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Peter Bradshaw & Malcolm Carmichael

The darkest day for speedway happened away from the track, on a Tuesday in July, 50 years ago this month. At the time one report in the British media likened the tragedy to the 1958 plane crash in Germany that all but wiped out the Manchester United soccer team.

It was 14 July 1970 in Europe, the

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