Robbie B

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.

Hi Ron, thanks for doing this competition and my team is 4 - Greg Hancock £45,000 5 - Hans Andersen £45,000 6 - Leigh Adams £45,000 (Capt) 10 - Fredrik Lindgren £30,000 15 - Emil Sayfutdinov £25,000

Hi Rico, you're right about the colon I didn't see it, I must get some glasses. But I do hate the use 'Team GB' also, might be just me, I much perfer just plain Great Britain If Joonas Kylmakorpi is fit and rides Finland might have a chance, otherwise I think the Czech Republic will do the business.

Thanks for the info DutchGrasstrack, but why can't the teams be called USA, Czech Repulic, Finland and Latvia, instead of having the word Team in front of them I'm not having a go at you, but they the use this word in the UK as well, it just sounds so silly to me putting that word in front of the countries names, we never used to use it, just following the Americas I'm affraid. Shame that there's no Dutch team entered, I remember Rudy Muts and Henny Kroeze from the past, both very good riders.

Got my issue last Friday, excellent read again Tony. Many thanks

If anyone got problems translating these Polish pages (http://www.tvp.pl/sport/zuzel/centernet-mo...straliga/cennik) Easy solution for you. Install IE 8 with the Windows Live toolbar (which has a translation button on it (at the far right end side), you get a spilt screen, one side of the screen is in Polish and the other side is in English). Hope that this helps anyone.

AHA I see what you mean Knowing Me Robbie B Knowing You Youngy105 AHA

Wimbledon main grandstand (child's admission) including the programme 50p, in 1976. It was cheaper at the non-grandstand entrance, but can't what 35p or 40p. Roughly the same price at White City & Hackney, if I remember. Can't remember Crayford's admission price though. Happy days, could go along to two or three meetings a week, somtimes to four venues .

Thanks JC, I have all the Backtrack mags, I have a look through them too see. Your right JC from issue 23 there's been 'Taking The Mic' about announcers, I really must get some new glasses.

Thanks Ron it must have been one of those days I did mean 'Wright Wood'.

Yes Shazzybird, cameramen from all different tracks. And maybe something on the Track Announcers as well.

I remember White City's first meeting still. It was my first ever Wimbledon away meeting, and also first sight of Tommy Jansson racing in the flesh. He definitely had some excellent races with Gordon Kennet that night. Shame the 'Dons' didn't win though. I remeber seeing Gordon Kennett on the Blue Peter TV programme racing ariound the track with a camera n his helemt. But one thing always puzzled me, why did they give the race times in the second using 100th of a second, when they use 10th of a second in the main meeting. I went there many times over the years. Speedway was cheap then, and I would often use to go two or threes times a week, to Crayford & Hackney also, but I always was a 'Dons' supporter, but I loved my speedway. I also went to many greyhound meetings there when I was older as well. I still can't beleive that the stadium was knocked down for a BBC carpark .