Bavarian Posted June 6, 2024 Report Share Posted June 6, 2024 Every now and then there are riders with unusual or exotic speedway backgrounds. One of them is MARIO HÄUSL, who is half German and half Seychellois. The seventeen-year old rides as a junior in the Polish League team of the German speedway club Landshut Devils. Mario, "The Pride of the Seychelles" is pictured here in Landshut racing gear, together with his mum. The Seychellois people ar a unique blend of Créole, Indian, Chinese, French and British Bloods. https://www.nation.sc/articles/18870/speedway-talent-mario-husl-signs-with-ac-landshut- 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Goddard Posted June 14, 2024 Report Share Posted June 14, 2024 In ice racing, Mongolian riders regularly appeared in early World Championships. And at Vladivostok in Russia I believe there are a couple of riders of Korean descent competing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Posted June 19, 2024 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2024 In the late 1970s there was a speedway rider from Luxembourg, Raoul Schiltz. Schiltz was mainly a grass tracker, but did also ride in some speedway meetings here on the Continent. To the best of my knowledge he was the only speedway rider the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ever had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welwyn Posted June 20, 2024 Report Share Posted June 20, 2024 Always thought it was a shame, especially in the era when there was no World Cup or Pairs (SON), that Lindback never declared for Brazil. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Posted January 4 Author Report Share Posted January 4 17-year old speedway rider Mario Häusl and his parents paid a courtesy visit to the Seychellois Minister of Sports on January 2, 2025. https://www.nation.sc/articles/24603/seychellois-motor-racer-mario-husl-calls-on-minister-zialor The visit on Thursday even made it into the Seychelles national 8 o'clock News (begins at minute 12:20 in the SBC News video) 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WembleyLion Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 I have just been reading a 1933 Wembley programme and there was a rider called Mohammed Tella from Abyssinia (Ethiopia and Eritrea today). Mohammed lost both programmed match races against Leopold Killmeyer from Austria! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Posted January 5 Author Report Share Posted January 5 4 hours ago, WembleyLion said: I have just been reading a 1933 Wembley programme and there was a rider called Mohammed Tella from Abyssinia (Ethiopia and Eritrea today). Mohammed lost both programmed match races against Leopold Killmeyer from Austria! That's interesting. When did he ride at Wembley, what date was that? More on Mohammed Tella aka Gene Tella, even a picture of him, can be found here on the BSF https://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/topic/87534-10-favorite-abyssinian-riders/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WembleyLion Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 On 1/5/2025 at 11:02 PM, Bavarian said: That's interesting. When did he ride at Wembley, what date was that? It was 12 October 1933. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Posted January 7 Author Report Share Posted January 7 18 minutes ago, WembleyLion said: It was 12 October 1933. That is interesting, because that is just four days after both Tella and Killmeyer rode in the unofficial World Championship of 1933 in Paris. Killmeyer finished fourth in that meeting, behind the new world champion Fernand Meynier of France. Two Australians, Bluey Wilkinson and Billy Lamont were second and third, Twelve international riders competed for that 3rd Dirt-Track Championship of the World, staged at the Stade Velodrome Buffalo, Montrouge, Paris, on Sunday, October 8, 1933: line-up: Bluey Wilkinson (Australia, world champion of 1932), Billy Lamont (Australia), Fernand Meynier (France), Leopold Killmeyer (Austria), Walter Ryle (Denmark), Ejnar Knudsen (Denmark), Juan Vinals (Spain), Mac Sillick (New Zealand), Walter Butler (Germany), John van Hulzen (Holland), Mohammed Tella (Abyssinia), Emile Beranger (France). Final result: Fernand Meynier (France) 1st, Bluey Wilkinson (Australia) 2nd, Billy Lamont (Australia) 3rd, Leopold Killmeyer (Austria) 4th. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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