Alan Hunt Trophy, Perry Barr 18-03-09

[Pirio Barre 70]

I see its up on the board outside the stadium so time to start a thread.

 

I won’t be there myself and I don’t know who’ll be riding but never let this lack of knowledge stop this thread from being officially open.

 

 

Enjoy.

 

 

 

 

one bit of knowledge the meeting start at 19:30 a departure from the old 19:45 starts.

Edited January 27, 2009 by Pirio Barre

[Brummie Kev 519]

A meeting Im very looking forward to, its good to start the season with an individual. This has been a good meeting in the two years its been run and it should be good to see some elite league riders along with PL riders.

 

Its still quite early , so we wont know the line up for another 3-4 weeks at least. All 7 brummie riders will race, but we dont even know the complete brummie team yet I hope its worth the wait . Probably David Howe will ride as he is the holder of the trophy, it gives the chance to the new brummie riders to get extra practice of the track before the series stuff begins at home.

 

Looking forward to it, I wish it was next week.

[SpeedwayTShirts 307]

Was a cracking meeting last year, so I'll definitely still be coming to this one

Edited January 28, 2009 by Superbart

[britmet 233]

It’s been over 50 years since Whacker’s death, and the competition has been running that long, on and off. The first winner was his team-mate South African Doug Davies at Durban, S.A. on 16 Feb 1957, just 2 weeks after the crash.

 

The first Perry Barr winner was Arne Pander in 1960: the first winner at Cradley-held meetings being Ivor Brown in 1963, after whom the likes of Mauger, Briggs and Olsen have all taken pride of place and received the trophy from Alan’s widow Mrs. Eve Hunt.

 

With the resurrection of Brummies speedway in 2007 has come the return of the Alan Hunt Memorial Trophy competition, won by Andre Compton and David Howe in 2007 and 2008 respectively. (It was never held at the old P.B. Greyhound stadium, nor Bordesley Green.)

It would be gratifying to try and complete a table of winners of this prestigious event, - below is my first stab; can Cradley and B’ham fans fill in the table after '72 ? i.e.was there a meting after 1972, when handicap scoring (not starting gates,) gave a surprise result ?

n.b. In 1967 the prominent Memorial meeting was for Ivor Hughes: was it a joint mtg? On at least one occasion the competition for one of these two former Cradley riders was only a Second Half event, maybe after a rained-off fixture, so it may take some digging amongst your programme collections. Eventually the days of big commercial sponsorship came along and overtook the memorial meetings, I suspect.

 

Addendum: See Post #63 for complete and final table to-date, incl'g 2009, UK & SA.

 

1957 DURBAN ' ' ' Doug Davies

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1960 ALEX. STAD. Arne Pander

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1963 CRADLEY ' ' Ivor Brown

1964 Ivan Mauger

1965 Nigel Boocock

1966 Barry Briggs

1967 -

1968 Hasse Holmqvist

1969 Bernt Persson

1970 Ole Olsen

1971 Ole Olsen

1972 Pete Jarman

 

1973 ? ' onward ?

 

2007 PBGS ' ' Andre Compton

2008 ' ' ' David Howe

2009 ? ?

 

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Edited March 25, 2009 by britmet

[Brummie Kev 519]

Two riders confirmed on the official site for this meeting, David Howe and Andre Compton , I thought andre compton retired.

[Brummie Kev 519]

Two popular ex brummie riders Emiliano Sanchez and Phil Morris riding in this meeting, confirmed in speedway star today.

[guitar_art 247]

And you can now add Ben Barker to the list.

[zlata prilba 320]

And you can now add Ben Barker to the list.

 

Shane Parker Josef Franc can be included, And maybe Sebastian Ullamek

[Brummie Kev 519]

Good to see Shane Parker and Josef Franc riding in this meeting, both go well at Perry Barr especially franc being bit of track specialist.

 

I must say the line up looks great so far, if we could get Ullamek and a few EL riders to ride it, it could be one hell of a meeting.

[SCB 0]

Seen it all now, "Seb Ulamek" and "hell of a meeting" in the same sentence. He'll gate and win by a lot, or miss the gate and give up, it's his speciality. Seriously, you're better off with a middle order PL rider who at least tries to pass.

[speedway2006 1]

Freddie Lindgren will also be in action at Perry Barr.

[Col 854]

First time I've looked at the forum for a month

 

Got my season ticket through the post on Saturday, thought I'd see when I can start using it. Line-up looking good, except for Ulamek

 

Barker, Franc, Parker all very good at Perry Barr.

[Brummie Kev 519]

Seb Ullamek is confirmed now along with James Wright. Realy looking forward to this, looks a good line-up.

[Bavarian 767]

They should have invited Boris,na Byron Bekker who holds the South African version of the Alan Hunt Trophy.

[Brummie Kev 519]

Freddie Lindgren will also be in action at Perry Barr.

 

 

Im notsure he is, its on his website but in the ad in the Speedway Star today hes not mentioned. Oh well we`ll have to wait and see.

 

Claus Vissing will also ride in this meeting.