cityrebel

I just find the speedway star boring and have done for years. I stopped buying it when Wimbledon closed midway through 1991. It's enough for me to attend a couple of meetings a week without paying more to read about it. All I need to know on a race day is, the team line ups and the weather forecast, these things I can get via the Internet. I have little interest in the SGP and a lot of the articles in the star are devoted to that subject.

Penhall's antics at the white city tarnished his reputation in a lot of peoples eyes.

Crayford was a tricky little track with the big dip at the tote board end, but it was a venue i always enjoyed going to. The food outlets were excellent as well!

Somerton park was a bit dodgy but Bristol eastville must have been one of the trickiest of all trick tracks!

Hi tony, i went to most of the wembley home meetings for those two seasons including the reopener against hackney, complete with billy smart's 'live' lions. As you know i Am a big collector of all things london speedway, but i have never seen any footage from the 1970's era. I presume the local media must have covered it, the return of league racing to wembley was headline news at the time.

West ham, wimbledon, white city, hackney (hawks era) and wembley (bert harkins era!!!)

It certainly feels like yonks ago, i remember seeing the czechs ride there, bouncing off of the concrete safety fence!

The suspended safety fence used at rye works the same way as the original used at wimbledon from 1968 to 1991.

A good idea for those of us that will attend both meetings.

As an IOW regular, i don't think it's just the huge cost of buying an air fence which is the problem. The whole track also needs to be relaid, added to the substantial yearly losses incurred by the promotion is making that elusive sugar daddy harder to find.

Your sarcastic reply does not answer my question. Regardless of what meetings are staged there ,Will iwade still be licensed by the SCB in 2014, or will it be blacklisted like lydd has for many years with riders being advised not to ride there by the SCB!!!

Seeing as the order to install an air fence is an SCB directive, will iwade be issued with a SCB licence in 2014.

So at this moment in time, what is the difference between iwade, a licensed SCB circuit and lydd, a non licensed track. When both of these venues currently run without an air fence.

Will licensed riders still be able to ride at iwade in amateur meetings despite the track not having an air fence.

not according to graham arnold at iwade. at last seasons staging of the british youth championship it was announced that all licensed tracks needed an air fence to stage 500cc racing. smaller sized engines and unlicensed tracks like lydd will not be affected. i think that northside have already installed an air fence.

My thoughts exactly shads. I would have thought that a foam fence would be more practical as regards to maintenance, but i think they cost more than the air type.

What I would like to know is, has the air fence been ordered and will the track be sorted out. Too many meetings were run last season with the circuit down to the base after a few races.

people will turn up for a one off event, it's getting them to go every week which is the problem!

and from 1969 to 1971 minus wembley because of a lack of dates at the empire stadium. i'm sure white city had similar problems in 1976 to 1978.

i think that might be a non starter now that football is being staged there again.

wombwell staged speedway training schools in the mid 1960's.

iwade are in the same boat as the IOW. i can see there being some casualties this winter because of the air fence issue.

it's a great service and it's hard to believe how we ever done without it. i can remember when i was a kid in the 1970's pre teletext, i used to phone the track to get the result if wimbledon were riding in a long distance away match!.

a decent hard fought match last night, well run due to the incoming weather and the proposed 9.15 power cut!. let's hope it was not the last ever meeting on the island, i would miss my trips across the solent, where i have been a regular visitor since 1996.

as a neutral i think it's a tired looking line up, a typical len silver team from recent years.