daveallan81

http://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/docs/newcross/1963.pdf

Correct. 26th May 1980.

Not quite, Steve. 9/10/70 Olsen scored 4-11-0 for Wolves, Louis 5-15-0 from reserve for Newport. The two didn't meet, Olsen dropped his point to Bruce Cribb. A couple of weeks later 23/10 Louis guested for Hackney at reserve and scored 4-10-2 while West Ham's Barry Crowson recorded 5-14-0 in a challenge. Again they didn't meet, Garry Middleton taking the point from Crowson.

5/4 Oxford 19/4 Teesside 26/4 Canterbury 10/5 Weymouth 17/5 Boston 24/5 Stoke (KOC) 13/6 Scunthorpe 21/6 Rye House 2/8 Crayford 30/8 Coatbridge 20/9 Mildenhall 27/9 Berwick (KOC) 11/10 Stoke Going back to the McKinna brothers, they came within a whisker of all 3 going unbeaten in the one match. 1/9/89 v Mildenhall, Kenny scored a full 15, Charlie 9+3 from 4 but was excluded on 2 mins in his first ride, and Martin 12+1 from 5 dropping his only point to Peter Glanz.

Chris Turner was indeed the only rider to beat Joe at Brough in NL or KOC matches in 1976. He finished behind Phil Crump & Steve Gresham in an ILKOC tie with Newport. He also lost both legs of a Silver Helmet challenge to Laurie Etheridge. His only other home defeats over 4 laps were by Graham Jones (Berwick) in a challenge match and by bruv Tom in a Best Pairs event. Joe and Tom rode unbeaten together in 14 league & cup matches, 13 at Brough and 1 away at Boston.

Charlie and Kenny McKinna for Glasgow at Blantyre although two of Kenny's were from reserve: 17/10/80 v Workington 4-9-3 & 3-8-1 15/05/81 v Exeter 4-10-2 & 4-12-0 22/05/81 v Ellesmere Port 5-13-2 & 3-9-0 25/09/81 v Stoke 4-11-1 & 4-10-2 Also 31/07/81 v Milton Keynes, Charlie 4-12-0 and Kenny 3-7-2 but he was riding with a broken ankle and pulled out of his fourth ride so technically no max.

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Looked raceable to me. Seems that it had a real soaking earlier http://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/676854/eliminacje-zlotego-kasku-w-gnieznie-odwolane

I switched on just before 3pm. Lots of tractor racing and general track work. Riders went for a walk around the track then they cancelled it.

World class...

My reason for enquiring was I planned to take in the football match before it then stick around for the practice. Will I be expected to leave the stadium then pay back in?

Cheers

Will there be any charge to watch the P&P on 25th March?

Rod Colquhoun and Marcus Bisson spring to mind.

It is March.

If Ermolenko had been excluded in that race he could still have won his final heat to be champion. As it was he just pootled round at the back pulling wheelies because the title was already in the bag.

Glasgow went burst at the end of 1995. Edinburgh, having lost Powderhall, moved into Shawfield and took the name Scottish Monarchs. They lasted one season before moving out to Armadale and a new promotion moved in to revive the Tigers.

As far as I am aware Workington didn't operate in 1986.

Ro(d)ger that

I have him riding in the second half of the Edinburgh v Young Sweden match on 13th April 1979. The following week he was programmed to ride in a junior race. The programme is blank but as this meeting came just 4 days after the Paisley rail crash then it would seem highly unlikely that he took part. From newspaper reports of the time, his sister Sandra Black (22) and her daughter Sharon (4), both of Paisley, were amongst the 7 who lost their lives in the accident. All others killed were male. The young girl pictured with John in the article is named as Emily. Going back a bit further I have a Johnny Rodgers programmed to take part in a Scottish Junior Championship meeting at Coatbridge, October 1974. The meeting was rained off and never restaged. He is programmed (as John Rodgers) in second halves at Newtongrange in 1973. I have no record of him riding in the S.J.L. An Alastair Rodger did appear in 1977. Indeed I'm struggling to find any record of him in Coatbridge/Blantyre second halves. He is programmed to ride in an early season junior heat at Powderhall in 1977. A 1978 Wolverhampton programme has a J. Rogers listed in their 1977 second half points league table, a solitary 4th place being his lot. The caption on the scrapbook picture reads "Johnnie passing on the inside, Mount Gambia 1978." I assume this is in fact Mount Gambier speedway in South Australia.

The Pink Plonker. Supporters of a certain vintage may recall him riding down a drainage ditch on the Craighead Park centre green one night. Almost completely disappeared from view. Thankfully the ditch was undamaged.

I'm aware that this one is a bit of a long shot but you never know just who's lurking in the BSF shadows so... Speedway Star reports heat 4 as Dickinson, Richardson, Margarson, Beaton, 75.1. The problem is Jim Beaton was at #4 for Glasgow and there is no legal way he could have ridden in the race. Charlie McKinna was at #7 and is the rider I would expect to see in 4th place. The yearbook says Jim scored 1 from 5 (4 programmed rides plus the mystery heat 4 ride) and Charlie 2 from 3 (2 programmed rides in heat 2 and 8 plus a reserve ride in heat 7). Can anyone clarify the result of heat 4?

It used to be a sport for men, now it's a sport for men who use grooming products...

http://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/docs/exeter/1984.pdf Carr had a couple of meetings under his belt before he beat Nielsen.

16th August 93 at Exeter, both the home side and visitors MIddlesbrough operated R/R. Graeme Gordon & Rob Price were the respective #9 riders, neither got a ride. Bears' #8 Mike Smith crashed out taking an R/R ride in heat 3 and wasn't replaced in either heat 4 or heat 15, both of which went with 3 only. Falcons' #4 Dave Steen, #5 Richard Green and #6 Frank Smart were all injured during the meeting. When the nominated heats rolled up they were unable to track anyone to cover the R/R in heat 16 or Green's ride in heat 17. I have a vague recollection of seeing the 'both reserves injured' rule in operation but I don't have a programme to back that up.