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You have to be clearer.Now I thought Maniak was a user who had a decent link,but nobody else did

Oh Petri?Is he sober?lol

Did you make it?And did they give you a police escort to the airport for the king of Finland? Lol Was it really worth the bother and will you be making the trip to Germany

Deutschland - 31 1. Martin Smolinski (3,2,3,3,3) - 14 2. Sandro Wassermann (2,2,0,1,3) - 8 3. Mark Riss (3,2,2,R,1) - 8 4. Danny Maaßen (0,0,0,0,1) - 1 Dänemark - 18 1. Mikkel B. Andersen (1,1,2,1,0) - 5 2. Patrick Hansen (2,1,2,0,0) - 5 3. Christian Thaysen (1,0,0,1,R) - 2 4. Jonas Jeppesen (1,1,1,3,0) - 6 Großbritanien - 36 1. Adam Ellis (2,3,2,2,2) - 11 2. Josh Auty (3,2,1,0,2) - 8 3. Stefan Nielsen (1,3,1,2,2) - 9 4. Matt Williamson (2,1,1,1,3) - 8 Polen - 35 1. Alex Zgardzinski (0,3,3,2,3) - 11 2. Sebastian Niedzwiedz (3,0,3,3,1) - 10 3. Mateusz Tonder (0,0,0,3,2) - 5 4. Damian Pawliczak (D,3,3,2,1) - 9 Lauf 1: Niedzwiedz, Williamson, Andersen, Maaßen Lauf 2: Riss, Hansen, Nielsen, Zgardzinski Lauf 3: Auty Wassermann, Jeppesen, Tonder Lauf 4: Smolinski, Ellis, Thaysen, Pawliczak (D) Lauf 5: Pawliczak, Auty, Hansen, Maaßen Lauf 6: Ellis, Riss, Andersen, Tonder Lauf 7: Zgardzinski, Wassermann, Williamson, Thyasen Lauf 8: Nielsen, Smolinski, Jeppesen, Niedziewdz Lauf 9: Zgardzinski, Ellis, Jeppesen, Maaßen Lauf 10: Niedzwiedz, Riss, Auty, Thaysen Lauf 11: Pawliczak, Andersen, Nielsen, Wassermann Lauf 12: Smolinski, Hansen, Williamson, Tonder Lauf 13: Jeppesen, Pawliczak, Williamson, Riss (R) Lauf 14: Tonder, Nielsen, Thaysen, Maaßen Lauf 15: Niedzwiedz, Ellis, Wassermann, Hansen Lauf 16: Smolinski, Zgardzinski, Andersen, Auty Lauf 17: Williamson, Tonder, Maaßen, Thaysen Lauf 18: Wassermann, Ellis, Pawliczak, Andersen Lauf 19: Zgardzinski, Nielsen, Riss, Hansen Lauf 20: Smolinski, Auty, Niedzwiedz, Jeppesen Max Saliger Memorial: Zgardzinski, Smolinski, Niedzwiedz, Ellis taken from speedway-forum.de

30,000 turned out for the Golden Helmet meeting on the 18th.A new record according to the press.Then again before the opening meeting in Berlin the next year they were stating Hamburg attracts up to 100,000 a week!!!Fritz Niss and Franz Heck were back from a successful trip to Copenhagen.Apparently both won a handicap final,plus a Germany v Denmark challenge. The spectators turned out at the right time as it was an exciting meeting.Niss had a very hard fight with Wunder for the Golden Helmet,which he won on the last bend.Franz Heck couldn't trouble the first two and finished ahead of Plambeck.Otto Heinrichs had bike problems in the quails and didn't make the final,so the points totals were as follows:Niss 31,Heinrichs 25,Wunder 19,Heck 15,Plambeck 10,Strachwitz 9 and Stölting 8 The meeting also saw the debut of a new rider from Danzig(Gdansk) in Herbert Drews,who impressed in qualifying for the lesser handicap final and finished in the final quite well with a 4th place ahead of the far more experienced Dane ,Andersen.Niemeck won finishing ahead of Keith Litchfield and Thorkild Claussen.It was pretty much a German clean sweep on the night as Arnold Stölting won the main handicap final as the main favourites failed to qualify.Arthur Sherlock and Ned Kelly had trouble at the start,whilst Fritz Niss' bike packed up while leading his race!! Wednesday night had its big attraction,the Golden Helmet.It was thought that Fridays needed something similar to boost the crowds and so it was announced that a new competition would be held for a brand new Douglas dirt track bike over 3 Friday meetings.The idea was to find the best all rounder,so one evening the heats would be over 4 laps,the next 3 laps and the last meeting would have 2 lap races!!!Like the Golden Helmet it would be a 'german only' competition.Unfortunately the first meeting was cancelled due to heavy rain. The next meeting with a Germany v Denmark v England challenge was also badly affected by rain.Luckily after a heavy shower at the start the rain held off,but only around 3,000 braved the weather.Strange looking at the meeting now,but Germany didn't go with their best riders as Franz Heck and Arnold Stölting rode in a match race challenge,which ended quickly when Stölting fell and injured his leg and had to pull out of the meeting.Heck went on to win a scratch race final ahead of Jack Wood and again Herbert Drews was impressing reaching two finals in the meeting. Germany v 'England' v Denmark (points were 4-3-2-1) Ht 1 F.Niss ,N.Kelly,K.Litchfield,O.Heinrichs 5-5 Ht 2 W.Rice,J.Broughton,J.Wunder,H.Krons 8-12 Ht 3 K.Andersen,K.Litchfield,J.Rasmussen,N.Kelly 8-16-6 Ht 4 T.Claussen,H.Krons,J.Wunder,H.Jensen 13-16-11 Ht 5 K.Andersen,J.Rasmussen,J.Broughton,W.Rice 13-19-18 Ht 6 F.Niss,T.Claussen,H.Jensen,O.Heinrichs 18-19-23 Ht 7 H.Krons,J.Rasmussen,K.Andersen,J.Wunder 23-19-28 Ht 8 T.Claussen,K.Litchfield,H.Jensen,N.Kelly 23-23-34 Ht 9 F.Niss,J.Broughton,O.Heinrichs,W.Rice 29-27-34 Otto Heinrichs wasn't fit and Wunder not in best form,but it was thought if Heck and Stölting had been in the team a win was more than possible Included the heat details as they are missing from the otherwise detailed internationalspeedway site http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/ger3team.htm

23.04.1932,must go down as one of the darkest days in the Lokstedt tracks history.One of the most notorious days in any speedway tracks history.On this day the Altona NSDAP group held an election meeting and the main speaker was Adolf Hitler and an estimated 120,000 followers attended.maybe some in the crowd were just curious as to what this man had to say.But most it seems were supporters,thinking Hitler and his party held hope for the future of the country.It was part of his election campaign,the finale of his election campaign.The next day the country and Hamburg would vote in local elections that would soon see the Nazis gain power...... http://www.gonschior.de/weimar/Hamburg/LT7.html Back to the sport in question and the relatively calm days of the summer of 1929 and the Golden Helmet meeting on the 11th September was held without Niss and Heck,who were in Copenhagen and Heinrichs,who was injured.Another crowd of 20,000+ turned out to see local rider Johannes Wunder win against a depleted field.Graf Strachwitz finished 2nd and Arnold Stölting 3rd.The points were as follows:Niss 26,Heinrichs 25,Wunder 16,Heck 13,Strachwitz + Plambeck 9 and Stölting 8 Ginger Lees rode, and of course won a match race against Arthur Sherlock 2-0.In the second and deciding heat Lees let Sherlock ride the bend wide as was his style and shot through on the inside to take the lead and the race to the crowds delight. The practice of having 3 and 4 lap heats in the meeting caught Otto Müller out in one final as after he went over the line after the 3rd lap he slowed down thinking the race was over and so let Arthur Moore through to win closely followed by Müller who realised too late his mistake!!!Ginger Lees won the main handicap final yet again followed by Johnny Broughton and Johannes Wunder Friday the 13th!!5 crashes and a large number of engine problems,but some very good times.10,000 saw Ginger Lees beat the challenge of Sherlock,Broughton,Bradley and Moore in a good time of 74,5.Earlier the Dane Thorkild Clausen had beaten Johannes Wunder in a time of 75,2,which showed the improvement in some of the 'other' riders,whilst even Graf Strachwitz managed to get under 78 seconds in beating Keith Litchfield.In the handicap final,Lees couldn't make up the others advantage this time and only managed a relatively disappointing 3rd behind Wunder and Kay Andersen The 15.09.1929 was the 28th meeting at Lokstedt in just over 2 months and another crowd of around 10,000 turned up to see the advertised challenge between Ned Kelly and Arthur Sherlock as the main attraction.'Ginger' Lees,the uncrowned king of Lokstedt it seems had departed for Copenhagen to regain the track record he set at the beginning of the season and which George Reynard had just broken!!!So 10,000 was a decent attendance considering Lees,Heck,Niss,Sörensen and Morian Hansen were all absent Kelly won a close battle in the first heat,winning by a wheels length.Then he fell in the second leaving Sherlock to coast round in a fairly average time of 84,8.Sherlock made no mistake in the decider and finished almost 2 seconds ahead of Kelly Johannes Wunder continued his good form as the best attending German.Otto Heinrichs had returned but was still not in top form.In the final for the 'A' riders Rasmussen the Dane led from the start but by the 2nd lap Wunder had taken the lead and held it till the chequered flag.At the back Johnny Broughton and Arnold Stölting had made a poor start and Stölting could only finish in front of Broughton and behind Arnold Moore who was 3rd.Winks Rice managed to win the handicap final chased by Stölting,who couldn't quite catch him.Just two tenths of a second separated them.Wunder finished at the back.... I guess the question would be,how would crowds hold up without Lees?

It is about time the Poles filled the top 3 places anyway.For a few years now some on here have been saying this rider will win or the other,so eventually someone must get it right.Janowski was tipped for the top then Dudek and Zmarzlik,so no places for anyone else in the top 3

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_result.jsp?country1=United+Kingdom&country2=Poland http://www.foreignersinpoland.com/average-salary-in-poland/ €830 after tax average.....compared to Germany which is around €3000 if you can believe the stats.So no surprise prices for speedway are cheaper........

Just not convinced and think he has reached his peak GP wise.Had the same convo with Ghostie a few years back when AJ finished 2nd and I said that would be the best he does.....and so far I have been right.I think I will again,but wait and see

Iversen was about the best rider a few years ago,but still couldn't take that form in the GPs,so I certainly don't expect to see Lindgren near the top.

Good to see Nicki back near the top.Even as a fan I didn't think he could manage to up his form again.Then again I thought the same about Gollob.Still early days though and I am sure things will change to some extent

The weather wasn't good for the next Golden Helmet meeting on 04.09.1929,but still a decent crowd of 12,000 turned up.Two of the best riders were missing in Heinrichs and Wunder,so it was no real surprise when Franz Heck won,followed by Niss,Stölting and Strachwitz.Due to Heinrichs absence Niss now regained the lead with 26pts,Heinrichs on 25,Heck moving up to3rd with 13,Wunder 11,Plambeck 9,Strachwitz and Stölting on 6 In the handicap quails Lees couldn't make up the 4 seconds Strachwitz had and so didn't qualify for the final!!Strachwitz seemed to have found some form and managed to win the final ahead of Niss,Sörensen and Heck The bad weather had stuck around,so that the track was quite heavy and the crowd was only around the 6,000 mark to see the revenge challenge between the Lees-Heck pairing v Sorensen-M.Hansen.This time it ended a draw as 'Ginger' could only win the first two as usual and his partner finishing behind the Danes.This time though in the final heat,it wasn't Heck wh surprised,but Sorensen,by beating Lees into 2nd with Heck beating Hansen.So it ended 21 apiece. After almost two months this meeting saw the departure of Niels Sorensen,who was going back to Copenhagen and was warmly applauded as he made a final lap of the track.The top German pair of Fritz Niss and Franz Heck would also make the trip to race in Copenhagen The next meeting saw another influx of riders from England including Arthur Sherlock from Hall Green,Johnny Broughton from Sheffield and Joe Palastrand,which meant they held a scratch race event just for the 'english' riders.Arthur Sherlock looked the best of the new guys,but Lees was still a class apart and won the scratch final ahead of Sherlock and Ned Kelly and also the handicap final ahead of the Dane Kay Andersen and Johnny Broughton 3rd.Palastrand won the final for the weaker riders.His winning time of 1:57s compared poorly t Ginger Lees time of 1:46 winning the handicap final So two months after the opening the Dirt Track had established itself as one of the major sporting events in Hamburg.Well in actual fact Lokstedt was really a part of Schleswig-Holstein and only became part of Hamburg in 1937 under the Nazis.It was a fairly well to do area in troubled times.The neighbourng Hagenbecks Tierpark(zoo) was opened a couple of decades earlier.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierpark_Hagenbeck.Up until 1866 it had been like most of Schleswig-Holstein under Danish rule lying on the edge of two rival cities.Hamburg,the free Hansa city and Altona,one of the main ports under Danish control.Altona like Hamburg had its eyes on surrounding areas and wanted Lokstedt to become part of its area,which Lokstedt resisted.But it was Altona that gave 'Ginger' Lees the freedom of the city,rather than Hamburg during the 1929 season. It was also in Altona,nicknamed 'little Moscow' because of its left wing-communist leaning population,that held a trial that showed an insight into just how volatile the political state of the area was,and gave a warning for the future.In 1925 Germany signed trade contracts that opened the country to foreign trade. and cheap products flooded the market.Agricultural areas were hit hard and the areas surrounding Hamburg and Altona particularly hard as this was one of the main pig farming areas of Germany.Cheap frozen pork from Poland caused massive financial problems for farmers in the area as the price of pork plummeted.By the start of 1928 a protest movement was forming and 140,000 came out on 28.01.1928.20,000 alone in the sleepy town of Heide which had been hosting motorcycle races at its trotting track.Very soon the movement was headed by a couple of local farmers who had links to right wing movements in particular the Stahlhelm(Steel helmet)group.This movement,the 'Landvolkbewegung' soon started bomb attacks on government buildings and farm houses owned by farmers opposed to their movement.There was a major protest in August of 1929,when one of the leaders was released from a short prison term in Neumunster,north of Hamburg.Their movements flag was confiscated by the police and the this led to a boycott of selling products in the town,which almost caused its financial collapse and was only called off after a year when the flag was handed back.The area was extremely volatile and the German elections of 1928 whilst Hitlers party only managed 2.6% nationwide,in some of the areas of Schleswig-Holstein they managed 17% and in local areas up to 36%!!! In a few weeks the Wall Street Crash would make the world even more dangerous....... Altona held the trial of some of those involved with the bombings and the imprisonment meant the movement soon disappeared as the Nazis rose to power and would soon provoke the Altona bloody sunday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_People's_Movement https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landvolkbewegung_(Schleswig-Holstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altona_Bloody_Sunday Sport acted as an escape from the social and political troubles and even as the British troops were advancing on Hamburg in WW2 a large crowd attended a football match between two local sides!!!

I didn't even need it explained to me.I could see some vids were from Poland and the one from Somerset wasn't I have also seen a few posts over the years from 'speedway portal'.I just didn't know people filmed such stuff,nor that people posted such videos on here.I learnt that today As for irrelevances,not surprised you turned up

Having trouble getting images to the right size for the forum,but here is one of the track in 1929.Note the overhead lighting on wires,very similar I think to that at Plough Lane

Honestly,but speedway fans can be right weird so and so's.............next time I go to Holsted i'll film the pits for an hour before the meeting and the crowd coming into the stadium buying their polser.......

This might help..............

Fair enough.Got here too late.Not really a livestream or video watcher of sport.Just today thought i'd have a butchers and 'unavailable' was what I got and not sure who the hell wants to watch a video of promoters,riders and managers talking!!!!As if sportspeople in gereral have something interesting to say apart from all the clichesI know on one of the Bundesliga talk shows,if you come out with a cliché you have to put money into the piggy bank on the table......

Is that where some of these videos were hosted?Typical,that I have a bit of time and the will to look at a meeting and they seem to be unavailable,so I thought i'd look at the Somerset one and wondered why it was all dragging out before the meeting started.Didn't notice it wasn't a meeting video!!! Oh wellllllll

Again for the Golden Helmet meeting on 28.08 another bumper 20,000(25-30,000 from another source!!) crowd turned up.A couple of the locals(Wunder + Werner) were still missing though injury,which made qualification for the final more or less predictable.Niemeck it seems was still trying to get used to a new bike and Kellner was still trying to get used to the track and the style of racing.The best 4 at the time,Heck,Niss,Heinrichs and Stölting all made it and it was a hard fought race.Stölting had given Heck a hard race in the qualis.Heinrichs won,but the main battle was behind him with Heck making it through from last to 2nd,but couldn't get past Otto,who now took the points lead from Fritz Niss.Heinrichs had 25 pts,Niss 23,Wunder 11,Plambeck 9,Heck 8,Strachwitz 5,Stölting 4. 'Ginger' Lees was again in great form winning both finals,but he was made to work hard by Niels Sorensen in an early qualification heat where Sorensen got in front and battled hard to keep the lead.They were should to shoulder and only on the last bend did Lees manage to get ahead for the win.He made no mistake in the final winning by almost a second ahead of Sorensen and Langton.Even the time advantages held by Stölting(3s) and Morian Hansen(2s) were not enough to hold him off. The Friday evening meetings were still struggling to attract the crowds,struggling to find something of special interest like the Golden Helmet.This time a team challenge between Ginger Lees-Franz Heck v the 2 best Danes,Niels Sorensen-Morian Hansen,could only attract a crowd of around 6-7,000.Points were 5 for 1st,4,3 and 2 for last place!!The first two heats were fairly predictable in that Lees won,the two Danes 2nd and 3rd and Heck finished last,so the third heat was going to be the decider.....possibly.Lees was yet again out in front,but behind him something of a sensation was occurring.Franz Heck was giving Sorensen a hard race with Heck just in the lead,when they entered the tight bend shoulder to shoulder and Niels made a mistake and rode over the inside of the track taking a short cut,which let Heck go on to take second place and the crowd cheered him as the hero of the night!!! Heck again laid claim to being the best German rider at the time by holding off the challenge from Lees in the handicap final,who was followed by the Danes,Sörensen and Morian Hansen. Beautiful summer weather brought out another very good crowd to see the sunday meeting in Lokstedt.Two announced attempts on the track records failed.Sörensen tried but failed fairly miserably to regain his title from Lees by over a second and Franz Heck just couldn't get to the national record held by Niss + Wunder,finishing 0.2 behind the 76 seconds. The 'B' class riders were having some very good races between themselves.A number of heats between riders on 'road' bikes in previous meetings had been used to try and attract more newcomers to the sport and one of the best who had swapped over to a dirt bike,was Werner Schauer from Luneburg.The road bike races had been given the nickname 'snail cup' because of the relatively slow times,but on a dirt bike,Schauer was right on the pace and had a tough fight with Niemeck in the final,just losing out to the more experienced rider.But in the German handicap final went out and held on to his advantage winning ahead of Stölting and Niss.Bill Kellner still seemed at this point to be spending more time inspecting the dirt than riding!! Lees had won an earlier final,but in the main handicap final Lees couldn't battle for first place,having his hands full trying to gain 3rd.4 long laps Lees,Morian Hansen,Rasmussen and Heck swapped places with each other,as out in front Graf Strachwitz was having a battle with Niss for the win.Strachwitz had a second advantage over Fritz,but that was slowly being lost and he couldn't quite keep the lead until the flag.Niss,Strachwitz,Lees,M.Hansen,Rasmussen and Heck was the way it all ended It was a sad day for Hamburg motorbike sport as local rider Ernst died from internal injuries at Heide in North Germany taking a bend trying to overtake another rider,who moved out unexpectedly and Ernst crashed and flew off his 350cc bike into the crowd.Luckily only one of the spectators received a minor head injury and also lucky that Ernst bike got caught up and didn't end up following him into the spectators.The trotting track at Heide had been running meetings for a couple of years and had seen early appearances from riders who would later make appearances in Lokstedt like Stölting,Strachwitz,Niemeck and Niss

Yes I did see on Britmet’s Speedway champions site it does have Hermann down as 1950 German champion.Find the site a bit hard to get through enlarging records. I actually stumbled across the footage because I stumbled across a wonderful panorama photo of the track and then across what I thought was a great piece for the time.Probably better because of the day time meeting,whereas in England most meetings were filmed in the evening and so poorer quality

Found a good story about the former German Champ,Hermann Gunzenhauser,whos career started pre-war and ended in 1955.In German and tells of the tragic crash he had with Austrian rival Martin Schneeweiß in Graz https://www.teckbote.de/lokalsport/lokalnachrichten-lokalsport_artikel,-profirennfahrer-in-der-hitlerzeit-_arid,87636.html Also,and this is what got me looking,found some old footage of Gunzenhauser winning a meeting at the old North German Ebstorf dirt track in 1951.Footage of the meeting is right at the end https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/585968?set_lang=de Gunzenhauser was of course a two time winner of the Zlata Prilba in Pardubice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Helmet_of_Pardubice

Yes of course we have had umpteen threads about a Dirk Bogarde film that features speedway.I guess you can't really expect people who push a door when it say's 'pull' on it,to follow guidelines.But Rob is a superior sort of speedway fan,so he tells us

Wednesday night,Golden Helmet night,and 15,000 attended to see another step in Franz Hecks steady rise on the Lokstedt Dirt-Track.The 4 best riders,Heck,Niss,Heinrichs and Wunder had all qualified for the final,but the man at the top of the points table couldn't take his place due to feeling unwell,so it ended up a surprisingly easy win for Heck followed by Heinrichs and Wunder.The points table now looked....Niss 21,Heinrichs 20,Wunder 11,Plambeck 9,Strachwitz and Heck 5......The gradual development of the German riders was shown in that there were now 5 riders who had ridden under 79 seconds.Heck,Heinrichs,Niss,Wunder and Stölting,who had missed the last few meetings due to injury The handicap final again saw a battle between Heck and Lees,which this time Ginger couldn't quite manage to win.Oliver Langton was third and behind him Wunder managed to hold off the challenge from Niels Sörensen The Friday meeting saw the 'king' of Lokstedt take back his crown.The meeting opened with the advertised attempt on the world and track record by Ginger Lees which with his wonderful track technique he not only managed to break,but knocked a full second off the old record!!To loud applause Ginger made a lap of honour as it was announced the new world record stood at 72.4!!! After this great start the meeting fell victim to rain,and although it finished,many of the riders had trouble with the conditions and a number fell.Strangely when the track was built they made it egg shaped and so it had two very different bends.One large the other very sharp and over the season it was usually the sharp bend that gave the riders problems and in nasty conditions like this night even Ginger Lees had to take the sharp bend 'gingerly' as the rain continuedThe meeting also saw a 'revenge' challenge between Wunder and Morian Hansen,which this time Hansen won in two straight heats,the second of which saw Wunder fall and injure himself and put him out of the meeting.Shortly before the meeting ended Johannes did appear out on the track to show he was ok and received a round of applause from the crowd Ginger Lees won an English-Danish challenge ahead of fellow countryman Langton and Franz Heck won a german only final,which saw the first appearance(as far as I know) of Bill Kellner,who would later turn out for Preston,so it was looking likely that Heck and Lees would again clash in the main handicap final.Unfortunately in an earlier heat Heck had trouble with the track fell,remounted and then rode into the back of Heinrichs and caused both to crash and Heck was disqualified from the rest of the night.And so this time with all riders being very cautious it was difficult for Ginger to make up the time advantages the other riders held over him.Niels Sorensen won,followed by Bullas and Graf Strachwitz.Lees finished a lowly 4th ahead of Langton and Heinrichs The sunday meeting saw a Germany v Denmark test match and also a match race challenge between Oliver Langton and the returning Stewie St.George.12,000 saw Langton win the first heat in a super time of 74 seconds.St.George's track return was too early though and he couldn't come out for any more rides,so a handicap match race between Langton and Ginger Lees was arranged with Oliver receiving a 3 sec advantage which Ginger couldn't make up The Germany v Denmark test match was affected by the poor state of the German bikes.There were a large number of e.f's and in heat 6 neither of the german riders managed to cross the finish line,much to the frustration of the crowd.Funnily it all started quite well because Niels Sörensens bike didn't really get going at first and so Franz Heck could win and Fritz Niss managed to finish behind Sorensen,but ahead of his partner Otto Hansen,so Germany took a first heat advantage 7-4.But the next race gave the pattern for the night.Heinrichs bike packed up and Niemecks bike wasn't firing on all cylinders,but he did manage to finish and now the Danes were leading 9-12 and so it carried on.Heat 3 saw Thorkild Clausen of Denmark drop out due to a broken chain and although he fell Count Strachwitz managed to continue and finish.Heck managed to win heat 5 for Germany,but his partner Fritz Niss couldn't come out to take his ride,presumably not fully recovered from his illness that affected him the previous meeting and his replacement Plambeck didn't manage to complete the heat!!As mentioned,the next heat was a disaster for Germany as neither Strachwitz nor Arnold Stölting managed to finish and so it was now 25-37.Niss had recovered by the last heat and manged to win followed by his team mate Heck and with Morian Hansen not finishing it made the final score 54-40.Without the gremlins it was thought Germany could have managed a win Full details,though without any mention of the 'drop outs' can be found here http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/gervden.htm In the handicap final it was back to the normal routine of a battle between Heck and Lees,which Heck won,gaining revenge for the defeat by Lees in the quali heat

Sometimes when in a hole it is better to chuck the shovel away rather than keep digging......

That is what it say's in the forum guidelines!! DOn't like 'em,join a forum that fit your requirements or start your own........