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The French League meeting today starts at 1:30 pm GMT https://ligue-nationale-speedway.fr/match/lns-motul-2023-morizes It will be live on FANSEAT https://www.fanseat.com/speedway/ligue-national

it is not on YouTube anymore

Today, Saturday, February 25, is Day 1 of the EUROPEAN ICE SPEEDWAY CHAMPIONSHIP at Sanok in Poland. The meeting starts at 1 p.m. this afternoon and can be watched live online for £ 12.00 https://www.tapesup.tv/pages/2023-european-ice-speedway-championship Live results updates here https://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/605/european-individual-ice-speedway-championship-final-1-sanok.html

This recently taken picture illustrates how breathtakingly beautiful that historic speedway venue still is. Since 2003 the Brisbane Exhibition Grounds is a registrated Queensland heritage site.

A Speedway Grand Prix at the EKKA would be just awesome. The Brisbane Exhibition Ground is an iconic venue for the sport, running there since nearly a Century ago, for the first speedway meeting at the EKKA was held in 1926 !!! I found this video on YouTube, it's the final round of the 1997 International Speedway Masters Series at the EKKA. This probably is as close at it gets to a Speedway Grand Prix. If DISCOVERY really want to get the SGP going again in Australia, the Brisbane Exhibition Ground Stadium would be a phantastic venue. Sadly DISCOVERY seems to lack such vision.

Live on YouTube this morning since 9 a.m. round two of the Russian Team Cup at Saransk

Igor Kononov was badly injured in a Russian Superliga meeting yesterday at Ufa. Kononov suffered a serious back injury in a crash with Dmitry Solyannikov.

There is still no official statement about Riberio standing down. Even FIM Track Racing director Armando Castagna, who is working closely with Ribero, was taken by surprise with the news. There is an unconfirmed rumour that Ribeiro was thrown out by his bosses at DISCOVERY SPORTS, because there was apparently no progress being made with what he had promissed for the development and the marketing of Speedway (finding new venues for the sport, selling tv rights and increasing viewing figures, etc). This could have serious cosequences for the sport, if it is dumped by DISCOVERY/EUROSPORT.

Now live on YouTube round 9 of the Russian Ice Speedway Championship at Krasnogorsk

So the four Danish riders were Poul Wissing, Kurt W. Petersen, Villy Mathiasen, and John Sylvest Andersen. Difficult to see which one could have gone through as "Swart" - Sylvest's the only name that begins with an "S" but that is not really a clue to solve this riddle.

There is another one of our German old-timers who lost his life during his racing career. That's Sebastian Roth, one of the very best of German dirt-trackers and long-track riders of the early 1930s. He was from Münsingen, near Stuttgart, Germany, and had begun his motorcycle racing career in 1929 at the age of twenty, as a novice on the Stuttgart Dirt-Track. Roth was 27 years old when he died on Friday, May 1, 1936, apparently of a heart attack, at the Bremgarten circuit near Bern in Switzerland, during the official practise for Sunday's Motorcycle Road Racing Grand Prix of Switzerland. Duirng his run, Roth pulled his 500cc NSU bike to the edge of the track and fell dead. Although the event's medical crew was on hand almost immediately, paramedics could do nothing to save his life.

I tend to agree with You that it is likely that the rider named "Quiling" is in fact Paul Wissing. The Spanish pronounce it quite similarly. Therefore is is also highly likely that "Swart" is in fact another one of the Danish tourist. Do You have the names of those four Danish riders? Does any one of them sound similar to "swart"? By the way, are You aware of an Argentina rider of the early 1950s by the name of "Neovanna" ? I have come across this name as one who rode in an international meeting in Pocking, Germany, in 1953. I have not seen his name in any other meetings, though. It is very unusual for the time that an Argentinean rider would have come over to ride in this meeting at Pocking. But I do have a suspect! I am aware that there was an Austrian rider by the name of Josef "Sepp" Neubauer, who emigrated after the war to Argentina and I suspect that this might be him. "Neo" translates as "Neu" in German, so Neovanna might by a Spanish version of his original name? And as Pocking is a town right on the Bavarian/Austrian border, it might have been Neubauer on a visit back home in 1953. Do You (or anybody else) have an idea about this rider's true identity?

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Argentina vs Rest of the World Bahia Blanca, Thursday, January 19, 2023 This was a historic event for Argentinean speedway (which runs since 1929) as this was the first time ever that an Argentinean national team was assembled to contest their inaugural international match. The teams presentation, 18 heats plus final, and the celebrations, all in 80 minutes, with Polish commentators, are on YouTube

On Wednesday night (January 18, 2023) Argentina takes on the Rest of the World in an 18-heat Speedway Test Match in Bahia Blanca. It's the first time ever that such an International match is held in Argentina. https://speedwaytotal.com/noticias/argentina-vs-el-resto-del-mundo/

There is even a livestream available of tonights International test match in Argentina https://www.tuentrada.com/eventos/detalle/ExtraCampeonato-Speedway/657867382092 The meeting starts at 9pm local time in Bahia Blanca (midnight Uk time)

Unfortunately, it was rained-off last night, but the Argentina v RoW test match will immediately be restaged tonight (9pm local time Bahia Blanca)

Here is a galerie of some of the 1950s South African speedway riders https://www.kizoa.com/Video-Maker/d9809121k8393960o1/sa-rider-portraits

The XiiS is a series for speedway and flat track motorbike races on indoor ice arena tracks across the United States of America. https://www.xtremeiceracing.com/ Here is the 2023 schedule https://www.xtremeiceracing.com/schedule The most prominent among this year's participating speedway riders is Canada's Kyle Legault. https://www.xtremeiceracing.com/riders The promoter is the former British League rider Anthony Barlow.

Attendance at Östersund: 270 Attendance at Strömsund: 112

The Final of the 2022 F.I.M. Oceania Solo Speedway Championship is set to go ahead on December 28 at Gillman Speedway in Adelaide, South Australia. This will be an open championship, and Britain's Tai Woffinden and Adam Ellis are included in the line-up for this title event.

F.I.M. North America does have their own Continental Speedway Final.

Here is another addition of a pre-war German rider, who was killed in a race accident in 1936. The rider is Hans WINKLER, who was from Munich in Bavaria. He was one of Germany's best long-track riders of the early 1930s, twice finishing on the rostrum of the Pardubice Golden Helmet Grass Track (2nd in 1932, and 3rd in 1933). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Helmet_of_Pardubice Winkler lost his life in a crash on a road race circuit "Rund um Schotten" at Vogelsberg in Germany on Sunday, July 19, 1936.

I have some additional info on a German rider listed here under the name "ERNST". His full name was Paul Ernst, he was from Hamburg, and he died on Sunday, September 1, 1929, form internal injuries sustained when he crashed on one of the bends in the 350cc race of the Fichtenhain Grass Track meeting at Heide in Northern Germany.