bruno Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 Like most I've travelled to many tracks only to be called off but I've visited them on other occasions. The only track I never got to re visit is White City which got called off against the heathens in the 77 season I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 Never saw a race at Ullevi, but... I was in Gothenburg for darts, so I decided to have a wander. The place was wide open with nobody around, so I managed to walk the entire track! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 (edited) The only track I've visited but not seen speedway at was Esbjerg in Denmark. Back in 1971, I went on the Wimbledon Supporters' Coach (don't ask!) to see the World Final, held in Gothenburg that year. We took the boat from Harwich to Esbjerg and as the coach left Esbjerg, we stopped off to have a look at Esbjerg Stadium. While there, I picked up a programme that I just found lying on the ground. When we got back to the coach, I passed it round for people to see - I never got it back! It is the only speedway programme I once had that I no longer have. Edited August 28, 2021 by norbold 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lefty Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 Welland, Canada 1996. Did the Paris meeting the night before. Made the short journey to Welland. It was bright sunshine one hour before the start. We went into the bar and wow, did it rain!!! Looked out and the track vanished under water! Haven't made it back there... yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnieg Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 Quibell Park and Paris (Ontario) for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 29 minutes ago, arnieg said: Quibell Park and Paris (Ontario) for me I called in at Quibell Park when making my way to Scunthorpe's 'new' track in 1979 to have a look...must have been spectacular watching racing there inside a banked athletics track? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 Can I also include Yarmouth and Hastings? Speedway had long since ceased, but I have been there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 Travelled to Somerset who were due to race Poole but the meeting was called off due to rain...looked a nice stadium but never got the opportunity to go back again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waiheke1 Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 (edited) Dudley Wood. Only visit there was 83 (i'm pretty sure) and the Aces meeting was rained off. Edit: not sure if it counts, but I've been to Cardiff to see the ABs play, but never to a speedway GP Edited August 29, 2021 by waiheke1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midland Red Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 Stamford Bridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovalman Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 4 hours ago, steve roberts said: Travelled to Somerset who were due to race Poole but the meeting was called off due to rain...looked a nice stadium but never got the opportunity to go back again. It was a great racetrack, saw Swindon there twice, once won there with last heat 5-1, then were thrashed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salty Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 Brafield, Aldershot and Yarmouth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Flag Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 Outrup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovalman Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 Have been to the dogs at Monmore, but not seen speedway there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 3 hours ago, auntie doris said: Have been to the dogs at Monmore, but not seen speedway there. ...not one of my favourite tracks however Oxford had a good record there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WembleyLion Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 (edited) Riga for the SGP that was switched to Daugavpils at the last moment is the only track I have been to for a meeting that was not staged and subsequently I have yet to return. Apart from some UK tracks (most notably Belle Vue NSS) my first visits overseas to Landshut, Vastervik, Gorican, Avesta and Poznań were all rain offs but I subsequently went back. In the case of Landshut it took me 39 years though! I have seen some tracks where I didn’t actually see Speedway as there was not a scheduled meeting when I saw the track. These include Reading (Tilehurst) from a passing train and Western Springs (NZ). Edited August 29, 2021 by WembleyLion 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piotr Pyszny Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 (edited) On 8/28/2021 at 6:29 PM, steve roberts said: I called in at Quibell Park when making my way to Scunthorpe's 'new' track in 1979 to have a look...must have been spectacular watching racing there inside a banked athletics track? Called in on Quibell Park in 2005. Still a very tidy little stadium in a leafy setting. The flat athletics track, on which the speedway circuit was laid (I've seen only video footage of racing there), is now synthetic. The outside banking was a velodrome-type circuit. It was still in situ in 2005. Edited August 29, 2021 by Piotr Pyszny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 Swindon, for the match v Poole pre the pairs at Somerset & the Cardiff GP. We had just come out of the Cold Harbour and saw more people coming back our way, so ended up in pub watching Sheffield v Leicester on updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noaksey Posted September 2, 2021 Report Share Posted September 2, 2021 Canterbury Claremont Motor Plex place near Perth Krsko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted September 3, 2021 Report Share Posted September 3, 2021 I've just remembered another track I have visited. Back in 2003, I was shown round Rosebank Speedway in Auckland by Bob Andrews, he says name-droppingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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