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Örnarna 45, Indianerna 45. Swedish Elite Serien Round 12 on AUGUST 27, 1991 Att.: 2,326 Örnanrna dropped a vital point at home - despite Tatum's maximum. Indianerna's reserves Lindgren and Flood were best for Kumla. taken from LOADER'S INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY ANNUAL 1992

The Terenzano track is right on the outskirts of the town of Udine, which is a rather big town with good accomodation. Recommended, but it seems to rain there every time they have a speedway meeting! Beware!

An "All Bavarian" Germany II with Stefan Kurz (Olching), Frank Facher (Olching), Christoph Demmel (Pfaffenhofen) and Sebastain Mack (Landshut).

And not to forget Robert Dados did commit suicide the other year, too. And now I hear there has been a similar case again this year - Lukasz Romanek! Why is it that such things always happen in Polish speedway? What is going wrong there for their talented youngsters? Too much pressure?

It has always been their national football stadium. And their national speedway stadium, too! A couple of days ago I saw a few minutes of the Poland vs Colombia match (where the Colombian goalkeeper scored a freak goal) and the speedway track was clearly visible around the outside of the football pitch. It can still be used for speedway at any time, and in fact was used for a GP only a few years back. However, attendances for speedway at Chorzow (Kattowice) are not good enough for such a huge stadium.

I can confirm that it is the Pocking near Passau, right on the German / Austrian border. Therefore Linz in Austria is indeed the closest bigger airport (less than 100km and conected via autobahn all the way). In Germany Munich is the closest, but is about 150km away. Meeting at Pocking will start at 18.00 h

I heard a rumour that he has died. Hope this is NOT true. Can anyone of our Polish friends either deny or confirm please.

Is this payTV or free to view ?

One more name - Wally Hill - a South African (born in England?) who rode in the National League in 1984 or 85? And does anyone remember the South African second halfer who had that unfortunate racing accident with the poor Paul Muchene? I think it was Nick Floyd and I believe he rode for Arena Juniors that year. By the way, Muchene, who was killled in that race, was himself half African - he had a Kenyan father (or mother?). The other half of his parents was English.

star ghost, can You be a bit more specific about Tom and Dick Sayer ? When did these twins ride for Norwich? Are You sure they are South African - I don't think I have ever heard of them before !

Did You know that he (Tiger Lewis) rode speedway in Singapore in 1930? Does anyone know anything about speedway in Singapore? Seems to be a pretty much fogotten chapter in the history of speedway! By the way, Jack Sharp was another Aussie advertised to race at the Singapore Speedway in June of 1930. Do You Aussie history experts have any details about Singapore Speedway?

By the way, Hazzman, Easter Monday is a traditional raceday for the Polish League since many, many years!

Does anyone know of a 1930 Australian rider by the name of Tiger Lewis?

Very good - that's him. What a great name! Surely, McDonald and Thistlewaite were the only Papuas ever to ride in Britain. Do You remember for which club McDonald rode? I seem to remember that he broke his leg in a crash on a British track, which ended his speedway career.

Wasn't there a guy from Papua New Guinea racing in the National League in the mid-1970's ? I think his name was McDonald - anyone remembers him ? And if I remember right there was a second rider from that exotic country over at the same time, but he rode in second halfs only. (Can't remember his name)

See the name of Josef Kamper. he had a fatal car accident on the road in the mid-1980's, long after he had finished his racing career. If You include his name, You may as well add that of another Austrian, Josef "Bubi" Boessner, who met with a similar fate in September of last year, at the age of 71. At the time, the former Austrian national speedway champion was still active as a speedway promoter. Russian Ice racer Nikolai Nischenko - a former world champion - was tragically killed in a demonstartion ride on the ice oval track at Heerenveen in the Netherlands in 1993, when he was doing some show laps for a photographer to take some promotional pictures. Very tragic and totally unneccessary. German veteran Josef Seidl should not be on the list. As far as I know he died a natural death at a high age (well into his 80's some ten years ago. (Not 100% sure, though) Hans Siegl died a few days after crashing at a meeting in Linz, Austria. That's true, but it was a speedway meeting, not long-track.

After taking a look at Your list, please take the name of Wack (real name: Josef) Hofmeister off it. Wack - this is only a nickname - was Germany's first world finalist in the late 50's is still alive and well today and let's hope he will be around for a lot more years.

Sergio Rojas is correct. Claudio Rojas is still alive.

@frigbo are You sure that GEERT COOLS ever rode for a British League team ? Where and when was that ? Has there really ever been a Belgian rider in the British League ?

As was the case all over Europe in the early 20's. Certainly Germany and Austria saw motorcycle races on horse trotting tracks form the early 1920's on. These were the origins of today's longtrack racing. Ice racing on motorcycles (and cars) had also been done in Bavaria around 1930. It will have been the same in many other countries at the same time.

Simone Terenzani Didn't Armando Dal Chiele ride for King's Lynn in the 80's?

And Roy Bester, ex-Edinburgh and Leicester, is SOUTH AFRICAN, not Rhodesian !

It is definitely Bevan Compton of South Africa, who rode for Berwick a few years ago, but not Benji, who is English. Pip Harris, never rode in the British League ! (And he is Rhodesian, not South African)

Alan Rivett, even though he was (is) living in Queensland, he is a Kiwi and rode for New Zealand in the WTC. Didn't Chris Penny (ex-leigh Adams mechanic) ride for a National League club in the 90's? And for Frigbo, I believe that Clayton Isbel is not a Kiwi, but a West Australian!

Maybe there should be some sort of promotion & relegation of riders rather than clubs. Say riders who don't reach a certain points average at the end of the EL season are relegated to the Pl next year and replaced by high scoring riders from the lower level league.