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Confessions of a Speedway Promoter!

Author: John Berry

Publisher:

Published: 2004-11

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780954833619

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, John Berry gained a hard reputation as one of the most successful and forthright promoters British speedway has ever known. In 1969, he (with Joe Thurley) revived Ipswich Speedway, just as the shale sport was about to enjoy another boom period. New tracks sprung up everywhere and speedway blossomed thanks to large crowds, major sponsors and national television coverage that attracted millions of viewers and the interest of top-selling national newspapers. And in the most controversial speedway book ever written, Berry also admits - for the first time - how, and why, he once 'fixed' the result of an international race.

Both Sides of the Fence

Author: Reg Fearman

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2014-07-07

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 075096099X

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'Reg Fearman is the man who knows all of speedway's secrets ... and is prepared to reveal them. He has taken a unique, full-throttle, white-knuckle ride to the top as an international rider, a world-class team manager, a successful promoter and a formidable administrator. He has never ducked a confrontation, on or off the speedway track; he knows the glamorous and the murky side of a tough, fabulously exciting and sometimes cruel sport, and he spares no one's blushes ... not even his own' - John Chaplin, speedway's leading historian 'From humble origins in London's East End, this is the story of how Reg Fearman became a local hero with West Ham, the cockney giants of speedway, and went on to represent his country, first as a rider at the tender age of 17, and then as an international manager. A captivating mixture of sporting achievement, politics and business and social history, it also looks at how speedway was resurrected from the doldrums of the late 1950s and dragged into a new 'Jet Age' golden era, a time which paved the way for the heights that the sport has enjoyed in the twenty-first century as a global phenomenon. Including a plethora of untold truths, revelations and a rich treasure trove of photographs, Reg lays bare for the first time the sensational inside story of the resurrection of speedway ... warts and all!' - Dr Brian Belton, JP and author

Growing Up NASCAR

Author: Humpy Wheeler

Publisher: Motorbooks

Published: 2010-03-15

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1610600398

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In 1949, when Humpy Wheeler was 11, he attended the very first NASCAR race. For the next ten years, he spent as much time in the pits as he could, and came to know many of the sport’s pioneers. Eventually, Wheeler began promoting races at Carolina tracks such as Concord Speedway, Robinwood Speedway, and Starlight Speedway. Racing was so rough back then he kept a gun by his side when he paid the purse, and often used his fists to keep order. By the time Wheeler retired in 2008, he had helped NASCAR become the six-billion-dollar-a-year industry it is today. Filled with photographs from Wheeler's personal archives, Growing up NASCAR presents the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at NASCAR from the consumate insider.

Sliding Into Hell

Author: John Berry

Publisher: Football World

Published: 2005-10-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780955117602

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A young star speedway rider hovers between life and death. Taking us into the worlds of high finance, dark revenge and intriguing twists, set against a speedway background, this book is about the paradox of life. At the end of the day, you win some and you lose some. Life is like that.

Simmo

Author: Malcolm Simmons

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780955117626

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The Golden Age of Speedway

Author: Philip Dalling

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-03-09

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0752494619

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The post-war era was British speedway’s golden age. Ten million spectators passed through the turnstiles of a record number of tracks at the sport’s peak. With league gates as high as 80,000, speedway offered a colourful means of escape from the grim austerity of the times.A determinedly clean image, with no betting and rival fans mingling on the terraces, made speedway the family night out of choice. The sport thrived despite punitive taxation and Government threats to close down the speedways as a threat to industrial productivity.A three-division National League stretched from Exeter to Edinburgh and the World Championship Final attracted a capacity audience to Wembley. Test matches against Australia provided yet another international dimension.Even at the height of its popularity, speedway was a sporting edifice built on unstable foundations, which crumbled alarmingly as the 1950s dawned and Britain’s economic and social recovery brought competing attractions like television.

More Confessions Speedway Revelations

Author: John Berry

Publisher:

Published: 2005-11-17

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780955117619

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Provides a look back at Speedway and the colourful characters who made the 70s and 80s such a special era in the history of the sport. This is a journey back through the golden era in Speedway's stormy history.

Earl!

Author: Earl Baltes

Publisher:

Published: 2005-02

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780971963924

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Raw Speed - The Autobiography of the Three-Times World Speedway Champion

Author: Tai Woffinden

Publisher: Kings Road Publishing

Published: 2019-09-19

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1789461588

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Following in his late father's footsteps, Tai Woffinden made his name as Britain's most successful speedway rider ever. Known for his speed on the tracks and his quirky tattoos, he is a popular figure within the sport and beyond it. With a vast array of titles to his name, including youngest ever Grand Prix World Champion, achieved at the age of twenty-three, Tai has come a long way from his Scunthorpe roots. His love affair with speedway began when his family emigrated to Australia while he was a child, where he became a local champion while still at school. He has not been without his share of struggles, however. In 2010, he lost his father, the popular speedway rider Rob Woffinden, to cancer, which, combined with issues within his team, resulted in a difficult season. Then, in 2019, during his defence of his World Championship, he crashed heavily during a race in Poland and was badly injured, breaking his back. Such setbacks do not keep true champions down for long, however - Tai will be back, to dazzle his thousands of fans with his unique combination of flamboyant skill and raw courage. Told with his trademark honesty and directness, his autobiography provides an eye-opening insight into the life of one of speedway's greatest talents and most beloved stars. © images; not to be copied or reproduced without permission.

The Godfather of New England Stock Car Racing

Author: Adrienne J Venditti

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05-18

Total Pages: 840

ISBN-13: 9781796010787

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This book is dedicated to the man whose life inspired me to tell his story. His name is D. Anthony Venditti, widely known as the Godfather of Stock Car Racing in New England. It is also dedicated to my mother, with her eternal love and devoted support of her beloved Anthony, her family, and racing. She and the Godfather enabled and empowered our family to persevere in the sport. This is to all those with unending convictions in the Godfather and to the Seekonk Fraternity of racing. This book is a pictorial and a closer look at the life of the Godfather. He was the youngest promoter in motor sports in the United States in the 1940s. And as a twenty-five-year-old, he planned, engineered, and built his speedway. He was young and full of ambition. It was his dream, an American dream, to build, open, and operate his speedway at the end of World War II, in 1946. Yet when in his advanced years, he then became known as the oldest living promoter in stock car racing. He consecutively ran his race plant each year, faithfully opening his facility, without fail. He never missed a season under his reign-an unheard-of feat of forty-five years as a stock car racing promoter. Seekonk Speedway continues to run without any ambiguity by the same family. The speedway is proudly still in business all these seventy-three consecutive years of racing in the books. Anthony is celebrated and acclaimed for his pioneering in the American sport of auto racing, awarded RPM's "1978 Promoter of the Year." It was with great adoration of the sports community that he is acknowledged for his forethought and far-reaching ideas of innovation pertaining to mechanical engineering, safety features in facility construction, and administrative procedures. Mr. Venditti is attributed to numerous awards for his devotion for the betterment of the sport of auto racing.