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Welcome to Issue 9 of our quarterly retro magazine. There's another feast of speedway nostalgia for your enjoyment...

 

BENGT JANSSON - Exclusive interview

In his most candid interview yet, Bengt Jansson tells Classic Speedway what really happened on that momentous night in 1967 when the world title slipped away from him.

 

There have been one or two conspiracy theories put forward about the run-off to decide the 1967 World Championship between Benga' and his fellow Swede Ove Fundin after they had both finished with 14 points. One of them was that Bengt had in some way been compromised by Swedish speedway politics that favoured Fundin over himself.

 

It has even been suggested that he was under strict orders from SVEMO bosses not to try and beat the Swedish great, who was bidding to go one better than the record four title victories he shared with Barry Briggs.

 

Now Jansson tell us the truth about that night . . . what he said to Fundin as they walked the Wembley track before the run-off . . . why he thought he was the best rider on the night . . . and his deep disappointment at losing out.

 

Plus we examine why the former popular West Ham, Edinburgh and Hackney star never came that close to winning the world title again, and what the 67-year-old is doing now.

 

PETER COLLINS

Former World Champion Peter Collins is a keen speedway historian and a collector who has accumulated some 40 bikes - from early-30s JAPs to the much more modern Jawa, Weslakes and GMs.

 

In this exclusive interview, PC talks about his passionate hobby in which he lovingly restores vintage machinery, including early 1930s JAPs that used to belong to Belle Vue legend Eric Langton.

 

IVAN MAUGER

Lay-down engines, leading link front forks, dirt deflectors, four-valve motors and silencers are part and parcel of speedway today but, as six times World Champion Ivan Mauger points out and our accompanying pictures confirm, there is nothing new about any of them.

 

ALF HAGON - Exclusive interview

The former Harringay, Wimbledon, Leicester, Oxford, Poole and West Ham rider is the latest to feature in our Q&A series, reflecting on the highs and lows of his eventful career in the capital.

JAROSLAV VOLF - Exclusive interview

We talk to the first Czech rider to appear in the individual World Final.

SECOND SCENE

In our new series on the British League second division we turn the clock back to 1968 and the re-launch of the sport at Middlesbrough, where the Teesside Teessiders got off to a winning start against North-East rivals Berwick.

BUDDY FULLER

Recalling the career of a speedway trailblazing entrepreneur from South Africa, the latest in our Legends series.

 

Plus columnists Ian Hoskins and John Hyam, your letters and much more...

 

 

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