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-
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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December 6
I’ve decided that I’m going to try and update the site every Monday from now on to keep on top of the amount of files that are being submitted. The bottom of the team by team page looks a bit odd as, for some reason, the Wolverhampton button wasn’t working and it seems to be it’s position on the page that’s the cause. If there are further problems with the buttons at the bottom of the page, I’ll try to resolve it as soon as I can.
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December 14
The intention to update every Monday didn’t get off to a good start, so apologies straight away for that. No excuses, just ran out of hours in the day. The main changes to the site at the moment are coming with a flood of new information into the 1929 season which you will see if you have a look at the updated files. There is an unbelievable amount of information on the site now for 1929 and massive thanks has to go to the intrepid duo of Les Drury and Graham Gleave, digging out the information from the darkest corners of the newspaper libraries.
Thanks go also to Alan Jones for his Leicester updates, Mick Huggett for the Wimbledon information and to Steve Wilkes and Gary Done who have added a couple of months to the 1982 season file.
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December 20
Jim, Keith and I would like to wish all the site contributors and site users a very Happy Christmas. Things are a bit grim again but I really hope that everyone can spend some times with their loved ones and have decent festive period. Thanks today to Robert Browne for his new Wimbledon file and there are plenty more updates, especially for 1929.
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December 27
An understandably quiet update this week with our contributors having a well earned Christmas break with just a handful of updates.
All the best for the New Year and lets hope for a better 2022.
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January 3
Happy New Year. We have updates and new files from both ends of speedway history this week with Mark Aspinell putting in four new 2021 files. Thanks also to Richard Hodgson for the Bristol information.
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