Motorcycle speedway facts for kids
A speedway rider on the track
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| Highest governing body | Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme |
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| Nicknames | Speedway |
| First played | 1923 |
| Characteristics | |
| Contact | Contact |
| Team members | 2 at a time on track |
| Type | Outdoor |
| Presence | |
| Olympic | No |
| World Games | Invitational: 1985 and 2017 |
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit.
Images for kids
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Col Stewart races his speedway motorcycle wearing a leather helmet. Photo taken around 1930.
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Speedway riders, Sydney, 9 February 1946, by Ray Olsen, Pix Magazine photographer.
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All 4 riders leaning into the first corner – note the elbows.
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Track preparation: Watering the track to avoid excessive dust.
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Stadion Polonii Bydgoszcz in Poland, a track using an air-fence
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Air-fence close-up
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1983 World Champion Egon Müller's Jawa Speedway Machine with 500 cc engine
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A dirt deflector fitted to a Speedway motorcycle
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Riders in the start.
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Broadsiding
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The Millennium Stadium, venue of the British Grand Prix
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Finnish speedwayriders in Speedway Extraliiga -competition in Yyteri speedway venue.
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Tomasz Gollob – a successful Polish speedway rider & 2010 world champion
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German Speedway-Bundesliga: Wolfslake Falubaz Berlin vs. Mordstern Stralsund
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See also
In Spanish: Speedway (motociclismo) para niños
