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There was no return match in the same year, but in 1936 the Paris-Buffalo team hosted a couple of London speedway teams in a series of challenge matches at the Stadé Vélodrome Buffalo, Montrouge, Paris. The first London team to visit France in the 1936 season was West Ham. Their meeting took place in Paris on the Saturday Night of May 23, 1936. Two teams of six riders each met in a 9-heat match. And these were the announced team line-ups: PARIS-BUFFALO (in Marine and White colours): 1-Dick Wise (cpt.), 2-F.Meynier, 3-L.Boulard, 4-F.Hofecker, 5-E.Béranger, 6-A.Lemone vs WEST HAM (in Red and Blue colours): 1-Jack Bibby (cpt.), 2-A.Sadwy, 3-Les Gregory, 4-R.Lee, 5-F.Tuck, 6-Geo.Tidbury. The other London team visting the French capital in 1936 was Hackney Wick. Their Meeting went ahead on Sunday Afternoon of May 31, 1036, again at the Stadé Vélodrome Buffalo, at Montrouge, and again with six-man teams over nine heats. Paris Buffalo had beaten West Ham a fortnight ago, and did not make any changes to their team line-up for the Hackney match. However, the name of Pairs-Buffalo team captain was now given as Dick Case (not Dick Wise), and I am uncertain which one of them two actually rode in these meetings? One of the many unsolved mysterious regarding the pre-war speedway meetings in Paris. Here are the announced team line-us: PARIS-BUFFALO (in Marine and White colours): 1-Dick Case (cpt.), 2-F.Meynier, 3- F.Meynier L.Boulard, 4-F.Hofecker, 5-E.Béranger, 6-A.Lemone. vs HACKNEY WICK (in White and Black colours): 1-Fred Tate (cpt.), 2-S.Hodgson, 3-Tiger Hart, 4-John Deely, 5-Geo.Wilks, 6-Jack Hyland.

Don't know how Otto Holoubek ever he got such a good reputation in the UK. What were supposed to be his credentials? Did he ever win anything? He wasn' one of the leading riders on the continent, maybe one of the better ones in Austria, but not the best. The one Austrian rider who was really good was Fritz Dirtl, who sadly lost his life in a speedway accident in a 1956 world individual qualifying round at Oberhausen in Germany. Dirtl's accident was even more tragic because it was a collision with his compatriot, the only other Austrian star rider of the 50s, Josef Kamper. Before them, Leopold Killmeyer, and Martin Schneeweis, were the greatest of Austrian riders. Edit: I found a Deutsche Wochenschau of June 15 that shows some motion pictures of that 1956 World Championship Continental qualifying round at Oberhausen. The brief one minute speedway report starts at 0:10.22 https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/586229?q=Speedway+Oberhausen

Guy Martin on a speedway sidecar in New Zealand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTaux1g67aE

I only know about one former club president in Togliatti ever being murdered. That's Anatoly Stepanov, the man who was instrumental for building the new speedway stadium, which is now named after him the "Anatoly Stepanov Stadium". Stepanov at the time was Minister of Finances of the regional government.

New Zealand Speedway Hall of Fame link for years 2010-2016 http://www.historicspeedway.co.nz/n_z_hall_of_fame%20page2.htm

personally I feel that Martin Smolinski will end up as one of the three riders on the F.I.M.'s official substitutes list for the 2017 SGP. I would not at all be surprised if one of the four wildcards is given to a second British rider. One out of Danny King / Craig Cook / Robert Lambert to replace Chris Harris would be refreshing for the GP series, just like when Woffinden came into the SGP a few years ago. The SGP series needs a few new faces each year.

Speedway fans here in Germany are pretty sure that our number one Martin Smolinski has a very good chance to receive a permanet wild card for the 2017 SGP series

I know that Landshut, another of the German venues working with OneSport (SEC and Best Pairs) do not have to take the financial risks of staging the meetings. OneSport are the promoters and they take the financial rewards or the losses. OneSport rent the track from the local club and they use the local track staff and infrastructure to run the meeting. I guess it is done the same way at Güstrow.

It is now (Saturday afternoon) live on Czech TV stream http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/10161678681-motocyklove-zavody/216471291272002-zlata-stuha-junioru-2016/

Standings after round 2 1. Max Fricke (AUS) 12 + 18 = 30 2. Robert Lambert (GB) 19 + 11 = 30 3. Krystian Pieszczek (PL) 20 + 9 = 29 4. Dimitri Berge (F) 6 + 19 = 25 5. Jack Holder (AUS) 13 + 12 = 25 6. Patrick Hansen (DK) 6 + 14 = 20 7. Josh Bates (GB) 12 + 5 = 17 8. Paweł Przedpełski (PL) 6 + 11 = 17 9. Erik Riss (D) 10 +6 = 16 10. Bartosz Smektała (PL) 7 + 6 = 13 11. Wiktor Kułakow (RUS) 6 + 6 = 12 12. Eduard Krcmar (CZ) 6 + 6 = 12 13. Adam Ellis (GB) 5 + 5 = 10 14. Joel Andersson (S) 5 + 4 = 9 15. Mikkel B. Andersen (DK) 3 + 5 = 8 16. Zach Wajtknecht (GB) 1 + N = 1 17. Patrik Mikel (CZ) N + 1 = 1 17. Max Clegg (GB) 0 + N = 0 18. Nathan Greaves (GB) 0 + N = 0

not very spectacular racing so far, actually rather boring, there is no overtaking.

watch the racing here on Masarna's Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/masarna/

You are obviously right, June01. I must admit, if it wasn't that meetign, then I don't know the answer about the origins of that racejacket.

1996 World Team Cup Final at Diedenbergen This race jacket with the number 10 was worn by Denmark's Jesper B. Jensen

the troll spoils this Forum. how can we get rid of him?

Overall, a very enjoyable Event 1 of the World Cup tournament.

That decision will make Mrs. Hüttinger a famous name with speedway fans world wide. The Lady from Vienna was spot on right to exclude Zmarzlik as he intendedly rode into the side of Iversen and clearly caused the Dane to fall on that first corner. All for back is only right if there is no one clearly at fault for causing a crash on teh first bend after the start, but in this case it was quite clear who has caused it. Brave decision by the ref! Very good! I guess she might become the first female Speedway Grand Prix referee before too long!

Polish U21 Final from Czestochowa now (2pm) live on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7ICIdpGoY4#t=319

Probably not on the Portugese version of Eurosport. It is not shown here in Germany, even though it is an event that takes place here in Germany. Seems that only the East European, Nordic and UK versions of Eurosport cover the speedway.

Not so sure about the ref last night. First he lets Zmarzlik back in for the re-run twice after falls, then throws out Kildemand at the first moment in similar circumstances. Very inconsistent. And he called back the perfect start Doyle made in the semi, then he lets Zmarzilk get away with a dirty move against Doyle in the re-run. I wonder, is Mr. Steentoft a Bartosz Zmarzlik supporter?

Saturday night at the Welland Speedway was filled with great anticipation, as the Canada v USA Speedway event was poised for some great racing. 16 riders from both countries prepared for battle on a hot sticky summers night. The night saw some old familar faces from the Canadian Speedway past emerge to compete in this historical event, Lee Charland, Nick Fafard (Bellport), Gaetan Carignan and John Bennett joined Kyle Legault, Terry Rideout, Tyler Brown and Paul Brauweller for Canada. The USA team was a strong contingent of Mike Buman, Casey Donolt, ... http://www.canadianspeedway.com/

According to the Canadian Speedway Website http://www.canadianspeedway.com/index.htm a test match between Canada and the United States was held last night at Welland, Ontario. Anyone knows the results?

What capacity does the stadium have for the SWC?

Following the trend and success of similar leagues being set up in Holland, Sweden and Poland at the time, in the early 1950s Austria tried to set up a "true" league competition (team v team meeting on a home-and-away basis. There were two teams in Vienna that I know of, and one in Graz. The famous Leopold Killmeyer played a major part in setting up this Austria Speedway League. It faded away, though, after a few seasons. In the 1970s, and later on, the Austrians experimented with a revial in form of a four-team-tournament league competition similar to how Germany and Czechoslovakia ran their respective national speedway leagues.

Can somebody tell us please how bad is Kylmäkorpi's injury? Would he even be fit to take a wild card place for the SGP Challenge?