2ndBender 28 Posted March 19, 2018 16 hours ago, 25yearfan said: What became of the speedway track in Leningrad? A St Petersburg (Leningrad) team competed in the Finnish League in the late '90s, but I'm not sure if they used the same track the Aces raced at. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sidney the robin 4,735 Posted March 19, 2018 19 hours ago, Bavarian said: From what i can see from left to right is that Broady,Kilby,Roper,Nevitt??? Levai and the great Dent Oliver. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moxey63 1,785 Posted March 19, 2018 1 hour ago, 2ndBender said: Nyiregyhaza 29.04.91 Hungary 68 (Zoltan Adorjan 18, Joszef Petrikovics 15, Zoltan Hajdu 12, Robert Nagy 8, Sandor Tihanyi 7, Laszlo Bodi 6, Zsolt Kovacs 2) Belle Vue 40 (Carl Stonehewer 11, Chris Morton 11, Kelly Moran 10, David Blackburn 3, Nigel Leaver 2, David Walsh 2, Paul Smith 1) Miskolc 30.04.91 (rained off after 11 heats) Hungary 43 (Zoltan Adorjan 11, Zoltan Hajdu 9, Joszef Petrikovics 9, Robert Nagy 7, Laszlo Bodi 4, Sandor Tihanyi 3, L.Czaki dnr) Belle Vue 22 (David Blackburn 7, Chris Morton 6, Nigel Leaver 3, David Walsh 2, Paul Smith 2, Kelly Moran 2, Carl Stonehewer dnr) Warsaw 23.10.55 Warsaw 42 (Wlodzimierz Szwendrowski 16, Florian Kapala 8, Marian Kaiser 8, Mieczyslaw Polukard 6, Alojzy Frach (r) 3, Andrzej Krzesinski 1, Zibigniew Ranisewski (r) 0, Edward Kupczynski 0) Belle Vue 66 (Peter Craven 16, Ron Johnston 14, Ken Sharples 11, Arthur Wright 10, Peter Williams 9, Bob Duckworth 6, Dick Fisher (r) 0, Fred Rogers (r) 0) Thank you, 2ndBender. Those results will help me so much with my project. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
2ndBender 28 Posted March 19, 2018 No worries Moxey, always on the look-out for obscure results myself. Unfortunately, I can't track down the Hungarian Czaki's christian name, which annoys me greatly1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moxey63 1,785 Posted March 19, 2018 (edited) 53 minutes ago, 2ndBender said: No worries Moxey, always on the look-out for obscure results myself. Unfortunately, I can't track down the Hungarian Czaki's christian name, which annoys me greatly1 There was a Csaky (Christian name, Laszlo) that rode the 1990 Hungarian Championship, according to Loader's Annual for 1991 (covering 1990 season). Edited March 19, 2018 by moxey63 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iris123 20,993 Posted March 19, 2018 Also here 1990 http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/mpaustrii.php 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
2ndBender 28 Posted March 19, 2018 22 minutes ago, moxey63 said: There was a Csaky (Christian name, Laszlo) that rode the 1990 Hungarian Championship, according to Loader's Annual for 1991 (covering 1990 season). 8 minutes ago, iris123 said: Also here 1990 http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/mpaustrii.php Many thanks to you both. Always pleased to plug a hole in my database, however small! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bavarian 767 Posted March 20, 2018 On 18.03.2018 at 11:50 PM, 25yearfan said: Interesting photos! What became of the speedway track in Leningrad? Not quite sure what beacme of it, but it definitely gone now and the grounds have been built on with probably houses or a super market, I can't remember exactly what it was. But for certain this speedway track in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) does not exist anymore. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PolskiZuzel 329 Posted March 21, 2018 On 9/23/2017 at 2:05 PM, iris123 said: 1955 was the year the Aces ventured behind the iron curtain to Poland.The first team from Britain to do so.Ron Johnston was almost arrested as he stepped off the plane as he pulled out a cine camera!!Austrian riders Fritz Dirtl and Jozef Kamper were involved as a 60,000 sell out crowd,with an estimated 20,000 outside saw the Aces win in Wroclaw with 38 to Polands 21 and the Austrian Motor Rennklub last with 12. Belle Vue won a second meeting in warsaw 66-42.One Polish qualifier for a later world final said he hoped Peter Craven would win as he was the idol of all polish children.... Belle Vue team wasPC,Ron Johnston,Ken Sharples,Dick Fisher,Bob Duckworth,Peter William,Fred Rogers and Arthur Wright from Bradford as a 'guest' In Wroclaw Arthur Wright scored 12 and PC 11 In Warsaw PC 16,Johnston 14,Sharples 11 and Williams 9.Sharples and Johnston stood down from their last rides to allow Fisher and Brand(??)their first and only rides of the tour taken from the book The Wizard of Balance 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moxey63 1,785 Posted May 31, 2018 On 3/21/2018 at 11:04 PM, PolskiZuzel said: Thank you, my friend. Only just seen this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iris123 20,993 Posted February 13, 2019 A bit of footage of a 1957 meeting in Vienna which was billed England v Continent,but the commentator say's it is the Belle Vue team and looking on Brian Collins site it looks like it with Booey.The piece starts at 9:00.The Continent team includes Josef Seidl,Olle Nygren and Karl Killmeyer and a decent crowd too.. https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/584227?q=dirt+track+speedway&xm=AND&xf[0]=_fulltext&xo[0]=CONTAINS&xv[0] http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/autengvcont.htm 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iris123 20,993 Posted May 10, 2020 (edited) Bit of footage of the 1955 meeting in Warsaw. Can’t seem to find it other than through FB https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2726512007402626&id=319207201466464 Edited May 10, 2020 by iris123 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites