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BACKTRACK MAGAZINE
Issue 34 of speedway’s favourite retro magazine is out now!
Here’s what we have for you in another nostalgia-packed edition:
WORLD FINAL versus GRAND PRIX
As the 2009 season comes to a close and Jason Crump celebrates his third well-earned Grand Prix world title, we re-visit the ongoing debate about the respective merits or otherwise of the traditional World Final and the modern GP, and its damaging effect on the domestic scene in Britain.
Our resident ‘experts’ John Berry and Tony Mac also examine how history could have been re-written. They look back on the 10 World Finals of the 70s and assess who would probably have won the title each year had the current GP series applied then. How many titles would Barry Briggs, Ivan Mauger, Ole Olsen, Peter Collins, Anders Michanek and Malcolm Simmons, etc, really have won under this formula compared to the knockout-style format that was abandoned by the FIM after 1994? It’s controversial, thought-provoking . . . so check it out and see if you agree with their conclusions.
BRUCE PENHALL
‘Juicy Brucie’ is back with his second column all the way from sunny California. But what the double World Champion has to say about former England No.1 and his biggest rival Kenny Carter in this issue will no doubt cause a storm around Halifax and throughout West Yorkshire.
The American is scathing in his highly personal condemnation of Carter for murdering his wife Pam in 1986.
He also has the final world on their explosive Heat 14 World Final clash at the LA Coliseum in 1982 that still provokes strong argument among fans all over the world today.
And Penhall also questions Ivan Mauger’s motives in agreeing to become Carter’s business manager and mentor for the 1981 and ’82 finals.
MALCOLM SIMMONS
Our other big-name columnist is, as usual, no less hard-hitting. Dismayed by the poor standard of racing at many GPs this season, Simmo asks why the elite riders have not got together and threatened strike action over slick track conditions.
In a critical analysis of Tai Woffinden, he also doubts whether England’s great new hope for future glory is ready to have a crack at the GP series as early as 2010.
And with typical controversy, the former England and Poole skipper is calling for regular testing of the GP stars’ engines to dispel growing rumours that there are some ‘big’ engines out there.
WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
Much travelled journalist Richard Bott, who covered speedway for the national press, reflects on his eventful trips to Poland and Sweden to cover World Finals in the 70s and how conditions then were so much harder than they are in the modern world of laptops, the internet and mobile phones.
ROGER JOHNS
Moore, Briggs, How and Hedge are all Wimbledon living legends . . . and so too is Roger Johns. Martin Neal catches up with the former Dons skipper to find out what he made of his time at Plough Lane, as well as his spells in the second tier with Eastbourne and Rye House.
LEN SILVER
To coincide with the launch of his new book, As Luck Would Have It (Retro Speedway £15.00), we present en edited extract covering Len’s two spells as England team manager. He explains the problems that led up to his sacking in 1976 and his resignation in disgust in 1981.
JOHN LOUIS
To mark ‘Tiger’ John’s 40 years in speedway, his former Ipswich promoter John Berry pays tribute to the rock on which the Witches were built and says why it’s time the town’s most famous shale star was honoured for his loyal services.
Plus...Laurie Etheridge recalls his biggest night in speedway, when his NNLRC victory at Wimbledon put Crayford Kestrels on the map in 1975 . . . Phil Collins reveals his new hobby in the USA . . . Bob Radford continues on his global travels . . . and we’ve a Q&A with ex-Peterborough and Coventry star Kevin Hawkins, as well as your letters and more.
www.retro-speedway.com/
Issue 34 of speedway’s favourite retro magazine is out now!
Here’s what we have for you in another nostalgia-packed edition:
WORLD FINAL versus GRAND PRIX
As the 2009 season comes to a close and Jason Crump celebrates his third well-earned Grand Prix world title, we re-visit the ongoing debate about the respective merits or otherwise of the traditional World Final and the modern GP, and its damaging effect on the domestic scene in Britain.
Our resident ‘experts’ John Berry and Tony Mac also examine how history could have been re-written. They look back on the 10 World Finals of the 70s and assess who would probably have won the title each year had the current GP series applied then. How many titles would Barry Briggs, Ivan Mauger, Ole Olsen, Peter Collins, Anders Michanek and Malcolm Simmons, etc, really have won under this formula compared to the knockout-style format that was abandoned by the FIM after 1994? It’s controversial, thought-provoking . . . so check it out and see if you agree with their conclusions.
BRUCE PENHALL
‘Juicy Brucie’ is back with his second column all the way from sunny California. But what the double World Champion has to say about former England No.1 and his biggest rival Kenny Carter in this issue will no doubt cause a storm around Halifax and throughout West Yorkshire.
The American is scathing in his highly personal condemnation of Carter for murdering his wife Pam in 1986.
He also has the final world on their explosive Heat 14 World Final clash at the LA Coliseum in 1982 that still provokes strong argument among fans all over the world today.
And Penhall also questions Ivan Mauger’s motives in agreeing to become Carter’s business manager and mentor for the 1981 and ’82 finals.
MALCOLM SIMMONS
Our other big-name columnist is, as usual, no less hard-hitting. Dismayed by the poor standard of racing at many GPs this season, Simmo asks why the elite riders have not got together and threatened strike action over slick track conditions.
In a critical analysis of Tai Woffinden, he also doubts whether England’s great new hope for future glory is ready to have a crack at the GP series as early as 2010.
And with typical controversy, the former England and Poole skipper is calling for regular testing of the GP stars’ engines to dispel growing rumours that there are some ‘big’ engines out there.
WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
Much travelled journalist Richard Bott, who covered speedway for the national press, reflects on his eventful trips to Poland and Sweden to cover World Finals in the 70s and how conditions then were so much harder than they are in the modern world of laptops, the internet and mobile phones.
ROGER JOHNS
Moore, Briggs, How and Hedge are all Wimbledon living legends . . . and so too is Roger Johns. Martin Neal catches up with the former Dons skipper to find out what he made of his time at Plough Lane, as well as his spells in the second tier with Eastbourne and Rye House.
LEN SILVER
To coincide with the launch of his new book, As Luck Would Have It (Retro Speedway £15.00), we present en edited extract covering Len’s two spells as England team manager. He explains the problems that led up to his sacking in 1976 and his resignation in disgust in 1981.
JOHN LOUIS
To mark ‘Tiger’ John’s 40 years in speedway, his former Ipswich promoter John Berry pays tribute to the rock on which the Witches were built and says why it’s time the town’s most famous shale star was honoured for his loyal services.
Plus...Laurie Etheridge recalls his biggest night in speedway, when his NNLRC victory at Wimbledon put Crayford Kestrels on the map in 1975 . . . Phil Collins reveals his new hobby in the USA . . . Bob Radford continues on his global travels . . . and we’ve a Q&A with ex-Peterborough and Coventry star Kevin Hawkins, as well as your letters and more.
www.retro-speedway.com/