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Many a great stories of Australia's Speedway Past can be found here https://oldtimespeedway.homesteadcloud.com/stories

Kowalski beat Brennan in the runoff for second place

good crowd though racing start at 4.30pm

Lost Stadiums: West Ham Speedway, nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2024 ‪@motorfilmawards‬ tells the story of one of the best-kept secrets in London; the East End used to be home to a huge 120,000-capacity stadium, first built for greyhound racing, and subsequently dedicated to the motorcycle sport of Speedway. Demolished in 1972, the housing estate in Custom House that replaced it has streets named after some of the legends that rode there for the West Ham Hammers - internationally famous speedway team and 1965 British League Champions. This new documentary film - Lost Stadiums: West Ham Speedway - relies on the oral history from community members, historians and former riders to tell the story of this forgotten treasure, half a century since it closed its doors for the last time. The movie also includes a look at the history of ‪@yourroyaldocks‬ in Newham and the East End’s former community life and social history. The film was part of a heritage project supported by ‪@TheNationalLotteryHeritageFund‬

Fair enough. It is also a start for the return of international speedway test matches after all. Who knows, perhaps a revival of the Ashes series against the Aussies is on the cards in the UK next summer?

Team USA to race World Champions Great Britain at Kern in February 2025. The USA National Speedway Motorcycle Racing team will break new ground on February 1, 2025, at its home track, Kevin Harvick's Kern Raceway in Bakersfield, California. The USA team will take on current World Champions Great Britain in a groundbreaking International Speedway Test Match. The event is the first of its kind in the State, with an official National team crossing the pond to take on the Americans. US Team Manager Steve Evans explains, "For the last two years we've brought the USA World Championship squad to race at home for the first time since 1988. On both previous occasions we have raced against a 'Rest of the World' team, but this was a step to something even better. Racing against another country, not least the current World Champions, takes this event to a whole different level. Team Great Britain has set the highest standards not only on the track but off the track with a very professional and well-organized structure. These are levels we are quite a distance away from as a country currently, but we do want to eventually emulate and surpass them.” Great Britain Managing Director, Rob Painter, said "Steve Evans and I have been discussing the possibility of GB racing an official Test Match in the US for a while, so we are both delighted to be able to confirm the event today. It will be a special occasion, going there as World Champions in the USA’s first ever home Test Match and I’m sure it will be a fantastic event". The event is set to take place on Saturday February 1st, at 1 PM local time, and will be available in the UK via live stream at 9 PM UK time. Kevin Harvick's Kern Raceway in Bakersfield is a state-of-the-art facility, featuring race circuits for NASCAR, sprint cars, motocross, and speedway. Multi time, NASCAR champion and Daytona 500 winner Kevin Harvick is among the ownership group of the facility. The track will be expanding to even more types of racing and events in 2025. More event details, including team line-ups and ticket information, will be released in due course.

Hey, but in February it is better in California. At long last we get to see an official USA vs Great Britain speedway test match again! That's awesome News!

Pictures like this one remind me of the great era of Speedway Test matches, that today's speedway public are denied of ever witnessing. Such a shame that we don't get anything like it anymore. Shame on You, the speedway promoters.

More on Ron Johnson, who may have been the inspiration for the movie Maniacs on Wheels aka Once A Jolly Swagman https://amcn.com.au/editorial/speedway-ace-ron-johnson/?fbclid=IwY2xjawF5CyxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZy4Y3rf2SjhYwnAdCxjHKgX6vL5eKlJzfqwOe9bRtYsVUfkN0j5sFV1Zg_aem_05NGRPUdv8De4A4pJyXqgg

Here is an Australian article about one of the founder fathers of speedway, A.J. Hunting I never knew that he was of German origins! Herr Schütze ! https://oldtimespeedway.homesteadcloud.com/stories/aj-hunting?fbclid=IwY2xjawF5AiBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdWY-1nbYkKFPTZHTPoMDaoknVOedoxWAXWNoVLXSB9A8NxmFsYZxxtF0A_aem_RvdHNISVrRnF8kXe2G3soQ

2024 Polish Ekstraliga averages Amazingly, no less than FIVE out of the top eight Ekstraliga riders will not be in the SGP next year (Laguta, Madsen, Kolodziej, Sayfutdinov and Jepsen Jensen)

no chance, the PZM blocks them form participation in any official international competition, except league racing what the pzm do is in my eyes a crime, but Emil and Artem had to sign an agreement that they would not take the PZM to court over this, when they were allowed back into the league. sadly there are a lot of Russia haters in Poland that's for sure