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Bending The Rules


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In the league match between Cradley Heath and Newport in June 1970 the referee bent the rules to allow the home team to track 8 riders after a heat 2 crash ruled both Cradley reserves out of the meeting. Mike Gardner was excluded as the cause of the stoppage and neither he nor Chris Bass took any further part in the match. Ken Wakefield was allowed to replace Bass in the re-run and took 5 rides in total. His 2 points made no difference to the result, with Cradley winning 42-36.

 

Does anyone know of any other occasion when this type of rule bending occurred?

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In the first round second leg of the 1980 Speedway Star Knock-out Cup match between Hull and Hackney, Bo Petersen had 8 rides.

The Hawks were operating r/r for Zenon Plech and Bo took 2 of his rides, plus 1 as a tac sub along with his 5 programmed rides in the 18 heat formula.

Apparently the two promoters had mutually agreed that he could take the extra illegal ride, although the fact Hull already had an 18 point lead from the first leg at Waterden Road probably had something to do with their generosity!

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