Robbie B

I can't believe it, just looked at the retro-speedway website. And looked at the Boston speedway programmes, and on the 1976 edition they have their badge on the front cover. I didn't realize I already had one.

Incredible and totally inspirational.

Personally I think that the nominations should be scrapped. Bring back the GP Challenge, with the bottom seven riders in the GP standings racing against the top nine riders from the GP Final, with the top seven or eight (maybe even having no wild cards) making up the 2011 GP series. It would help the current GP riders as they wouldn't have to go through the GP qualifying rounds, thus making space for other riders to compete. And we would have the best riders in the GP, who have earned the place, this would make a proper World Championship. Nominations are just pure PC gone mad, just to please TV rights in countries, which as far as I'm concerned is wrong, riders should be there on merit only.

Here another strange one. In 1980 Wimbledon beat Eastbourne in a challenge match, at Plough Lane 49-29. The Wimbledon riders only scored two bonus points in the meeting, while the Eastbourne riders scored three bonus points. Strange or what. Heat details 1 STEFAN SALOMONSSON, Gordon Kennett, LARRY ROSS, Steve Naylor (4-2) 2 RUDY MUTS, Dave Kennett, Eric Dugard, DAVE BREWER (f,exc) (7-5) 3 ROGER JOHNS, Veijo Tuorieniemi, PETER JOHNS, Paul Woods (f) (11-7) 4 COLIN RICHARDSON, Kai Niemi, MUTS, Dugard (15-9) 5 G.Kennett, R.JOHNS, Naylor, P.JOHNS (17-13) 6 ROSS, D.Kennett, SALOMONSSON, Niemi (21-15) 7 RICHARDSON, Woods, MUTS, Tuorieniemi (25-17) 8 SALOMONSSON, MUTS, Naylor, Dugard (30-18) 9 R.JOHNS, Niemi, D.Kennett, P.JOHNS (33-21) 10 ROSS, Woods, SALOMONSSON, Tuorieniemi (37-23) 11 RICHARDSON, G.Kennett, MUTS, D.Kennett (exc 2 mins) (41-25) 12 ROSS, Niemi, Tuorieniemi, P.JOHNS (ret) (44-28) 13 RICHARDSON, R.JOHNS, G.Kennett, D.Kennett (49-29) Dave Brewer was taken to hospital, after his first race fall.

No 2 Tomasz Gollob captain for me in Bydgoszcz please.

How about an article about the speedway badges of the 1970s. Maybe I would then know what to to look-out for, this could help me find a 1976 Boston badge.

This was a British league record at the time (1979)

From the Speedway Star magazine Wolverhampton 18, Leicester 18 (GBL) May 12 Heats 1 McMillan, Boulger, Godal, Lomas 67.0 3 - 3 2 Danielsson, Ellegaard, McNeil, Anderson 67.4 5 - 1 (8 - 4) 3 Titman, McNeil, Stangeland, Nielsen 65.8 1 - 5 (9 - 9) 4 Morton, Teromaa, Danielsson, Anderson 67.0 4 - 2 (13 - 11) 5 Nielsen, Godal, Boulger, Stangeland 68.5 3 - 3 (16 - 14) 6 Teromaa, McMillan, McNeil, Lomas 68.8 2 - 4 (18 - 18) Frenchy also the Speedway Star listed Les Collins as a did not ride for Leicester. Here you are Frenchy all results done for you.

Confused here frenchy ???????? 9. Ditto for the abandoned League match between Leicester (18) & Wolverhampton (18) on the 12th May According to Speedway Star. Leicester beat Wolverhampton 48 - 30 on the 9 May 1978 Can you check the date of your information, please.

From the Speedway Star Reading 21, Halifax 21 (GBL) May 1 Heats 1 M.Lohmann, Jessup, Humphreys, Graham (ef) 63.6 3 - 3 2 McKeon, Glucklich, Underwood, Wilson 64.7 3 - 3 (6 - 6) 3 Cartwright, Pusey, Leigh, Yeates 65.7 1 - 5 (7 - 11) 4 Davis, K.Lohmann, Underwood, Wilson (ef) 63.8 4 - 2 (11 - 13) 5 Yeates, K.Lohmann, Leigh, Graham (ef) 65.0 4 - 2 (15 - 15) 6 Jessup, K.Lohmann, Humphreys, McKeon 64.6 4 - 2 (19 - 17) 7 Pusey, Davis, Cartwright, Underwood 67.6 2 - 4 (20 - 22)

From the Speedway Star Halifax 6, Exeter 6 (GBL) September 9 Heats 1 (rerun) M.Lohmann, Mckeon, Kennett, Farrell (f,exc) 66.6 5 - 1 2 Geer, Koope, Broadbelt, K.Lohmann (ef) 71.4 1 - 5 (6 - 6)

from the Speedway Star Swindon 10, Belle Vue 14 (GBL) August 12 Heats 1 L.Collins, M.Ashby, Bouchard, Turner 69.6 3 - 3 2 D.Ashby, Brett, Maxfield, Henry 70.3 3 - 3 (6 - 6) 3 Morton, Titman, Richardson, Gramstadt 70.2 2 - 4 (8 - 10) 4 P.Collins, Kilby, Maxfield, Henry 70.3 2 - 4 (10 - 14)

From the Speedway Star Ipswich 18, White City 12 (GBL) June 15 Heats 1 (rerun) Howgego, Jolly, D.Kennett, G.Kennett (f,exc) 64.6 5 - 1 2 Gachet, Geer, Flatman, Cook 65.8 1 - 5 (6 - 6) 3 Louis, Weatherley, Gooderham, Lanham 64.6 3 - 3 (9 - 9) 4 Howgego, Cook, Niemi, Gachet 65.6 5 - 1 (14 - 10) 5 Louis, G.Kennett, Lanham, D.Kennett 63.8 4 - 2 (18 - 12)

London Cup 6 & 12 October First leg at Hackney Hackney 39, Wimbledon 38 (LC) October 6 Heats 1 Ross, Salomonsson, McNeil, White 63.6 1 - 5 2 (2 reruns) Harding and Hubbard awarded shared points, Harris (f, exc), Charles (f, exc) 5 - 0 (6 - 5) 3 Jancarz, Thomsen, Johns, Petersen 63.4 2 - 4 (8 - 9) 4 Harding, Muts, Thomas, Charles 63.2 4 - 2 (12 - 11) 5 Ross, Salomonsson, Thomsen, Petersen 64.2 1 - 5 (13 - 16) 6 Muts, White, McNeil, Charles 63.4 3 - 3 (16 - 19) 7 (rerun) Jancarz, Harding, Thomas, Johns (f) 62.6 3 - 3 (19 - 22) 8 Harding, Salomonsson, McNeil, Charles 65.6 3 - 3 23 - 24 9 Thomsem, Muts, Hubbard, Charles 64.2 4 - 2 (27 - 26) 10 Jancarz, Johns, McNeil, White 63.0 1 - 5 (28 - 31) 11 Salomonsson, Ross, Hubbard, Thomas 64.8 1 - 5 (29 - 36) 12 Wjite, Thomsen, Jancarz, Muts 64.0 5 - 1 (34 - 37) 13 (rerun) Thomsen, Harding, Ross, Johns (f,exc) 64.4 5 - 1 (39 - 38) Second leg at Wimbledon Wimbledon 55, Hackney 23 (LC) October 12 (agg score Wimbledon 93, Hackney 62) :-) Heats 1 Ross, White, Salomonsson, Harding 60.0 4 - 2 2 Muts, McNeil, Hubbard, Charles 62.2 3 - 3 (7 - 5) 3 Ross, Jancarz, Petersen, Thomsen 60.1 5 - 1 (12 - 6) 4 Muts, Hines, Hubbard, Thomas 61.8 5 - 1 (17 - 7) 5 Jancarz, Muts, White, Harding 61.3 5 - 1 (22 - 8) 6 Ross, Salomonsson, Mcneil, Thomas 60.8 5 - 1 (27 - 9) 7 Muts, Petersen, Hines, Thomsen 61.8 4 - 2 (31 - 11) 8 Salomonsson, Harding, Hubbard, Charles 61.7 3 - 3 34 - 14 9 Muts, Jancarz, White, McNeil 61.7 5 - 1 (39 - 15) 10 Ross, Salomonsson, Petersen, Thomsen 61.0 5 - 1 (44 - 16) 11 Hines, Harding, White, Charles (ef) 62.2 3 - 3 (47 - 19) 12 Ross, Jancarz, Petersen, Thomas 61.5 5 - 1 (52 - 20) 13 Jancarz, Petersen, Harding, Hines 61.6 3 - 3 (55 - 23)

From the Speedway Star magazine Belle Vue 20, Birmingham 22 (GBL) September 9 Heats 1 Wilson, Finch, Emerson, Turner 76.6 2 - 4 2 Howgego, Brett, Jensen, Maxfield 79.6 2 - 4 (4 - 8) 3 L.Collins, Greer, Koponen, Finch 77.0 4 - 2 (8 - 10) 4 Morton, Herne, Maxfield, Howgego (ef) 71.4 4 - 2 (12 - 12) 5 Wilson, Finch, Emerson, L.Collins 77.0 2 - 4 (14 - 16) 6 Turner, Herne, Maxfield, Jensen (ef) 78.2 4 - 2 (18 - 18) 7 Morton, Greer, Koponen, Maxfield 78.0 2 - 4 (20 - 22)

scores from the Speedway Star magazine Wolverhampton 35 H.Nielsen 11, j.Mcmillan 9, D.Morton 8, N.Ellegaard 7 Cradley Heath 31 B.Penhall 10, K.Praestbro 9, S.Bastable 8, Alan Grahame 4 Coventry 17 o.Olsen 10, J.Stncl 5, A.Busk 2, A.Molyneux 0 Birmingham 13 P.Herne 6, R.Greer 4, B.Jansson 2, A.Koponen 1 According to the heat details Bengt Jansson only scored two points

Dons Vs Bristol (SGC) April 13 Wimbledon 26 1 Edward Jancarz 3 - 3 = 6 2 Colin Richardson 1 - 2* = 3 + 1 3 Mick Hines © 2 = 2 4 Stefan Salomonsson 1 - 2* = 3 + 1 5 Larry Ross 3 - 3 = 6 6 Roger Johns 2* - 1* = 3 + 2 7 Rudy Muts 3 = 3 Bristol 10 1 Soren Sjosten (replaced Nigel Boocock) 0 - 0 - = 0 2 Egon Muller (R/R) 3 Barry Thomas (guest) for Steve Gresham 3 - 1 = 4 4 Phil Crump © 2 - 2 = 4 5 Tormod Langli 0 - 1 = 1 6 Paul Tyrer 0 - 0 = 0 7 Soren Sjosten (moved to number 1) 8 Tony Garard 9moved to number 7) 1 - 0 = 1 Heats 1 Jancarz, Crump (r/r), Richardson, Sjosten 63.0 4 - 2 2 Muts, Johns, Garard, Tyrer 63.1 5 - 1 (9 - 3) 3 Ross, Crump, Salomonsson, Langli 62.0 4 - 2 (13 - 5) 4 Thomas, Hines, Johns, Garard 63.3 3 - 3 (16 - 8) 5 Ross, Salomonsson, Langli (r/r), Sjosten 62.6 5 - 1 (21 - 9) 6 Jancarz, Richardson, Thomas, Tyrer (engine failure) 63.5 5 - 1 (26 - 10) that's Bristol for you. More to follow

No 2 Tomasz Gollob captain for me in Italy please

Out 5 Andreas JONSSON (45,000) 45,000 In 7 Rune HOLTA (30,000) 45,000 So my new team will be 2. Tomasz Gollob £50,000 5. Rune Holta £45,000 9. Fredrik Lindgren £35,000 12. Chris Holder £35,000 13. Jaroslaw Hampel £25,000 Total £190,000

Can I have no 2 Tomasz Gollob as my captain at Vojens please.

2 Tomasz Gollob captain for me please

From the Speedway GP website VOJENS SCORES: Artem Laguta (3-0-3-3-3) 12+3 Antonio Lindback (1-3-3-3-2) 12+2 Freddie Lindgren (3-3-2-1-2) 11+3 Janusz Kolodziej (3-3-3-2-0) 11+2 Magnus Zetterstrom (2-3-0-3-3) 11+1 Thomas H Jonasson (2-2-1-1-3) 9 Chris Harris (0-1-2-2-3) 8 Niels Kristian Iversen (3-2-1-1-0) 7 Andrey Karpov (2-1-2-1-1) 7 Grigory Laguta (2-R-2-0-2) 6 Simon Stead (1-1-1-2-1) 6 Leon Madsen (0-0-0-3-2) 5 Roman Povazhny (R-2-3-T-0) 5 Sebastian Ulamek (1-0-1-2-0) 4 Tomasz Gapinski (0-2-0-0-1) 3 Grzegorz Walasek (1-1-0-0-1) 3 Lukas Dryml ® 0.

Hi Parsoles I have most of the 1976 badges. Got 8 more to put on my website soon. All those badges on Greyhound Derby website must be worth a fortune I reckon.

Parsoles 1928 The Greyhound derby webpage has tons of speedway badge images on it, including many pre-war one's. Many thanks for putting a link to it Sotonian.

Does anyone on here have a picture of what the 1976 Boston speedway badge looks like. So that I know what to look for when buying one. I'm trying to put all the 1976 speedway badges on my website, but I can't find an image of one anywhere. There's nothing on the Greyhound Derby webpage. My website