OLDEN LIFE
Jul 28, 2021
2 minutes
Roddy McDougall
WHAT WAS speedway?
Speedway – four riders on motorbikes racing four laps without any brakes around an oval circuit at up to 70mph – was once the second-most popular spectator sport in Britain.
It’s thought to have begun in Australia in the 1920s and was first staged in Britain in 1928 at
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