Those We Lost In 2024

 

Garry Hay, West Ham, Lokeren survivor but paralysed in a track crash in Australia

Rick France, Coventry, Sheffield, Halifax, World Finalist 1967

Graham Drury, Rochdale, Ellesmere Port, Hull, Oxford Long Eaton, Promoter and BSPA official

John Pilblad, Enthusiast and promoter at non league Aldershot, Weymouth and Ipswich

John Louis inspiration behind the Ipswich revival of the 70s, third in the 1975 World Final. Also rode for Halifax and King’s Lynn. Promoter at Ipswich

Eric Hockaday, rode in the Southern Area League before joining Rayleigh, Exeter, Leicester, Stoke and Cradley. Rode in the first ever heat of the British League. Speedway Riders Association secretary.

Vic White, graduated from cycle speedway, rode for Ipswich, Cradley, Long Eaton,Newport, Belle Vue, Leicester, Team manager and organiser of Cycle Speedway Vets association.

 Malcolm Ballard, Eastbourne discovery who rode for Oxford, Poole and Leicester before retiring at the young age of 26.

Malcolm Brown, showman who rode for Hackney and Leicester before emigrating to Rhodesia

Tony Swales  twin brother of Tony, rode for Middlesbrough, track curator and team manager

Laurie Etheridge Rayleigh, Hackney and Crayford, NLRC winner in 1975.

Len Silver PLRC winner in 1962 but best remembered as promoter at Hackney, Rayleigh, Sunderland, Crewe, England and GB team manager and Wembley track curator

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