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Can someone out there tell whether the programme for this event exists or not please? This was rained off....

Mike Faria retired as of this week....

Believe it or not it was not that significant, we, my parents and I (I was a young lad then) didn't even know until the following week when we and many many more went to the gates to find out that it had closed....one sad day of many...the next for me was the loss of West Ham...

Close observation gustix.....however Flat Track is also on the decline....from days gone by there used to be over a hundred riders show up ready to race, these days lucky if you get maybe fifty. Major sports in North America beat everything else into the ground and of course get all the money, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey,Football (not Soccer) reign supreme. Motorcycle Sports.....nothing!

Not enough riders Bob....probably an average of nine or ten and most of them are getting older.....no new young lads are interested in Speedway. Bikes don't go anywhere else except on a Speedway track. I would be very pleasantly surprised if Speedway survives in this country. There has been no Speedway at Paris for a couple of years now, only flat track.....so our only track is now Welland,as always!

Hey Bob, this is making me feel really old.....I remember seeing 13 of them....the only one's I did not see or do not remember are Payne, Brand, Close, Long, Svensson and Wright but I do vaguely remember Long.

I am looking for old GP Tickets and Passes to complete my collection. If anyone has any they wish to trade for the many spares I have, please let me know.

Oh dear...here we go again.....my programme is filled out in good handwriting and there are differences.... 5 (7) 13221 9 7 (11) 01322 8 11(16) 02212 7 13 (15) 12120 6 I think I would take yours arnieg as correct but its interesting, even Russian fans make mistakes....LOL

I assume you see your Speedway at Owego, NY?

Obviously it does not agree with my filled in programme but a mistake could have happened.....anyway, yes I do have the 1979 programme and its filled in. However, I do not speak or read Russian so this one is going to be more difficult.....if you can tell me what you need I can look it up, ideally if you have a riding order it would make it much easier.

OK so here you go, straight from the programme.....so much for the so-called official scores. The first column are the riding numbers and changes are in RED Hope this helps. Haven't been on the BSF for a long time, I see not too much has changed. 12 1 Finn Jensen Denmark 13 14 13 Kevin Jolly England 3 12 16 Neil Middledith England 2 12 15 Steve Finch England 1 12 06 Erik Gundersen Denmark 11 10 05 Hans Nielsen Denmark 10 04 Josef Juza Czech Republic 8 08 Pavel Karnas Czech Republic 8 10 Henryk Olszak Poland 6 02 Ryszard Romaniak Poland 6 07 Fausto Birbini Italy 5 11 Lillebror Johansson Sweden 5 14 Nikolaj Manev Bulgaria 4 09 Mieczyslaw Kmieciak Poland 4 01 Armando Gigliali Italy 2 03 Roman Jankowski Poland 2 Finn Jensen was beaten in his last ride by Kevin Jolly.

Sorry Jim you must have mis-understood....NOTHING to do with Gollob....I'm talking about Crump.

He has just equalled Fundin's record of 10 straight years in the first three.....did not think anyone would ever do that after Ove.

OFFICIALLY since my compatriot BOBBATH got it wrong it was at Cradley and on the date as stated by Guernsey. And yes BOBBATH I was at the Harringay for that one and for the first Internationale as well. I was a young-un though!

1 Redmond 15, 2 Middleditch 13, 3 Hockaday 13, 4 Robinson 11, 5 Templeton D 10, 6 Lewis & Kitchen 9, 8 Brown & Hole 8, 10 Morton & Roper 5, 12 Reeves 4, 13 Day 3, 14 Featherby 1, 15 Strachan & Cox 0 Reserves: Eadon & Gilbertson 3 each

Just thought I would add a little twist to this and put down what I don't miss about the 1970's but happens today. Playing around with the clutch and gardening at the gate. Ignoring starting marshalls instructions. After a red light unsatisfactory start....going back to the pits. We have put a stop to all this in Canada, primarily because we have about 45-50 races (not all Speedway) to get through in 3 hours and having these theatrics would make it impossible to complete. Oh yes...and all this for 5 quid!!!

The Canadian Speedway National for 2010 was run last night. Results are; 1 Aaron Hesmer (Canada) 2 Jeff Orosz (Canada) 3 Mike Buman (USA) Meeting had a very unfortunate start with Fred Legault (Kyle's father) taking a tumble and breaking his left arm.

Canada 2010.......Aaron Hesmer

True....However he was born in Wroclaw, Poland I believe and that makes him a dual national. He did ride for us (Canada) in the World Championships & U21, he then went back to Poland for better opportunities in Speedway....certainly a good decision seeing the state of Canadian Speedway these days.

Quite agree with you...its unfortunate that so many run down the GP's but they have been getting better and better everywhere...I know a few have been real dogs but generally its pretty good racing. I only get to go over there once every couple of years and I'm sorry to say after going to Wembley, Gothenburg and few others of the "One Off" World Finals...they are becoming a distant memory. If they can continue producing GP's like Leszno, Torun & Cardiff....it can only get better.

Thank You!!

Thanks, now I think I understand.....first its race wins, then if all level its who you have beaten in the qualfying.....right?

Talking of Nicki......how did he get to the Semi's? Even the Sky Sports guy's got it wrong...someone tell me how it works?

Just great.......'bout time!

I'd just settle for an England v Australia at PL level right now. Yes I went to a bunch of those '73 meetings including the Final.....most of them were pretty darn good.