customhouseregular

Many thanks.

I remember the excitement when the Russians first toured in the 60's. That level of excitement and interest is missing from British speedway today.

Tony Bennett Clarke John Louis Armstrong

Bluey Wilkinson...the bonus points system scuppered his chance in 1936 and the hiatus from 1939-1948 ruined his chances of more titles.

Roland Rat Stobart Ke(l)vin the Gerbil Tatum Bob the Builder Kilby "PC" Mr. Plod Collins

Billy Fury Lamont Michael Holliday Lee Ronnie Hilton Moore Barry White Briggs David Whitfield Jessup Simon and Garfunkel Wigg Ivor Emanuel Brown

Thanks for your replies folks.

para-Finn Thomsen...clever!.

That is rather good WK...I like that

On the question of track records, as an aside, how does Wimbledon's record from the late 60's compare with a similar sized track today?.

Thanks for the updates on this thread as the Icespeedway.co.uk site is always days behind the event.

Krasnikov in great form again.

Maybe Iris but Wimbledon used the system for all meetings, not just FIM sanctioned. I don't remember a smaller track back then hosting FIM events so I can't comment. Thanks for your input by the way.

I may have forgotten but I don't recall in the old NL/PL and BL1/BL2 days riders doubling up. Am I wrong?.

I could not bring myself to support Hackney but I attended open meetings, Tests, WC rounds etc, at both Hackney and Wimbledon, and later at White City.

There are/were smaller tracks so it can't have been the 4 lap race distance.

O(i)liver Allen O(i)lle Nygren Sooty Sweep Jason Co(a)le Connor Co(a)les Shane Co(a)lvin Bob Char(co)les

From the recesses of my memory I recall the finish line at Wimbledon being forward of the start line, resulting in each race being 4 laps+a few extra yards. I can't recall this being the case at any other track I visited or read about. Does anyone know whether this system was/is used anywhere else? Does/did it fall foul of any FIM regulations?.

I can't think of any riders named coke, cinders, carbon or anthracite O(liver) H(e)ART...2 for the price of 1!.

Correct. What about Don(er) Kebab GODDEN.

Victor(ia) Sponge Trofimov. Or...Kid(ney) Bodie Remember him?.

I can for one. As for West Ham...the Lokeren tragedy did it for us, plus the lure of megabucks for the stadium site.

Please do not include me in that category

Made an appearance in 1 film I believe, Freddie Bartholomew WILLIAMS Sam(my) Davies ERMOLENKO Chris(toph) Waltz HOLDER Mark Wahlberg LORAM Billy Crudup HAMILL Gary Cooper HAVELOCK Tommy Lee Jones PRICE World Champions all...any more?.

OK Norbold...beat this lot! Bjorn Floberg KNUTSSON Christer Henriksson LOFQVIST Pal (Sverre) Hagen HARRFELDT Bengt Ekerot JANSSON Bluey O'Brien WILKINSON Nell (Tiger) Free STEVENSON Sir C. Aub(rey) Smith LAWSON Arthur Askey ATKINSON Eric Idle CHITTY Malcolm X CRAVEN Yes...they are all real