Post by bod on Sept 15, 2016 15:44:13 GMT 1
Speedway Star Cover Men
Front
Sheffield trio Arnold Haley, Bob Valentine and Rick France
Inside Front
Ipswich rider Billy Sanders
Inside Rear
Poole's Odd Fossengen
Rear
Dave Mills and Paul O'Neil in Australasia colours
News
- A new World Championship format is proposed at the FIM Congress. National qualifying rounds would be replaced by eight mixed preliminary rounds. Britian is proposed to have 15 places along with Sweden, Poland and USSR
- Business commitments cause Crewe's Geoff Ambrose to quit
- Ron Bott is named as new BSPA Administrator
- The FIM order the British ACU to reconsider their guilty verdict in the John Louis fuel additive case
- Reading boss Bob Radford makes the switch to Oxford for '74
- Ivan Mauger clinches the BLRC at Belle Vue
- King's Lynn to make another attempt to tempt Zenon Plech to British racing. This time for 1974
Major Meetings
BLRC, Belle Vue, November 3rd 1973
wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/8408/1973-british-league-riders-championship
Big Wins
Ellesmere Port 57 v 20 Scunthorpe
Graham Drury/Robbie Gardner (12)..Jack Bywater (8)
Final 1973 Averages - Top 5
League 1
- Anders Michanek (Reading) 11.55
- Ivan Mauger (Exeter) 11.30
- Ole Olsen (Wolves) 11.10
- Eric Boocock (Halifax) 10.52
- Malcolm Simmons (King's Lynn) 10.39
League 2
- Lou Sansom (Workington) 10.56
- Alan Knapkin (Bradford) 10.04
- Jack Millen (Sunderland) 9.81
- Carl Glover (Boston) 9.53
- Ken McKinlay (Scunthorpe) 9.50
Final League Tables 1973
wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/2107/1973-british-league-tables