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On 4/29/2025 at 10:39 AM, RS50 said:
Why has Lawson withdrawn from British Final?
Where has this been announced?
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3 hours ago, Racin Jason 72 said:
Strange choice of guest. Whilst Dan is riding brilliantly atm to pick a reserve to replace your heat leader seems a bit strange.
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It appeared to work for Peterborough in 2021. Your team I believe!
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Really? That last news item is the match preview. They have yet to update the 'fixtures and results' page.
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Now on BSN at £14.99.
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Toby Musielak and Adam Ellis added to the list.
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Tom Brennan and Erik Riss next two announced.
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Jason Doyle and Charles Wright are the first riders announced.
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2 hours ago, racers and royals said:
Wednesday’s 3rd round(8th) from Albury is being streamed by them on PPV - no details from them yet.
My working out is that 1st race is 10.30am UK time.
Saturday's( 11th) 4th and final round from North Brisbane( Darcy Ward promoted) will also be streamed on PPV - details to follow and 1st race is 8am UK time.
That would make it a 9.30pm start. Seems a bit late.
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1 hour ago, Bagpuss said:
Good move for rider and club, but I do wonder what will happen if/when he gets a gig in Poland?
He has, but under a Warsaw Contract for Ostrow in the Ekstraliga 2 which, as far as i can make out means he is attached but not under official contract. What happens if there are fixture clashes I don't know.
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13 hours ago, stewmac said:
The homepage is here, from where you can access all the various leagues across Continental Europe via the links on the right hand side:
In addition, this has been produced in the past. The link relates to 2024 but I expect a new version will come out once fixture lists for 2025 have been established:
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33 minutes ago, ShanoXtra said:
Where would he go though? Already riding in Poland again (not with Leszno) so I guess Sweden or Denmark? I’m totally out of sync with the other two leagues as I only keep tracks of England and Poland
Then you need this:
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This one is not so much where are they now but 'what they did next.'
I have been clearing out my elderly cousin's house recently and came across a George Medal which was awarded to his grandfather during WW2. There is a list of recipients on a Wikipedia page. As it turned out, he isn't on there, but I found the name of a Lionel Van Praag (World Champion 1936) who won the medal whist serving in the Australian Air Force around the same time:
On 26 January 1942 Van Praag was the co-pilot of a Douglas DC-2 which was attacked by two Japanese fighters and forced down into the Sumba Strait, Indonesia. The aircraft soon sank, leaving Van Praag, his pilot Flying Officer Noel Wilson Webster, and two other crewmen in open water. Webster gave his life-jacket to a crewman who could not swim, while the other was semi-conscious, having been injured in the crash. Webster and Van Praag managed to drag them safely to shore, but were in the water for thirty hours, during which time they beat off several attacks by sharks.[168] -
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I came across this news item on BBC Essex the other day:
Is this the same person who rode for Sheffield in the 70's? Apart from the surname missing an 's' - could be a typo -he resembles him.He would be 78 now.
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23 hours ago, racers and royals said:
Jack Holder needs to pull his finger out in Torun. He is still 4 points behind the injured Michelsen who is 6th and Kubera is now only 9 points behind Holder. Holder i should imagine will not want to have to do the Challenge.
Now that Michelsen's season is over, Holder just needs 4 points to get into the top six. Kubera needs to reach the final.
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7 hours ago, davieb1 said:
Against kings Lynn max fricke scored an 18 point maximum plus 4 points for the super heat equalling 22points
Ìs there anyone who has scored more in the English league?
Or is this some kinda record ?
Bjarne Pedersen on 22nd July 2005 when riding for Poole at Lakeside (then Arena Essex). He scored 22 +1 from seven outings, one as a golden double in which he finished second behind team mate Matej Ferjan.
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5 minutes ago, Baldyman said:
Is this one on TV,,
Was to be but Eurosport have Sheffield v Belle Vue listed now.
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On 8/19/2024 at 9:04 AM, Fortythirtyeight said:
Ok, where and when was this advertised ? as I haven’t seen anything in the official fixture list.
https://britishspeedway.co.uk/event/womens-british-open-final-leicester/
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43 minutes ago, iainb said:
I think Batch made a right "Charlie" of himself
He was on his anti-sulking medication.
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2 hours ago, BluTiger said:
So did I, but does that apply to an injured rider out for the season, as well as a one in, one out change...
The only change which can be made after a club has completed 75% of its meetings is a rider returning from injury, but he is permitted only to replace whoever was signed to cover his absence.
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9 hours ago, MP78 said:
Are Leicester committed to the lineup at this stage? Would make sense to shuffle the pack surely and if Douglas is out, put R/R at number 2
Little point in that. It would mean Fricke could only take a RR outing in heat 8.
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6 minutes ago, The Third Man said:
There were also more teams, 19 when i started going, so 18 league matches, more then now riding against each other twice, so riding each other more than once would have been impossible
Exactly, but having 7 clubs riding each other twice home and away is no different to 14 clubs riding once and then all squeezed into two days of the week not six.
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13 hours ago, mikebv said:
Or not enough Monday's and Thursday's?
Correct. Back in the 70's the first division ran over 6 days (I don't recall Sundays ever being used). Therefore, 7 clubs being fitted into 2 days of the week is the equivalent of 21 clubs having 6 available. Also, they rode only once home and away in the league although there were more open meetings and international fixtures and those of other categories fitted in.
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As far as I can see, the earliest re-staging of this fixture is Monday 9th September. I wonder if this was taken into account.
British Semi Final - Leicester 1st May
in Speedway Testimonials & Individual and Shared Events
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Okay. Thanks.