Sidecar Racing

[Guest]

​I am quoting an old Link in regard to sidecar racing on London tracks, but am certain there were more meetings than the few that are shown.

So far as Wimbledon in concerned, I am sure that they were involved in some way when the sport returned to Plough Lane at Conference League level in 2002.

http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/board/292/london-sidecar-racing

Edited February 7, 2017 by Guest

[Guest]

Sidecars were on the first British speedway meeting at High Beech in February 1928.

They also raced at Wimbledon in the 1950s but were dropped after a sidecar passenger was killed. I don't know anything else about the latter incident.

There might also have been sidecars at Harringay in the 1950s when Peter Sperrin from Australia rode (or is it drove?) in a meeting at Green Lanes.

And legend also has it that at one Harringay sidecar event that speedway international Split Waterman acted as a passenger.

Edited January 29, 2017 by Guest

[Andy Downes]

I seem to remember several demonstration races at Hackney in the late 1980's but the racing was poor compared to the local grasstrack scene - I think the track was

too small and probably too narrow for any decent racing. I believe there was some talk of a sidecar league around that time but that could be my memory playing tricks as I was falling out of love with the sport at that time