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Birmingham Speedway (Bordesley
Green) Birmingham Wheels Project, Addereley Road South, Bordesley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, B8 1AD 1984-1986
The wheels project is still used by stock cars and could house speedway again, with very little work if the "Greyhound Stadium" ever runs into trouble running speedway Numerous Birmingham Tracks Chris Wallett says: The story goes that
there were 2 stadiums either side of the Walsall Road, Perry Barr,
Birmingham.
Brian took these 3 pics in 1985 the first is of the track under construction and the others are of action at the track Arkansas Calling Dan Gibbs says:
Hello John, What a wonderful website. I am a Brummies fan who moved to
California in the 90's and got to see some great speedway there at Auburn
(Flyin Mike Faria, Billy Janniro, B Schwartz, Cowboy Cook) but now I live
temporarily in Arkansas with no speedway (oh no!! ) I have some team pics
of the Brummies at Bordesley Green if
Hello John,
I believe I can give you some more
information about the team Dan Gibbs has asked about. Firstly the
picture of that team is named correctly apart from John Grahame is
actually Alan Grahame and the mystery rider on the end is Rob
Pfetzing.
This team rode as the Brummies on 23.9. 84
against Oxford in what was billed as the Grand Opening meeting but
was in fact the second speedway meeting held at Bordesley Green as
a four team junior event was held on 2.9.84.
However this was the first meeting as a
seven man Brummie side and they beat Oxford 41-37.
Scorers were, Brummies Neil Evitts 9, Andy
Grahame 8, Simon Cross 8, Alan Grahame 7, David Bargh 5, Rob
Pfetzing 4, Linden Warner 0. Cheetahs Hans Nielsen 12, Simon Wigg
10, Mel Taylor 5, Jens Rasmussen 4, Nigel Sparshott 4, Ian Clark
2,
Nigel De`ath 0.
A second challenge match was held on
26.10.84, although it was a completely different Brummies team,
against Cradley Heath which the Brummies won 40-38.
Scorers were, Brummies Hans Nielsen 15 max,
Neil Evitts 7, John Jorgensen 6, Bobby Schwartz 6, Shawn
McConnell 2, Ari Koponen 2, Kym Mauger 2. Heathens Lance King 11,
Alan Grahame 11, Phil Collins 8, Simon Cross 5, Finn Jensen 3,
Steve Collins 0, rider replacement was used for Erik Gundersen who
was at an FIM dinner!
I attended both of these matches and I
believe they were the only two held there that year( apart from
the junior 4TT) ,although I could be wrong, it was a long time
ago!
I hope this helps
Regards
1985: Doug Wyer, John Hough, Linden Warner, Paul Evitts (on bike), Paul Stead, Phil White and Reg Wilson.
1985: Doug Wyer, Reg Wilson, John Hough, Paul Evitts (on bike), his father Tom Evitts (co-promoter), Phil White, Paul Stead and Linden Warner.
Only 3 meetings staged during 1984 and here we have one of the programmes
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