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In addition, this has been produced in the past. The link relates to 2024 but I expect a new version will come out once fixture lists for 2025 have been established: https://www.fim-moto.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/2024/2024_Speedway_Leagues_calendar_-_07.06.2024.pdf?t=1723781042

Then you need this: https://speedwayteams2025.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR3tJCSUXX5HMb9Z11mtd-Yvpf1oHz4uRUbrbrqBOzIIC2eI-koJbmo7akw

This one is not so much where are they now but 'what they did next.' I have been clearing out my elderly cousin's house recently and came across a George Medal which was awarded to his grandfather during WW2. There is a list of recipients on a Wikipedia page. As it turned out, he isn't on there, but I found the name of a Lionel Van Praag (World Champion 1936) who won the medal whist serving in the Australian Air Force around the same time: On 26 January 1942 Van Praag was the co-pilot of a Douglas DC-2 which was attacked by two Japanese fighters and forced down into the Sumba Strait, Indonesia. The aircraft soon sank, leaving Van Praag, his pilot Flying Officer Noel Wilson Webster, and two other crewmen in open water. Webster gave his life-jacket to a crewman who could not swim, while the other was semi-conscious, having been injured in the crash. Webster and Van Praag managed to drag them safely to shore, but were in the water for thirty hours, during which time they beat off several attacks by sharks.[168]

I came across this news item on BBC Essex the other day: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy430qpez81o Is this the same person who rode for Sheffield in the 70's? Apart from the surname missing an 's' - could be a typo -he resembles him. He would be 78 now.

Now that Michelsen's season is over, Holder just needs 4 points to get into the top six. Kubera needs to reach the final.

Bjarne Pedersen on 22nd July 2005 when riding for Poole at Lakeside (then Arena Essex). He scored 22 +1 from seven outings, one as a golden double in which he finished second behind team mate Matej Ferjan.

Was to be but Eurosport have Sheffield v Belle Vue listed now.

https://britishspeedway.co.uk/event/womens-british-open-final-leicester/

He was on his anti-sulking medication.

The only change which can be made after a club has completed 75% of its meetings is a rider returning from injury, but he is permitted only to replace whoever was signed to cover his absence.

Little point in that. It would mean Fricke could only take a RR outing in heat 8.

Exactly, but having 7 clubs riding each other twice home and away is no different to 14 clubs riding once and then all squeezed into two days of the week not six.

Correct. Back in the 70's the first division ran over 6 days (I don't recall Sundays ever being used). Therefore, 7 clubs being fitted into 2 days of the week is the equivalent of 21 clubs having 6 available. Also, they rode only once home and away in the league although there were more open meetings and international fixtures and those of other categories fitted in.

As far as I can see, the earliest re-staging of this fixture is Monday 9th September. I wonder if this was taken into account.

If you check the weather map rather then the summary it shows no rain at all until 21.30. Too late now though.