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2nd Bender, Birmingham lost 38-45. Dont have the Swedish scorers, so I don't know whether this is coming up trumps, but for the Brummies: Graham Warren 11, Eric Boothroyd 10, Alan Hunt 8, Ron Mountford 5, Jim Tolley 2, Cyril Page 1, Phil "Tiger" Hart 1.

iris123, I have some data on the USA's matches and scorers, at Shelbourne and in the UK that season. It's not quite complete. It's a Works file, available as either a .wks or .xlr file - if you can read either of those, I could e-mail it to you - let me know.

Romford? Looks like he was around somewhat earlier than that, iris123. An article on a car racing site at http://classicfords.net/modules.php?name=N...=article&sid=70 begins "When Barry Lee packed up Speedway riding for Hackney Wick in '63..." Peter Morrish's "British Speedway Leagues 1946-64" dosen't list him as riding any official matches for Hackney that year - or for Wimbledon.

Strangely, there isn't. But he was DEFINITELY Arthur Woods

Why does that prospect make me think of the Olympic Jamaican bobsleigh team?

Thanks for that - can only be the sponsorship that makes the GP's worth while to the riders, it's certainly not the prize money. I've also posted these links to speedway list on yahoogroups.

Interested to see that Bruce Cribb, now in his 60th year, gave a demonstration ride on his ice racing bike at his home town track at Palmerston North on Friday. The greatest non-European ice racer?

Anth, it's 12-15 July at SKAERBAEK in Denmark - maybe one of our Danish listees can help further? All FIM dates are on their website at http://www.fim.ch/en/default.asp?item=44# then go to 2006 Calendars

I believe it did - Todd apparently won a new Jawa for coming overall second today.

Louis Lawson's real name was Arthur Woods ... dosen't have quite the same ring about it, somehow ... I seem to remember that there was an article about him in VSM a few years ago - I wish someone would produce a good index for that magazine, so that I can find these articles!

Yes - Russian Championship at http://www.lubusports.pl/mat05/indmrosji.php Soviet Union at http://www.lubusports.pl/mat05/indmzsrr.php

Bet that came as a surprise to the Reading promoter

Thanks rayman, this is well worth listening to, a report from from Brendan Gledhill. In the archive section, go to Saturday, 11am.

Great job by Ron, Shona, and Anth - many thanks to you all. Who would have thought a few years ago that we'd be getting live updates from the other side of the world into our homes? Next round is on Sunday at Mildura - hey, I'm sure I heard some bloke on Sky say once or twice that one of the riders was born there? Wonder what the odds are on Leigh going through all 4 rounds unbeaten?

Tarabanko, Go to http://www.fim.ch/en/ Then to The FIM Magazine Then to the bottom item, Spectators. It opens as a .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) file. Interesting, as it has figures for road racing, motocross, etc. as well (and ice racing)

Crowds at Prague have been 1999 11,000 2000 12,000 2001 14,000 2002 12,000 2003 12,000 2004 8,500 2005 10,564 I was at this years' Prague GP, and I would say that their crowds rely a lot on how many Poles come across the border!

The F.I.M have released the OFFICIAL attendance figures for 2005. SGP Wroclaw 25,000 (2004: also 25,000) Eskilstuna 9,000 Krsko 7,000 (2004 : 7,500) Cardiff 40,000 (2004 : 35,251) Copenhagen 24,000 (2004 : 25,428) Prague 10,564 (2004 : 8,500) Malilla 12,500 Bydgoszcz 18,000 (2004 : 14,000) Lonigo 6,400 SWC Race-Off at Wroclaw 4,000 (2004 at Poole : 1,100) Final at Wroclaw 12,000 (2004 at Poole : 7,321) Junior World Cup Final at Pardubice 7,000 World U-21 Champ Final at Wiener Neustadt 4,000 (2004 at Wroclaw : 12,000) 80cc Youth Gold Trophy Final at Wawrow (Poland) 1,000 (2004 at Eskilstuna : 1,230)

I'm not going to repost the results of the current Argentine season, but anyone interested can get the details from http://www.speedwaytotal.com.ar/inicio.html Go to Temporada then Argentina and then the Resultados column

ROUND 1 - Oreti Park, Invercargill, South Island - Thur 29 Dec 2005 1 Daniele Tessari Italy 14 2= Jason Bunyan England 13 2= Mattia Carpanese Italy 13 4 Filip Sitera Czech Rep 11 5= Andrew Bargh NZ 10 5= Andrew Aldridge NZ 10 5= Phil Morris Wales 10 ROUND 2 - Cromwell, South Island - Sat 31 Dec 2005 1 Jason Bunyan England 2= Filip Sitera Czech Rep 2= Phil Morris Wales 4 Daniele Tessari Italy 5 Andrew Bargh NZ 6= Mattia Carpanese Italy 6= John Tuffley NZ Both meetings were rain-affected.

What surface is this meeting raced on - shale? grass? concrete?

Howard Cole now lives in Sydney, Australia.

Hmmm.... James has also given some good up-to-date information for those who want to do the trip on their own.

Mildenhall result: 1 J Auty 2 S Lambert 3=S Waldron & K Hughes

Hector "Skid" Skinner was a big star of the dirt-track at White City Manchester, Sheffield, and indeed most of the northern tracks in the late 1920's and early 1930's. He also toured Europe with his wall of death show (including his wife), called "Skid Skinner's Death Circus". In 1929, he ran the Rotherham speedway for a while. Also a motorcycle stunt rider. Arrested in France for shooting at bottles. Had a pet monkey. Died 1944 in a shooting accident at the age of 39. Don't make 'em like that anymore!

I tend to agree, Backtrack and VSM (not forgetting Speedway Researcher!) seem to have the speedway history scene well-covered already. However, we shall see!