NO SMALL TRACKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 237, 7 October 1930, Page 17

NO SMALL TRACKS.

CINDER RACING IN CANADA. MR. JACK KAY HOME AGAIN. SPORT IN VANCOUVER. ' News and views on the motor cycle game in Canada were given by Mr. J. C. Kay, the popular track manager at Western Springs Speedway, when he arrived back in Auckland by the Aorangi from Vancouver yesterday. Since the end of last summer Mr. Kay has been living in Vancouver. In Canada there are no quarter-mile dirt tracks, he says. There are several half-mile circuits where the riders race on 7-9 li.p. machines, with mudguards and all the standard equipment. The machines used are nearly all American, and there are very few English jobs. Dirt track' racing in the United States is restricted to 3J h.p. machines by the American Motor Association. "They can't teach us anything in the way of running a meeting," said Mr. Kay. "The way our meetings are organised and the facilities for giving information to the public are by far the best."' Mr. Kay said there were any amount of hill-climbing contests in Canada, and riders paid as much as £150 for special hill-climbing machines.