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There hasn't been much response to this, Dublin Duke, probably because there was a big Kenny Carter discussion on the old forum fairly recently. I understand the old forum is to be archived as read-only so you should be able to read that in the future.

He he he. You're not wrong there. I noticed that they never had anything on Reading every week in Speedway Mail so I thought I'd write something myself and fax it in. Couldn't believe it when they started printing it! I had a problem though - no access to the riders. Therefore I used to get my rider quotes by writing down what they said over the PA during the meeting. I often wondered if anyone ever actually noticed this. I did do a proper interview with Jeremy Doncaster once though, when they gave me his phone number and asked me to call him. I felt such a charlatan!

I remember Speedway Now. Russell Lanning took over Speedway Mail at one time too, but he wasn't there very long. I also remember Speedway Mail going the same size as Speedway Star for a while. I think they were trying various ways of increasing the readership. It was always more difficult to obtain, though, other than at the tracks themselves. I could always find Speedway Star in a newsagent somewhere, but never Speedway Mail. That can't have helped.

Thanks Liontamer & Madbiker. I received the following e-mail from Jamie yesterday: "Thank you very much!!! I enjoyed reading that immensely. I was just bored the once and thought I would try searching on him. I live in Sutton Coldfield now and my father and mother are divorced. Unfortionatley he never encouraged me or my other two brothers to try speedway. I don't know why. My mom said that if he had a competitive bike he would have done better. Still he has his own building company now called M.S Builders and still rides bikes but for pure pleasure. I really do appreciate what you did for me ,thank you very much! Yours sincerely Jamie Shakespeare"

Somebody placed this message in my Guestbook and I wondered if anyone had any memories. All I can remember really is that he rode at the first meeting I went to, which is presumably how Jamie found my website. Name: Jamie Shakespeare (Homepage) Country: UK Date: Sat Feb 8 00:47:11 2003 Comment: Hello,im trying to find things out about my dad, Malcolm Shakespeare.Anything? I know he raced for wolves and weymouth.Was he any good?

Ove Fundin did win in 1963 though, so maybe it was after that.

I wrote for Speedway Mail for a while. Crap payers!