iris123 Posted September 20, 2022 Report Share Posted September 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, Chris116 said: Yes, the motor circuit used to feature car, sidecar and bike racing. It was the only non oval race track I have really enjoyed watching racing at. Sadly the athletics track cut across the bottom straight and they always had lots of complaints about noise from a local hospital. The chances of getting permission to run any motor sport would be very slim and that is if they would allow the athletics track to be dug up. There must be room in the grounds to build a simple stadium without knocking anything down but the noise issue would still stop anything happening. Never saw any racing there, but i do remember they had a big advertising board up near the roundabout. Plus i seem to recall they had a motorcycle training school there, or at least the advert made me think it was there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris116 Posted September 20, 2022 Report Share Posted September 20, 2022 5 minutes ago, iris123 said: Never saw any racing there, but i do remember they had a big advertising board up near the roundabout. Plus i seem to recall they had a motorcycle training school there, or at least the advert made me think it was there The motorcycle training school was on what is now a car park near where the Crystal Palace was until it burnt down. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HertsRacer Posted September 22, 2022 Report Share Posted September 22, 2022 A long shot, but one place which might be worth a look at is the Henry Barrass Stadium in Edmonton. Don't know how close it is to any housing, and it is basically a playing field today being used for non league football. However, it did once have a cinder running track and in the early 1960's Wally Mawdsley and Pete Lansdale unsuccessfully applied too run Provincial League speedway there. Looking on Google it appears that the owners are looking at ways to regenerate the site, and bring back its former glory. If its possible, it would take a lot of money to introduce speedway there, but it could be hugely successful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HackneyHawk Posted September 25, 2022 Report Share Posted September 25, 2022 On 9/17/2022 at 9:37 AM, Vic Meldrew said: They would surely be offended on behalf of everyone at the thought of motorcyclists injuring themselves or colliding with each other. Grow up 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Meldrew Posted September 26, 2022 Report Share Posted September 26, 2022 23 hours ago, HackneyHawk said: Grow up I don't believe it - another sense of humour failure ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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