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Again,great issue.One of my early memories of Div.2 racing was seeing Stoke beat Rye House in the opening meeting '75 at Hoddesdon.I used to be able to persuade my dad to take me to 1 or 2 meetings a year outside London Anyway it was an away win for the Potters with Alan Molyneux scoring 15 and Steve Bastable at reserve scoring 14,paid 15.Mularkey was having problems with King's Lynn and not sure why"Crazy" Jack wasn't riding

result taken from www.msc-diedenbergen.de 1.M.Zakharov 15 2.P.Tchaika 14 3.F.Zorn 13

results taken from www.inspeed.de ulamek 15 andersson 13 + 3 walasek 13 + 2 povazhny 13 + 1 pingel 9 smith 9 bager 9 schultz 8 mell 6 wolter 6 haupt 6 johansson 4 knakowski 4 hefenbrock 3 diener 2 vissing 0

Result of the 1st round(west) taken from www.msc-diedenbergen.de Brokstedt 40 Diedenbergen 30 Neuenknick 27 Olching 23 Full race card can be seen here

1.S.Ulamek(2,3,3,3,3)14 2.A.Smith(3,3,2,2,3)13+3 3.S.Mell(3,3,2,3,2)13+2 4.J.Pingel(2,3,3,1,3)12 5.M.Wolter(1,2,3,2,3)11 6.G.Walasek(0,2,3,3,1)9 7.H.Bager(1,2,1,3,2)9 8.C.Hefenbrock(0,2,2,2,2)8 9.N.Klingberg(3,1,0,1,2)7 10.R.Povashny(2,1,1,2,0)6 11.R.Haupt(3,0,1,1,1)6 12.T.Johansson(2,1,0,0,1)4 13.R.Diener(1,0,2,e.f,0)3 14.D.Knakowski(0,1,0,1,1)3 15.C.Vissing(1,0,0,0,0)1 16.E.Janoschka(0,0,1,0,0)1 Weather damp and misty Att:1,900 Meeting held up an hour to allow Andy Smith to arrive Heat 4,Ulamek gates but Mell comes around the outside Heat 5,Smith powers between Bager & Johansson Heat 7,Wolter passes Povashny on last lap Heat 8,Knakowski makes great gate,first Mell passes and gradually Hefe as well Heat 12,Mirko passes the others and behind a great tussle between Hefe & Bager Heat 16,Pingel out first but first Ulamek then Hefe come past Heat 20,Hefenbrock comes round Smith and Walasek,but Andy isn't beaten Run-Off,Andy all the way B-Licence M.Möller 12pts T.Busch 10 R.Baumann 8 E.Pudel 6 R.Hermann 5 T.Markgraf 4 C.Seliger 2 C.Pusch 1 Senior debut for Erik Pudel(14yr) after riding 80cc.Looked quite good after a few laps and is one of the main hopes for the future.

That's alright then

Try what link? Oh yeah,sorry my info was of no use to you munchie.Won't bother next time

Try here.Has date and contact e-mail

Just along from there.I was just about a metre to the right off his point of impact.Looked over that way a couple of times,remember someone playing the accordion(couldn't hear it though).Thought all the photographers bar 2 or 3 dissapeared to the warmth of the bar after heat 4 only to return for the finals

Well conkers,i was in no fit state to meet anyone Didn't even try to fill in my programme.Looked at my camera in the morning and thought,nah!Just as well it would have been another burden,although the opportunity for some good pics were there.Had one heart stopping moment as i was standing just above where Krasnikov ploughed into the bales.Seeing those spikes heading towards me with just some dead grass and a flimsy wire fence in between,well @GSF Won't be in Erfurt as i will be at Güstrow and maybe Neuenknick,although this new line-up for the Bundesliga doesn't excite me as much.Teterow or even the line-up for the Junior champ at Norden seems better in my opinion.

Managed to drag myself out of my sick bed to make it on Saturday and although i wasn't really up for it,was a fantastic meeting.Were only a few races with no excitement.I think all the riders deserve praise for the show they put on.Some great battles,Zorn winning on the line,Posa & Aarkko,everyone really apart from Bogdanov who seemed off the pace.Vitali and Nikolai did seem to have extra speed though.Unfortunatelly by going saturday it meant i was back in bed the whole day yesterday but i saw the highlights on tele yesterday.Don't know if sunday wasn't as good,but they didn't show any overtaking,in fact they didn't really show just how exciting it was Congratulations to Krasnikov and to all who took part.

Yeah,i remember once walking around the park and being amazed that you could walk up the steps and into the Athletics stadium.Everything was open.Was always a great day out when i was little.The dinosaurs, the zoo,the pelicans in the lake,but especially climbing on the back of the Gorilla statue Got Lionel Crossley's book on Crystal Palace speedway.In it he says up until '83 there was a bit of the track fenced off with a plaque,but it was vandalised.Imagined he meant that the plaque was nicked and maybe the fence was damaged,but i couldn't find anything. Also tarabanko,"Speedway in Scotland " has pics of the Scottish tracks.Have a bit of footage from Marine Gardens on a dvd called "Aces of yesteryear"pt 6

Your probably from the wrong part of London,Norbold,but i do have a memory from when i was quite young.For some reason my parents used to shop at Tesco's in Crystal Palace for a while.Maybe it was the first supermarket in South London,haven't a clue why they went so far to shop Anyway there was always a big sign there by the Palace with a motorbike rider.As this must have been end of the 60's early 70's was there any motorbike activity there then?Probably just a training school or something or maybe they hadn't taken the sign down from some earlier racing.

Conkers,think you have summed up the situation very well.As it is there is an indoor speedway meeting,saturday in Rostock,so saturdays crowd would probably have been down.Think sunday will also be affected without Günther.Not too much enthusiasm from the media if all the top spots are held by the Russians.Read on the Stralsund site a report that said the crowd in Assen was down this year as well

Results from day 2 here.Ivan Ivanov wins.Top 8 places are now held by Russians riders

I said on another thread that there was still some of the stadium there the last time i was there(10years ago).Part of the park included some of the terracing from one of the bends.There was also some gate houses or something. Wasn't there also a bit of the Palace track/stadium?Thought there was a Crystal Palace tour once a month or so that took you all around the whole site of the exhibition,including the dinosaurs:unsure:

Results from day 1 here.Bulankin wins but it seems Franky was unlucky

Some of those tracks aren't in England Try the book "Homes of British Speedway" by R.Bamford & J.Jarvis,published by Tempus.Full of info and pics.

Reading www.speedway.org it seems Günther Bauer is doubtful for tomorrow as he had a crash in practice Live updates will be on the web-site though

Thanks for that

Think it is still on that channel.Remember seeing something on sportowefakty about it.Was also a preview of the season shown last week, i think

The four germans i think are riding in their own little tournament,rather like a J or B license race in normal speedway.Why the 2 Dutch riders are in i have no idea,but i think they are just making up the numbers and even if they win all their heats won't win the competition.

An amazing figure,10,000.What your saying must have some truth.I remember in the 70's after Wembley closed the supporters club used to run a coach to Wimbledon.I wonder how many extra that put on the gate?.Don't in all honesty remember seeing too many with Wembley programme boards ,etc.Guess they were pretty much all lost to speedway,though from 10,000 supporters you might expect 1 or 2 thousand to keep going. Quite interesting to find out how long supporters coaches keep going after a track has closed.Crayford also used to run a bus to Hackney,anyone know how many years that went on for.?Bryn?

Any idea what the Wembley attendances were like,when they made the brief comeback in the 70's,Norbold? Also what about White City.Was always hard to tell because it was so big.Guess they weren't that good as i remember something about them wanting to change race day to mondays to avoid clashing with football,etc,but Reading objected.In the end it wouldn't have mattered i suppose

Bristol also had great crowds,didn't they.Sadly forced to close,nothing to do with attendances