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Was the question Speedway or Grasstrack? Regards.

If I'm wrong. .... how come no one else disagrees? Regards. PS. Come on tell us, who and where.

Western Springs Speedway club, November the 30th 1929. Regards. PS. http://www.speedwayclub.co.nz/history.php

Question too difficult? .... Try this one. "Vic Huxley, Dick Smythe, Frank Pearce, Arch Pritchard and Syd Bayley were all on the Davies Park programme on Saturday September 24, 1927. But it wasn’t the performances on the night of these riders that the 8,000 or so spectators present at the meeting wanted to talk about during the ensuing days".... Question.... " Who was they all talking about" ??? . . . . . . . . roscoe will know..... Hope he don't tell too soon....

I almost made the Grade but the weather circulation changed. Regards. PS. Ya get that on these big jobs!

Grader for Hire... Re: OSSC. Regards. PS. Every track needs one some time.

Now they pick on my Grader. Regards. PS. Is nothing sacred? ........... Took me 3 years 6 bannings and a big dent in my Bunkers roof, to get that Grader..... God knows how much Oxford Supporters payed for it . ... I think the end results speaks for its self . .... Chris Brown and Bryn are glad thay have a Grader too! coz Trackman don't ring them up every week asking for one.

I'm only a Tractorr Driverr who circulates... so don't get clockwise with me. Regards. PS. or I'll slicken off your gate real quick!

Here we go, 2 laps to warm up .....then hang on! http://www.vintagespeedway.com/Testpage.html .... Regards.

Hang on! Hang on! Hang on!....... As soon as Shazza sorts out her spellling, she'll be back. .. whip and all. Regards. PS. Makes a change ........ Me not getting picked on for my spelling.

G/Day Shazza And your spellling is?........... Regards.

I blame Steve Hone..... Regards.

Ian was asked to read this page and given the right of reply. Here is his answer. Dear Max, (Webmaster) http://www.historicspeedway.co.nz/Start%20...y%20(world).htm Further to your excellent article on the alleged origins of speedway racing, I thank you for allowing me the right of reply. I agree that various new 'historians' of the sport have felt it would gain them credit if they could debunk the story that speedway, as we know it today, truly began under my father's banner at West Maitland, NSW, Australia on Sunday, December 15th 1923. I agree that there were previous isolated motor cycle events that occurred earlier than this in Australia and even America. At least the historians have to be congratulated on their research into newspaper files. But, we may as well go back as far as the Circus Maximus in ancient Rome, where chariot racing was staged before factions of thousands of devoted supporters, who cheered their favorites on to victory in races that were likewise held in an anti-clockwise direction and had chariots broadsiding on the corners. Unfortunately for these scribes, none of the events they have dug out from the files, led anywhere. Whereas, Johnnie Hoskins was the first promoter to put up a cash reward for the winner at West Maitland, and from the huge turn-out this novel event generated, speedway began to form in Maitland with a cinder track, rules and regulations, and the broadsiding of bikes in the corners. No previous event inspired such a metamorphosis as this. Finally, there was professionalism in speedway, the rider could live from his earnings on the track, and men such as Ron Johnson, Billy Lamont and Vic Huxley, willingly left Australia to try their luck in England in l928. My father left Maitland in 1925 to open Newcastle where he staged regular weekly meetings and made a packet for the promoters. He decided to go into business for himself and in 1926 ran the big Sydney Royale stadium, where, unfortunately, a very wet season almost ruined him. Undaunted, he went to Perth in Western Australia and opened the Claremont stadium there and began to make a packet. In 1928, he left Perth to go to England and be in at the birth of the sport there, and took two of the great Australian riders with him, Ron Johnson and Billy Lamont. Johnnie did not have a venue in the UK, until Arthur Elvin in 1929, asked him to run speedway at Wembley. In 1930, the famous Wembley Lions were born and I was invited to ride a miniature motor bike, wearing red leathers at the age of six, to become the world's first motorised speedway mascot. It was in 1930 that league racing began in speedway. Johnnie Hoskins quit Wembley to re-open West Ham, a promotion that had just gone broke. He at last came into his own as speedway's greatest showman promoter until the war closed the sport in 1939. Can any other promoter lay down such a valid claim for being the sport's true pioneer? I doubt it, and so do the hundreds of riders and rival promoters of the pre-war and immediate post war era of the sport, when Johnnie remained actively involved as a promoter at Canterbury in Kent, until his death at the age of 95 in 1987. I rest my case. Ian Hoskins. 20/03/06 Regards.

Wikipedia says.......... The first meeting in the UK is generally acknowledged to have taken place at High Beech on 19 February 1928. There are, however, also claims to have held meetings in 1927 from Camberley in Surrey and Droylsden in Manchester. Despite being described as 'the first British Dirt Track meeting' at the time, the meeting at Camberley on 7 May 1927 differed in that the races were held in a clockwise direction. Races at Droylsden were held in an anti-clockwise direction and this meeting appears to have a strong claim to be the first Speedway meeting in the UK..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedway_in_the_United_Kingdom History Of Dirt Track Racing The Origins Of The Sport – UK, USA Or Australia? The origins of the sport are not entirely crystal clear but it is generally accepted that Australian farmers started it all. They were racing their motorcycles around rough oval dirt tracks during the early 1920s. Early motorcycle owners in the USA can tell a similar story but they did not have a man like Australia's Johnnie Hoskins who had a vision when he watched the farmers racing their motorcycles. In 1923, Johnnie was the secretary of the West Maitland (New South Wales) Agricultural Show. As a "side attraction" to the agricultural show, he introduced motorcycle racing on an oval dirt track under floodlights. Speedway had just been born! From West Maitland it spread across Australia like wildfire. Hoskins the entrepreneur was so keen on promoting the sport he had helped to invent that he soon had ambitions that lay outside Australia. Pound signs were flashing, the UK was beckoning....... http://www.newcastlespeedwayhistory.co.uk/...rack_racing.htm Regards.

Why not send out an entry form to all Aussie licensed riders?...... Regards. PS. It's OK Lunchy! We have found out, the riders must be justified. Do you think we should give Special Diapenshtion to people with sliding the there harts?

G/Day BFD. South? ... SeaRay, Speedcar, and a Weslake.. mmmmmmm? Regards. PS. She would kill me if I asked...... "I was told"!!

Calling Lunchy!............ Regards.

The Promised Land.... Where you can play in the sand.... http://www.googlyfoogly.com/illusions/Sand-Girls.html Regards. PS. That's the spot where Bryn ran my boat onto the beach....

Future. 3 topics on the Future? .. is that a new rule then? Regards.

Poor Grachan, ya can't win... Regards. PS. Infield Sliding!... Should we have "Club members" teaming up? ....

LOL! Only Genuine speedcars are allowed in the club... they are Legends.. just like the drivers. http://www.historicspeedway.com/ Regards.

Organising the first ever Speedway Teams racing?..... Regards. PS. Will you have Handicap racing?

G/Day TCW. You should bring your motor to Labrador next Sunday..... We might find a rolling chassi for you. Gold Coast Classic Weekend - The Gold Coast Motorcycle & Sporting Club’s Championships round three will run Sunday 15th July at Mike Hatcher Park in Larador. Speedway from 10am to 1pm Dirt track 2pm to 5pm.(Knobby tyres acceptable) This is a closed to club event, competitors must be club member. Entry fee is $20 per competitor, sign-on & scrutineering at least one hour prior to your competition. Day race licences available @ $44.00 each. General Club meeting to be held at clubrooms 7.30pm Monday 9th July. All members are invited and encouraged to attend these monthly meeting for the benefit of yourself and your sport. Regards. PS. Quote from http://www.goldcoastspeedway.homestead.com/ Just between me and you for the mo .... we could be seeing the speedcars too.

Any UK rider wanting to up their performance, has always spent winter in OZ. Regards. PS.

http://www.vsra.homestead.com/ Regards.