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Unfortunately, it was rained-off last night, but the Argentina v RoW test match will immediately be restaged tonight (9pm local time Bahia Blanca)

On Wednesday night (January 18, 2023) Argentina takes on the Rest of the World in an 18-heat Speedway Test Match in Bahia Blanca. It's the first time ever that such an International match is held in Argentina. https://speedwaytotal.com/noticias/argentina-vs-el-resto-del-mundo/

Here is a galerie of some of the 1950s South African speedway riders https://www.kizoa.com/Video-Maker/d9809121k8393960o1/sa-rider-portraits

Attendance at Östersund: 270 Attendance at Strömsund: 112

F.I.M. North America does have their own Continental Speedway Final.

The XiiS is a series for speedway and flat track motorbike races on indoor ice arena tracks across the United States of America. https://www.xtremeiceracing.com/ Here is the 2023 schedule https://www.xtremeiceracing.com/schedule The most prominent among this year's participating speedway riders is Canada's Kyle Legault. https://www.xtremeiceracing.com/riders The promoter is the former British League rider Anthony Barlow.

Here is another addition of a pre-war German rider, who was killed in a race accident in 1936. The rider is Hans WINKLER, who was from Munich in Bavaria. He was one of Germany's best long-track riders of the early 1930s, twice finishing on the rostrum of the Pardubice Golden Helmet Grass Track (2nd in 1932, and 3rd in 1933). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Helmet_of_Pardubice Winkler lost his life in a crash on a road race circuit "Rund um Schotten" at Vogelsberg in Germany on Sunday, July 19, 1936.

I have some additional info on a German rider listed here under the name "ERNST". His full name was Paul Ernst, he was from Hamburg, and he died on Sunday, September 1, 1929, form internal injuries sustained when he crashed on one of the bends in the 350cc race of the Fichtenhain Grass Track meeting at Heide in Northern Germany.

They are all here https://speedwayinmemoriam.yolasite.com/

https://fimspeedway.com/news/pedersen-takes-charge-of-danish-side-for-swc

The Final of the 2022 F.I.M. Oceania Solo Speedway Championship is set to go ahead on December 28 at Gillman Speedway in Adelaide, South Australia. This will be an open championship, and Britain's Tai Woffinden and Adam Ellis are included in the line-up for this title event.

Tonight, at Perris Speedway, California, the F.I.M. North America Championship final. The top two go forward to the SGP qualifying rounds in Europe next year. line-up: 1 - Wilbur HANCOCK (#117) 2 - Russell GREEN (#321) 3 - Eddie CASTRO (#14) 4 - Luke BECKER (#22) 5 - Max RUML (#1) 6 - Dillon RUML (#3) 7 - Gino MANZARES (#24) 8 - Alex MARTIN (#30) 9 - Aaron FOX (#46) 10 - Billy JANNIRO (#14n) 11 - Broc NICOL (#98) 12 - Charlie TRANA (#66) 13 - Austin NOVRATIL (#7) 14 - Slater LIGHTCAP (#28) 15 - Justin ALMON (#137) 16 - Jonathan OAKDEN (#309)

No, he's still a New Zealander

The line ups for today's (November 19) triple header of NSW junior solo speedway championships (500cc U21, 250cc U16, 125cc U16) at Loxford Park, Kurri Kurri. Apparently at Kurri Kurri there are no issues with the current floods, which have caused Mildura to postponed tonight's Jason Lyons Trophy meeting, and the up-coming Victorian sidecar title event.

Jaimon Lidsey has won the Victorian State title last night at Mildura.

He is one of the All-Time Greats and it is such a shame that he was never given a full run in the SGP series. All he had was a couple of wild card appearances in the Latvian GPs at Daugavpils.

yes, always been that way, because the majority of the population in the Daugavpils region have Russian roots. No less than a quarter of the Latvian population speek Russian as their first language. Grigory Laguta has his wife and child in Latvia, and I read that by now he even has a Latvian passport himself, along with his Russian passport. He has apparently been offered a job with Lokomotiv Daugavpils to work as a coach for the club's junior riders, but he has declined the offer. Anyway, he will not be able to ride for them in the Polish League, because PZM simply won't allow it. Grigory was quite succesfull in the Russian League this year. He was the team captain of his original home town club Vostok Vladivostok and guided them to the league championship. Further he also became the Russian Individual champion of 2022.

Highly unlikely that he will be allowed to ride in Polish League again. I doubt it.

Interview with Mick Holder on the prospect of a return of SPEEDWAY BIKES in Sydney at the new Eastern Creek Speedway

An english language tv report of flat track racing in Valencia, Spain, in 2016

https://www.speedwayclubhelzold.be/

I wonder if DISCOVERY/EUROSPORT consider Spain as one of their future new markets for the Speedway Grand Prix? By the way, the last speedway rider representing Spain in International events (he rode in a European Championship qualifiying round about five years ago) was Facundo Albin, an Argentinean with Spanish ancestors and dual nationality, who was based in Spain for a couple of years. He is now back in Argentina though.

Norwegian former FIM referee Tore Kittilsen died on October 7, 2022, at the age of 85. Kittilsen was the referee of the 1982 Los Angeles World Final (Penhall/Carter clash) https://www.nmk.no/informasjon/nyheter/vis/?T=Minneord om Tore Kittilsen&ID=32064&af=1&fbclid=IwAR1XIoQYNaHXS1O-HWF_H7VBbSqEHZnu5jfBxcANVCvut5q7f1MlTbhI5j0

Well, there were another two New Zealanders, who rode in Paris. That's Stewie St.George (though he rode at another Paris track at St.Ouen back in 1928) and Charlie Blacklock (1932/34).