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I don't think Mud ever played at Plough Lane.Neither did Alvin Stardust nor thank heavens Sam Fox,though they all made celebrity appearances at the track.At least one of the guys from Mud lived round the corner from me.Me and one of my mates knocked on their door on our way to school to get an autograph,but was told by the lady of the house he wasn't at home Think I am right in saying Marc Bolan lived in the shadow of the stadium.Don't know if he ever went to the speedway though,but he might have bought a record or two from Briggo's old shop....

Agree it looks a nice track and set up,but there are about 50 people there and I guess most are friends and family.Just like a Danish 1st division meeting,only the standard of racing is much poorer.It is hard to charge people for that level.In Denmark those meetings are free I don't disagree with the idea.The problem with running outside of the BSPA/ACU is where are the riders coming from?They would be amateurs I guess.OK like scb said the locals wouldn't know the difference at first.But after a meeting or two you can at that level have a big difference and see that some guys or girls can hardly get round the bends and it doesn't really have much of a future....Maybe looking at the big picture of this whole venture they could afford to run meetings at a loss though,and they can attract a few youngsters who would progress to league speedway......

I thought it might.It is a 'pairs' meeting and the idea is the best 'pair' win

What happened to Järf? Not interested in international meetings?Could be a world championship without any Finns.Would be nice to see Weber get through and one of the young Swedes.Have one or two new faces and not the same old same old......

I do agree with scb that the new track should stick to the idea he put forward and training schools.The worry is though and I have said it a few times before is that the BSPA don't imo want a track to do their own thing.Everyone has to play the same game and join the league.I hope not,as it could be the future and the saving of one or two tracks that can't afford regular speedway nights.Is it a worry that if one track makes a small success of open meetings that one or two others would join them and you are left without enough teams for the leagues.....

No.Steffanie Jensen.I remember seeing her ride 80cc in a team with another young girl(Nanna Jorgensen),who eventually signed, just for publicity purposes for a polish team.Never rode for them though.I think Stef had a bad accident and broke her leg maybe very soon after moving on to 500cc

Ha ha,it wasn't meant to be a how many brothers and sisters have ridden speedway.Just a thread to show a tv report on these guys As it is I think ex Halifax rider Kurt Hansens son and daughter both ride speedway in Denmark Also a brother and sister rode ice speedway in Finland but I won't try to spell their names!!!!

Report on German childrens tv about Marvin(14) and sister Chayenne(13) riding speedway on 125cc http://www.kika.de/schau-in-meine-welt/sendungen/sendung89314.html

Howdy Byford was another rider who often done a turn after the meeting.Here after a meeting in Vienna http://www.technischesmuseum.at/motorsport-in-oesterreich/veranstaltung/articleid/2189 Although this is not after or before a meeting,the Hurricane festival is a major music festival held at the Scheeßel longtrack stadium.It probably funds the motorcycle clubs season,rather than their longtrack activities and it says it was at this festival in 2004 that David Bowie gave his last full concert....... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Festival

Other way round.A few years back Brokstedt had a local band on before the meeting.Didn't make much difference to the crowd even though his concerts sell out the stadium in Hamburg.I was quite surprised at the lack of crowd really http://www.lottokingkarl.de/ Found a report,it was 2010 http://www.shz.de/lokales/norddeutsche-rundschau/msc-brokstedt-show-und-sport-im-holstein-ring-id2825796.html Of course how could I forget Egon Müller?He often played a concert after meetings.And there are often bands after or even before weekend meetings at speedway,ice speedway but more often longtrack/grasstrack if there is a meeting at the track on both Saturday and sunday then usually Saturday night they put on a concert.But with small local bands

Think I last saw him down at Kingstonians old ground:he was player manager there.Got replaced in the Chelsea side by my old school mate Colin Pates,who also had a spell at Charlton and The Arse

A Final scores are 4,3,2,1.....so you get a point minimum as long as you have qualified I only watched 4 heats and gave up,but good service,can't complain.Guess Phil didn't get a mention when they were greeting all the overseas guys including Rosco,Tony Steele and Andy P

I don't think he was at Hull an awful lot longer was he? But I guess this must be the period he was talking about,as normally he is dismissed at least on here as being a one hit wonder and one of the worst world champs in history

Look,i was liking his post for the fact that he said that signs are that bosses won't go on agreeing to high rider demands and absolutely nothing to do with anything you post mate.If you can understand this,i find it great that bosses at sometime will come around to thinking we can't go on like this forever.That is it,full stop.I don't really care for most of your posts and my liking of the post had absolutely zero to do with you

That's right,Dave Webb.For some reason Micky Droy always comes into my head.....memories eh?

Yes,speedway was big back then and people like Briggo were also friends with football players and even got to know stars like Steve McQueen!!!! And I think even earlier George Formby was a bit of a speedway fan

Think in 1964 he finished behind Mary Rand......but if I use a quote from Parsloes from a few years back in answer to the rigged vote

Not sure what you are looking for Steve,but every year there is a Sports personality thread started and I think every year this comes up in the thread .2015,2014,2013 etc Have a search and I am sure you will find lots of posts on the subject

What about Tom Stenner?Never read any of his annuals or his book Thrilling the million,so have no idea whether his work is a good read or not

Yes we, or should I say I now know despite a couple of things on the net calling him Seifert including this report from last years German championship http://www.racetrack-news.de/2015/03/eisspeedway-dm-legend-never-ends.html

I often get called Dough......and then my last Danish speedway league pass was John!!!!!

Could be,but last season he was known as Seifert I am sure But I know Timo is often called Lathi or something in Germany and he finds it quite funny I agree with you on Annti

I know everyone seems to be spelling it Seifter,but I think his real name is Seifert!!!! Bit of a surprise as is Aakko's poor performance.Still not fit or what? And is just over 600 a decent crowd?I'd guess it is Looks like I got that wrong and he is called Seifter!!! despite those calling him Seifert http://www.speedway-forum.de/index.php/Thread/11553-Eisspeedway-Labberfred-2015-2016/?pageNo=21

Live updates from Ylitornio.Seems all ok now http://nicesport.pl/live/198144/ice-racing-rk-ims-ylitornio-finlandia-09012016-godz-1230

Kurtz at least took advantage of the Danish speedway season to get some early experience.Saw him at a young age on 80cc as I also remember seeing Masters.But I also saw Brady when he came over for a season in Denmark and seems to have paid dividends.