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Iversen was about the best rider a few years ago,but still couldn't take that form in the GPs,so I certainly don't expect to see Lindgren near the top.

Good to see Nicki back near the top.Even as a fan I didn't think he could manage to up his form again.Then again I thought the same about Gollob.Still early days though and I am sure things will change to some extent

The weather wasn't good for the next Golden Helmet meeting on 04.09.1929,but still a decent crowd of 12,000 turned up.Two of the best riders were missing in Heinrichs and Wunder,so it was no real surprise when Franz Heck won,followed by Niss,Stölting and Strachwitz.Due to Heinrichs absence Niss now regained the lead with 26pts,Heinrichs on 25,Heck moving up to3rd with 13,Wunder 11,Plambeck 9,Strachwitz and Stölting on 6 In the handicap quails Lees couldn't make up the 4 seconds Strachwitz had and so didn't qualify for the final!!Strachwitz seemed to have found some form and managed to win the final ahead of Niss,Sörensen and Heck The bad weather had stuck around,so that the track was quite heavy and the crowd was only around the 6,000 mark to see the revenge challenge between the Lees-Heck pairing v Sorensen-M.Hansen.This time it ended a draw as 'Ginger' could only win the first two as usual and his partner finishing behind the Danes.This time though in the final heat,it wasn't Heck wh surprised,but Sorensen,by beating Lees into 2nd with Heck beating Hansen.So it ended 21 apiece. After almost two months this meeting saw the departure of Niels Sorensen,who was going back to Copenhagen and was warmly applauded as he made a final lap of the track.The top German pair of Fritz Niss and Franz Heck would also make the trip to race in Copenhagen The next meeting saw another influx of riders from England including Arthur Sherlock from Hall Green,Johnny Broughton from Sheffield and Joe Palastrand,which meant they held a scratch race event just for the 'english' riders.Arthur Sherlock looked the best of the new guys,but Lees was still a class apart and won the scratch final ahead of Sherlock and Ned Kelly and also the handicap final ahead of the Dane Kay Andersen and Johnny Broughton 3rd.Palastrand won the final for the weaker riders.His winning time of 1:57s compared poorly t Ginger Lees time of 1:46 winning the handicap final So two months after the opening the Dirt Track had established itself as one of the major sporting events in Hamburg.Well in actual fact Lokstedt was really a part of Schleswig-Holstein and only became part of Hamburg in 1937 under the Nazis.It was a fairly well to do area in troubled times.The neighbourng Hagenbecks Tierpark(zoo) was opened a couple of decades earlier.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierpark_Hagenbeck.Up until 1866 it had been like most of Schleswig-Holstein under Danish rule lying on the edge of two rival cities.Hamburg,the free Hansa city and Altona,one of the main ports under Danish control.Altona like Hamburg had its eyes on surrounding areas and wanted Lokstedt to become part of its area,which Lokstedt resisted.But it was Altona that gave 'Ginger' Lees the freedom of the city,rather than Hamburg during the 1929 season. It was also in Altona,nicknamed 'little Moscow' because of its left wing-communist leaning population,that held a trial that showed an insight into just how volatile the political state of the area was,and gave a warning for the future.In 1925 Germany signed trade contracts that opened the country to foreign trade. and cheap products flooded the market.Agricultural areas were hit hard and the areas surrounding Hamburg and Altona particularly hard as this was one of the main pig farming areas of Germany.Cheap frozen pork from Poland caused massive financial problems for farmers in the area as the price of pork plummeted.By the start of 1928 a protest movement was forming and 140,000 came out on 28.01.1928.20,000 alone in the sleepy town of Heide which had been hosting motorcycle races at its trotting track.Very soon the movement was headed by a couple of local farmers who had links to right wing movements in particular the Stahlhelm(Steel helmet)group.This movement,the 'Landvolkbewegung' soon started bomb attacks on government buildings and farm houses owned by farmers opposed to their movement.There was a major protest in August of 1929,when one of the leaders was released from a short prison term in Neumunster,north of Hamburg.Their movements flag was confiscated by the police and the this led to a boycott of selling products in the town,which almost caused its financial collapse and was only called off after a year when the flag was handed back.The area was extremely volatile and the German elections of 1928 whilst Hitlers party only managed 2.6% nationwide,in some of the areas of Schleswig-Holstein they managed 17% and in local areas up to 36%!!! In a few weeks the Wall Street Crash would make the world even more dangerous....... Altona held the trial of some of those involved with the bombings and the imprisonment meant the movement soon disappeared as the Nazis rose to power and would soon provoke the Altona bloody sunday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_People's_Movement https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landvolkbewegung_(Schleswig-Holstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altona_Bloody_Sunday Sport acted as an escape from the social and political troubles and even as the British troops were advancing on Hamburg in WW2 a large crowd attended a football match between two local sides!!!

I didn't even need it explained to me.I could see some vids were from Poland and the one from Somerset wasn't I have also seen a few posts over the years from 'speedway portal'.I just didn't know people filmed such stuff,nor that people posted such videos on here.I learnt that today As for irrelevances,not surprised you turned up

Having trouble getting images to the right size for the forum,but here is one of the track in 1929.Note the overhead lighting on wires,very similar I think to that at Plough Lane

Honestly,but speedway fans can be right weird so and so's.............next time I go to Holsted i'll film the pits for an hour before the meeting and the crowd coming into the stadium buying their polser.......

This might help..............

Fair enough.Got here too late.Not really a livestream or video watcher of sport.Just today thought i'd have a butchers and 'unavailable' was what I got and not sure who the hell wants to watch a video of promoters,riders and managers talking!!!!As if sportspeople in gereral have something interesting to say apart from all the clichesI know on one of the Bundesliga talk shows,if you come out with a cliché you have to put money into the piggy bank on the table......

Is that where some of these videos were hosted?Typical,that I have a bit of time and the will to look at a meeting and they seem to be unavailable,so I thought i'd look at the Somerset one and wondered why it was all dragging out before the meeting started.Didn't notice it wasn't a meeting video!!! Oh wellllllll

Again for the Golden Helmet meeting on 28.08 another bumper 20,000(25-30,000 from another source!!) crowd turned up.A couple of the locals(Wunder + Werner) were still missing though injury,which made qualification for the final more or less predictable.Niemeck it seems was still trying to get used to a new bike and Kellner was still trying to get used to the track and the style of racing.The best 4 at the time,Heck,Niss,Heinrichs and Stölting all made it and it was a hard fought race.Stölting had given Heck a hard race in the qualis.Heinrichs won,but the main battle was behind him with Heck making it through from last to 2nd,but couldn't get past Otto,who now took the points lead from Fritz Niss.Heinrichs had 25 pts,Niss 23,Wunder 11,Plambeck 9,Heck 8,Strachwitz 5,Stölting 4. 'Ginger' Lees was again in great form winning both finals,but he was made to work hard by Niels Sorensen in an early qualification heat where Sorensen got in front and battled hard to keep the lead.They were should to shoulder and only on the last bend did Lees manage to get ahead for the win.He made no mistake in the final winning by almost a second ahead of Sorensen and Langton.Even the time advantages held by Stölting(3s) and Morian Hansen(2s) were not enough to hold him off. The Friday evening meetings were still struggling to attract the crowds,struggling to find something of special interest like the Golden Helmet.This time a team challenge between Ginger Lees-Franz Heck v the 2 best Danes,Niels Sorensen-Morian Hansen,could only attract a crowd of around 6-7,000.Points were 5 for 1st,4,3 and 2 for last place!!The first two heats were fairly predictable in that Lees won,the two Danes 2nd and 3rd and Heck finished last,so the third heat was going to be the decider.....possibly.Lees was yet again out in front,but behind him something of a sensation was occurring.Franz Heck was giving Sorensen a hard race with Heck just in the lead,when they entered the tight bend shoulder to shoulder and Niels made a mistake and rode over the inside of the track taking a short cut,which let Heck go on to take second place and the crowd cheered him as the hero of the night!!! Heck again laid claim to being the best German rider at the time by holding off the challenge from Lees in the handicap final,who was followed by the Danes,Sörensen and Morian Hansen. Beautiful summer weather brought out another very good crowd to see the sunday meeting in Lokstedt.Two announced attempts on the track records failed.Sörensen tried but failed fairly miserably to regain his title from Lees by over a second and Franz Heck just couldn't get to the national record held by Niss + Wunder,finishing 0.2 behind the 76 seconds. The 'B' class riders were having some very good races between themselves.A number of heats between riders on 'road' bikes in previous meetings had been used to try and attract more newcomers to the sport and one of the best who had swapped over to a dirt bike,was Werner Schauer from Luneburg.The road bike races had been given the nickname 'snail cup' because of the relatively slow times,but on a dirt bike,Schauer was right on the pace and had a tough fight with Niemeck in the final,just losing out to the more experienced rider.But in the German handicap final went out and held on to his advantage winning ahead of Stölting and Niss.Bill Kellner still seemed at this point to be spending more time inspecting the dirt than riding!! Lees had won an earlier final,but in the main handicap final Lees couldn't battle for first place,having his hands full trying to gain 3rd.4 long laps Lees,Morian Hansen,Rasmussen and Heck swapped places with each other,as out in front Graf Strachwitz was having a battle with Niss for the win.Strachwitz had a second advantage over Fritz,but that was slowly being lost and he couldn't quite keep the lead until the flag.Niss,Strachwitz,Lees,M.Hansen,Rasmussen and Heck was the way it all ended It was a sad day for Hamburg motorbike sport as local rider Ernst died from internal injuries at Heide in North Germany taking a bend trying to overtake another rider,who moved out unexpectedly and Ernst crashed and flew off his 350cc bike into the crowd.Luckily only one of the spectators received a minor head injury and also lucky that Ernst bike got caught up and didn't end up following him into the spectators.The trotting track at Heide had been running meetings for a couple of years and had seen early appearances from riders who would later make appearances in Lokstedt like Stölting,Strachwitz,Niemeck and Niss

Yes I did see on Britmet’s Speedway champions site it does have Hermann down as 1950 German champion.Find the site a bit hard to get through enlarging records. I actually stumbled across the footage because I stumbled across a wonderful panorama photo of the track and then across what I thought was a great piece for the time.Probably better because of the day time meeting,whereas in England most meetings were filmed in the evening and so poorer quality

Found a good story about the former German Champ,Hermann Gunzenhauser,whos career started pre-war and ended in 1955.In German and tells of the tragic crash he had with Austrian rival Martin Schneeweiß in Graz https://www.teckbote.de/lokalsport/lokalnachrichten-lokalsport_artikel,-profirennfahrer-in-der-hitlerzeit-_arid,87636.html Also,and this is what got me looking,found some old footage of Gunzenhauser winning a meeting at the old North German Ebstorf dirt track in 1951.Footage of the meeting is right at the end https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/585968?set_lang=de Gunzenhauser was of course a two time winner of the Zlata Prilba in Pardubice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Helmet_of_Pardubice

Yes of course we have had umpteen threads about a Dirk Bogarde film that features speedway.I guess you can't really expect people who push a door when it say's 'pull' on it,to follow guidelines.But Rob is a superior sort of speedway fan,so he tells us

Wednesday night,Golden Helmet night,and 15,000 attended to see another step in Franz Hecks steady rise on the Lokstedt Dirt-Track.The 4 best riders,Heck,Niss,Heinrichs and Wunder had all qualified for the final,but the man at the top of the points table couldn't take his place due to feeling unwell,so it ended up a surprisingly easy win for Heck followed by Heinrichs and Wunder.The points table now looked....Niss 21,Heinrichs 20,Wunder 11,Plambeck 9,Strachwitz and Heck 5......The gradual development of the German riders was shown in that there were now 5 riders who had ridden under 79 seconds.Heck,Heinrichs,Niss,Wunder and Stölting,who had missed the last few meetings due to injury The handicap final again saw a battle between Heck and Lees,which this time Ginger couldn't quite manage to win.Oliver Langton was third and behind him Wunder managed to hold off the challenge from Niels Sörensen The Friday meeting saw the 'king' of Lokstedt take back his crown.The meeting opened with the advertised attempt on the world and track record by Ginger Lees which with his wonderful track technique he not only managed to break,but knocked a full second off the old record!!To loud applause Ginger made a lap of honour as it was announced the new world record stood at 72.4!!! After this great start the meeting fell victim to rain,and although it finished,many of the riders had trouble with the conditions and a number fell.Strangely when the track was built they made it egg shaped and so it had two very different bends.One large the other very sharp and over the season it was usually the sharp bend that gave the riders problems and in nasty conditions like this night even Ginger Lees had to take the sharp bend 'gingerly' as the rain continuedThe meeting also saw a 'revenge' challenge between Wunder and Morian Hansen,which this time Hansen won in two straight heats,the second of which saw Wunder fall and injure himself and put him out of the meeting.Shortly before the meeting ended Johannes did appear out on the track to show he was ok and received a round of applause from the crowd Ginger Lees won an English-Danish challenge ahead of fellow countryman Langton and Franz Heck won a german only final,which saw the first appearance(as far as I know) of Bill Kellner,who would later turn out for Preston,so it was looking likely that Heck and Lees would again clash in the main handicap final.Unfortunately in an earlier heat Heck had trouble with the track fell,remounted and then rode into the back of Heinrichs and caused both to crash and Heck was disqualified from the rest of the night.And so this time with all riders being very cautious it was difficult for Ginger to make up the time advantages the other riders held over him.Niels Sorensen won,followed by Bullas and Graf Strachwitz.Lees finished a lowly 4th ahead of Langton and Heinrichs The sunday meeting saw a Germany v Denmark test match and also a match race challenge between Oliver Langton and the returning Stewie St.George.12,000 saw Langton win the first heat in a super time of 74 seconds.St.George's track return was too early though and he couldn't come out for any more rides,so a handicap match race between Langton and Ginger Lees was arranged with Oliver receiving a 3 sec advantage which Ginger couldn't make up The Germany v Denmark test match was affected by the poor state of the German bikes.There were a large number of e.f's and in heat 6 neither of the german riders managed to cross the finish line,much to the frustration of the crowd.Funnily it all started quite well because Niels Sörensens bike didn't really get going at first and so Franz Heck could win and Fritz Niss managed to finish behind Sorensen,but ahead of his partner Otto Hansen,so Germany took a first heat advantage 7-4.But the next race gave the pattern for the night.Heinrichs bike packed up and Niemecks bike wasn't firing on all cylinders,but he did manage to finish and now the Danes were leading 9-12 and so it carried on.Heat 3 saw Thorkild Clausen of Denmark drop out due to a broken chain and although he fell Count Strachwitz managed to continue and finish.Heck managed to win heat 5 for Germany,but his partner Fritz Niss couldn't come out to take his ride,presumably not fully recovered from his illness that affected him the previous meeting and his replacement Plambeck didn't manage to complete the heat!!As mentioned,the next heat was a disaster for Germany as neither Strachwitz nor Arnold Stölting managed to finish and so it was now 25-37.Niss had recovered by the last heat and manged to win followed by his team mate Heck and with Morian Hansen not finishing it made the final score 54-40.Without the gremlins it was thought Germany could have managed a win Full details,though without any mention of the 'drop outs' can be found here http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/gervden.htm In the handicap final it was back to the normal routine of a battle between Heck and Lees,which Heck won,gaining revenge for the defeat by Lees in the quali heat

Sometimes when in a hole it is better to chuck the shovel away rather than keep digging......

That is what it say's in the forum guidelines!! DOn't like 'em,join a forum that fit your requirements or start your own........

I did.Nothing new apart from she was on Telly talking about the incident.Could have just been added to the previous thread on the subject,although it seemed to me he didn’t search to see if one existed

Well Rickardsson did take Anders Mellgren under his wing and how good was he?

I think the 'Charlie Webster fighting for her life' thread dealt with it all at the time

A couple of troublesome meetings and there was already the call to drop Fridays altogether and concentrate on Wednesday and sunday,and to move the sunday meeting to the evening.And then for the 14th August Wednesday meeting for the Golden Helmet it was beautiful summer weather and a record crowd turned out of between 20-25,000!!!! It should be mentioned at this point that in 1930 one journalist mentioned that the crowd figures for the first season were at times over-estimated,so we can't take them for gospel.For one record breaking meeting later on in 1929 there is a difference of 10,000 between on estimate and another.And of course speedway or shall we say dirt-track wasn't alone,not even at this stadium as the Schmeling-Neusel fight has estimates between 80 and 102,000....... What was recognisable by now was the improvement of the local riders after 6 weeks of racing,added to a week or more of training before the Stadium was opened to the public.It was harder to pick out a winner of the races between the german riders than it had been earlier in the season.This time Otto Heinrichs was in best form and Wunders new machine was giving him some trouble.Otto won the final with a great ride and was loudly cheered on his lap of honour.The result Heinrichs in a time of 79.4 followed by Plambeck,Wunder and Niss who was slowly losing his big lead:Niss 21 pts,Heinrichs 17,Wunder + Plambeck 9,Strachwitz who hadn't featured for a while on 5 etc.... In a danish-english scratch Niels Sorensen won a tough dual just ahead of Ginger Lees in a time 79.2 and Stewie St.George was 3rd.Then in the main handicap final,St.George couldn't take his place due to bike problems,so Franz Heck as the next best rider took his place.There had been a bit of controversy in one of the quali heats as the result was announced that Ginger Lees had won in a time of 1.51.2(for 4 laps) closely followed by Otto Heinrichs in 1.53,but the crowds were in uproar as Otto had a 2 second advantage which didn't seem to be taken into account,and so should have been the winner!!The 4 second advantage held by Heck was just enough to see him win the final despite another great rider from Lees,who finished 2nd ahead of Morian Hansen and Niels Sörensen.The first major prize for the man from Berlin After the great crowd on Wednesday it was anther disappointing Friday night crowd of around 6,000 who turned up to see the announced attack on the world mile record from Niels Sörensen and the match race challenge between local rider,Wunder and 2nd best Dane,Morian Hansen. Johannes was again in great form and beat Hansen in two straight heats,with times of 76.0 and 80.0,but it was Sorensen who really turned it on and though a number of stop watches couldn't show a time better than Arthur Jervis' world record,they could show that Sorensen had equalled it!!!Lees managed to win two finals on the night,the second after a hard battle finishing ahead of Franz Heck to take revenge for the Wednesday night defeat The 'sunday' meeting was moved to Monday,because Farmsen held a meeting at the 1,000m+ horse track and despite the 'off night' a decent crowd of 10,000 turned up,after around 15,000 had turned up at nearby Farmsen the day before.The meeting saw a number of falls,luckily only 1 had any serious effects on the riders.Otto Hansen had a spectacular fall,flying over his handlebars,but managed to get up and carry on riding to great applause. A couple of new faces had arrived.One Bullas,was known,like Heck before him from the Nürburgring.The other had only travelled to help his brother out and because Eric Langton had developed some nasty sores that hampered his riding,brother Oliver took his place.Bullas couldn't really get to grips with the new surface,but Oliver Langton was no newcomer to the sport and made a great debut in Lokstedt.He gave an improved Stewie St.George a tough fight before the New Zealander could win his heat.Ginger Lees had already got one up on the new record holder SörensenThe final saw a very close race which Lees won in a good time of 75.1 followed by St.George,Langton and Sorensen.In one of the later heats Stewie St.George fell and broke a rib,just as he was finding his form in Hamburg!!!For the second meeting in a row in the final final Lees beat Franz Heck who finished ahead of Langton.Sörensen and Morian Hansen

The next meeting on the 4th August saw the return to competitive action for Ginger Lees,who in his first heat was greeted with a warm round of applause.Sadly many of the 15 or so thousand that attended were disappointed that the advertised match race between their English hero and the new 'star',St.George didn't take place as Stewie hadn't turned up.Why,nobody knew as no explanation was given to the crowd!!!It was hoped that this wouldn't happen in the future,that a top rider was advertised and didn't show up.In the place of the advertised match race they held a best of 3 between two of the Hamburg riders,Fritz Niss and Otto Heinrichs,which wasn't without an added bit of controversy. The first heat was won by Niss who was closely followed by Heinrichs,but in the second heat it looked as though Niss was doing all he could,quite openly, to let Heinrichs win.In the decider Niss again won after a tough battle.The first sour notes were creeping in though after what was thought to be a relatively good start to the campaign for the promoters.Lees came second in both handicap finals.In the first eh couldn't quite make up the 8 second advantage held by Hans Bitsch and in the main final the 5 seconds that Arnold Stölting had over him The Wednesday evening meeting again saw the Golden Helmet battle.This time it was what might be called a 'Wunderful' meeting!! What was now being classed as the record attendance so far of 20,000 watched a real wonder.Johannes Wunder,the local rider from Lokstedt had up to now mainly been the first rider at the start and by the finish,the last.Now he had bought himself a new bike and things changed overnight.A Wunder!!!Johannes not only won the Golden Helmet final,but he did it in a national record of 79 seconds.Otto Heinrichs fell whilst in 2nd place,so leaving Stölting to come in behind Wunder followed by Fritz Niss.In their quali though it ended up a dead heat between Wunder and Heinrichs!!! The Golden Helmet points now were:Niss 20,Heinrichs 11,Wunder 7,Plambeck 6,Strachwitz 5,Stölting 3,König + Niemech 1 In the main handicap final of the night Stölting with a 4 second advantage looked like he was on his way to a win,when on the last bend his bike packed up,leaving Morian Hansen to win closely followed by Lees After the problems of the Wednesday meeting,the last thing that was needed was more problems.Unfortunately that was what they got.Stöltings bike packing up on the Wednesday was just the prelude to what happened on the Friday evening.Stewie St.George had finally arrived and the match race series against Lees could this time take place.Disappointingly for the crowd Lees won without problem in two heats.In the second St.George's bike packed up.......Heat after heat riders either dropped out due to bike problems or couldn't even start.Eventually the crowd got fed up with this and started to whistle their disapproval.In the handicap final Graf Strachwitz led for most of the race,but couldn't hold on to his lead and eventually finished a good 3rd,behind Lees and Morian Hansen

Ultimate professional and one of the very best our sport has seen RIP

https://goo.gl/images/aSnLvV The DKW bike ridden by Fritz Niemeck and Stewie St.George.Niemeck worked for the company as far as I know

Thanks for the confirmation on Heck.Did think Berlin must have been a trotting track as Motordrom A.G had only announced shortly before that they planned to build a track in Berlin,and even though they had built a 'track' in Hamburg in just 4 weeks,it took another couple to get the stadium finished,so no way had they managed it in such a short period.Also knew about tracks in Breslau,Munich and Cologne,but the others are new to me If I can jump a few months,well a season really forward then there is another mystery.....on his first appearance in Hamburg 'Spouts' Elder was billed as 'the worlds best rider' and a crowd somewhere between 35-45,000 turned up given from various sources.No real argument with that,but for the opening meeting of 1930 he was being billed as 'world champion'!!! Now how can this be?Even in the press it was questioned as to where this world championship was held and against which riders he won this title?He had lost the final of the 'Star Championship',but on Britmets website there is the tale of how he won the first world championship in Argentina.This though was at the end of the 1930 season........An early example of Promoters hype or was there an earlier world championship series in Argentina the season before?It should also be noted that at least for the 1929 meetings that Elder attended,the prices were raised!!!! http://www.speedwaychampions.com/resources/pdfs/1931 World Championship (4) 2013.pdf I also remember talking to post war Hamburg rider,Alfred Dannmeyer and he told me the story of riding in Denmark and the old Hamburg rider Alfred Rumrich was also there and was introduced to the crowd as 'world champion'.......so might have been lots of this going on

The next meeting on 28.07 featured the much awaited match race challenge between Lees and Jervis.Again a very good crowd of 16,000 turned up.In the first heat of the best of 3,Lees made a great start and after the first lap was 50m in front and held that lead in the next lap,but Jervis was making up ground and into the last turn was only about a metre behind Lees,but couldn't get past him.Lees was greeted with hearty applause from the crowd.The second heat had to be put back until after the break as Jervis had problems with his bike and had to repare the cylinder head.Before the next heat Jervis made a test lap to see that everything was ok,then showed he was happy.Jervis led from start to finish,but was chased all the way by Lees who was trying everything he could to get past,to no avail.The times for both heats showed how good the riders were going.75.6 for Lees and 76.0 for Jervis!! They met again before the scheduled decider in one of the finals over 3 laps.Lees had beaten Morian Hansen in his quali,Jervis on the other hand surprising finished behind Danish rider Walter Ryle.In the final Jervis upped his game and came out of the first bend in front,but Lees was not giving up and managed to pass Arthur on the home straight of the first lap.It was again looking like a super race,but then Lees lost control on the bend and had what looked like a very nasty crash and Jervis went on to win the final followed by Morian Hansen.It was announced that Lees was only shaken up and a little while later it was relayed to the crowd that he had recovered enough to have a cigarette!!! He couldn't come out for the match race decider though,and it was announced that they would hold a new one at the next meeting....... Unfortunately when the next meeting was held Ginger hadn't recovered from his fall and the new world record holder,Jervis was having his last meeting for while at least,as he was being recalled to England so they could parade him to the fans.The Golden Helmet had helped make Wednesdays the main race night and 15,000 turned up.After a couple of relatively low turnouts things were looking so good that Motordrom A.G were now planning to run 3 meetings a week!!!Wednesday-Friday and Sunday..... The heats saw the first appearance of a german rider from outside of Hamburg.Franz Heck from Berlin,who it was said had been training on the Berlin Dirt Track!!Taking a guess,but could this be the same Franz Heck who won the 1928 1000cc race at the Nürburgring?Strange that no metion of this is made if it is,but would be a big coincidence if there was another Franz Heck from Berlin racing motorbikes at the same time.This time Fritz Niss couldn't win,but only come 2nd to Otto Heinrichs and Graf Strachwitz finishing 3rd. Niss still had a good lead with 18pts,Heinrichs now on 11,Max Plambeck on 6,Graf Strachwitz on 5,Wunder 2.König and Niemeck on1 Jervis found it all a bit harder and struggled to find a way past Niels Sorensen in his heat,only managing due to a mistake by the Dane on the home straight otherwise Niels looked the likely winner.And then in the final Arthur couldn't quite make up the 4 second advantage that Kay Hansen held and so finished 2nd in front of the following Morian Hansen and Sorensen As a replacement for Jervis it was said that one of the Australian riders that brought the sport to Europe was coming to Hamburg.Steve St.George!!!! A top class rider would be arriving for the next meeting.Ignoring the fact they had his name and nationality wrong there turned out to be two problems.First he didn't turn up on time,but maybe even worse,when he did,it was found he wasn't as good as they had been led to believe!! The first Friday meeting saw a very poor crowd of around 3,000 turn up and the question was asked,'is it too much,3 meetings a week?' A reason for this might have been down to only using German and Danish riders,and not the expensive English.What it did have was a match between Germany and Denmark,at least of sorts.3 pairs from each country were graded into groups with the idea that evenly matched groups would bring very close races.So in the C group Germany had Plambeck and Wunder against Knudsen and Hoier for Denmark.Group B saw Arnold Stölting and Niemeck v Hans Bitsch and Otto Hansen.Then Group A saw Fritz Niss and Otto Heinrichs come up against Th.Clausen and the other Bitsch brother,Johannes!!! The C group at least didn't turn out quite so even as things were hoped as Einar Knudsen won all 3 followed by his partner Hoier and Max Plambeck finishing 3rd in each,but strangely it seems points were only awarded for the first 3 places,rather than 5-3-2-1,so Knudsen ended with a 15pt max,then Hoier on 9 and Plambeck with 6. In group B Germany held the upper hand winning each heat.Stölting the first two and then his partner Niemeck one and the points ended up with Stölting on 13,Niemeck with 8,H.Bitsch 5 and O.Hansen 4 The A group saw Golden Helmet leader Niss win the first heat,but in the next two he could only once finish among the points with a 3rd.Thorkild Clausen won the 2nd and 3rd heat and his partner Bitsch managed a second place in all 3 heats,so Clausen ended with 10,Bitsch with 9,Niss on 7 and Heinrichs with 4. This meeting did though see the return of Ginger Lees on track after his crash.During the break he rode 3 laps in a good time of 75.6 and looked as good as before his injury!!!