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100% spot on

Really? For me Newcastle’s team looks awful.

A very sad loss. What was his illness?

How’s it going? Do you have any symptoms? Did your wife test positive?

Reading a biography of the travel writer Norman Lewis, who raced Bugatti cars in the 1920s and 30s. He also tried his hand at speedway at what was said to be the first meeting in England at High Beech, Epping Forest, in February 1928 before tracks became established at Harringay and White City. The meeting was said not to have been advertised but it drew a crowd of 25,000 and 42 riders rode in 50 races. Before his engine “exploded” Norman came last in every race he rode, bar one when “two of the four contestants crashed”. I assume he came second! No idea how accurate this is!

Thanks.

Seven eat outs and off abroad for a couple of weeks shortly.

I agree, but that wasn’t the point I was making. If my uncle hadn’t taken me to speedway when I was 13 I would never have gone and would never have heard of it until my thirties when I started buying the local paper, the Swindon Advertiser, which, unlike the national media, does very good speedway coverage.

My original reply was to Grachan’s post that said many people do not know what speedway is, so if they do not have any experience of it at school (unlike the possibility of canoeing etc) or cannot do it at home we’re reliant on publicity (very little in the British media) or older fans taken their children.

Speedway clubs need to get into schools and arrange free, behind the scenes trips to meetings and promote have a go camps.

What I said was: “One of the reasons being it’s not a sport that you can do at school or at home. Practically every other one is, even if they’re restricted to summer camps or trips out to try canoeing or horse riding. And while motor sports are generally not available to children they’re familiar with cars and motorbikes on the road.” While speedway might be available in training camps it doesn’t make it onto the list of extra-curricular sports offered by schools in trips to outdoor activity centres that do canoeing, rock climbing and horse riding.

One of the reasons being it’s not a sport that you can do at school or at home. Practically every other one is, even if they’re restricted to summer camps or trips out to try canoeing or horse riding. And while motor sports are generally not available to children they’re familiar with cars and motorbikes on the road.

Nah, I think it’s some sort of conspiracy.

You might think that but BWitcher’s just PMed me to say I’m definitely not part of his clique!