Rich

Page 4 "Joey signs". Joey Ringwood returns to Glasgow

Bet you've never seen them together. They are the same person

Derek looked OK when I saw him last week

BilaHora "one really needs to accept that bonus points serve no purpose whatsoever" There is another way of looking at it. Surely one reason bonus points are awarded is to prevent riders from the same team racing each other? Paying a rider the same for 2nd (or 3rd) behind a team mate should mean he will settle for that place for the sake of the team.

Seeing the Russians at Wembley is one of my earliest Speedway memories, ( was only 9 at the time), I remember one of them, Vitaly Shilo? crashing, either at the start or going over the start line, may have finished his career, never heard of him afterwards. We also went to the 2nd or 3rd Test at Coventry, the Russians went much better there, the score was a lot closer. A few years later in the early 70s, remember seeing New Zealand v. Poland at Exeter, Plech & Mauger were awesome, both breaking the track record.

Went to the 1964 World Final at Gothenburg, I was only 8 at the time, we went on a really old & rattly prop-powered plane from Southend Airport, don't know if that was with the Speedway Touring Club. It was only a day trip, when we got to Gothenburg it was p###ing down, thought it was a rain off till they put tons of sawdust on the track. Briggo 1st, Plechanov 2nd, Fundin 3rd? It really sticks out in my mind as my first trip abroad.

Soren Sjosten also rode for Bristol in 1977 or 78.