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Scottish Open (speedway)
The Scottish Open Championship is a motorcycle speedway championship held annually in Scotland. History The Championship has been run almost every year since 1928. That inaugural year saw two events, one for 350 cc bikes and another for 500 cc bikes. From 1929 the event was only open to those riding the 500 cc bikes. Run as the Scottish Championship from 1928-1945, it became the Scottish Riders Championship from 1949-1954 before a third and final name change in 1960 to the Scottish Open Championship. Since 1988, the winner of the Scottish Open has been presented with the Jack Young Memorial Trophy in honour of the three time winner and former Edinburgh Monarchs rider from Australia who won the Speedway World Championship in 1951 and 1952. Young won the World Championship in 1951 while riding for the Monarchs, thus becoming the first second division rider to win the World crown. Young died from Emphysema in his home town of Adelaide, South Australia South Australia (commonly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motorcycle Speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only one gear and have no brakes. Racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of dirt, loosely packed shale, or crushed rock (mostly used in Australia and New Zealand). Competitors use this surface to slide their machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the straight sections of the track, the motorcycles reach speeds of up to . There are now both domestic and international competitions in a number of countries, including the Speedway World Cup, whilst the highest overall scoring individual in the Speedway Grand Prix events is pronounced the world champion. Speedway is popular in Central and Northern Europe and to a lesser extent in Australia and North America. A variant of track racing, speedway is adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluey Wilkinson
Arthur George "Bluey" Wilkinson (27 August 1911 – 27 July 1940) was an international speedway rider. Wilkinson was Speedway World Champion in 1938 after narrowly missing out on winning the inaugural Championship in 1936. Early life Wilkinson was nicknamed "Bluey" because of his red hair (an Australian custom). At the age of four, Bluey's family moved to Bathurst, New South Wales which he really considered to be his home town. He was working as a butcher boy when speedway first started at the Bathurst Sports Ground in 1928. It was love at first sight for Wilkinson and he promptly gave up a promising rugby league career and invested his savings in a battered old belt driven Rudge. Career On the Rudge, Bluey Wilkinson wasn't a world-beater, but when Sydney and international star rider Lionel Van Praag came to Bathurst he loaned Wilkinson one of his spare bikes. In a battle of future World Champions, Wilkinson defeated Van Praag in a match race and his talent was recognis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Pander
Arne Pander (1931–2015) was an international speedway rider from Denmark. Speedway career Pander was a two times champion of Denmark, winning the Danish Championship in 1956 and 1958. He rode in the top tier of British Speedway from 1965 to 1969, riding primarily for Oxford Cheetahs The Oxford Cheetahs are a British speedway teamLawson,K (2018) “Riders, Teams and Stadiums”. based at Oxford Stadium, in Oxford, England. They were founded in 1939 and are five times champions of Britain, in 1964, 1985, 1986, 1989 and .... He was capped by Denmark 16 times. References Living people 1931 births 2015 deaths Danish speedway riders Oxford Cheetahs riders Poole Pirates riders Halifax Dukes riders People from Herning Municipality Sportspeople from the Central Denmark Region {{Speedway-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hunter (speedway Rider)
George Hunter (30 January 1939 – 11 May 1999) was a motorcycle speedway rider. He rode for the Edinburgh Monarchs and the Wolverhampton Wolves. Career Hunter's early career was on grass. He joined Motherwell Speedway team in 1958 and moved to Edinburgh Monarchs in 1960. Known as the "Ladybank Express", he rode in 360 league matches for the Monarchs over his lifetime career. In 1963 he was leading the 1962 world champion Peter Craven in the final race of a challenge match between Edinburgh and Belle Vue at Old Meadowbank when his engine seized. After taking evasive action Craven may have clipped Hunter's wheel before crashing through the fence and suffering fatal injuries. Hunter narrowly missed out on being the 1963 Provincial League Riders Champion, suffering an engine failure while leading in the final. Ivan Mauger took the title. Hunter was a British Finalist in 1966, 1967 and 1976 and gained 17 England caps, 3 Scotland caps and 16 British caps. Having been part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Mattingley
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Trevor Redmond
Trevor John Redmond (16 June 1927 – 17 September 1997)Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2003) ''Bristol Bulldogs: 50 Greats'', Stroud: Tempus Publishing. was a New Zealand speedway rider who mainly rode for the Aldershot Shots, and the Wembley Lions. Redmond also opened a speedway track in Neath, Wales in 1962. He later became a promoter of stock car and hot rod racing, mainly in southwest England, through his Autospeed organisation. Career Rider Redmond started riding speedway in 1949 at the Aranui track in Christchurch. He moved to the UK when he won a team place with the newly formed Aldershot Shots in 1950. He was successful enough to attract the Wembley Lions to sign him in 1951, where he remained until their closure in 1956. Whilst with the Lions, Redmond qualified for two World Championship finals. A season in non-league speedway followed in 1957 but in 1958 he did not ride at all, instead he opened a track in Cornwall at St Austell. He returned to racing for a spell with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Templeton
Douglas Templeton (18 June 1928 – 21 December 2019) was a motorcycle speedway rider from Scotland. Career Doug Templeton began racing for Glasgow White City Tigers during the 1953 Speedway National League Division Two season. The following year he joined the Lanarkshire Eagles (based in Motherwell) but the team disbanded after the 1954 season. He rode a couple of matches for Ipswich Witches in 1956 before missing the 1957 season. Doug and his brother Willie Templeton then raced during the 1958 season in a series of challenge matches for Lanarkshire Eagles. The pair raced grass track during 1959, before joining Edinburgh Monarchs for the new 1960 Provincial Speedway League. The pair spent five seasons together with Edinburgh from 1960 to 1965 before Willie finally separated from his brother by joining Glasgow Tigers during the 1965 British League season. Doug continued to ride for Edinburgh and won the Scottish Open Championship in 1960 and 1962. He stayed loyal with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Miller (speedway Rider)
Thomas Ogilvie Miller (2 February 1924 – 12 June 1975) was a motorcycle speedway rider from Scotland. Career Miller was first noticed during the Scottish Winter training school and then won the best pairs championship at Bothwell Park during March 1950. He began racing for Glasgow White City Tigers during the 1950 Speedway National League Division Two season. He made an immediate impact by topping the team's averages and helping the team to a second-place finish in the league. The following season in 1951, he established himself as one of the league's leading riders with an impressive 10.70 average. In 1953, he continued to impress and recorded a sequence of 17 league matches without being beaten by an opponent in any race and in 16 home matches that season only dropped three points. In 1954, Glasgow did not enter the league which forced Miller to look for a new team, he signed for Lanarkshire Eagles Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark ( gd, Siorrachd Lannrai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Campbell (speedway Rider)
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Old Meadowbank
Old Meadowbank was a multi-purpose sports facility located in the Meadowbank area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was mainly used as a football stadium by Leith Athletic between the 1930s and 1950s and as a motorcycle speedway track. The stadium was demolished in the late 1960s and provided part of the site for Meadowbank Sports Centre, which was used for the Commonwealth Games in 1970 and 1986. Uses Football Leith Athletic played at Old Meadowbank from the 1930s until their demise in 1955. In the early 1950s it was the location of a football match played under temporary floodlights against an invitation XI including the Edinburgh born Jimmy Logie, then playing for Arsenal. This was prior to the two senior clubs in Edinburgh, Hearts and Hibernian, themselves installing permanent floodlights. Speedway Old Meadowbank was a motorcycle speedway track that ran from 1948 to 1954 and 1960 to 1967. The stadium was located between what is the new Meadowbank Stadium and the Meadowbank Velod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Johnson (speedway Rider)
Ron Johnson (Born Ronald Johnston) (24 February 1907 Duntocher, ScotlandBamford, R. & Stallworthy, D. (2003) ''Speedway – The Pre War Years'', Stroud: Tempus Publishing. – 4 February 1983) was a speedway rider who won the London Riders' Championship in 1945 (unattached) and in 1946 whilst with the New Cross Rangers. Career Johnson emigrated to Australia with his parents when he was just a child. He started racing at the Claremont Speedway in Perth, Western Australia in 1927 (the same year the venue first held racing), before his travelling to the UK with promoter Johnnie Hoskins in 1928 to start a career with Crystal Palace. Johnson initially struggled on British tracks that were half the size of the ones he was used to (the Claremont Showground, which doubled as the speedway, was some in length, while other Australian tracks of the day, usually showground tracks, ranged from to in length).Morgan, Tom (1947) ''The People Speedway Guide'', Odhams Press, p. 76Storey, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White City Stadium, Glasgow
White City Stadium was a greyhound racing and speedway track in Glasgow, Scotland. Greyhound racing Origins The stadium was built on Paisley Road West in Glasgow close to Ibrox Stadium, which was situated to the north-east and even closer to the Albion Greyhound Stadium, which opened the same year and across the road also on the north-east side. When the stadium opened it was known as the White City Sports stadium and in addition to greyhound racing hosted Speedway and show jumping. Bellahouston Park lay immediately to the south. Opening The first meeting was held during 7 April 1928, the same night that Lythalls Lane Stadium and Clapton Stadium opened to greyhound racing. The track was affiliated to the National Greyhound Racing Society along with fellow Glasgow tracks Albion and Carntyne Stadium. The grandstand stood on the south side adjacent to Paisley Road with terracing all around the track. The circumference was a large 518 yards which allowed a back straight distance of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
