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General Speedway Sites

I suggest using the comprehensive list of links at either
Mike Hunter's Friends of Edinburgh Speedway site,
Speedway Plus , or the
Cradley Heath Speedway site

Speedway History Sites

NEW! A nostalgic look at the history of the sport in the USA since the early 1930's is at xtremesport, with the focus on many of their tracks through the years.

Jim Blanchard's wonderful nostalgic tribute to New Cross Speedway and to a personal favourite of mine, Peter Craven

Excellent collection of speedway video clips including World Finals and some great moments on YouTube and Rapidshare thanks to SpeedwayOnDisc. Some complete meetings available too!

Just what you always wanted - a search engine that ONLY searches speedway websites! It's called SpeedwaySearch and thanks to Adam Jennison for providing this valuable tool.

Good to relive past times as you look at Cliff Jones' site Speedway Memories

History - Speedway and Longtrack is 3 sites in 1: Swedish Speedway History from 1934, World Championship History (including Star Riders' Championship) from 1929, and Ice Racing History from 1964 (Anders Aberg / Thilo Wunderlich)

Poland Speedway History from 1932 (Roman Lach).
History of Torun Speeedway

World Speedway History is still being constructed, but already has lots of rare information (Przemyslaw Jany)

Australia Speedway History Excellent articles on the early days of speedway from West Maitland onwards,
comprehensive 8-part biography of Billy Sanders, plus lots more (Ross Garrigan)

History of Speedway in South Australia (Rod Webb)

Speedway Researcher Off-shoot of the magazine (subscribe here), with an ever-growing database of statistics relating largely to UK speedway, both pre- and post-war. (Jim Henry / Graham Fraser)

Just Solos Wonderful Australian site with photos, many rare, from the earliest days of the sport to the present day. (Brian Darby). Australian Vintage Speedway, Maitland (including the very first speedway programme), Sydney Royale, and many more sites containing wonderful images of days gone by, are also from Brian Darby.

Some of the all-time greats have websites - the Ove Fundin , Barry Briggs , and Ronnie Moore tribute sites are all by Jim Blanchard, whose own excellent speedway and motorsport paintings can be seen here. Ivan Mauger has his own website.

Speedway Archives is a tribute to England and New Zealand star Bob Andrews from his son Robert - more great pics.

Historic World of Speedway is from former rider Steve Magro.

The Speedway History Forum is a great way of discussing speedway history with others from around the world. At the British Speedway Forum there is also a "Years Gone By" section.

Magazines covering the history of speedway include the long-running Vintage Speedway Magazine (1920s to 1960s) and Backtrack (1960s to 1990s) both published by Retro Speedway.

Many sadly defunct UK tracks now have their own websites including Hastings ,Romford , West Ham , Cradley Heath , Hackney , Bradford (Odsal) , Milton Keynes , Norwich , Greenford , Exeter , Sunderland, and now Canterbury . Middlesbrough (2nd site here), has now been reborn as Redcar, and Birmingham rejoined the speedway fold in 2007. The Newcastle Speedway History site covers more than just that club and is certainly worth a look. Then there is much of interest on Lynn Isaac's Sand Speed Wales site.

Programme collectors can look at the Old Programmes Gallery at the Speedway Swap Shop (Derek Carruthers), and a huge variety of American programmes at R C Jones' Racing Programs USA site.

Search for "speedway" on the Pathe News site, and you can download film clips of around 50 speedway events, including pre-war Test matches. Search for "cinder" and you are rewarded with extremely rare footage of the first UK meeting at High Beech in 1928 (misleadingly titled "Greyhound's Racing Rival") !

Taranaki Historic Speedway is by former rider Dave Gifford and covers the sports' history in New Zealand.

The VSRA (Veteran Speedway Riders' Association) have a UK site here and an Australian site here .

Not really "history" sites, but well worth a look, are The Milky Speedway , selling top class speedway scale models, brooches, etc (these are QUALITY items) (Paolo & Franco Oliani), and the very comprehensive Speedway FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) covering just about every aspect of the sport (Kevin Meynell).

And a personal favourite site of mine, for news of the sport in Canada, go to the Canadian Speedway Racing Association site