegness stock car stadium

 

Some of these have long gone!!

[Fortythirtyeight 838]

7 hours ago, steve roberts said:

That's just on your right before you approach the junction to Moor Monkton (surprised it's not been used for a Grasstack event?) The Trotting track is opposite the petrol garage (Kirk Hammerton) as you turn right towards Nun Monkton. I visited once and was quite a spectacle but it's something I would do only the once...closest thing to chariot racing I guess?

The trotting track hosted the Long track meeting which Ivan and many other stars featured in, including Peter Collins, Don Godden, Simon Wigg etc.

The A.C.U. have looked at the facility in recent times but it hasn’t gone any further.

[ovalfan 14]

7 hours ago, tyretrax said:

Anyone know where The Backstreet Bangers track featured on a BBC TV link is?

St Brides, Newport. 

[25yearfan 476]

4 hours ago, Skodaman said:

Some of these have long gone!!

Which ones?

[martinmauger 584]

2 hours ago, Fortythirtyeight said:

The trotting track hosted the Long track meeting which Ivan and many other stars featured in, including Peter Collins, Don Godden, Simon Wigg etc.

The A.C.U. have looked at the facility in recent times but it hasn’t gone any further.

I recall that meeting, not surprisingly, and was getting a lift there but then my folks wouldn't allow me to go.  Missed meet woes apart, there was an article in the then very popular Motor Cycle Mechanics magazine, short interviews with Ivan, Don Godden, etc.  I managed to lose the copy given to me by an older cousin; "you like speedway don't you, I think this is similar".  Said piece was in addition to the annual bike mag tradition of 'let's look at speedway, it's different to what we normally discuss, it will shut up our resident speedway enthusiast and fill space while awaiting new bikes for testing'....

[Richspeedway 327]

There is Burton Trent Raceway though guess nobody has looked there as it is a little out of the way

[*JJ 509]

1 hour ago, Richspeedway said:

There is Burton Trent Raceway though guess nobody has looked there as it is a little out of the way

Where is that exactly? I saw it on a Guy Martin TV programme the other day.

[ch958 2,393]

10 minutes ago, *JJ said:

Where is that exactly? I saw it on a Guy Martin TV programme the other day.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Trent+Raceway/@52.8180674,-1.7589818,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x487a0f7d2a68457f:0xf89ac346dac7373f!8m2!3d52.8180674!4d-1.7567931

[uk_martin 1,606]

On 11/30/2021 at 10:00 AM, 1 valve said:

...it would be interesting to compile a list of other stadiums where speedway could be resurrected/introduced....
 

And for every new stadium, how about suggesting 7 or 8 new riders who can make up new teams.

[Deano 1,318]

8 minutes ago, uk_martin said:

And for every new stadium, how about suggesting 7 or 8 new riders who can make up new teams.

Very chicken and egg though Martin. No tracks no riders no riders no tracks what came first?