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-
October 1
I’m getting to the end of the 1931 season file so this should be available in the next couple of weeks or so. As I was working on it yesterday I did a quick calculation and found that there were over 4300 meetings between 1928 and the end of 1931 and, thanks to the fantastic community of researchers we have, over 98% of those meetings have full or partial results. It is a great achievement on the part of everyone who contributes and Jim, Keith and I would like to pass on our thanks again to all who make this possible.
Thanks this week to Mark Aspinell for his latest 2021 addition, Stuart Staite-
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October 16
Four new 2021 files from Mark Aspinell and a few updates, mainly from 1939 to update the site with today. Thanks to George Carswell for the 1939 information.
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Please be aware that Jim’s new book, about Motherwell Speedway is now available, a link to which can be found here.
October 29
We are nearing the end of another speedway season, one which turned out much better than I thought it would, and hopefully we can while away the longer evenings by continuing to fill the gaps in the information on the site. We have three new 2021 files from Mark Aspinell this week as well as the latest Cradley Heath submissions from Nigel Nicklin. Les Drury and Graham Gleave have been busy finding gems of information and some of the 1929 files are now being revamped and tidied up.
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November 12
This week we have new files from Dave Allen who adds Glasgow 1993 to the completed folder and also gives us the fixture list for 2021. Steve Wilkes has made a start of the latest of his season results file, 1982, and the 1931 season results file has now been added. There are also a number of updates for the site.
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November 29
No new files this time, but probably a record number of updates, with special thanks to Graham Gleave and Les Drury who continue to delve into the darkest corners of the pre-
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