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3 hours ago, customhouseregular said:

So the original West Ham track was a Long Track?. I always believed a long track had to be between 500 and 1,000m.. Seems I was wrong.

It was. But because the FIM wanted to try and broaden the popularity they changed the rules. I think maybe from memory Gollob was at first mooted as possible wild card. But not too sure now after all these years

Ine of the local tracks to me, Mulmshorn I think is 500m and another Scheessel is 1,000. Also another that is rarely used Hechthausen is fairly small 

Not too sure there was a lack of 1,000m tracks, maybe more a lack of those that wanted to host a GP. I think Parchim almost went bust hosting one

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2 hours ago, Najjer said:

Didn't realise Stephan Katt was still going! Does Matthias Kroger still ride longtrack too?

Stan Burza must be nearly about 50 by now!

50, a mere spring chicken. Bernd Diener is 60 and he should have been in this year's series, and did ride in the Challenge missing qualification for next year's series by a single place.

 

Edit: and with Hummel and Pijper finishing in the series top 7 Diener should be in the GP next year

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On 9/27/2020 at 9:28 AM, customhouseregular said:

So the original West Ham track was a Long Track?. I always believed a long track had to be between 500 and 1,000m.. Seems I was wrong.

anything to get the Poles involves i guess, so they can take over that sport too.

 

i remember Diener at Schessell in '94 or '95 when Tatum won his first title, he was no spring chicken then! i've seen him at the Poacher in the last few years too

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