paulboy

I set the question and hadn't thought of Vaclav for the 90's! The three I had in mind were Petr Vandirek, Toni Svab and Bo Hadek. Jiri Stancl is not the answer to either the 70's or 90's. The four from 1979 were Vaclav Verner and brother Jan, Ales Dryml (father of Lukas and Ales) and the late Zdenek Kudrna. Steve Hone, not sure if Jan Holub was late 60's or early 70's - will find out and let you know if you added one to my list!

Similar theme to the Wolves question. Name four Czechs who rode for Exeter in the 1970's and three Czechs who were Falcons in the 90's.

The way I understand it is that two riders can be nominated to score double points in one heat (each) and the Golden Double (30 metres back) remains in operation as before. Not sure if one rider can have a Golden Joker (if thats what its called) and Double. I'm guessing that those suggesting the riders must be nominated before the start of a meeting are just on a wind up!

To my mind the great problem with this Golden Double/Joker etc is that it can positively encourage race fixing

Happy 50th Scott Autrey p.s... how long did he hold the Exeter track record?? I think it was 13 years, 1979 to 1992 (broken by tony Olsson).

I haven't yet watced a meeting with Posselwhite as ref where he hasn't got at least one decision completely wrong. Why do they give him GPs - he isn't up to it. Hats off to Andreas Jonsson for a very mature response to a shocking decision.

From my years as a Falcons fan:- 1. Ivan Mauger - to me the greatest ever 2. John Titman - much under-rated rider who blossomed at Leicester 3. Mark Loram - still an Exeter asset! 4. Vaclav Verner - bonkers but so entertaining 5. Scott Autrey - my first real speedway hero 6. Steve Regeling - pure class at NL level in the late 80s/early 90s 7. Richard Green - almost an up to date version of Verner

The dog track's long gone from Exeter now but unfortunately they haven't been allowed to widen the bends on the insides - that would make it a great race track. The dog track at Exeter was of course unusually inside the circuit rather than outside.