Bavarian

Is there a Swedish Cup competition at all? Don't think so!

Gunther Bauer has announced his retirement from the sport

Major Aussie sidecar speedway events coming up March 30 : Gillman - F.I.M. Oceania Sidecar Speedway Championship / meeting abandoned due to rain, the re-staging date is April 7 April 6 : Gillman - F.I.M. Speedway Sidecar World Cup April 21 : Pioneer Park - Australian Sidecar Speedway Championship

new riders for today are Marc Geyer, and possibly Jasper Iwema

WIll Britain be represented in the up-coming F.I.M. Sidecar Speedway World Cup 2019 in Australia ?

Here is a picture of a South Africa speedway team touring Poland in 1994 The rider in the middle of the front row is Attila Stefani (alias Mark Frost). Next to him (the second from the left) is his brother Laszlo Stefani.

alias Mark Frost, who really was a Hungarian in disguise. What was his real name? Was it Attila Stefani, or Laszlo Stefani?

The Story of Singapore Speedway was published in "the Speedway Researcher" a few years ago. Here is the online link http://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/10.4.pdf

I seem to remember that a rider from Switzerland, known as "the Crazy Butcher from Zurich", the one and only Jessy Inauen, rode at Exeter in the late 80's or early 90's. Not sure though if he rode for the Falcons in league speedway, or if he only rode there in an open individual meeting ?

Reynolds, who was from Western Australia, did not have much success as a speedway promoter. His Singapure Speedway venture did not last long as he ran out of money after a couple of months in May/June of 1930. It was much the same story when, together with Max Grosskreutz, he re-opened the Hamburg DT in the spring of 1933.

Bergé has acted like a "spoilt brat" in long-track racing, too, when he was beaten by Smolinki for the world title last year. He is a very good rider, but at times he's not easy to get on with.

sorry, forgot about that. Anyway, better twice than never

there were two Trevor Hardings from Aussie

Just for fun, here's my current Top Ten of German speedway riders: 1 - Martin Smolinski 2 - Kevin Wölbert 3 - Kai Huckenbeck 4 - Erik Riss 5 - Max Dilger 6 - Michael Härtel 7 - Tobias Busch 8 - Mark Riss 9 - Lukas Fienhage 10 - Valentin Grobauer

Oh no, don't panic, he's definitely not another Henning Loof, who was a no hoper, even here in Germany. Grobauer is a pretty good speedway rider, much better rider than Loof. He's a useful second string for my local Bundesliga Club Landshut. I would rate Grobauer in the top 10 here in Germany. He has made steady progress in recent years, riding in Poland's second division last year. It will be interestuing how he adopts to British speedway. That's always unpredictable, as it is a complete change of livestyle. It may be a gamble for Somerset, but he could turn out to be a good signing. After all, the SGB Championship is not full of world beaters theses days. Grobauer may surprise a few over there. He deserves a fair chance.

Grobauer is a team mate of Mark Riss at Landshut in the German Bundesliga. He is not yet riding at the same level as the Riss brothers, but is not far behind Mark Riss in the German league averages.

Norwegian speedway rider Edgar Stangeland in the colours of Newport Wasps

... and here's a team picture with the Gordeev brothers in the USSR Test Team on their 1974 UK tour http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/engvsu.htm Valeri Gordeev (no.1) and Vladimir Gordeev (no.2) in the front row (center left side)

... and here is a picture of the Gordeev Brothers ! Valeri is seen on the left side of this picture (wearing the USSR No.9 racejacket) and his elder brother Vladimir is on the right

1928 to 1931 1949 to 1955 1970 to 1983 1990 to 1995

my favorite Aussie rider was Bob Valentine and the rest of my personal top 10 includes Alan Rivett, Steve Regeling, Rod Hunter, John Titman, and Gary Guglielmi. ... and my favorite Aussie of the pre-war era, is the one-and-only Sig Schlam plus Frank Pearce, Ernie Evans, and Tiger Lewis. there are so many more, of course

Russian International Sergy Darkin is a native of Uzbekistan, formerly of course part of the USSR