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  5. Posted

     

    I can only recall 2 passes but left after the team event. Like almost every pass i've ever seen executed at BP they required an absolute gating tart who then has no idea what line to take (on this occasion stand up Bjarne Pedersen).

    Maybe I missed one then, Craig Cook passed on fourth bend lap 1 and I seem to recall a pass by Bomber

    Were you watching the same meeting as the updaters cos in their reports there were far more than 3 passes.But don,t let that stop you from slagging off Leicester,and before you comment on my post no I AM NOT A LEICESTER supporter. Just hoping that at the start of a new season we might have started with a clean slate for all tracks but obviously not.

     

    Obviously myself and Volty weren't there then. Credit would be given if it was earned.

     

    I did say in my origional post that the most important thing was to raise money for such a good cause.

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    Crap place for racing, gave up and went home

     

    Fortunately you didn't miss anything you haven't seen before Jackson2, absolutely dismal entertainment as ever. Doesn't matter how many circuits Glyn makes with the polisher the old saying rings as true as ever..

    Agree, I live in Leicester and would never go to watch Speedway (if thats what you can call it) there, the same as the times i've been before crap racing, I think there were only 3 passes all meeting.

     

    Having said that it was as I had expected, and I only went to support the Ben Fund.

     

    Great to see a massive crowd anyway.

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    Football allow the drink at the bars but you cant take the drink to your seats....seems sensible....Turn up drunk at Football they won't let you in....sensible.

    The damage is done with five hours in the Pub beforehand. We also had similar experiences today and every year when we go to Copenhagen and Prague and sadly it seems the easy way out is to grin and bear it.

    Bloody annoying though

     

    Agreed Westhamboy66, we were saying the same thing that alcohol should only be able to be consumed in the bar areas not surehow much the people next to us wasted on the amount of booze they spilt over the floor.

     

    Everyone should feel safe at any event they attend and it all had the potential to get very nasty.

  9. Posted

    I think it was taken pretty recently because it shows what is left of the Long Eaton track.

    I don't drink but I'll treat you to some of those lovely fish and chips from the shop on Station Road.  :lol:  Mind you that's probably gone as well now.

     

    The Chip shop is still open, though whenever I drive past no one is in there - the kebab shop further along the road does a mean kebab.

  10. Posted

    I'm more interested in 2007 at the moment as I have plans to make.  :lol:

      Will the date go back to the usual second Saturday in June, presuming this year it was moved because of the football World Cup?

     

    From the Football Associaion of Wales web site

     

    Saturday 02nd June 2007 - EURO 2008 Qualifiers

    Wales v Czech Republic

     

    Saturday 08th September 2007 - EURO 2008 Qualifiers

    Wales v Germany

     

    So it looks like 9th June - the speculation that Cardiff should be the last GP well it wont be on 8th Sept.

  13. Posted

    Porthcawl,

    Euw.

     

    Not my idea of a nice place.

     

    Hey, i never got to see Porthcawl, friday night in the club house drinking, sat morning recovering, sat afternoon spent in Cardiff, sat night /late morning back at caravan talking over meeting, more drinking, playing cards: Sunday morning chilled out while kids ran wild, played football, swimming, go -karts with all the other kids, must say the go- karts were quite good, thought the adults was more trouble than the kids here, (all thinking they were Danish going into the corners) sunday evening spent watching the Football England v France, went straight home after France scored there winner, trust the frogs to spoil a great weekend;

    hope to see some more speedway fans next year:

    Don't think i could catch a bus to Cardiff from here though, maybe if enough speedway fans turned up, we could hire a coach from the caravan site:

     

    Myself and 6 friends are booking a caravan for next year this coming week.

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    Myself and my friend fly to Berlin from London/Luton on Thursday 16 September, stay over night in Berlin before taking the train to Poznan on 17th and then stay over night in Poznan.

     

    The train to Bydgoszcz on Saturday morning, after the GP we catch the train back to Poznan and then on Sunday its back to Berlin for an overnight stay, we fly back on Monday evening.

     

    Anyone in Berlin or Poznan when we are there?

     

    If so let me know if you want to meet up.

  17. Posted

    I was searching for some information about what is happening to Long Eaton Speedway Stadium and I found this article on the Nottingham Evening Post website

     

    SUPERSTARS OF THE DIRT TRACK

     

     

    12:00 - 24 February 2004

     

    Speedway historian Philip Dalling follows up last week's article on world championship contender Louis Lawson by looking at his links with Nottingham's pre-war track heroes Fred Strecker and George Dykes

     

    The city of Nottingham has applauded several outstanding sporting duos over the years: Torvill and Dean, Clough and Taylor, and Hadlee and Rice are the most obvious examples. Many years before those successes, Nottingham boasted a characterful twosome which brought fame and success to the city in a sport which, in its heyday, rivalled soccer as a spectator and headline attraction.

     

    Fred Strecker, from St Ann's, and George Dykes, from Burton Joyce, were home-produced stars of the Nottingham speedway team which operated at the long-vanished White City Stadium in Trent Lane, Colwick, throughout the 1930s.

     

    Strecker and Dykes were the speed stars of the madcap 1930s era of the sport, the predecessors to Gunthorpe man Louis Lawson, who featured in Bygones last week and was a hero in speedway's golden age of the late 1940s and early 1950s.

     

    The teenage Lawson was inspired to become a speedway star by the duo's performances at White City and, during his successful career for Belle Vue and England, he kept in close touch with Fred and George, who gave advice and help with the preparation of his racing machine.

     

    The Strecker and Dykes partnership survived the end of their speedway careers, which were brought to a close by the outbreak of the Second World War. They went on to run a car-dismantling business close to the stadium where they had thrilled huge pre-war crowds.

     

    And when the new craze of stock car racing was introduced at Long Eaton Stadium in 1954, Fred and George, although now not far off their fifties, built the heavily-armoured cars then in vogue and set about the opposition.

     

    West Bridgford businessman Frank Hughes who, with his stock car driver brother Neville, later promoted the sport at Long Eaton, recalls that the Strecker/Dykes technique never varied whether in the two-wheel or four-wheel form of racing.

     

    "George made the gap and Fred went through it - it was as simple as that," he said.

     

    The Nottingham speedway team had a roller-coaster existence. Competing in the 1930 Southern League and the 1933 National League, the team rode against the top British opposition in the form of Wembley, Manchester Belle Vue, West Ham and other leading sides. The world's finest riders performed at Trent Lane, with international fixtures against Australia and the United States.

     

    Fred Strecker rode for several other teams apart from Nottingham - Harringay, Belle Vue (Louis Lawson's side) and Southampton among others - and made the long trip by boat to ride in Australia in 1933.

     

    Nottingham competed in the sport's second division in 1936 and 1937. In the latter year, with Strecker and Dykes riding as a pairing, the team finally found success, winning both the Daily Mirror Trophy and the Coronation Cup.

     

    Individually, Fred Strecker also won a magnificent silver trophy donated by Nottingham motor firm Oscroft's. George Dykes, despite injuries, captained the side when available.

     

    In July 1937 both Fred and George, together with Nottingham team-mate George Greenwood, formerly of Wembley, rode in an English provincial riders side against Australia, who were led by the then world individual champion Lionel Van Praag.

     

    The Australian team included another Nottingham rider, Billy 'Cyclone' Lamont.

     

    More than 20,000 thronged the stands and terraces at Trent Lane to see Australia gain a narrow 55-53 points victory.

     

    The following year saw Strecker and Dykes continuing at the White City. But the enthusiasm evaporated and the team pulled out of the sport at the end of May 1938, with Nottingham's league fixtures being taken over by Leeds.

     

    White City, a well-appointed venue with covered accommodation for several thousand spectators, never heard the sound of speedway engines again, continuing with greyhound racing until its final closure in 1970.

     

    Strecker and Dykes continued their involvement with speedway as the starting marshall and machine examiner at the Long Eaton track, before their Indian summer involvement with stock cars.

     

    Philip Dalling is researching the history of speedway at Nottingham White City (1929-1938). Anyone with any programmes, photographs or memories about the sport or the Nottingham Tornado Motorcyle Club contact him on 0115 930 2217.

  19. Posted · Edited by Cagey

    Cagey/Ashie

     

    I would be grateful if you could answer me the following 2 questions.

     

    1. Will the purchase of Station Rd be completed in time for speedway to be held there in 2005??

    2. I was watching an old video of Long Eaton the other day and the interviewer with long hair and a beard was called Ken Parton who was brilliant. Is he still around the speedway scene??

    Vincent

     

    1) I very much doubt if we'll ever see speedway at Station Rd again (but I'd happily be proved wrong). :(

     

    2) Don't know, but his sister Dolly make a lovely pair. (team work eh Tsunami). :D

    1) Have to agree with Liontamer - although as far as I know the potential purchasers are still hoping to buy it - But it is dragging on.

     

    2) Brill - LOL - and there was a guy called Ken who did the interviews, i'd forgotten about him - sorry Ken if you ever read this - don't know what happened to him though.

  21. Posted

    Being a Long Eaton fan I have some great memories of Station Road, I guess the biggest is 58-20 against Scunthorpe in 1984 to win the League.

     

    On a different subject I was at Telford recently and bumped into Todd Aitkin - the Long Eaton starting marshall, he's now 71 and it was really nice to meet up with him again - look forward to seeing you at the first meeting at the new  Long Eaton Stadium - if it happens !! :rolleyes:

    I was only 10 at the time, so my memory is not too good, but I do recall winning the fours and pairs a lot better :)

     

    Remember the female start marshall we had for a couple of years, I cant remember her name though.

    Her name was Caroline.

  24. Posted

    Being a Long Eaton fan I have some great memories of Station Road, I guess the biggest is 58-20 against Scunthorpe in 1984 to win the League.

     

    On a different subject I was at Telford recently and bumped into Todd Aitkin - the Long Eaton starting marshall, he's now 71 and it was really nice to meet up with him again - look forward to seeing you at the first meeting at the new Long Eaton Stadium - if it happens !! :rolleyes:

  25. Posted

    I received a letter from a friend yesterday, she would like to get in touch with a few ex riders.

     

    Can anyone help out with contact detalis if so you can contact me at

     

    geejayka@hotmail.com.

     

    The riders are:

     

    Mike May

     

    Mike's mechanic Dee

     

    Derek Cooper

     

    John Proctor

     

    Paul Stead

     

    Dave Perks

     

    Mark Stevenson

     

    John Frankland

     

    Gerald Short

     

    Miles Evans

     

    Paul & Neil Evitts

     

    Thank you, Regards

     

    Kev

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