briggo

As a buyer and subscriber also from day one, I think it logical to extend the timeframe. As a lapsed speedway fan who stopped attending in 1978, to fill in the gaps in the 80's and hopefully now the 90's would be a real boon. Just don't forget the 70's along the way, other than that go for it................

Very sad news. Pete was in the Robins team when I first started watching back in '71. Always good to watch. RIP Pete

SPOTY has always been rigged. I have heard from a reliable source that there was a successful campaign to get Justin Fashanu in the winners circle. The Beeb quashed the results that year of course, and he never received the winners trophy. RIP Justin

I'll go with : 1. Igor Plechanov 2. Emil Sayfutdinov 3. Gennady Kurilenko 4. Boris Samorodov 5. Valery Klementiev Bubbling under are Vladimir Gordeev, Grigori Khlynovski and Viktor Trofimov

Bought my first motorcycle from George Whites on Manchester Road back in the 70's, nice bloke. RIP George

Looks like Odd Fossengen, Pete Smith and Ole in his '72 Wolves leathers

Wasn't there a Rudolf Valentinov in the 80/90's?

You never saw them together in the West, so just added to the myth/mystique........then they toured together over here in '74 I think

Henry and Helge?

I would go for the following : 1. Harrfeldt 2. D Lovaas 3. Holta 4. Eide 5. Stangeland (a bit of Swindon bias there) Honorary mentions to Oyvind Berg, Odd Fossengen, Ulf Lovaas and Tormod Langli.......... Was there also a Tom Godal in the 80's ????

Ray Wilson. A top world class rider in his time, but, in all the years I saw him race, he never did quite do it for me

Tony, have you done a feature on Bobby McNeil or Jan Andersson?

Just a quickie...............I've often wondered how you pronounce Steady Eddie's surname............... I can hear dear departed Dave Lanning's 'Jan-carts'...............and I've heard other commentators with 'Jan-sash'..............or should it be 'Yan-carts' perhaps Any takers?

Sotonian, you are correct. It is just across the road, that is of course if you can navigate the Blunsdon bypass

It's probably the usual story with the Beeb and Speedway archives, the recordings were wiped or destroyed. I'm sure ITV covered most of these in the 70's.....I do recall Simmo winning the 1974 Spring Classic and the1976 Internationale when Fred Dinenage was hosting WoS.

I used to travel up from Swindon on Saturdays (I was at school during the week) to see a lot of Arsenal and Chelsea games in the late 60's and early 70's. I'm sure that on travelling back from the games from Paddington and passing Reading, that the Racers would very often have a meeting at Tilehurst. I can even see the big old fir trees that used to skirt the back straight next to the railway line. As previously posted, Reading ran on Mondays didn't they?.............but these were definitely Saturday meetings.......confused

I'm sure I heard a story about Kazimierz Adamczak when he was at Hull. He was obviously not used to our Motorway's as he was cautioned by the police for stopping on the hard shoulder and having a picnic on the grass banking...............anyone else remember that story?

Off the top of my head, I think he scored 4 points from 17 rides. Most of these were gained from other riders falling or suffering an engine failure............................believe he turned his hand to NASCAR later on in life.

I also seem to remember a Ralph Waller, about the same time as Billy Wall me thinks

But for his Prestatyn grass track crash in 1969, what could Norman Hunter have achieved?

Just been posted on the local paper website, David has lost his battle with cancer, aged 65. Thoughts are with his family and friends

Think that was the 1973 K.O. Cup Final race-off decider........

This may have been posted before, but this one has bugged me for a while. Is there any connection between the two? Now I know Pawel's surname was always spelt slightly differently (Waloszek???), but hey, there seems to be 2 or 3 ways to spell Sayfudtinov, Sajfudtinov, Sayfudtinow..................can anyone please put me out of my misery Cheers briggo

My thoughts, in order : 1. Peter Collins 2. Malcolm Simmons 3. John Louis 4. Michael Lee 5. Dave Jessup 6. Ray Wilson 7. Chris Morton 8. Martin Ashby 9. Terry Betts 10. Gordon Kennett 11. John Davis 12. Tony Davey 13. Doug Wyer 14. Dave Morton 15. Eric Boocock 16. Jim McMillan 17. Reg Wilson 18. Nigel Boocock 19. Bob Kilby 20. George Hunter

I think Michanek in '73 would have run Mauger very very close. He was absolutely supreme that year in the BL.