A brief chat with... Eric Boocock
Speedway has changed little since it was dropped on an unsuspecting public in 1928 as a fully-fledged sporting spectacle. It’s still four laps by four riders mounted on minimal machines and racing on an oval circuit around 400 yards long. “I get a bit het-up,” grins Eric ‘Booey’ Boocock, “when these kids today mock what we did. Each generation is going as fast as they can on what they have available. When I look back at the less-than-pristine machines (he used a different term…) I used to race, I think ‘how on earth did I actually ride and win on them?’” That he did win is clear in the record books and after his race days he was
