Chris116

KK at Rye House may have averaged around 8 but the problem was he would score a maximum one week and be beaten by the opposing reserves the next week. If he failed to win his first race then managing 3 for the evening was the most you got from him.

Ronnie Greene at Wimbledon Len Silver at Hackney, Rye House, etc Mike Parker need a lot of space for all the tracks he ran and people he upset! Chick Woodroffe at Arena Essex

Which part of Australia do you come from?

I remember a meeting at Arena Essex when rain was forecast to be very heavy within 90 minutes of start time. Parade was cancelled and dot on time the 2 minute warning sounded. As each race finished the 2 minute warning for the next race sounded as the 4th place rider crossed the finish line! It started raining earlier than forecast but still 5 minutes after the end of the last race. With some referees we would have been lucky to have seen seven races but Frank got it finished.

This is good news provided the referees all hit the one minute button as soon as the red lights go on to stop the race. Trouble is that some referees are very slow with the current two minute warning and I fear they will be no quicker with the one minute warning. Lessons should be given by Frank Ebdon on how to do it right.

When I was in my early teens my father took me to a cycle speedway meeting at a track in a park just off Garrett Lane near Wimbledon Stadium. A very enjoyable afternoon but we didn't manage to get to another meeting as it was very difficult to find out when they were being held. I don't think the track exists now but if it did I would love to watch a meeting.

Good to see the planned fixture list for IOW. It will be interesting when the dates for Iwade and Plymouth are published to see if both tracks are having as many NORA meetings as IOW or if it will just be the four league matches at those tracks.

I think the 'grasstrack demonstration' almost certain to be NASA style car racing. EDIT:- NASA - National Auto Sport Association

Having read the SCB statement dated 7th February I can see it being possible that both Sittingbourne and Plymouth tell the BSPL that either they are allowed to have the NORA and BSPL racing at the track or the BSPL can get lost and the only racing will be NORA sanctioned. If that happens then the BSPL will have shot themselves in the foot and that will open up the possibility that Mildenhall would jump ship which would practically destroy the NDL. Personally I hope that both leagues exist side by side and that both are successful as that is good for the sport and the more tracks that are successfully running increases interest in the sport. You only have to look back to the 1960s and the effect the Provincial League had on the sport leading to far more tracks opening.

Only the mods can pin a topic and I understood that they were asked but for unknown reasons have not done so.

The News of the World didn't do facts, only rumours that they started and females with a lack of clothing.

The subject of insurance was fully explained when IOW went to NORA. So with an expansion of tracks racing under NORA, insurance is still not a problem as riders will be covered in the same way they have for the past two seasons. If anything I have said above is incorrect I am sure that the IOW promotion @barrybishopwill be on here very quickly to correct me. I wish promotion, riders and fans all the best for 2023.

Good news and I wish every success to the new league.

That is the best news I have heard for a long time. Means I can do a few day trips to the island and spend the day on the steam railway followed by speedway in the evening. Already looking forward to seeing my first NORA meeting.

Great to hear that the Council are backing the idea but I have heard of other Councils who have made all the right noises about finding a site for a new track but they then never seem to be keen on giving any sites that are found the required planning permission. A very good first step but still a long road ahead before racing is possible. My best wishes to all involved.

Mike Parker is the only promotor to throw me out of a track. He threw me out of Crayford four times in one evening before a stock car meeting there because of something I had written in a magazine. Trouble was all his staff agreed with me and kept letting me back in. He would have been even more cross if he had known that the staff always let me in for free as I wrote articles for a number of different magazines. He did a lot of good promotion but also damaged both speedway and stox by some of his actions in my opinion.

Rye House Wimbledon Harringay West Ham White City (London) New Cross Wembley Romford Crayford Arena Essex Rayleigh Reading (Smallmead) Eastbourne Canterbury Poole Exeter IOW Somerset Skegness Peterborough King's Lynn Cradley Heath Belle Vue (Hyde Road) Rochdale I have also seen Stock Cars at the following Speedway tracks:- Ipswich Walthamstow Boston Brafield Birmingham Wheels Bradford Coventry (stox and 1000cc sidecars) Leicester (Blackbird Road) Long Eaton Sheffield Crewe Mildenhall Stamford Bridge (for football when the speedway track was still visible) I will edit this list once I remember any more tracks!

In the London area the worst burgers I ever had were at Harringay. Admittedly speedway had finished a few years earlier but I doubt if they were any better in the speedway days and I can say they were dreadful in the stock car and banger days during the 60s and 70s.

I have one of those! It is called the OFF button.

At least that would stop you seeing anything on here and that would mean we didn't have to suffer the rubbish you type! Result, I am sure I could find a bag of rusty nails for you.

That would have been a nightmare journey, much quicker and easier on the central line to Leyton and then either the special bus or a 20 minute walk.

I travelled on the free bus from Leyton station to the Hawks meetings on many occasions. At one time they had buses to a number of different places and used some almost vintage buses on the services which even to a railway enthusiast were quite interesting. A lot of people used the buses but sadly they stopped running them and left people to walk which I know caused some less able supporters to stop going.

The Stock Car and Banger fixtures have been published so the Speedway should be able to work around them.

He didn't cause the closure but he sure got an awful lot of team tactics wrong on a regular basis which caused at least two regulars to stop attending.

So Schroek screwed up the old NL and then did a similar job on the Rye House team in the last years of racing at Hoddesdon.