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Just found a bit of news from New Zealand took it from Jason Bunyan's site.

CHEETAH

 

The first meeting of this Winter's Tour was rained off last Saturday, so the whole event was re-arranged for this week, i rode in the Buck Buchanan Memorial event at Ruapuna Speedway near Christchurch, winning all four races using a Handicap format. I had to use all borrowed equipment as mine is still on a ship near NZ, staying over for a week meant i could go to Queenstown, trying white water rafting and other water sports, now it's a 2 week wait until the Official Tour starts over Xmas with 6 meetings in 7 days.

Jase

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There has been this year a limited attempt on South Island to have league racing. Three teams are competing in the new 'Kiwi League' they are racing under the old 13 heat formula. On the web site it says the long term plan is to expand in the future.

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the championship dates for NEW ZEALAND of interest with thanks to speedway new zealand's website at http://www.speedway.co.nz/ are:-

 

dec 27/28 north island sidecar Wanganui

30 south island sidecar Cromwell

jan 08 NEW ZEALAND solo Gisborne

22 south island solo Christchurch [Ruapunyah]

feb 04/05 NZ Grand Prix sidecar Nelson

12 NZ Grand Prix solo Westport

20 north island solo Auckland [Rosebank]

mar 05 NZ under 21 solo Invercargill [Oreti Park]

12/13 NEW ZEALAND sidecar Kihikihi

 

ps: [in the past] pulling granny's tooth out with a pair of pliers is easier

than getting results of meetings out of the land of the long white cloud

 

regards

 

john

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These are the Dates for the J&J Promotions 2004/5 NZ Tour

 

28 Dec Ruapuna, Christchurch

29 Dec Invercargill

30 Dec Cromwell

1 Jan Moore Pk, Christchurch

2 Jan Westport

3 Jan Nelson

7 Jan Wellington

8 Jan Gisborne NZ Final

9 Jan Rosebank, Auckland

15 Jan Waikaraka Pk, Auckland

16 Jan Rosebank, Auckland

21 Jan Waikaraka Pk, Auckland

29 Jan Palmerston North

5 Feb Waikaraka Pk, Auckland

6 Feb Rosebank, Auckland

 

Seems very hectic to me.

CHEETAH

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Hi,

I will be trying to keep things up to date on the New Zealand Speedway forum i have just started found here (NZ Speedway forum)

There is results from the first meeting at ruapuna.

The meeting at Oreti Park in Invercargill on the 29th went ahead and from what i have heard Lucas Dryml was dominant and had the overall win.(more info to come soon)

The meeting scheduled for the 30th at Cromwell was unfortunately rained off.

 

Hopefully this will be of interest to you.

Out of curiosity in one of the earlier posts it was mentioned that we are using the "old" 13 heat format. QUESTION. What is the new format as i am new to League racing.

 

Chopper34

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Result from 2nd Round of the Series at Invercargill on 30th December.

1st Lukas Dryml

2nd Jason Bunyan

3rd Glenn Phillips

 

Result from 3rd Round of Series at Cromwell on 31st December.

1st Jason Bunyan

2nd Glenn Phillips

3rd Lukas Dryml

 

Due to a rain off the dates have changed slightly

 

CHEETAH

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Chopper34, the current format for racing in the UK is 15 heats with the last heat a nominated race. In that, the team managers selects two riders based on their form over the meeting to face each other in the last heat. The 13 heat formula which is what I believe happens in the Kiwi League, was the set up when I first started watching speedway in the 1970's. Both formats have seven man teams, hope that helps. I always prefer a team meeting to an individual one so I hope the Kiwi league is a success.

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Hi Update from Nelson Speedway 3rd Jan

http://www.speedwaybikes.co.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?p=73#73

Overall results from this meeting.

Glen Phillips 26

Simone Terenzani 22

Sam Taylor 15

Jason Bunyan 13

Sean Cox 12

Lukas Dryml 9

Attila Stefani 8

Shane McCabe 4

Andy Aldridge 2

 

Chopper34

 

hello chopper34.i see lukas has 9 points , how did he ride in this meeting and what position did he finish inp please

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Hi,

He missed his first ride with what seemed like mechanical trouble and in his next ride he showed that he was certainly capable of riding on the clay surface despite what would appear to be a case of just not liking it.

He did not appear to be taking this race too seriously as i almost expected a bit more from a GP rider.

It would have been good to see him race at Moore Park or Oreti Park as they are propper speedwaybike tracks with a real racing surface.

 

This is simply my humble oppinion.

 

Full details of placings etc available on the NZ Speedway forum HERE

 

Chopper34

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Hi,

He missed his first ride with what seemed like mechanical trouble and in his next ride he showed that he was certainly capable of riding on the clay surface despite what would appear to be a case of just not liking it.

He did not appear to be taking this race too seriously as i almost expected a bit more from a GP rider.

It would have been good to see him race at Moore Park or Oreti Park as they are propper speedwaybike tracks with a real racing surface.

 

This is simply my humble oppinion.

 

Full details of placings etc available on the NZ Speedway forum HERE

 

Chopper34

 

thanks for info,maybe lukas is just taking things a bit easy on tracks like that,as he has big season ahead to rebuild his form

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