tigerowl Posted March 19, 2020 Report Share Posted March 19, 2020 Hi everyone - Matt Jackson from the Speedway Researcher here. I know these are difficult times for everyone and there is no speedway to take people's minds off things. I am also aware that a lot of Speedway historians are of 'advancing years' and might be stuck in the house with not much to do, hence my offer that I will also post on the Researcher website on the next update. I have recently retired and have also got a bit more time on my hands which I will try and use up by updating the Researcher as often as I can. However, if anyone is interested, I am offering to help anyone with any projects that they have where they might be missing some information. I am thinking about heat details, match reports, race times, averages, rider profiles - that sort of thing. As well as the stuff that is on the Researcher site, I have at least one magazine covering every week from 1946 onwards and loads of pre-war stuff. I also have a record of every rider who I can find to have ridden in a meeting in the UK from 1928-46 inclusive, and everyone who has ridden a league or cup match since then. I am expanding this database to try and include all official meetings year by year as I go forward. If anyone wants any specific information about a rider, meeting, team or event, I am willing to help. I obviously won't have everything but I should be able to help with most enquiries. I hope that this will help to relieve the boredom for people until life returns to some sort of normality. The best contact is by email which is mattjackson68@btinternet.com Matt 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 ... and here is the link to the Speedway Researcher website http://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBBATH Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 Thank you Matt-that is very thoughtful of you. I think you helped me some years ago by providing me with Riders Averages in the Provincial League of 1960-64 (still my favourite all -time league for entertainment value) Cheers mate-and everybody keep well over there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 (edited) On 3/21/2020 at 4:11 PM, Bavarian said: ... and here is the link to the Speedway Researcher website http://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/ I really enjoyed looking through the results from the 60's and saying to myself, "I was there, I was there, I was ....." Edited March 23, 2020 by Split Addition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 2 hours ago, Split said: I really enjoyed looking through the results from the 60's and saying to myself, "I was there, I was there, I was ....." Funny, I look at a lot of the old videos on YouTube, and do that! You know, a lot of us really put ourselves about back in the day, didn't we? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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