Track Records

[Neil Grantham]

Apologies if this has been asked before, but is there anywhere on t'internet that documents the progression of Track Records?

Thanks

[False dawn]

4 hours ago, Neil Grantham said:

Apologies if this has been asked before, but is there anywhere on t'internet that documents the progression of Track Records?

Thanks

What a good idea. I know many take no interest in the whole idea of race times and track records. But some of us do. Nutz was running a thread trying to keep the current list up-to-date:

Tracking the history of records is next to impossible. It's hard enough getting the current record for several tracks. 

[Andrew]

Back in 1988,Sheffield Timekeeper Mike Beck,compiled a track record list from 1960/88 that was printed in a programme that season.A few years ago I copied it out and then added the times from 1998,also adding the average speed .

There wasn't a track record for the 1960 season.

Provincial League Era 1960/1964

71.2 Ronnie Rolfe   10/8/61 [45.36MPH]
70.2 Guy Allott   10/8/61 [46.01MPH]
69.8 Clive Featherby 5/4/62 [46.27MPH]
69.6 Clive Featherby16/8/62 [46.41MPH]
69.4 Cyril Maidment 16/8/62 [46.54MPH]
69.0 Ivor Brown    30/5/63 [46.81MPH]
68.8 Clive Featherby 8/8/63 [46.94MPH]
68.0 Clive Featherby 5/9/63  [47.50MPH]
67.6 Clive Featherby13/8/64 [47.78MPH]

British League Era 1965/1988

67.4 Bengt Larsson 11/7/68 [47.92MPH]
67.2 Jim Airey     28/5/70 [48.06MPH]
66.6 Jim Airey     22/7/71 [48.50MPH]
66.2 Bob Valentine 4/10/73 [48.79MPH]
65.8 Phil Crump    8/7/74  [49.09MPH]
65.6 Ivan Mauger    19/6/75 [49.23MPH]
65.4 Ole Olsen     15/7/76 [49.39MPH]
65.2 Doug Wyer      14/7/77 [49.54MPH]
64.2 Chris Morton    26/7/79 [50.31MPH]
64.1 Peter Collins   27/5/82 [50.39MPH]
64.0 Shawn Moran    01/7/82 [50.47MPH]
63.2 Shawn Moran     12/8/82 [51.10MPH]
62.8 Peter Carr      18/7/85 [51.43MPH]
61.4 Hans Nielsen   18/7/85 [52.60MPH]
60.8 Shawn Moran     25/8/88 [53.12MPH]
60.7 Chris Morton    29/8/88 [53.21MPH]

Modern Era 1998/2019

60.6 Carl Stonehewer 9/7/98  [53.30MPH]
60.3 Sean Wilson     10/6/99 [53.56MPH]
60.2 Sean Wilson     25/9/03 [53.65MPH]
60.0 Mark Loram      25/9/03 [53.83MPH]
59.9 Simon Stead      1/7/04  [53.92MPH]
59.6 Andrew Moore      1/7/04  [54.19MPH]
59.5 Simon Stead      8/8/04  [54.28MPH]
59.3 Chris Holder   6/9/07  [54.47MPH]
59.2 Ricky Ashworth  12/5/09 [54.56MPH]
59.1 Ricky Ashworth   14/10/10 [54.65MPH]

  

[Guest compost]

14 hours ago, Neil Grantham said:

Apologies if this has been asked before, but is there anywhere on t'internet that documents the progression of Track Records?

Thanks

I've got a file in preparation that tracks records from 1928 to 2009 (you might have seen some of my track records questions in the History section).

I offered it to the researcher website but they declined it (see there 24th April update on the aims of their website).

It's based predominantly on the files on the researcher website.  PM me if you want a pdf of it.

[Neil Grantham]

33 minutes ago, compost said:

I've got a file in preparation that tracks records from 1928 to 2009 (you might have seen some of my track records questions in the History section).

I offered it to the researcher website but they declined it (see there 24th April update on the aims of their website).

It's based predominantly on the files on the researcher website.  PM me if you want a pdf of it.

Will do