News and Updates
Future Policy
The Speedway Researcher magazine which can be viewed on the Speedway Researcher web site was set up by Graham Fraser and Jim Henry to promote research into the history of Speedway and Dirt Track Racing. It was intended to help those with an interest in any aspect of the sport and its history to make others aware of what their interests and to encourage others who had similar interests to work together. It provided a vehicle whereby researchers could advise others of what they were doing and make others aware of what they were looking for.
The magazine published articles on a wide range of topics related to speedway and dirt track racing.
The web site came along a good while after the magazine, the idea of the late Ron McNeil who gave us the idea of using this medium to provide a platform for sharing information about speedway meetings held in the UK from 1928 to date. At first the site was funded by income generated by the magazine but since the magazine closed down the funds have become nearly exhausted and it is now largely privately funded. The costs are dictated by the amount space taken to host the information and are currently not unreasonable. The next step up, is, however, a significant leap.
Taking this into account the space available has to be prioritised. The first priority is to ensure the base source of information, meeting details, are fully provided for.
For the foregoing reasons we are going to decline to carry any additional items which are compilations of information drawn from our meeting details. However, in a bid to facilitate networking we intend to continue for the time-
February 11
Thank you to Robert Bamford for his latest Swindon file and also to Robert Sloane (Ipswich updates) and Graham Gleave (Pre-
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February 18
Thanks go to our Wembley correspondent and to Graham Gleave this week.
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February 25
Mark Aspinell has provided the complete 2024 Championship files and we thank him for his continued contribution to the site.
I have finally completed the 1947 season file and have been through and corrected all the typos I have found. Sorry for forgetting to add the Poole 1981 link last week.
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March 4
Many thanks to Mark Aspinell this week for his latest batch of 2024 files.
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March 11
No much this week but thanks go to Robert Bamford for his latest Swindon file. I hope to get started with the 1948 season file later this week.
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March 25
Huge thanks to Mark Aspinell who has provided the rest of the 2024 files. Mark has also spotted the cover of programme on social media from Barnet which suggests a meeting held on a previously unknown date in 1935. Stuart Staite-
Thanks also go to our Wembley contributor who has supplied the referee’s programmes for 1935, enabling us to update this file.
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