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2. Motorcycle speedway - Wikipedia

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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 .

3. Costa Mesa Speedway - Wikipedia

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   Interest in motorcycle speedway racing was minimal for the first two years, but the sport soon enjoyed a rapid increase in popularity. When Costa Mesa Speedway opened its doors in the summer of 1969, it was at the height of the surfer craze in Southern California; skateboarding, BMX and motocross were becoming popular with the state's middle ...

4. United States Speedway National Championship - Wikipedia

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   The United States Speedway National Championship is an annual speedway championship to decide one of the two national champions of the United States. The Championship has always been staged at Costa Mesa Speedway and dates back to 1969. [ 1 ]

5. Board track racing - Wikipedia

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   The 1913 motorcycle championship races were moved to a dirt track because dirt was safer. [30] The national organization overseeing motorcycle racing banned all competitions on board tracks shorter than 1-mile (1.6 km) in 1919. [31] One by one, the manufacturers withdrew their support due to the negative publicity. [27]

6. Gosford Showground - Wikipedia

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   The track has been a significant venue for important motorcycle speedway events, including qualifying rounds of the Speedway World Championship (the first in 1994). [5] [6] It has also held the final of the Australian Solo Championship (the first in 1995) [7] and the New South Wales Individual Speedway Championship on 13 occasions from 1994 to ...

7. Australian Long Track Championship - Wikipedia

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   Where as motorcycle speedway takes place on tracks ranging from 250–400 metres in length, Long track racing generally takes place on 800 to 1000 metre long speedways. Prior to 1947, the championship was known as the Australian 5 Mile Dirt Track Championship and was run from 1925 to 1927 with classes including 350cc, 500cc and Unlimited.

8. Speedway World Cup - Wikipedia

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   The Speedway World Cup is a motorcycle speedway event for national teams held in different countries. [1] The first edition of the competition in the current format was held in 2001 and replaced the old World Team Cup which ran from 1960 until 2000.

9. Motorcycle racing - Wikipedia

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   Supersport racing is another category of motorcycle road racing that employs modified production motorcycles. To be eligible for Supersport racing, a motorcycle must have a four-stroke engine of between 250 and 600 cc for four-cylinder machines, and between 600 and 750 cc for twins, and must satisfy the FIM homologation requirements. Supersport ...