Post by bod on Dec 4, 2017 11:56:29 GMT 1
Speedway Star Cover Men
Front
Arne Pander leads Malcolm Brown
Rear
Cradley team photo
News
- Glasgow give a debut to 19-year-old youngster Jimmy McMillan
- Coventry skipper Jim Lightfoot requests a move from Brandon after 14-years with the club
- Barry Briggs is crowned British Champion despite an engine failure in his last ride at Wimbledon
- Seven Poles plus Russian Igor Plachanov qualify for the European Final at Wembley following a Continental Final full of shocks in Slany. The Polesin question are Andrzej Pogorzelski, Antoni Woryna, Pawel Waloszek, Stanislaw Tkocz, Konstantyn Pociejkowicz, Edmund Migos and Marian Kaiser
- Ivan Mauger announces he intends to quit British speedway at the end of the year as he isn't making enough money
- Wolves' Pete Jarman is set to miss 12-weeks with a wrist injury
Major Meetings
British Final, Wimbledon, 27th June 1966
wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/2525/1966-british-final
Test Match, Glasgow, 1st July 1966
[li]Charlie Monk (15)[/li]
[li]George Hunter (11)[/li]
[li]Ken McKinlay (9)[/li]
[li]Willie Templeton (9)[/li]
[li]Bluey Scott (7)[/li]
[li]Doug Templeton (6)[/li]
Russia 51
[li]Boris Samorodov (15)[/li]
[li]Gennadi Kurilenko (13)[/li]
[li]Yuri Chekranov 912)[/li]
[li]Igor Plechanov (8)[/li]
[li]Vladimir Kornev (2)[/li]
[li]Rail Fafarov (1)[/li]
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Big Wins
Newport 57 v 21 Long Eaton
Bob Hughes (12)...Ray Wilson (7)
Edinburgh 50 v 28 Newcastle
Doug Templeton (12)..Ivan Mauger (13)
League Tables - Top/Bottom 5
League 1 Top 5
- Coventry..18..13..1..4..27
- Swindon..15..11..0..4..22
- Halifax..17..11..0..6..22
- Belle Vue..21..11..0..10..22
- Exeter..24..10..1..14..21
League 1 Bottom 5
- King's Lynn..14..7..0..7..14
- Oxford..11..6..0..5..12
- Long Eaton..16..6..0..10..12
- Newport..20..5..1..14..11
- Cradley..19..4..0..15..8