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Eagles Flutter Again
29/11/2024
Closer to France than to London, out on a barren field near the Ferry Road roundabout there was A-board boasting of a holiday let opportunity on that or nearby unprepossessing land. Build it and they will come, especially if you enjoy an aspect with the still comparatively new road bridge spanning the flatlands out to […]
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Vibe conquers public health messaging for “new era” Discovery Sports Events staging of the FIM British Speedway Grand Prix in Cardiff
10/08/2022
THOUGH, apparently, FIM British Speedway Grand Prix “organisers have plenty of surprises lined up to toast two decades of World-Championship motorsport in Cardiff – with a fanzone taking over the city on the Saturday, before racing gets started at 5pm” these “surprises” still remain a total mystery with just three days before the tapes rise […]
Speedway Yearbook 2020 from ABC Speedway
11/04/2021
LOCKDOWN does strange things to your perception of time, meaning and fun. Previously normal things become unimaginably exotic while small happenings and happenstances stand out like never before. Like it or not, there is more time to reflect and take time to ponder. Of course, last (2020) season, we more-or-less had little or no British […]
SGP Supremo Steve Gould – most successful EVER BSI Speedway CEO – suddenly departs without ceremony & traditional speedway airhorn salute
06/07/2020
SO “farewell” to yet another pathologically dull BSI Chief Executive we barely got to know or notice. Without fanfare or a ceremonial speedway airhorn farewell salute, Steve Gould has suddenly left his job leading the Speedway Grand Prix series barely nine or so months after he joined to replace Torben Olsen. For a long time […]
Gordon ‘Gordie’ Day RIP
19/05/2020
You are automatically drawn to some people in life. Others find you. Knowing them makes life better and helps you see it anew or for what it really is. The late Gordon ‘Gordie’ Day was a gentle soul with an intense curiosity about life and people. He charmed and was charming. He found everyone and […]
Speedway Grand Prix & World Cup ‘royalties’ 2002-2019 (paid to the FIM)
01/12/2019
AWARDING the exclusive rights to for the Speedway Grand Prix and Speedway World Cup (latterly Speedway of Nations) 2001-2021 has been hugely lucrative for the awarding body The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). According to various business entities – a veritable alphabet soup of Benfield Sports International Limited, BSI, BSI Speedway (An IMG Company), BSI […]
Is it going to be bye bye for BSI in the Speedway Grand Prix? FIM decision due this weekend – some points to consider
27/11/2019
THE FIM will announce the winning bidder for the tender for exclusive rights to the Speedway Grand prix and Speedway World Cup/Speedway of Nations this Saturday evening at their annual Gala Dinner at an unassuming five-star establishment in Monte Carlo. So will this announcement herald the start of the long sad goodbye to BSI running […]
Vice President, BSI Speedway – job vacancy news
26/10/2019
BSI Speedway have just commenced their search for a Vice President to lead and strategically mastermind their current (and possibly future) exclusive rights to “the Championship” aka the FIM Speedway Grand Prix, FIM Speedway World Cup and/or the FIM Speedway of Nations. What a fabulous and excessively well-paid job for any appropriately qualified speedway fans […]
FIM Speedway Grand Prix exclusive rights auction (2022-2031): part 1
01/10/2019
THE Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) deadline to submit expressions of interest (tenders) to identify candidates interested in winning a £100+ million contract from them by becoming involved as a Promoter of “the Championship” – aka the “FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship, FIM Speedway World Cup & FIM Speedway of Nations And On an […]
New Speedway Grand Prix Book released
18/09/2019
ALL our heroes today have become digital apparitions haunting our mobile devices’ screens, even speedway’s heroes. The fast action thrills, spills and glamour of the Speedway Grand Prix can be seen like never before. But with more and more meetings staged in increasingly remote locations – and as fewer fans get to attend races in […]
Harold Davies RIP
24/07/2018
As creatures of habit, we all have favourite places to stand and watch or people to stand with at speedway. One of the great pleasures of traveling to tracks dotted around Britain to research and sell my books was some of the life-affirming lovely people I met doing so. Bristol Bulldogs and Swindon Robins fan […]
John Jarvis RIP (& affectionately remembered)
12/04/2018
Like so many others, I am really very sorry to learn of the sudden death of true speedway fan, speedway historian and lovely man John Jarvis on April 7 aged 71. John was precisely the kind of modest, sincere, slightly obsessive, softly spoken man who typifies the values of what makes the speedway community so […]
Live broadcast British speedway definitely back on Sky Sports again in 2018?
27/12/2017
Sky Sports and BT Sport have finally reached agreement to allow open access to all their satellite channels for all their subscribers. Whatever happens in the negotiations with BT Sport over broadcasting Premiership League racing, this definitely means that British Speedway will be broadcast live on Sky Sports next season….albeit that currently the only confirmed […]
Nigel ‘Noddy’ Fordham RIP
22/12/2017
Speedway attracts many different types of obsessives. We all bring our own particular flavour. There are many theories about why this is a rich tradition in speedway circles or, indeed, what drives this behaviour. Whether it is the numbers (team/individual scores, averages, race times), the form filling (scorecard), gender (usually male) or collectables (programmes, memorabilia, […]
Dave ‘Rat’ Rattenberry – RIP
01/12/2017
Known and recognised by huge numbers of people throughout the British Speedway community because of his extensive speedway merchandise trackshop empire (as well as being Europewide & further afield for his football ground hopping activities), sadly Dave ‘Rat’ Rattenberry has left us all too suddenly and, at 68, far too soon. Always happy to meet […]