Spartan59

Yes that is very true and I wholly heartedly agree that we never want to see such a thing connected with speedway again. Would be nice to think that anyone that troubled in this day and age would be suitably helped. Although somehow I doubt it. It's so sad to think that up until those tragic events he was the best thing to hit speedway in many a long year. It's even sadder to think that we all tend to look back, me included, at our nations best speedway riders and that in all that time since then we've struggled to find anyone to truly compete at the top level in any meaningfully consistent way.

Love him or loathe him there is no doubting that, aside from what went on inside his head, he made a major impact on speedway with his riding talent and to be honest far eclipses the likes of Simmons, Jessup et al. Personally I would say that after Craven it was Lee, PC then Carter. Michael Lee was another massive talent cursed by troubles and could’ve achieved so much more. However, if we were to get into the realms of ifs and buts and after seeing him through his shortened career then I strongly feel that a trouble free Carter would’ve been the best. The talent and application to speedway was there he was just bedevilled by too many demons.