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What scared me was that, if this one is lost, we lose everything that's been posted! All that stuff you can only find on here, gone...

Whoosh...

Whoosh...

Obviously, everyone has ignored your post so far, but to be honest, I think that is a great idea! I'll start looking around, and see what info I can come up with...

So, here is the latest list, updated after the sad loss of Bob and Robert. 01 - Ove Fundin - 23/05/33 02 - Dan Forsberg - 25/03/34 03 - Josef Hofmeister - 17/06/34 04 - Brian Crutcher - 23/08/34 05 - Mike Broadbank - 25/09/34 06 - Barry Briggs - 30/12/34 07 - Reg Luckhurst - 11/11/1935 08 - Sverre Harrfeldt - 23/11/1937 09 - Leif Larsson - 16/02/1938 10 - Bjorn Knutson - 27/04/38 11 - Gunnar Malmqvist - 25/12/1940 12 - Andrzej Wyglenda 04/05/1941 13 - Jim Airey - 19/08/1941 14 - Bengt Jansson - 09/01/1943 15 - Anders Michanek - 30/05/1943 16 - Trevor Hedge - 30/08/1943 17 - Terry Betts - 15/09/1943 18 - Howard Cole 29/12/1943 19 - Martin Ashby - 05/02/1944 20 - Jan Simensen - 26/07/1944 21 - Zygfryd Friedek - 19/10/1944 22 - Jerzy Trzeszkowski - 10/01/1945 23 - Eric Boocock - 02/02/1945 24 - John Boulger - 18/06/1945 25 - Hasse Holmqvist - 18/06/1945 26 - Jim McMillan - 03/12/1945 27 - Ole Olsen - 16/11/1946 28 - Ray Wilson - 12/03/1947 29 - Doug Wyer - 16/08/1947 30 - Grigori Khlinovsky - 11/11/47 31 - Egon Muller - 26/11/1948 32 - Christoph Betzl - 13/02/1949 33 - Jiri Stancl - 18/11/1949 34 - Viktor Kuznetsov - 27/11/1949 35 - Georg Hack - 20/02/1950 36 - Marek Cieslak - 28/06/1950 37 - Alois Wiesbock - 31/07/1950 38 - Tommy Johansson - 21/10/1950 39 - Vladimir Gordeev - 30/11/1950 40 - John Titman - 26/01/1951 41 - Dag Lovaas - 25/02/1951 42 - Jan Verner - 03/03/1951 43 - Petr Ondrasik - 08/10/1951 44 - Phil Crump - 09/02/1952 45 - Henny Kroeze - 11/03/1952 46 - Valery Gordeev - 28/08/1952 47 - Dave Jessup - 07/03/1953 48 - Ales Dryml - 10/06/1953 49 - Scott Autrey - 09/07/1953 50 - Peter Collins - 24/03/1954 51 - Larry Ross - 15/06/1954 52 - John Davis - 10/11/1954 53 - Finn Thomsen - 16/02/1955 54 - Mikhail Starostin - 24/02/1955 55 - Tommy Nilsson - 10/03/1955 56 - Jan Andersson - 07/05/1955 57 - Kai Niemi - 15/09/1955 58 - Jerzy Rembas - 18/04/1956 49 - Chris Morton - 22/07/1956 60 - Steve Bastable - 16/09/1956 61- Bruce Penhall - 10/05/1957 62 - Karl Maier - 24/08/1957 63 - Roman Jankowski - 05/10/1957 64 - Bo Petersen - 21/02/1958 65 - Les Collins - 24/05/1958 66 - Mitch Shirra - 27/09/1958 67 - Michael Lee - 11/12/1958 68 - John Cook - 18/12/1958 69 - Richard Knight - 26/05/1959 70 - Dennis Sigalos - 16/08/1959 71 - Erik Gundersen - 08/10/1959 72 - Hans Nielsen - 26/12/1959 73 - Olli Tyrvainen - 11/01/1960 74 - Phil Collins - 02/06/1960 75 - Sam Ermolenko - 23/11/1960 76 - Rick Miller - 12/01/1961 77 - Jeremy Doncaster - 16/06/1961 78 - Tommy Knudsen - 09/11/1961 79 - Zoltan Adorjan - 15/11/1961 80 - Shawn Moran - 19/11/1961 81 - Peter Ravn - 16/03/1962 82 - Zenon Kasprzak - 10/05/1962 83 - John Jorgensen - 18/07/1962 84 - Antal Kocso - 22/12/1962 85 - Sandor Tihanyi - 28/04/1963 86 - Lance King - 13/08/1963 87 - Armando Castagna - 22/09/1963 88 - Kelvin Tatum - 08/02/1964 89 - Marvyn Cox - 11/07/1964 90 - Zdenek Tesar - 30/07/1964 91 - Mikael Blixt - 08/08/1964 92 - Paul Thorp - 09/09/1964 93 - Tony Olsson - 13/03/1965 94 - Gerd Riss - 17/03/1965 95 - Conny Ivarsson - 15/04/1965 96 - Simon Cross - 31/05/1965 97 - Bohumil Brhel - 10/06/1965 98 - Slawomir Drabik - 06/02/1966 99 - Per Jonsson - 21/03/1966 100 - Andy Smith - 25/05/1966 101 - Jan Staechmann - 05/06/1966 102 - Ronnie Correy - 08/11/1966 103 - Jimmy Nilsen - 16/11/1966 104 - Brian Karger - 09/02/1967 105 - Jan O. Pedersen - 27/07/1967 106 - Craig Boyce - 02/08/1967 107 - Troy Butler - 22/09/1967 108 - Piotr Swist - 20/06/1968 109 - Todd Wiltshire - 26/09/1968 110 - Gary Havelock - 04/11/1968 111 - Stefan Danno - 10/02/1969 112 - Martin Dugard - 18/05/1969 113 - Gert Handberg - 30/05/1969 114 - Chris Louis - 09/07/1969 115 - Billy Hamill - 23/05/1970 116 - Greg Hancock - 03/06/1970 117 - Henrik Gustafsson - 14/08/1970 118 - Tony Rickardsson - 17/08/1970 119 - Mark Loram - 12/01/1971 120 - Tomasz Gollob - 11/04/1971 121 - Leigh Adams - 28/04/1971 122 - Josh Larsen - 12/05/1972 123 - Joe Screen - 27/11/1972 124 - Jason Crump - 06/08/1975

Surely 1995 was at Wembley???

See, you have to remember that a huge amount of the regular posters were "seniors", and sadly, old age has taken it's toll. Thing is, everybody was knowledgeable, everybody wanted to learn, and everybody wanted to "discuss" things in a reasonable and friendly manner. There has been an increased number of younger members who have come on board, and love to bitch about us old'uns living in the past. Same as speedway in general, I suppose? Those of us who are still hanging on have become disenchanted by all the crap and insults posted on here. The Years Gone By section was an incredibly active section of the forum, and that's what kept a lot of us going. Now, nobody seems interested in that, which is heartbreaking. Not only is speedway history such a big part of the sport, but we can learn from the past, instead of rolling on relentlessly, repeating the same mistakes that are/were never going to work. British speedway is NOT dead. It still has a future, yet judging by the majority of comments you see on the BSF and Facebook groups, you'd think that it was dead and buried years ago. No, that was just the civility and respect that we had on this forum years ago...

What? Advertising sunny Clacton by the Sea?

Wouldn't it make sense to have a track electrician available at ALL times during a meeting?

When the rain stops...

That sand in your ***** can be a real problem, eh?

People can't differentiate. It all depends what you want, and everybody wants something different. And everybody ends up whining about something!

Then speedway isn't the sport for you...

Stop making sense. Doesn't go down well on this forum...

They speak funny there...