Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcy
A speedway rider on the track
Col Stewart races his speedway motorcycle wearing a leather helmet, c. 1930.
Speedway riders, Sydney, 9 February 1946, by Ray Olsen, Pix Magazine photographer.
All 4 riders leaning into the first corner – note the elbows.
Ivan Gerald Mauger was a New Zealand motorcycle speedway rider. He won a record six World Championships, a feat equalled only with the inclusion of the Speedway GP Championships by Bartosz Zmarzlik of
Triple Crown Special on display at Canterbury Museum