Robbie B

1 Scott Autrey 2 Bruce Penhall 3 Bobby Schwartz

Hans Andersen as my captain please

Very Very sad day for speedway that night R.I.P. Vic

It makes interesting veiwing, many thanks for that. Do you any footage of the '76 Spring Classic to put on YouTube ? would love to put a link to some, for my website at www.wimbledonspeedway1976.com

The large trophy was the Laurels, it would be intresting to find out what happened to that, and other trophies that were at Plough Lane.

Internationale winners 1961 Ove Fundin (at Harringay) 1962 Ove Fundin 1963 Ove Fundin 1964 Barry Briggs 1965 Charlie Monk 1966 Gote Nordin 1967 Gote Nordon 1968 Nigel Boocock 1969 Trevor Hedge 1970 Ivan Mauger 1971 Ivanj Mauger 1972 Ivan Mauger 1973 Ole Olsen 1974 Peter Collins 1975 Ole Olsen 1976 Malcolm Simmons 1977 Edward Jancarz 1978 Peter Collins 1979 Michael Lee 1980 Dave Jessup 1981 Hans Nielsen Spring Classic winners 1973 Anders Michanek 1974 Malcolm Simmons 1975 Phil Crump 1976 Dve Jessup 1977 Billy Sanders 1978 Scott Autrey 1979 Scott Autrey 1980 John Davis 1981 Dave Jessup & Ole Olsen Ole Olsen, appealed against referee Mel Price's decsion to disqualify him from heat 12 for alleged use of a new tyre. Olsen's three points had been deducted from his score and the riders placed behind him, Gordon Kennett, Bo Petersen and Billy Sanders all advanced one place in the heat result. The Speedway Control Board Tribunal considered Olsen's appeal on May 26 and upheld his protest ordering that the original heat 12 result should stand. Consequently causing Dave Jessup and Ole Olsen to finsh level on points. Olsen waived any claim to the additionmal prize monies he should have won. 1982 - 1986 not held 1987 Trevor Banks 1988 Andy Galvin 1989 Andy Galvin 1990 Andy Grahame 1991 not held 2002 - 2005 not held

So that's why there were two winners in 1946. Do you require the Spring Classic and Internationale winners as well?

The full list of Laurels winners are (riders in BOLD were Wimbledon riders at the time of winning the title) 1939 Wilbur Lamoreaux 1946 Tomy Price & Bob Wells (I don't know why there was joint winners, before I was born. Someone on the BSF might know) 1947 Vic Duggan 1948 Jack Parker 1949 - 1950 not held 1951 Aub Lawson 1952 Ronnie Moore 1953 Jack Young 1954 Ron How 1955 Ronnie Moore 1956 Ronnie Moore 1957 Per Olaf Soederman 1958 not held 1959 Ken McKinlay 1960 Ronnie Moore 1961 Barry Briggs 1962 Ove Fundin 1963 Barry Briggs 1964 Bjorn Knutsson 1965 Barry Briggs 1966 Nigel Boocock 1967 Ray Wilson 1968 Barry Briggs 1969 Trevor Hedge 1970 Ray Wilson 1971 Ole Olsen 1972 Ole Olsen 1973 Ole Olsen 1974 Dave Jessup 1975 Tommy Jansson 1976 Martin Ashby 1977 Colin Richardson 1978 John Davis 1979 Bruce Penhall 1980 Larry Ross 1981 John Davis 1982 Malcolmm Simmons 1983 Hans Nielsen 1984 not held 1985 Neil Middleditch 1986 Nigel Sparshott 1987 Dave Mullett 1988 Steve Schofield 1989 Todd Wiltshire 1990 not held 1991 Hans Nielsen 1992 - 2002 not held 2003 Wayne Barrett 2004 not held (rained off two times) 2005 Mark Burrows I witnessed some great Laurels meeting in the past.

Fredrik Lindgren as my Captain please

Glad that I could help speedwayguy

Crayford Teams from Speedway Star magazines 1970 Archie Wilkinson 9.55 Tony Childs 7.97 George Davenport 7.00 Derek Timms 5.19 Mick Steel 4.98 Tony Armstrong 4.55 Chris Hawkins 4.51 Colin Cook 4.00 Judd Drew 3.91 Ian Spencer 2.00 Cyril Hathaway 0.00 League & Cup matches 1975 Laurie Etheridge 9.74 Alan Sage 8.51 Trevor Barnwell 7.73 Pete Wigley 6.26 Bob Young 5.86 Les Ott 5.78 Alan Johns 5.68 George Barclay 5.34 Dave Shepherd 4.92 Bill Archer 4.11 Roy Barwick 3.71 Richard Wills 2.00 Terry Barclay 0.00 Dave Howard 0.00 League & Cup matches 1982 Barry Thomas 8.75 Trevor Banks 7.62 Mike Spinks 6.83 Alan Sage 6.48 Alan Mogridge 5.96 Laurie Etheridge 5.67 Paul Bosley 5.22 Mick Pither 5.02 Trevor Barnwell 3.53 Chris Tritton 3.23 Andy Galvin 2.40 Keith Cornell 0.00 Richard Newnham 0.00 League & Cup matches That's all the Crayford teams covered.

From the 1969 & 1970 BSPA Handbooks, and also Speedway Yearbooks 1977 - 1982 1968 Archie Wilkinson 11.33 Mick Handley 10.39 Tony Childs 7.83 Derek Timms 6.80 Colin Clark 6.27 Dai Evans 6.12 Geoff Ambrose 6.03 Stuart Riley 5.23 Tony Armstrong 4.31 Dave Parry 2.67 Donovan Price 2.67 Pete Gay 0.00 1969 Geoff Ambrose 10.16 Derek Timms 8.92 Archie Wilkinson 8.64 Tony Childs 8.35 Chris Harrison 6.62 Mick Steel 6.62 Colin Cook 6.27 Tony Armstrong 5.38 Judd Drew 4.33 Dai Evans 2.67 Stuart Riley 1.60 1976 Laurie Etheridge 9.96 Alan Sage 8.83 Mike Broadbank 7.29 Pete Wigley 7.22 Alan Johns 6.45 Trevor Barnwell 5.71 Bill Archer 5.69 Richard Davey 4.71 Gary Spencer 4.11 John Hooper 3.09 Dave Shepherd 2.87 Colin Archer 2.00 Roy Barwick 1.33 1977 Laurie Etheridge 9.63 Alan Sage 8.77 Colin Gooddy 8.58 Vic Harding 8.09 Jack Bibby 6.40 Alan Johns 5.57 Richard Davey 5.80 John Hooper 4.61 Mike Besent 4.33 Garry May 3.76 Dingle Brown 2.00 1978 Laurie Etheridge 9.32 Alan Sage 8.51 Garry May 8.00 Alan Johns 6.31 Tony Featherstone 5.21 Richard Davey 5.16 Pete Wigley 5.14 Tony Garard 4.00 John Hooper 4.33 Jack Bibby 3.60 Nigel Sparshott 1.33 1979 Steve Naylor 8.96 Laurie Etheridge 8.14 Alan Sage 7.95 * Paul Woods 7.68 Alan Johns 4.57 Richard Davey 4.43 Paul Gilbert 3.47 Paul Hollingsbee 3.37 John Hooper 3.21 Nike Pither 3.00 Jack Bibby 0.62 Pete Wigley 0.00 * Transferred during the season from Canterbury 1980 Paul Woods 10.55 Steve Naylor 8.28 Tony Brooks 8.00 Les Rumsey 7.89 Alan Sage 6.85 Laurie Etheridge 6.02 Mike Pither 5.33 Alan Johns 5.00 Paul Hollingsbee 4.80 Paul Gilbert 3.68 Trevor Barnwell 3.50 Jack Bibby 3.50 Chris Tritton 0.00 1981 Barry Thomas 9.10 Alan Sage 7.97 Laurie Etheridge 6.94 Mike Pither 6.05 Trevor Barnwell 5.78 Paul Hollingsbee 5.00 Keith Pritchard 4.29 * Michael Spinks 4.84 Paul Bosley 2.24 Ian Fletcher 1.00 Tony Brooks 0.00 Keith Cornell 0.00 * Transferred during the season from Boston 1983 Barry Thomas 9.69 Paul Bosley 7.88 Kevin Teager 7.56 Andy Galvin 6.72 Alan Sage 6.63 Alan Mogridge 6.60 Trevor Banks 6.46 Mark Terry 5.14 League & Cup matches - from the history of defunt Pocket Size History of speedway tracks by speedaway This book list all the Crayford riders 1968 - 83 with the years of riding for the club, and also the overall points and CMA total for Crayford. Do you want me type out their overall Crayford caereer stats ? I have to go through my Speedway Stars for 1970, 1975 & 1982 will take a couple of days, maybe. Hope this helps.

You might be right Hagonshocker, in other sports they would have a big celebration of the 50th final. You can't emai them to ask, as they don't accept from unauthorised email addresses, on the Grand Prix website.

I don't know if anyone else has realised this. But this year World Cup Final in Poland is the 50th. As the competition was originally Poland's idea, the first final being in 1960, does anyone know if they or the FIM are going to celebrate the occasion ?

Today marks the 33rd anniversary of the very sad death of Tommy Jansson, one of Wimbledon's and Sweden greatest sons. As 1976 was my first year of supporting Wimbledon I never got the chance too see him race on that many occasions, but what I did see was an exceptional rider, great friendliness to all his fans, and one of the best persons that you could ever wished to met. Just can’t believe that it’s now 33 years since his passing. I always like to remember him, at his last meeting at Wimbledon. First beating Dave Jessup in the Golden Helmet Match Race Championship, on Wimbledon junior Ian Williams bike, after his own bike broke down in the first race of that competition. Then with him going round Plough Lane waving to all the crowd. Afterwards going on to get a maximum in the Southern Riders Championship Qualifying Round. He was such a special person, that why I put a five page tribute to him on my Wimbledon speedway website www.wimbledonspeedway1976.com Gone but NEVER forgotten

Your right Norbold while he was racing for the Leicester 'Lions' My post was regarding the '83 LRC, forgot the '75 one. I have a good excuse, I didn't start going to speedway until 1976 (only 50 lines for me)

I did post this on another thread, but I felt that it might have got lost under the other threads many replies. Just to add fuel to the fire of the London Riders Championship honours. Dave Jessup did win a version of the LRC. The 1970 Division Two LRC held at Romford, on Thursday 16 July 1970. The scores were Dave Jessup 14, Phil Woodcock 12, Brian Foote 11, Ian Gills 10, Colin Sanders 10, Ross Gilbertson 9, Tony Childs 9, Alan Emmett 7, Kevin Holden 7, Nigel Rackett 6, Geoff Maloney 6, Charlie Benham 5, Terry Stone 5, Gary Moore 4, Barry Thomas 3, Mike Holt 1, A.Degan (res) 0 According to the Speedway Star magazine of the time, this was the very first staging of this event.

Many thanks once again Racers and Royals. Is there any Swedish league speedway available on the Internet?

Many thanks Racers and Royals This was the first I watched a Polish league match on the Internet. I make sure I'm there earlier next time, so I won't miss any racing.

What time did the meeting start ? I was watching on justin.tv but missed the start of the meeting

Brilliant stadium, and a massive crowd, the atmosphere must have been tremendous Excellent TV coverage.

Polish speedway Tourn vs Vs Leszno Live now on justin.tv http://www.justin.tv/tomcio

The same team as Round 1 for me, including Leigh Adams as captain please.

Hi Pete This team by davidadam is the excatly same as mine at the bottom of page 4, does it matter if two people have duplicate teams ?

Yeah Pete thanks for the doing competition, just one of those days Blazeaway.