Retro Speedway Sites

[jackofdiamonds]

Of interest to those of us of a certain age I would imagine.

 

I've found quite a lot of sites dealing with speedway both general and club basis, and find the majority to be fascinating .

 

Which ones do you go back to and therefore recommend to the rest of us. Feel free to mention any you may be involved with.

 

 

[Ron Butler]

Of interest to those of us of a certain age I would imagine.

 

I've found quite a lot of sites dealing with speedway both general and club basis, and find the majority to be fascinating .

 

Which ones do you go back to and therefore recommend to the rest of us. Feel free to mention any you may be involved with.

 

 

If you've found 'quite a lot' why don't you recommend some? Surely this isn't a case of "Pull up the ladder, Jack. I'm on board!"

 

[Dons67]

Visit the following two regularly. Informative and bring back so many memories.

And I always look forward to Ove Fundin's quarterly letter on his website.

 

http://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/

http://www.defunctspeedway.co.uk/index.htm

[Jim Blanchard]

Well, there is my Peter Craven tribute web site.

 

Here

 

My New Cross tribute web site:

 

Here

 

My Ronnie Moore tribute website (in the process of updating this)

 

Here

 

Then of course is the best Speedway History forum on the net with the best speedway historians on the planet...

 

Here

 

And finally, already been mentioned the official Ove Fundin web site, that I am proud to administer on his behalf.

 

Here

Edited March 5, 2009 by Jim Blanchard

[iris123]

This one is quite interesting.It deals in various motorcycle sports,but does touch on speedway,longtrack and grasstrack in Austria

Austrian motorbikes

 

in German of course

[norbold]

Well, there is my Peter Craven tribute web site.

 

Here

 

My New Cross tribute web site:

 

Here

 

My Ronnie Moore tribute website (in the process of updating this)

 

Here

 

Then of course is the best Speedway History forum on the net with the best historians the sport has...

 

Here

 

And finally, already been mentioned the official Ove Fundin web site, that I am proud to administer on his behalf.

 

Here

 

I would like to endorse all these sites. They are all excellent.

 

[martinmauger]

Here (was!) my own CPD Vikings Hull Speedway site from 2005:

 

It ended up being very basic due to lack of time and the sotftware of choice being suddenly unvavailable. "A bad workman should never blame his tools" of course but I built the site for a University Degree module and had I been fully aware of the situation beforehand I would have waited until the circunstances were more ideal. I think I got 70% or so for it. Some of the picture links have broken, some of the layout is altered, sometimes it freezes (what fun!) and I'm surprised it still kinda works. But I have't been able to update or maintain it as I've lost the log-in password(!), but the text still seems to be in place. I was always going to re-build it from scratch but never got around to it and certainly don't have the time or the inclination now. Feel free to let me know what you think, good or bad I really won't mind at all.

 

I deleted the link as it seemed to stop working ; maybe I should start again form scratch aferall.......

Edited March 8, 2009 by Martin Mauger

[dantodan]

Two of my own: -

 

Newcastle and Defunct Tracks

 

And Australias best Brian Darby and all of those named above

Edited March 7, 2009 by dantodan

[TwoMinuteWarning]

Those interested in pre-war speedway may be aware of the excellent site on Gus Kuhn at http://www.guskuhn.net/

 

The site is compiled by a granddaughter of the great man, and has now been expanded to include some of his contemporaries, with pages about Frank Arthur, Sprouts Elder, Eric Langton, Roger Frogley, etc. See http://www.guskuhn.net/GKuhn/Contemp/ContempIndex.htm

 

Statistically speaking, nothing beats the Speedway Researcher site at

http://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/ which is trying to compile full records on every speedway meeting ever held in the UK (including second-halves)

 

Dare I mention my own site, International Speedway, at http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/intspeedway/ which has links to many other sites on historical speedway on the Links page.

 

 

[arnieg]

For those of a statistical bent there are basically five sites that must be bookmarked. In no particular order:

 

1) Speedway Researcher (as already mentioned)

 

2) http://www.lubusports.pl/mat05/index.php particularly for its detailing of national championships from around the world

 

3) http://www.speedway.org/history/ for Swedish and World Championship results

 

4) Roman Lach's Polish speedway history at http://www.rlach.republika.pl/

 

5) And my favourite - Brian's international speedway site (see above)

[speedyguy]

If you want to have a browse over the rest of the Easter Holiday, these might be worth a look (one not strictly speedway but there's a lot of speedway riders involved):

 

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway

http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/index.cgi

http://midgetcarpanorama.proboards.com/index.cgi

 

[speedyguy]

For those interested in old-time photos, there are now 122 albums (more than 1,000 photos) to be found on

 

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway

 

[iris123]

That Gus Kuhn site is very good indeed

[Guest]

 

QUOTE (Jim Blanchard @ Mar 5 2009, 03:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well, there is my Peter Craven tribute web site.

 

Here

 

My New Cross tribute web site:

 

Here

 

My Ronnie Moore tribute website (in the process of updating this)

 

Here

 

Then of course is the best Speedway History forum on the net with the best historians the sport has...

 

Here

 

And finally, already been mentioned the official Ove Fundin web site, that I am proud to administer on his behalf.

 

Here

 

I would like to endorse all these sites. They are all excellent.

 

 

Sadly these sites do not seem to be available. But here's one I really like http://www.speedwayplus.co.uk/

Edited December 6, 2015 by Guest

[Guest]

Two of my own: -

 

Newcastle and Defunct Tracks

 

And Australias best Brian Darby and all of those named above

 

The above excellent sites are very much alive and worth a visit.

 

If you want to have a browse over the rest of the Easter Holiday, these might be worth a look (one not strictly speedway but there's a lot of speedway riders involved):

 

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway

http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/index.cgi

http://midgetcarpanorama.proboards.com/index.cgi

 

These sites are also still active. London Speedways especially carries a wealth of statistical data that's worth looking at. Much of this was provided by the respected speedway historian the late Bryan Tungate.

Midget Car Panorama also has data that includes information about some close Links between the four-wheelers and the many speedway riders who also drove them.

[norbold]

Since this thread was started over six years ago by Jack of Diamonds, his own site, Defunct Tracks, has gone from strength to strength and for those of us interested in the history of the sport is a first class resource and makes for very interesting reading. I could spend days at a time on it! I would highly recommend it to everyone with any interest in speedway history. You will find much fascinating detailed information on there together with some amazing photographs.

[Guest]

Since this thread was started over six years ago by Jack of Diamonds, his own site, Defunct Tracks, has gone from strength to strength and for those of us interested in the history of the sport is a first class resource and makes for very interesting reading. I could spend days at a time on it! I would highly recommend it to everyone with any interest in speedway history. You will find much fascinating detailed information on there together with some amazing photographs.

 

I endorse what you say norbold. There is some excellent historical data on Defunct Tracks and it's well worth a visit.

http://www.defunctspeedway.co.uk/

Edited December 6, 2015 by Guest

[iris123]

Since this thread was started over six years ago by Jack of Diamonds, his own site, Defunct Tracks, has gone from strength to strength and for those of us interested in the history of the sport is a first class resource and makes for very interesting reading. I could spend days at a time on it! I would highly recommend it to everyone with any interest in speedway history. You will find much fascinating detailed information on there together with some amazing photographs.

I thought it was Dantodan's site or is he the same person as Jackofdiamonds? We do get people on here with more than one forum name

[norbold]

I thought it was Dantodan's site or is he the same person as Jackofdiamonds? We do get people on here with more than one forum name

Yes, you're quite right, iris. I made a mistake, confusing the op, with the one from Dantodan a bit further down the page. I must pay more attention to what I'm typing!

[Guest]

Since this thread was started over six years ago by Jack of Diamonds, his own site, Defunct Tracks, has gone from strength to strength and for those of us interested in the history of the sport is a first class resource and makes for very interesting reading. I could spend days at a time on it! I would highly recommend it to everyone with any interest in speedway history. You will find much fascinating detailed information on there together with some amazing photographs.

 

 

 

I endorse what you say norbold. There is some excellent historical data on Defunct Tracks and it's well worth a visit.

http://www.defunctspeedway.co.uk/

 

 

Yes, you're quite right, iris. I made a mistake, confusing the op, with the one from Dantodan a bit further down the page. I must pay more attention to what I'm typing!

 

Oh dear! And I assumed that you were correct norbold and endorsed your comment.