iris123 Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 (edited) He's an Aussie, isn't he? Was also known as "Bill" Barrett in his speedway career, which would have been in the 1980s or early 90s. Now an Aussie ice racer would be some novelty, I guess. There have been a few New Zealanders racing on the ice, most prominently Bruce Cribb, of course. Wasn't there someone of that name who rode for ....maybe Arena Essex??? Seems a bit portly now though from the photos. This is the guy I remember seeing.Must have a photo in my collection somewhere.Didn't put a link with the guy I saw in the photos at the ice speedway training sessions though. http://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/232/bill-barrett Edited December 11, 2015 by iris123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 Yes, Andrew "Bill" Barrett rode for Arena Essex, Canterbury, Oxford and Cradley during his UK speedway career, which was for a few years in the mid-1980's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 Yes, Andrew "Bill" Barrett rode for Arena Essex, Canterbury, Oxford and Cradley during his UK speedway career, which was for a few years in the mid-1980's Spent a minute myself yesterday and saw that he won the Victorian state champs in Oz and split Phil Crumps reign of some 6 or so years... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viktheawesome Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 Will any rounds be shown on TV here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conkers Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 Will any rounds be shown on TV here? The Ice Speedway Gladiators may well be shown on Motors TV, but the Russian Meetings are often covered live by the tracks themselves if you fancy getting up early at weekends. Both iris 123 and I post links to live coverage when we find tham, and the coverage is reasonable, although the picture can be a little iffy at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 (edited) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YMV1achd2A Result from day 1 of Superleague in Kamensk Moscow 35 Mega-Lada Togliatti 28 Ufa 23 Sterlitamak 19 Kamensk 15 Edited December 12, 2015 by iris123 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bream Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 Bit awkward to see Krasnikov with a flag and a vest of the Night Wolves when teams are walking on the track before the meeting. I remember news that Ufa club was under somekind of pressure before this season? Economic or something? By joining the Night Wolves Krasnikov possibly got more political influence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 (edited) heard that Ufa only have half the money they need to complete a season!!!! The Night Wolves are known to be well funded by Putin,so maybe it is financial support.But normally these people don't just give money away without wanting something in return? There are well known stories of trouble at Mega-Lada with one or two Presidents of the club being "bumped off".Was also trouble in the Ukraine with with Trofimov coming up against so called gangsters and a few theories about who is behind some of the polish clubs and their troubles...... It does seem from my dodgy translation that there is some sort of sponsorship/financial relationship between Ufa + the Night Wolves..... Edited December 12, 2015 by iris123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted December 13, 2015 Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 (edited) Day 2 live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG5sKS84W9k Results Moscow 32 (Koltakov 18pt max) Mega-Lada Togliatti 28 Kamensk 22 (strong performance from Harald Simon) Ufa 19+3 Sterlitamak 19+2 Edited December 13, 2015 by iris123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conkers Posted December 13, 2015 Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 (edited) RUSSIAN SUPER LEAGUE, ROUND 1 & 2, KAMENSK URAL, Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th December 2015 RESULTS+SCORERS SATURDAY, ROUND 1 Moscow 35 (Dmitri Koltakov 16, Dmitri Khomitsevich 11, Eduard Krysov 8) Togliatti 28 (Igor Kononov 14, Danil Ivanov 11, Igor Saydullin 3) Ufa 23 (Nikolai Krasnikov 11, Igor Myshkovets 9, Sergei Karachintsev 3) Sterlitamak 19 (Alexei Ivanov 12, Yevgeny Sharov 5, Andrei Shishegov 2) Kamensk Ural 15 (Dinar Valeev 6, Vladimir Bobin 5, Harald Simon 4) SUNDAY, ROUND 2 Moscow 32 (Koltakov 18, Khomitsevich 9, Krysov 5) Togliatti 28 (Kononov 12, D. Ivanov 10, Nikita Toloknov 6) Kamensk Ural 22 (Simon 12, Valeev 8, Bobin 2) Ufa 19+3 (Krasnikov 13+3, Myshkovets 5, Karachintsev 2) Sterlitamak 19+2 (A. Ivanov 10+2, Shishegov 5, Sharov 4) LEAGUE TABLE Moscow 12 (6+6), Togliatti 8 (4+4) Ufa 5 (3+2), Kamensk Ural 4 (1+3), Sterlitamak 3 (2+1) Better than average live feed for this meeting, and it's still available to view on You Tube if you missed either days racing Edited December 13, 2015 by Conkers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted December 14, 2015 Report Share Posted December 14, 2015 (edited) Problems with the plans for the new stadium in Assen?If I understand correctly the council are asking for are detailed plans which cost €100,000 and the guys behind the project say they haven't got that kind of money to spend without a guarantee the project will be accepted by the council http://www.rtvdrenthe.nl/nieuws/103298/Initiatiefnemer-ijsbaanplan-Assen-kritisch-op-handelen-provincie-Drenthe Sure Jesper will correct me if I am wrong on that Edited December 14, 2015 by iris123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGrasstrack Posted December 14, 2015 Report Share Posted December 14, 2015 Yes that's right. The Drenthe province has two candidates for a new ice stadium: Assen and Hoogeveen. The one with the best plan/idea will get the investment/support from the province. Both parties have to make an even more detailed plan because both were rejected some time ago it seems.... And this costs alot of money. To be continued Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted December 14, 2015 Report Share Posted December 14, 2015 Let's hope it has a happy end.We despearately need a track that is willing to host ice speedway in western Europe to go along with Berlin and Inzell or the sport will disappear.It seems the weather just doesn't allow for many natural tracks these days.Alarmingly warm again so far this winter.We have blossom on trees and flowers still blooming!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGrasstrack Posted December 14, 2015 Report Share Posted December 14, 2015 I hope too.... a new ice stadium looks almost certain, but the question remains if they are willing to stage icespeedway. Same here in NL, not a sign of king winter to arrive. Think we will get the bad news info's from Steingaden/Weissenbach soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted December 15, 2015 Report Share Posted December 15, 2015 (edited) heard that Ufa only have half the money they need to complete a season!!!! The Night Wolves are known to be well funded by Putin,so maybe it is financial support.But normally these people don't just give money away without wanting something in return? There are well known stories of trouble at Mega-Lada with one or two Presidents of the club being "bumped off".Was also trouble in the Ukraine with with Trofimov coming up against so called gangsters and a few theories about who is behind some of the polish clubs and their troubles...... It does seem from my dodgy translation that there is some sort of sponsorship/financial relationship between Ufa + the Night Wolves..... Having seen the poster for next weeks meeting at Ufa it does seem the Night Wolves are sponsors of the club now.Their emblem is there alongside the likes of Motul Edited December 15, 2015 by iris123 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted December 15, 2015 Report Share Posted December 15, 2015 Per-Olof ”Posa” Serenius have decided to join Ove Ledström's team. According to the article Ove and Posa have been "Talking" for some time and Posa then offered his help which Ove accepted. http://www.racemagazine.se/isracing/ove-far-hjalp-av-posa/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waiheke1 Posted December 16, 2015 Report Share Posted December 16, 2015 Yes, Andrew "Bill" Barrett rode for Arena Essex, Canterbury, Oxford and Cradley during his UK speedway career, which was for a few years in the mid-1980'sMy memory of bill Barrett is that he, along with mark crang, is one of the two worst riders I ever saw live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted December 16, 2015 Report Share Posted December 16, 2015 My memory of bill Barrett is that he, along with mark crang, is one of the two worst riders I ever saw live. Had a check and they both take pride of place(!!!!) in my photo collection.Crang in the BV 1985 team pic and Barrett in Arena Essex team.I wouldn't recognise him from the rider who was doing a bit of ice racing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted December 16, 2015 Report Share Posted December 16, 2015 My memory of bill Barrett is that he, along with mark crang, is one of the two worst riders I ever saw live. Have no idea how the meeting went, but he's won the Victorian state champs during Phil Crumps "reign"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bream Posted December 17, 2015 Report Share Posted December 17, 2015 (edited) "In 2015, under contract with Motorcycle Federation of Russia the legal successor to the holding of competitions Ice Racing became Professional league of motosport. Unanimously honorary president of the League, was elected chief biker of country - Alexander Zaldastanov (Surgeon) - Head of the All-Russian motorcycle club. The main partner of the Professional League of motosport is public organization "Russian motorcyclists". The opening of the ice season in this format is the first milestone in the global project of the All-Russian motorcycle club "Night Wolves" for the revival of Russian motosport. December 19 in the city of Ufa in the "Professional League of motosport" will be held competition on ice and among the organizers is the moto club "Night Wolves" (Ufa). The aim of the motorcycle club "Night Wolves" is the development of Russian motosport, moving it to a qualitatively higher level, to popularize the sport among the general population. In this regard, in addition to uncompromising struggle riders on the ice, the audience will see patriotic holiday, during which will demonstrate musical show program "Night Wolves", as well as excerpts from the bike show previously conducted in the cities of Sevastopol and Stalingrad. Пресс-служба МФРБ и группа "Ночные волки" (Уфа) ВКонтакте. Press Service MFRB and the group "Night Wolves" (Ufa) VKontakte." Well, that escalated quickly. edit. more text came up during the night Edited December 18, 2015 by Bream Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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