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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 motorcycles are specialist machines that use only one gear and have no brakes.
Ice speedway racing includes a motorcycle class which is the equivalent of Speedway on ice. Bikes race anti-clockwise around oval tracks between 260 and 425 metres in length. The race structure and scoring is similar to Speedway. The sport is divided into classes for full-rubber and studded tyres. The studded tyre category involves competitors ...
Auto Club Speedway, which joined Indianapolis, Michigan and Pocono [5] as the one of four superspeedways used in the Verizon IndyCar Series, was the site of Gil de Ferran's qualifying lap of 241.428 mph (388.541 km/h) in the CART FedEx Championship Series in 2000, [6] the fastest qualifying lap recorded at an official race meeting. [7]
Cycle speedway is a form of bicycle racing on short oval dirt tracks, usually outdoors, occasionally indoors, typically 70–90 metres long. Like motorcycle speedway , riders use machines without brakes or multiple gears but, unlike motor speedway, the object is not to slide bikes round the turns.
Peter Collins of Belle Vue Aces and England won the 1976 Speedway World Final on a Weslake engined bike. [4] Harry Weslake's last project was for Lord Hesketh, developing a 992cc air cooled vee-twin for the Hesketh V1000. [4] The Weslake eight-valve head for twins was sold to Nourish Racing Engines who continue to manufacture the design. [43]
Crocker knew there was a good market for high-speed touring bikes, but even he was surprised when he received more orders than he could possibly fill for his new 1936 Crocker "Small Tank" 61 cubic inch 1000 cc Hemi-Head model. The Crocker Twin was widely regarded as the fastest production motorcycle in the world.
Central New York Raceway Park was a proposed motorsports complex in Central Square, New York, United States. [1] The complex was to feature a 2.2 mile (3.54 km) road course and a 5/8 mile synthetic dirt oval for both auto & harness racing.
Longtrack racing is an umbrella term for events using long track machinery, similar to that used in speedway but with a longer wheelbase and a two-speed gearbox. This includes Grasstrack which uses the same machinery but shares one combined World Championship. The sport is popular in Germany, perhaps even more so than