Ghostwalker Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 well manchesterpaul i disagree regarding Östersund, a track can be active even if it dosnt have meetings. The Österund track is used about 6 hours/week (during the summer) which is more then tracks like Gubbängen where Hammarby usually have their home meetings. The practising in Östersund is also organized by a team, Jämtarna. If a track is used 6 hours/week by regular speedway bikes i think it should count as active, no matter the type of activity. Also have in mind that Östersund is quite far north so the season is much shorter then further south which is why they don't have meetings. a few pics from recent activity: http://www.jamtarna.se/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGrasstrack Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 If a track is used 6 hours/week by regular speedway bikes i think it should count as active, no matter the type of activity. Well in that case you can remove all Dutch tracks and most German tracks from the list lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lake Bodom Comet Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 Wasn't there a track in PORTUGAL?? Seem to remember a Grand Prix qualifier staged there in the late 1990's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 Wasn't there a track in PORTUGAL?? Seem to remember a Grand Prix qualifier staged there in the late 1990's At Santerem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lake Bodom Comet Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 Anyone know what became of it, I assume there must have been some Portugese riders at some time??! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 Anyone know what became of it, I assume there must have been some Portugese riders at some time??! Not sure. I think it was originally created as some sort of FIM/UEM project to expand speedway into new areas, and just held meetings with 'imported' riders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhaines Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 This topic inspired me to create some kind of atlas/directory of all the tracks in the world. I've got some work to do with adding all the tracks, but i've made a start :-) http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=115715215103463258710.00048adf5e6a31b49b774&z=2 Currently haven't got round to adding some of the countries (notably Poland) but i'll get onto it soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGrasstrack Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 Not sure. I think it was originally created as some sort of FIM/UEM project to expand speedway into new areas, and just held meetings with 'imported' riders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_European_Speedway_Club_Champions%27_Cup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsloes 1928 nearly Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 (edited) Talking of places that USED to have tracks - what about Zimbabwe? Under its old colonial name it regularly attracted touring British riders and there were a few tracks I believe. Crayford legend Laurie Etheridge was a regular visitor there.... And a lad who joined my Sixth Form (yes it WAS a long time ago... ) to avoid the Rhodesian army draft spoke of watching Speedway there.. And then there was Majorca..: in the early '70s Ian Hoskins ran a track there. I wonder if it still lies unused on that Spanish holiday isle..? A local rider Marshall Pugh was the star and he briefly came over and rode at Hoskins' Dad's track at Canterbury in the early '70s.. Edited July 8, 2010 by Parsloes 1928 nearly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 This topic inspired me to create some kind of atlas/directory of all the tracks in the world. I've got some work to do with adding all the tracks, but i've made a start :-) http://maps.google.c...6a31b49b774&z=2 Currently haven't got round to adding some of the countries (notably Poland) but i'll get onto it soon. nice. here is the correct location of the Eskilstuna track. link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidba Posted July 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 This topic inspired me to create some kind of atlas/directory of all the tracks in the world. I've got some work to do with adding all the tracks, but i've made a start :-) http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=115715215103463258710.00048adf5e6a31b49b774&z=2 Currently haven't got round to adding some of the countries (notably Poland) but i'll get onto it soon. A great undertaking Tom, will be wonderfull when it's complete and very usefull resource to those of us who like to travel to watch speedway. Thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhaines Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 nice. here is the correct location of the Eskilstuna track. link. Thanks Ghostwalker, i've updated that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WembleyLion Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 This topic inspired me to create some kind of atlas/directory of all the tracks in the world. I've got some work to do with adding all the tracks, but i've made a start :-) http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=115715215103463258710.00048adf5e6a31b49b774&z=2 Excellent work Tom and I look forward to the final version! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manchesterpaul Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 (edited) I'm sure there was something similar to this available a few years ago on Google maps. However, in view of the lack of anyone piping up with details of such one presumes it has faded away and not been updated. Tom, is there any chance you can do post a couple of details here in this forum to enable us to assist with missing locations. First of all can you please list on here the tracks that you need information for, as in those that you haven't got the full details for. Only, i for one haven't got the time available, or desire to click on every link on the map to see if the details are present for every single track. If you give us the ones you need info for we can work on them. I presume the listing of the tracks in the left hand column is totally out of your hands? Only, apart from being in country order (i think), there is absolutely no order at all, not even alphabetical. Does Poole appear first because it's the first one you entered and/or it's your favourite team?. Does Google force them to appear in the order you entered them?. Can you have a glance to see they provide the option to order A-Z. Failing that, my second request is can you give the list so far on here? It's just it will make it far easier to assist. Edited July 13, 2010 by manchesterpaul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhaines Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 I'm sure there was something similar to this available a few years ago on Google maps. However, in view of the lack of anyone piping up with details of such one presumes it has faded away and not been updated. Tom, is there any chance you can do post a couple of details here in this forum to enable us to assist with missing locations. First of all can you please list on here the tracks that you need information for, as in those that you haven't got the full details for. Only, i for one haven't got the time available, or desire to click on every link on the map to see if the details are present for every single track. If you give us the ones you need info for we can work on them. I presume the listing of the tracks in the left hand column is totally out of your hands? Only, apart from being in country order (i think), there is absolutely no order at all, not even alphabetical. Does Poole appear first because it's the first one you entered and/or it's your favourite team?. Does Google force them to appear in the order you entered them?. Can you have a glance to see they provide the option to order A-Z. Failing that, my second request is can you give the list so far on here? It's just it will make it far easier to assist. I'll go through it tomorrow with the list of tracks which need locations and which I believe are spot on. The listing thing is in the order they were entered, for the GB tracks its unfortunately the order they appear in the speedway star preview issue which is where I got the track postcodes from. I'm hoping to move it to a website when its finished so there I can have country by country pages and links to each part of the map (hopefully). I've been sent all the Swedish locations so once I get round to actually inputting them there shouldn't be too many tracks which aren't correct. One thing that does need doing is the American, Australian and New Zealand tracks. If anyone has all the locations of these that would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhaines Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 In the last 30 seconds i've just realised I can change the order of the tracks on the left hand side. I'll make them A-Z when I have a chance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhaines Posted July 15, 2010 Report Share Posted July 15, 2010 as posted in general speedway: Below is a list of the tracks which need a direct location and the countries which are currently missing! Tracks lacking a proper locations All Argentinian Tracks Mseno, Czech Rep. Pardubice, Czech Rep. Brovst, DK Esbjerg, DK Vejilby, DK All Finnish Tracks (Not helped by poor google maps images of Finland) Berghaupten, Ger Dohren, Ger Landshut, Ger Meissen, Ger Nordhastedt, Ger Buxton, GB Northside & Sittingbourne both missing, GB Lonigo, ITA Sergeo, ITA Verona, ITA Blijham, NET Lelystad, NET Drammen, NOR Elgane, NOR Kongsberg, NOR Kristiansand, NOR Lunner, NOR (Snow covered google maps image doesn't help me finding it lol!) Mjoesa, NOR Riska, NOR Balakovo, RUS Oktyabrsky, RUS Ljubljana, SLO Walkerville, SA Countries Missing Australia New Zealand USA Hopefully each map entry will grow over time to feature track information (length, track record, random trivia, stadium/track photos). So if you have anything to add, please contact me (all photos to add must be yours, not somebody elses without permission!) If you can help, email me here or PM me on here. Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted July 15, 2010 Report Share Posted July 15, 2010 (edited) four tracks to start with: Lonigo. Esbjerg Brovst Vejilby Edited July 15, 2010 by Ghostwalker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawel115 Posted July 15, 2010 Report Share Posted July 15, 2010 Polish track locations and Canadian ones are accurate and spot on all of them( you can see the tracks in satellite view). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawel115 Posted July 15, 2010 Report Share Posted July 15, 2010 I really like the locations of most Swedish tracks surrounded by forest it really is very nice and picturesque. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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