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European Team Championship DME 2023 Final Stralsund Saturday 22nd April Live on TV
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
Will Tom Brennan get there in time? He wanted to ride for Glasgow at Berwick tonight, but I guess that won't be possible now. -
European Team Championship DME 2023 Final Stralsund Saturday 22nd April Live on TV
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
Yes, and the British lads will propably have commitments in the UK as well. Really difficult for the organisers. They must hope to push it through on Sunday. If the rule is country before club, then Wroclaw has to go without Bewley tomorrow. They will stil be able to beat Leszno. -
European Team Championship DME 2023 Final Stralsund Saturday 22nd April Live on TV
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
I doubt that they would want to postpone the grand final. More likely that they will run the Pardubice round mid-week, on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. -
European Team Championship DME 2023 Final Stralsund Saturday 22nd April Live on TV
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
Wroclaw v Leszno is now also on Sunday. Where would Bewley ride ? -
Polish Ekstraliga 2 ( old Div 1) Round 3 Sunday 28th April Live on TV
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
Three days of rain and cold weather is forcast for the Landshut region from today, Friday until Sunday. Good to call it off early, and restage it on a Friday night in May! -
Polish Extraleague round 3 Sunday 28th April Live on TV
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
Good to have Nicki Pedersen back. He is just great ! -
Polish Extraleague round 3 Sunday 28th April Live on TV
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
absolutely so, and it wasn't his fault at all. -
Polish Extraleague round 3 Sunday 28th April Live on TV
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
Pedersen's brillant so far, unbeaten after two rides, but Fricke's bike failure in Heat 7 may prove costly for the GKM team. -
World Cup - Wroclaw July 2023
Bavarian replied to Monarchs2468's topic in Speedway Grand Prix and Speedway World Cup
Yes, I know the reasoning behind it, but I am not so sure about it. Would not the World Cup final draw a big crowd anyway, regardless of the home team taking part or not? It's the other events and the race-off that suffers from the non-participation of the home team. WIth the SWC only ever being held in one of the big speedway nations, there would be a good chance, that they would reach the final anyway. The home team would have to ride in at least two out of four SWC meetings, possibly even three if they had to enter in one of the events and go via the race-off, instead of as it is now when they are seeded straight into the final and will only have that one meeting. Realistically in the foreseeable future this SWC will only ever be held in Poland, GB, or Denmark, but even if it would come to Germany or the Czech Republic, which is unlikely anyway, this would be no reason to grant the home team free entry into the final. They should be seeded to participate in the tournament, of course, as the home team helps to draw a crowd for any of the meetings, but they should not go straight into the final. I'd go for 8 Teams in the SWC tournament, contesting the two events with four teams each. The Event's winners go to the final, the 2nd and 3rd palced teams go to the Race-Off, and the fourth placed teams are eliminated. If the home team is so weak that they finish last in one of the Events, they deserve no better and are certainly not woth to be seed to the final. -
Polish Ekstraliga 2 ( old Div 1) Round 3 Sunday 28th April Live on TV
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
Martin Smolinski now back in the Landshut team on Sunday to replace Erik Riss ! -
Speedway GP`s 2022 under Discovery Sports events
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in Speedway Grand Prix and Speedway World Cup
Laura Manciet ? Totally unknown to me! Who is she ? -
World Cup - Wroclaw July 2023
Bavarian replied to Monarchs2468's topic in Speedway Grand Prix and Speedway World Cup
I still don't understand the logic of why the host nation of the SWC tournament is seeded straight to the final. They should at least enter at the run-off stage, or better even in one of the opening two events, so that the home fans get a chance to see their team more often during the tournament. Just once in the final is not enough and just does not seem right. -
Now live, the International Open Speedway Championship of the Slowak Republic, featuring 25 riders (incl. Tai Woffinden) ! http://kergel.ucoz.lv/index/live_stream_2/0-12?fbclid=IwAR2eL0VtZngKO7mWxtVxD6VmjVlUNOdM89lON8Sy-AcWVpETDr4TLLAnh68
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Polish Extraleague riders Championships IMME Torun Saturday 1st April live on TV
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
Will Nicki Pedersen be able to ride after his crash at Peterborough? -
Speedway GP`s 2022 under Discovery Sports events
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in Speedway Grand Prix and Speedway World Cup
DISCOVERY SPORTS EVENTS is apparently still without a director since the departure of Francois Ribeiro. There is no official statement. Where does this leave the SGP and SWC ? -
European Championship SEC 2023 4th round Pardubice Friday 22nd September Live on TV
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
That's a shocker. This speedway track has only been built a few years ago and has come along quite nicely. If it is closed down it leaves the sport in Hungary really shaken, with Debrecen remaining as the country's last one standing. Very worrying indeed. Do You know why it has to close ? -
[...] Foreign motorcycle racers visited Japan for the first time in 1934, with the initial dirt track race being held at Inogashira in Tokyo. The five-man American team, headed by famed Putt Mossman, had been invited to Japan by the Yokohama Port Festival Exhibition and raced before capacity crowds at several locations in the country during their stay. They put on demonstrations of the first short track racing ever seen in Japan, and the team members became idols, mobbed by fans wherever they went, much like the Beatles of today. The Americans rode Martin racing motorcycles powered by 500cc JAP engines. This was the first time Japanese riders had seen real racing machines, and they soon began experimenting with building racers of their own. Prior to this time, motorcycles used for races in Japan were merely standard street machines which had been modified to the extent of pulling off the lamps, etc., by the riders and their mechanics. [...] This excerpt comes from a 1967 Cycleworld Magazine article "The History of Japanese Motorcycles" written by W. B. Swim. The complete article can be found here https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1967/11/01/the-history-of-japanese-motorcycles
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OLD BIKE AUSTRALASIA featured an interesting article about Nanae Okamoto, the female Japanese speedway rider of the 1960s, who rode in Australia. https://www.oldbikemag.com.au/nanae-okamoto-cinder-lady/
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SGP and SGP 2 qualifying round nominations
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
and another Argentinean with dual nationality, Nicolas Covatti will surely again be nominated by the Italian federation. -
Niedermaier, not Neidermaier (in both cases for Max and Maximilian)
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European Team Championship DME 2023 Final Stralsund Saturday 22nd April Live on TV
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
It is still a mystery where in Germany this GRAND FINAL is supposed to be held -
Speedway GP`s 2022 under Discovery Sports events
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in Speedway Grand Prix and Speedway World Cup
There was an an article under the heading "Ribeiro puzzle", written by Peter Oakes, in last week's Speedway Star, but we are still waiting for an official statement about the unexplained sudden departure of Discovery Sports Events boss Francois Ribeiro. -
French league 2023 fixtures, teams , news
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
I see now that Ace has had a crash and Theo then withdrew from the rest of the meeting. Does anybody know about Ace's injuries? -
French league 2023 fixtures, teams , news
Bavarian replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
What went wrong with the Pijpers ???