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Was the title all on this Grand Final then? I did see that there would be a Grand Final and wondering what the point was.......

Nigel has his last official meeting in the UK in 1974,but s here late 1975 in Rhodesia !!! http://www.speedway-sa.com/resources/Rhodesia_2018/1975 only Fix%2BResults.pdf

Ditto. Which makes me wonder why you keep posting this stuff, as if I care one iota !!!

Same here.I receive a few messages about you.Someone even mentioned how your name was mud with a few riders.Everyone can see how you post rubbish in the hope of disrupting threads all over the place just this week and got shot to pieces

We are on the BSF and so I am only talking about the BSF.No deflection As for the troll part....if the cap fits Not been a good week for you here!!!

We have had years of it.Asking the same questions,posting the same comments over and over like a stuck Frankie Vaughan record.Nobody takes the old boy serious.

Guessing that Nigel Rackett was his son

When we talk about the track staff like Tozer and Crossley,the big guy with the white hair springs instantly to mind.Looks as if he is handing over the rains to someone else in this video.He comes on the track once or twice to give a bit of advise/help.But he is the one I always remember

Saw him at White City where he really rose to the top and subsequently back st Eastbourne.But was surprised he rode that last time at Plough Lane as when I talked to Barney it sounded like Gordon wasn’t that interested in speedway any more.Think Barney said he had tried to get Gordon to watch a meeting without any luck.

Ok,I just misunderstood ‘start their senior league duties’.One of those that slipped through our fingers,but for me a big surprise to see him out there at the last speedway ‘night’ and the one rider who really rode the track.Went up in my estimation

Just to correct.Gordon Kennett started out at Eastbourne and Wimbledon in 1970.He made second half appearances and also 5 league appearances for the Dons that year.Sadly he we let him get away until his return in the 80s It was great to see him in the last appearance of speedway bikes before the track closed for good

Isn’t this down to a sponsorship deal? Generally agreed that the sport should dedicate money and time on encouraging young riders.Fail to do that and the sport really is heading towards a brick wall

It is difficult to compare like for like.Even within speedway there is less interest in this level. Not even sure there are differing levels in stock car racing like there are in F 1 style with Formula Ford etc.So how do you compare stock car interest with National League?

And so someone who admits they have little interest in modern speedway has taken the time to become something of a Buxton expert??? Rather strange world you inhabit or do you sometimes just tell porkies?

Full story http://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/_mobile/news.php?extend.36039

Seeing as you have stated since the late 70s you have hardly attended speedway and have little or no interest in modern Speedway,on what knowledge do you judge there is a difference? 30 minutes of a stock car forum?What is your knowledge of Buxton speedways struggle to survive?

I think the reason for the difference is the number of wheels.Cars tend to have 4 of them and bikes just two

I see the Young Lions are coming to Germany for some training at Neuenknick .Are these meetings going to be internationals?

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Think he posted on the forum a few hours back

Again,another I can't remember seeing in action during his brief spell,but someone I have met since. Torben Hansen who helped save and run the Skaerbaek Speedway Club http://speedwaylife.com/danish-tracks/skaerbaek-speedway-stadium/

It was also pot luck if you saw some of these guys.Halifax and Sheffield didn’t visit Wimbledon often and you’d sometimes be wishing they didn’t kick a rider out before we met them Another was Jan Jakobsen at Cradley.Can't really remember him.We were in another league by then anyway.But subsequently met him and his son.He managed Vojens,i think and his son was one of the best on the 80cc.From memory I was there when he won the junior world championship

Yes,it is also possible if I look back I’m my old Programme collection I have actually seen one or two live,just they made absolutely no impression on me.Teromaa I do remember and his more successful brothet

I guess what I mean is not only did I miss their UK career I missed their whole career even on the continent.At least with Bøgh I did subsequently hear of him.Same with Kurt Hansen from Halifax A number of these riders in the past few days the first I ever heard of them was when someone posted something here!!! Even living in Germany I have never heard of Odematt. But most of my speedway friends here come from the old East Germany so riders like Tetzlaff ,Ernst or Mike Ott are mentioned more than the West Germans

The other two, again, never heard of!!!