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Well done that man! Will look forward to seeing it

Couple of examples here from the early 60's. The grey squares are the scheduled rides. First the 1960 Provincial League, 12 heats, 6-man teams, plus a reserve with no scheduled rides. I think Bradford's score here may be the lowest ever recorded in a league match. See http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/space5/174.htm Then a 1961 Provincial League match, now a 13-heat, 7-rider formula. In heat 12, joining the number 5 rider, was either the no.7 (reserve) or no.6 (supplementary reserve). See http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/space5/207.htm

Went for £156.51, not a bad price if it's genuine!

Compiled from live updates on the North American speedway discussion group by Tom Fox USA 63 Bart Bast (3 1 3 2 1 2) 12 Bryan Yarrow (2' 0 2' 1' 0 0) 5 + 3 Tommy Hedden (0 2' 2 2' 2' 1 2) 11 + 3 Ryan Fisher (3 3 1' 3 3 3) 16 + 1 Mike Faria (3 2 2' f,ns) 7+1 Charlie Venegas (2' 0 3 3 3) 11+1 J T Mabry (res) (0 1 0) 1 THE WORLD 48 Lubos Tomicek (Cz) (ef 3 3 3 2 6^ 2) 19 Tomasz Bajerski (Pol) (1 1 0 0 0 0) 2 Claus Vissing (Den) (2 3 1' 0 2' 3) 11 + 2 Jesper Kristiansen (Den) (1' 2' 2 1 3 f,ns) 9 + 2 Mariusz Puszakowski (Pol) (1 1 1 1 1 1 1) 7 Bobby Schwartz (USA) (0 0 0 0) 0 J T Mabry (res) (0) 0

Rode for Young Overseas v Young England 1958 Eastbourne - details at http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/intspeedway/yengvyov.htm where you will also see that he was a New Zealander Sometimes called Gerry, sometimes Jerry

Thats cos it was listed as 1926 in error! http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll...+programme+1926 Get your bid in now ...

Well, all contributions are welcome, iris123, even Euros ...

Norbold, the only mention I have seen of the 7 April meeting was in "Motor Cycling" dated 11 April 1928. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of that report, but I kept the following details: Easter Saturday 7.4.28 King's Oak, High Beech Meeting no.2. Track re-designed. 250cc N Anderson (Dunelt), A.N Other (New Imperial) 350cc Gus Kuhn (Calthorpe), B Bragg (Coventry Eagle), Colin Watson (New Imperial) 500cc Colin Watson, Reg F Pointer (Ariel), Jimmy Stevens (Norton) Sidecars S O Fraser (OK-Supreme) There is no mention of this meeting in "The Motor Cycle", "Speedway News", or "Auto" The winner of the eBay auction for the programme may be able to tell us more if the results are filled in, but that won't be me, as I expect it to get a bit too pricey!

So that's Cardiff, Copenhagen, Gelsenkirchen, and ... Brighton?

Quotes by Ole Olsen last week about the Veltins Arena: "When it's finished, this will be a perfect speedway track." "We want to make sure we provide the riders with a surface that they can ride to their limits and provide a night of spectacular racing." " ...by the end of Sunday, you wouldn't even know that we had been here…apart from the memory of a fantastic night of racing." What a failure, Olsen! Perhaps you'd like to apologise to us all? The track was rubbish, the stadium organisation was rubbish, and the ref wasn't too good either! Speedway apart, it was still a great trip - but I certainly won't be going back to Gelsenkirchen next year.

Scorecard at http://www.speedway.org/ then go to Ergebnis-Archiv Speedway GP's 2007 13.10 - GP11 Gelsenkirchen

Sun 19.08 Geiteryggen (Skien) : NORWEGIAN CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL 1 Rune Sola, 2 Carl J Raugstad, 3 Marius Rokeberg, 4 Bjorn G Hansen, 5 Tage Skretting, 6 Patrik Haraldsen, 7 Lars D Gunnestad, 8 Henrik B Hansen, 9 Mikke Bjerk, 10 Kenneth Borgenhaug, 11 Tarald Haaland, 12 Inge Bjerk, 13 Ola Rosland, 14 Kim R Mortensen, 15 Sverre Omsland, 16 Tord Solberg

Two conflicting organisations in South Africa. The "SSRC" South African National Championship has had 2 rounds so far this year. Not sure if or when others are scheduled: Sun 27.05 Walkerville : SSRC SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP - Round 1 Brendan Coughlan 15, Martin Bekker 9, Mike Russell 9, Mac Magill 7, Bobby Devine 6, Deon Prinsloo 5. Under-21 Neil Pettit 12, Damien Devine 6, James McTaggart 6, Jason Guthrie 3. Sun 26.08 Walkerville : SSRC SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP - Round 2 Deon Prinsloo 14, Brendan Coughlan 13, Ian Hutchinson 11, Mike Russell 6, Lee Struckmeyer 3, Mac Magill 2, Bobby Devine 2, Martin Bekker 0 Under-21 Neil Petit 15, Jason Guthrie 10, James McTaggart 4, Rodney Brill 1, Damien Devine 0. As reported in Speedway Star

Don't even joke about that!

Problem is that it's the wrong side of Germany for the Poles to get to easily. But it'll still be a bigger crowd than Eskilstuna, Prague, Krsko, Daugavpils, Malilla, Lonigo ....

Thanks for that, much appreciated, nice to know what to expect on Saturday. By the way - there is not much wrong with your English!

Yeah, Roynon's a tiger , reserve at Rye House, but would be a heatleader at a couple of teams. Pleased to see Danny did OK, his first European meeting as far as I know. Glanz is quite inexperienced, though he rode in a European U-19 Champ qualifier early this season. Yes, I'll be with all the "old" TP faces at Gelsenkirchen, hope to see you there. Hope the crowd won't be lost in that fairly big stadium!

Thanks for that, iris123. Not often Germany win a meeting so convincingly! Bridger a bit disappointing for England, but great experience for Conference League riders Betson and Glanz. Will you be in Gelsenkirchen?

2006-07 Australia Jason Crump Australia U-21 Chris Holder Australia U16 Dakota North New Zealand Andrew Bargh New Zealand U-21 Andrew Aldridge 2007 Argentine Open Ch Manuel Hauzinger (Austria) Austria Junior Manuel Novotny Croatia Junior Nikola Martinec Czech Republic Martin Vaculik (Slovakia) Denmark Hans Andersen Denmark U-21 Patrick Hougaard Finland Juha Hautamaki Finland U-21 Jari Makinen Germany Martin Smolinski Germany U-21 Tobias Busch Great Britain Chris Harris Great Britain U-21 Edward Kennett Great Britain U-18 Tai Woffinden Latvia - Open Champ Kjastas Puodzhuks Norway Rune Sola Poland Rune Holta Poland U-21 Pawel Hlib Romania Alexandru Toma Romania Junior Mihai Dejmar Russia Denis Gizatullin Russia U-21 Danil Ivanov Russia U-19 Artem Vodyakov Sweden Andreas Jonsson Sweden U-21 Robert Pettersson USA - AMA National Champ. Billy Hamill USA - US National Champ. Billy Hamill USA - US Open Champ. Shawn McConnell

Well, Betson is ex-Wimbledon (say no more, pure talent,obviously!) while Roynon is possibly the classiest reserve in the Premier League. Don't know much about Glanz (Peter's lad) but Bridger is entertaining, and quite good if you can stop him doing wheelies before his races. I hope you are going to this meeting, iris123, 'cos I need the details for my website, please! P.S In the Swedish team, I've never heard of Tony Olsen OR Per Olaf Larsen!! Also, I thought that this was a U-21 match - Niklas Klingberg hasn't got a nipper of the same name, has he?

That means even more bl---y guest riders

Most tragic of all was probably Soren Sjosten

Just want to thank the guys at Speedway Star for a terrific preview of this meeting in this weeks' issue, listing all the teams, ..... Oh. Sorry. IT DOSEN'T GET A MENTION! (apart from in the International fixture list) C***-up at Speedway Star!

I think the fact that Travel Plus have nearly 200 going to Bydgoszcz and Ostrow next weekend and staying a 5-star Sheraton Hotel says it all!

Last night, Krzysztof Kasprzak missed a match for Lakeside at Eastbourne because he allegedly suffered concussion in a practice session in Poland on Friday. I can't find any mention of this on any Polish website - can any of our Polish friends help?