PROCESSIONS.
BORE SPEED FANS.
TEST RIDER EXPLAINS.
ENGLISH CONTROL BOARD'S REMEDY. (Special—By Air Malt) LONDON", January 7. Speedway followers in England, as in Australia, don't like to see races won at the first bend. They are bored by ' processions,'' and demand that every race shall be a real struggle until the end. Max Grosskreutz, famous Australian Test rider, who now manages a track at Norwich, declared this week that the "processions" are due to I unequal machines.
He says that because leading riders pull down most cash, they can afford to experiment. Expert mechanics pep up engines and reduce weight of frames so that when the tapes fly up it is odds on one man. If he leads at the first bend, it's a walk-over.
The English Control Board plane to place riders on equal mechanical terms. Machines are to be standardised, even to the frames, which it is proposed shall weigh 2001b.
According to Johnny Hoskins, manager of West Ham, Arthur Wilkinson, champion of the world, has reduced the weight of his machines by 801b in the two seasons by clever adjustments.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 23, 28 January 1939, Page 12
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