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Can't wait for the GP tomorrow, lots more um-er.....um-er......um-er......Oh how exciting!

Yep you are both right.....I checked Wikipedia for those I wasn't sure of and there is NO mention of that. So when I saw yours and norbolds comment I checked my own records and yes he's definitely there.

I prefer Stan!!!!! LOL

You are correct.......World Team Cup yes.....World Final No

Here is what I think is latest list (From Chunky) 01 - Arthur Payne - 28/08/23 02 - 03 - 04 - Ove Fundin - 23/05/33 05 - Dan Forsberg - 25/03/34 06 - Josef Hofmeister - 17/06/34 07 - Brian Crutcher - 23/08/34 08 - Mike Broadbank - 25/09/34 09 - Barry Briggs - 30/12/34 10 - Bob Andrews - 27/10/1935 11 - Reg Luckhurst - 11/11/1935 12 - Sverre Harrfeldt - 23/11/1937 13 - Leif Larsson - 16/02/1938 14 - Bjorn Knutson - 27/04/38 15 - Gunnar Malmqvist - 25/12/1940 16 - Andrzej Wyglenda 04/05/1941 17 - Jim Airey - 19/08/1941 18 - Bengt Jansson - 09/01/1943 19 - Anders Michanek - 30/05/1943 20 - Trevor Hedge - 30/08/1943 21 - Terry Betts - 15/09/1943 22 - Howard Cole 29/12/1943 23 - Martin Ashby - 05/02/1944 24 - Jan Simensen - 26/07/1944 25 - Zygfryd Friedek - 19/10/1944 26 - Jerzy Trzeszkowski - 10/01/1945 27 - Eric Boocock - 02/02/1945 28 - John Boulger - 18/06/1945 29 - Hasse Holmqvist - 18/06/1945 30 - Jim McMillan - 03/12/1945 31 - Soren Karlsson - 23/10/1946 (Not a Finalist) 32 - Ole Olsen - 16/11/1946 33 - Ray Wilson - 12/03/1947  34 - Doug Wyer - 16/08/1947 35 - Grigori Khlinovsky - 11/11/47 36 - Egon Muller - 26/11/1948 37 - Christoph Betzl - 13/02/1949 38 - Jiri Stancl - 18/11/1949 39 - Viktor Kuznetsov - 27/11/1949 40 - Georg Hack - 20/02/1950 41 - Marek Cieslak - 28/06/1950 42 - Alois Wiesbock - 31/07/1950 43 - Tommy Johansson - 21/10/1950 44 - Vladimir Gordeev - 30/11/1950 45 - John Titman - 26/01/1951 46 - Dag Lovaas - 25/02/1951 47 - Jan Verner - 03/03/1951 48 - Petr Ondrasik - 08/10/1951 49 - Phil Crump - 09/02/1952 50 - Henny Kroeze - 11/03/1952 51 - Valery Gordeev - 28/08/1952 52 - Dave Jessup - 07/03/1953 53 - Ales Dryml - 10/06/1953 54 - Scott Autrey - 09/07/1953 55 - Robert Slabon - 15/09/1953 56 - Peter Collins - 24/03/1954 57 - Larry Ross - 15/06/1954 58 - John Davis - 10/11/1954 59 - Finn Thomsen - 16/02/1955 60 - Mikhail Starostin - 24/02/1955 61 - Tommy Nilsson - 10/03/1955 62 - Jan Andersson - 07/05/1955 63 - Kai Niemi - 15/09/1955 64 - Jerzy Rembas - 18/04/1956 65 - Chris Morton - 22/07/1956 66 - Steve Bastable - 16/09/1956 67- Bruce Penhall - 10/05/1957 68 - Karl Maier - 24/08/1957 69 - Roman Jankowski - 05/10/1957 70 - Bo Petersen - 21/02/1958 71 - Les Collins - 24/05/1958 72 - Mitch Shirra - 27/09/1958 73 - Michael Lee - 11/12/1958 74 - John Cook - 18/12/1958 75 - Richard Knight - 26/05/1959 76 - Dennis Sigalos - 16/08/1959 77 - Erik Gundersen - 08/10/1959 78 - Hans Nielsen - 26/12/1959 79 - Olli Tyrvainen - 11/01/1960 80 - Phil Collins - 02/06/1960 81 - Sam Ermolenko - 23/11/1960 82 - Rick Miller - 12/01/1961 83 - Jeremy Doncaster - 16/06/1961 84 - Tommy Knudsen - 09/11/1961 85 - Zoltan Adorjan - 15/11/1961 86 - Shawn Moran - 19/11/1961 87 - Peter Ravn - 16/03/1962 88 - Zenon Kasprzak - 10/05/1962 89 - John Jorgensen - 18/07/1962 90 - Antal Kocso - 22/12/1962 91 - Sandor Tihanyi - 28/04/1963 92 - Lance King - 13/08/1963 93 - Armando Castagna - 22/09/1963 94 - Kelvin Tatum - 08/02/1964 95 - Marvyn Cox - 11/07/1964 96 - Zdenek Tesar - 30/07/1964 97 - Mikael Blixt - 08/08/1964 98 - Paul Thorp - 09/09/1964 99 - Tony Olsson - 13/03/1965 100 Gerd Riss - 17/03/1965 101 - Conny Ivarsson - 15/04/1965 102 - Simon Cross - 31/05/1965 103 - Bohumil Brhel - 10/06/1965 104 - Slawomir Drabik - 06/02/1966 105 - Per Jonsson - 21/03/1966 106 - Andy Smith - 25/05/1966 107 - Jan Staechmann - 05/06/1966 108 - Ronnie Correy - 08/11/1966 109 - Jimmy Nilsen - 16/11/1966 110 - Brian Karger - 09/02/1967 111 - Jan O. Pedersen - 27/07/1967 112 - Craig Boyce - 02/08/1967 113 - Troy Butler - 22/09/1967 114 - Piotr Swist - 20/06/1968 115 - Todd Wiltshire - 26/09/1968 116 - Gary Havelock - 04/11/1968 117 - Stefan Danno - 10/02/1969 118 - Martin Dugard - 18/05/1969 119 - Gert Handberg - 30/05/1969 120 - Chris Louis - 09/07/1969 121 - Billy Hamill - 23/05/1970 122 - Greg Hancock - 03/06/1970 123 - Henrik Gustafsson - 14/08/1970 124 - Tony Rickardsson - 17/08/1970 125 - Mark Loram - 12/01/1971 126 - Tomasz Gollob - 11/04/1971 127 - Leigh Adams - 28/04/1971 128 - Josh Larsen - 12/05/1972 129 - Joe Screen - 27/11/1972 130 - Jason Crump - 06/08/1975

And Bjorn is ON the list that Chunky had provided on Page 14......I'll repost it next and if someone wants to update it ...Please do!

Not sure the latest list was used above...... The latest list should be (at least I think) on Page 14 supplied by Chunky.......it has Troy Butler at #113 or course he should not be there.

Out of the top twenty that means there are two riders I never managed to see were the number one of course, and Dan Forsberg

2-Per Tage Svensson died 25 May 2008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Tage_Svensson

Bomber? Old? He certainly didn't show that tonight and didn't Hancock win three of his world championships in his 40's?

That will go down in history as one of the best speedway races EVER!

Bomber......how old this this guy......much younger than his 42 years.

Whatever happens in the Final....what a great night of racing!

West Ham (RIP) New Cross (RIP) Canterbury (RIP) I don't seem to be doing too well.......

I do remember him quite well. Article here: https://www.speedwayillustratednews.com.au/2025/04/20/australian-speedway-passing-of-chum-taylor-98/