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  1. Posted · Edited by britmet

    Chance tomorrow (Saturday) to see some racing at Rye house again, -  the 5-round BMR Flat Track Series,
    Rd.1 23 June
    Rd.2 28 July
    Rd.3 25 August
    Rd.4 29 September
    Rd.5 20 October
    After 2 rounds #500, Rob Mear, is the unbeaten Pro-Class leader, with Vince Hurst and Jon Bell in equal 2nd spot.

    Update yourself on Flat Track [url=    http://www.speedwaychampions.com/flat-track.php] HERE [/url]

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    www.speedwaychampions.com
    www.speedway-sa.com

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    1 hour ago, Grachan said:

    According to the rule book, any gate preparations after the 2 minutes expires is a starting offence and warrants an exclusion.

    For me this isn't really an issue in British speedway. There's more of an issue with the time it actually takes for the two minutes to be sounded, rather than what happens within it.

     

    Watched one of the videos on the SGB site a couple of days ago when the bulk of the video was 4 riders digging around !  - mostly off their machines, . . . .for far longer than the race itself.
    It needs controlling, i.e. limiting.

  4. Posted · Edited by britmet

    Former Cradley Heath and Reading rider Joe Weichlbauer (1966 & '67; 1968 resp'ly,) passed away on July 24th 2018, age 76, just a few weeks after being diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour.

    Born in Graz, Austria in April 1942, he emigrated to Western Australia c.1964 along with fellow Austrian Gunther 'Hec' Haslinger, where both of them took up speedway at the 640yd Claremont Speedway, Perth.

    Weichlbauer accompanied Chum Taylor to the UK in 1966 when the Heathens signed the new Aussie champ, but at 367yds, little more than half the size of Claremont, the junior found Dudley Wood difficult and had a limited 14 matches for the injury-stricken Heathens. In '68 he moved to Reading in the newly formed British Lge Div.2 and averaged 6.88 across the season.

    (Hec Haslinger came to the UK in 1970 and rode for Doncaster Dragons, moving over to the re-opened Birmingham the following year when the licence was transferred. Hec returned to Oz after the '71 season, but having married here, Joe remained in the UK, spending the last 40 years in Shropshire.)
    Joe Weichlbauer: Graz, April 1942 – Salop, July 24th, 2018.
    6_Joe_W_1966.jpg

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  5. Posted

    9 hours ago, BigBoaby said:

      If anybody knows when its re-broadcast again I'll delete the half baked version so it records it this time intact.  I know I can temporarily access via the BT website or via the 'BT Player' but I want to record it.

     

    Future re-broadcast dates and times given at the end of the D.Telegraoh article, - see post "Telegraph Article Today".


    http://www.speedwaychampions.com/

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  7. Posted · Edited by britmet

    After 3 rounds, when winners were Whitelam & Elliot (at Leicester,) and Cossar & Blyth (at Somerset, and at Kings Lynn,) the overall standing going into the Final Rd at Belle Vue in October is : -
    Mark Cossar & Carl Blyth, 31 (from 40)
    Paul Whitelam & Alan Elliott, 30 (from 43)
    Mick Cave & Bradley Steer 24 (from 34)
    Rod Winterburn & Billy Winterburn 22 (from 22, - 2 rds only ridden.)
    (the Championship is decided by the best 3 rounds from 4.)
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    So its all down to the last round on Oct. 13th.
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    http://www.speedwaychampions.com/sidecar-champions.php
     

  8. Posted

    On 5/29/2018 at 4:16 PM, britmet said:


    Rd.3 is at Redcar, June 9th.

    Results from Redcar:
    Spaniard Gerard Bailo on a Kawasaki took Rd. 3 of the 2018 DTRA British Championship, the first Spaniard to top the DTRA rostrum.
    2nd was Rob Mears, 3rd Toby Hales.
    Mike Hill won the Thunderbikes Final
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    Rd. 4 is a TT round, (right-hand bend plus jumps,) at Greenfields, Lincs. on July 7. & 8th.
    Full Flat Track data HERE

    www.speedwaychampions.com
    www.speedway-sa.com

  9. Posted

    10 minutes ago, britmet said:

    If you can have a league where the team that tops the league table after 6 months isn't the league champions, then why expect the top points scoring pair not to have do something similar after completing the schedule ?
    I'm not defending the format, just pointing out the analogues.  

    Just double-checked with the FIM website, - its not the 'World Championship Pairs'. ., its called the 'Speedway of Nations' competition.
    But one man can't be a nation, and neither can 2 men. 
    If you're trying to identify the top nation, then just like the football world cup, it has to be a team, ..  of the usual size that predominates in that sport: in football its 11, in speedway its 7, - (okay, I'll consider 6 or 8 . )
    Football wouldn't have a World Cup  that put up Ronaldo v. Kane v. Bales v. X  v.Y, etc. in a shoot-out.
    Lets get back to proper internationals - we already have a Championship that determines the best rider, ( and we used to have a Pairs competition.)

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    Just now, DSC67 said:

    . . .. .after two days of racing and 40 + heats the team with the most points should win .

    If you can have a league where the team that tops the league table after 6 months isn't the league champions, then why expect the top points scoring pair not to have do something similar after completing the schedule ?
    I'm not defending the format, just pointing out the analogues.  

  11. Posted · Edited by britmet

    A new page, “Flat Track Champions” has been added to the Speedway Champions website,
    Detailing all British Short Track and Flat Track championship winners and place-getters since inception in 2005, it completes the race disciplines covered under the 'Track Racing' department of FIM and ACU.

    Also included are ;
    - other European national champions, - e.g. Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland, Czech Republic, etc;
    - USA AMA dirt track Grand Nationals, and Canadian CMA winners from 1946;
    - FIM World Cup and European Championship results;
    - 'Flat Track of Nations' (= unofficial WTC);
    - Winter Open Invitationals, - in UK and the big Spanish 'Superprestigio',
    and background definitions/classifications on formats and machinery.
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    www.speedwaychampions.com
    www.speedway-sa.com
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  13. Posted

    15 hours ago, racers and royals said:

    Pretty sure this one is the U21 as it is being used to determine who rides in the world and European U21 qualifiers. Bronze is U19 i think

    The Silver Helmet and the Bronze Helmet are U21 and U19 events respectively.
    You can see all Polish Gold, Silver and Bronze Helmet winners since inception in the '60s HERE
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    www.speedwaychampions.com

  14. Posted · Edited by britmet

    12 hours ago, Flappy said:

    Pay for speedway only 

    Speedway concession price for the evening £13, . . .MCN Festival concession price if you booked by Thursday £11.
    So remember for next year,. . . buy a Festival ticket and make the day of it, and stay in the ground for the evening, (there's music, bands, beer tents, kiddies rides, etc. ongoing.)

    Enjoyed my first time at the Fest, a great family party day out, glorious weather,  and several speedway connections and people to chat with, - and it got every biker away from those other 2 events happening yesterday, (unless you availed yourself of the TV link-ups in one of the bars.)

  16. Posted · Edited by britmet

    Tonights mtg at P'boro is part of the MCN-BMF 'Festival of Motorcycling', a 2-day event over the weekend.
    http://www.mcnfestival.com/
    . .Includes the DTRA British Flat track Championship. 

    • TEST RIDE the very latest 2018 machines
    • Meet star guest FREDDIE SPENCER
    • Hear some of the world's most exotic MOTOGP MACHINES FIRE-UP!
    • Experience full-on FLAT TRACK RACING ACTION - witness the thrills & spills 
    • Bag some BARGAIN KIT
    • Browse the massive CLUB ZONE
    • PARTY HARD - there's live music and a late bar

  17. Posted · Edited by britmet

    The first round of the British Sidecar Speedway Championship starts this Saturday, May 5th at Leicester speedway.
    A full 16-rider, 20-heat plus winner-take-all Final event,  the championship of the 1000cc monster no-brake combinations is supported with 500cc machines in the 28 race programme.
    Admission is £10, U16 Free. There is a practice on the evening of the 4th (Friday) between 6:30 and 9:30pm.
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    Through the course of the year 4 rounds of the championship, which climaxes at Belle Vue in October, will be supported by a number of open meetings.
    Rd.1 Leicester May 5th
    Rd.2 Somerset June 1st
    Rd.3 Kings Lynn July 14th
    Rd.4 Belle Vue Oct. 13th
      https://www.sidecarspeedway.co.uk/      
    Past results, British, World and more,  [url=http://www.speedwaychampions.com/sidecar-champions.php] HERE [/url]
    Sc_Spwy_2018_rd1.jpg

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    Tamworth, April 14th: 
    Darrin Treloar & Jesse Headland  dominated the Australian Sidecar Speedway Championship  meeting from their first lap, giving Darrin his 10th Australian Championship and Jesse his first.
    The racers that lined up next to Darrin & Jesse in the A Final, were Andrew Buchanan & Denny Cox who finished 2nd, Trent Headland & Daz Whetstone 3rd, with Mark Plaisted & Ben Pitt taking that final spot on the podium in 4th.

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    The Golden Helmet event initiated in the meeting of Wed.19th continued weekly and Niss, the winner at that first meeting, ( 2 heats and a Final) took the overall season GH prize with 42 pts. The GH continued in the second season of 1930, to be won by Herbert Drews with 68pts, but in 1931 the event was abandoned after just one mtg, which Drews won.
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    Full details of the weekly GH event winners, 1929- 31 are given in the 'Golden Helmets, A - Z' section of Speedway Champions site, HERE   with further narrative as follows: . . . .

         The first purpose-built dirt track in Germany was constructed in the Hamburg district of Lokstedt in 1929 by a UK/Danish consortium, United Speedway Ltd., who operated it alongside its Roskildeveg, Copenhagen site, built the previous year. Each stadium included a greyhound circuit in addition to the 1/3 mile speedway track, and star riders and their bikes, including British stars such as Bill Kitchen, were often flown between the two venues.
         From the opening Hamburg meeting in July '29 both venues ran a 'Golden Helmet' competition, - see the Roskildeveg GH results, 1929- '31, in the adjacent Danish GH table - , where weekly stagings were restricted to native riders who accumulated points towards an end-of-season total and the award of a Golden Helmet. The first winner was Fritz Niss, who won 4 of the weekly finals and totalled 42 points, (presumably from a scoring basis of 5-3-2-1 that was known to have been the Copenhagen system,) though he was being drawn down on by Herbert Drews toward the end of the year. Drews went on to become the 1930 overall winner with 5 weekly successes and 68 pts. The 1931 competition was abandoned after the initial event, though racing at Lokstedt continued up to 1933.
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    http://www.speedwaychampions.com/
     

  22. Posted

    The full 2017/18 speedway season's NZ championship results are . . . . .
    Solo Championships
    NZ National - 6 January 2018 - Moore Park:
    1st Bradley Wilson-Dean, 2nd Andrew Aldridge, 3rd Ryan Terry-Daley.
    NZ Grand Prix - 17 February 2018 - Oreti Park:
    1st Bradely Wilson-Dean, 2nd Andrew Aldridge, 3rd Ryan Terry-Daley.
    North Island - 21 January 2018 – Rosebank:
    1st Bradley Wilson-Dean, 2nd Ryan Terry-Daley, 3rd Dylan Hancock.
    South Island - 27 January 2018 - Oreti Park:
    1st Andrew Aldridge, 2nd Daniel Shuttleworth, 3rd Adam Shuttleworth.
    NZ Under 21's - 21 January 2018 – Rosebank:
    1st Jake Turner, 2nd Jake Gillespie, 3rd George Congreve.
    Sidecar Championships
    NZ National - 5/6 January 2018 – Meeanee:
    1st Russell Stuart & Andrew Parker, 2nd Wayne Lett & Chris Chatfield, 3rd John Hannan & Bryce Rose.
    NZ Grand Prix - 13 January 2018 – Gisborne:
    1st Peter Adams & Jason Hira, 2nd Aaron Rose & Bailee Ross, 3rd Justin Lincoln & Adrian Orchard.
    North Island - 17 March 2018 – Whanganui:
    1st Russell Stuart and Andrew Parker, 2nd Mark Whye and Jacob Cooper, 3rd Dylan Moohan and Tyler Berger.
    South Island -24 March 2018 - Oreti Park:
    1st - Aiden Thwaites & Shane Twiss, 2nd - Paul Humphrey & Ricky Pubben, 3rd - James Douglas & Harley Biddle.

    http://www.speedwaychampions.com/

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  23. Posted · Edited by britmet

    Yesterday's NZ Sidecar results from New Zealand

    New Zealand SOUTH Island Sidecar Championship, - Oreti Park, Sat. March 24th
    1st   - Aiden Thwaites & Shane Twiss
    2nd  - Paul Humphrey & Ricky Pubben
    3rd   - James Douglas & Harley Biddle
    4th   - Erwin Tree & Bret Pubben
    5th   - Shaun Kerr & Robin Poole

    http://www.speedwaychampions.com/sidecar-champions.php
     

  25. Posted

    New Zealand North Island Sidecar Championship.
    Russell Stuart and Andrew Parker took the NZ North Island Sidecar Speedway Championship at OceanView Speedway, Wanganui, yesterday March 17th, adding the trophy to that of their National success at Meeanee in January.
    The South Island title is raced for at Oreti Park, invercargill next week, Sat. 24th. March.

    Find results of all NZ and Aussie championships, as well as for other national and World titles HERE

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