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Johnny Hoskins became the secretary of the Local Hunter River Agricultural Society that promoted the dirt track meeting at the Show Ground , West Maitland. It was the first time that the show ground had electricity. Some riders wore helmets others never bothered. Very few wore gloves.Some were 250 cc's some were 1000 cc's. It was two mile handicap races of 6 riders. Sixty riders took part and there was £50 prize money. One of the rules was no rider must take his foot or feet off the footrest. No safety fence and not called Speedway

Nice to see you are learning my trade to drive fork lift trucks. I did not have any special training I just picked it up as I went along

The arguments about where was the first Speedway meeting will always be disputed. Maybe we should find out what the word speedway actually means and where did it come from. The word speedway became into being around the period of 1890 to 1910. The word meant a stadium for either cars or motorbikes and came from USA. There is a town in Indiana USA called Speedway (population 12,500) So could this mean that speedway roughly as we know it started there during this period, which is a lot earlier than anything in England or Australia.

There might have been a Jack Storey or is that another story

No commentary on tonight's live match. You can hear the bikes and crowd but no chat

Any alterations for tonight's (Wednesday) teams

I am suprised that nobody has mention Gary Havelock or Chris Louis who both are former world champions. I would certainly place them ahead of Trevor Hedge,The Boococks,Geoff Pusey,McKinlay,Ray Wilson and Kelvin Tatum

Speedway not on Premier until 22.00 They got non league football on earlier. They advertized live speedway but hardly any live now so have cancelled by subscription.

Great comment from Jan on the heat two crash between Nicki Pedersen and Bjarne Pedersen "I dont think there is any doubt it ,Pedersen will be excluded from the re-run as being the cause of the accident"

yes, although sky are showing spanish football live ,you will have to press the red button and then you will get the gp

Ipswich Ideal team for next season would be Jarek Hampel Hans Andersen Danny King Taylor Poole Lasse Bjerre Sam Masters Cameron Heeps Lets get back in a proper league with local derbies against Kings Lynn,Peterborough and Arena Essex. It is difficult to name the three local derbies in the Premier league. Plus TV money and under half the travelling costs. Then heat leaders like Nikki Pedersen,Emil Sayfudtinov compared to Leigh Lanham and Joe Screen. Perhaps a lot of those that have disappeared from the terraces would come back again. How many will attend a early bank holiday match against Kings Lynn compared to Rye House. At least three times as many for KL compared to RH

Speedway has been sold down the Swannee by IMG. Is there another sport that has a live three hour TV programme in which the winner receives under £7,000 and some of the riders do not even get paid £1.000 Compare this to so called sports like Snooker and Darts the prize money is ludicious. It would be great if all the riders refused to ride in the GP,s until they got a better deal

There has never been a World Final or GP season where the best 15 or 16 riders have ridden in since Speedway started.

Has there ever been a match which has ended in a draw like tonight's match between Isle Of Wight and Mildenhall; Cameron Heeps was the only rider for Mildenhall to win a race for them, yet they still managed to get a draw out of the meeting. Has this ever happened before?

Belle Vue 1928

My apologies . I was looking at Denmark race draw and not Scandinavian

The GP draw shows JB Jensen riding at number 9. Why is Thomass Jonasson not riding

Philip I think you will find that the old one off world final only came to Wembley every 3 years in later times, but then there were Inter-Continental and Commonweath etc finals in the intermediate years. Surely you cannot be saying it would only come to England every six years most likely four. Could understand England,Sweden,Denmark and Poland. Anywhere else would be a financial disaster. There was very little publicity in the national papers when Mark Loram won the world title. Compare this with tennis which has a comparable TV viewing figures(except Wimbledon) and there has not been a singles British Grand Slam champion for 34 years yet there is plenty of publicity in newspapers for this sport without having a winner since 1977

Get back to the old system of a one off world final. How many times do you see a write up of a GP before an event or a report afterwards in any national newspaper.There is virtually nothing. With the old system the profits of a Wembley final went back into Speedway. With the GP system British Speedway gets nothing or may be a one of their star riders injured. The GP's have ruined British Speedway. The best night of the week for promoting Speedway is Friday or Saturday night. There is hardly any Speedway on a Saturday night now due to the GP's. I bet Belle Vue would like to go back to Saturday for their home night. It makes it easier to take children as there is no school the next day.

I remember being on holiday in Majorca in 1971(?) and there was a Speedway meeting at San Pardo which I went to. I think the meeting was won by a Marshall Pugh who raced a few times in GB. I think nearly all the other riders were Spanish and there was a crowd of around 7,000 there.

Did anybody notice how poor the crowd was. Looked like about 3-4000. With the gate at the Ullevi GP an all time low for Speedway there, and another low gate at Prague recently Are the Grand Prix's losing their attraction?

Why was Pepe Protasiewicz not excluded in heat 23. Where is the rule in World Team Cup of all four back

Disgraceful Final decisions by the Referee. To start with the race should have been called back because ES go a flyer. Then NP once again pushing all the riders out wide. I think with GP's there are now such thing as first bend bunching as somebody has to be blamed for causing the stoppage. i would have thrown out NP Nevertheless every body wants to see a final with all four riders

I seem to remember there were 50,000 people there. Might be an ideal place for another GP

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