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INTERS need no longer be without a speedway fix thanks to the booming DVD market.
Just this week, Speedway Star has managed to get its grubby hands on two classics, the always eagerly- awaited FIM World Championships box set and one of the latest offerings from our friends at Retro Speedway, ‘Speedway in the 80s’.
The box set, comprising six discs with more than 15 hours’ worth of footage from every 2012 Grand Prix round and the Speedway World Cup is, as usual, a thing of beauty. And to celebrate its release,
producers Artifex Media allowed us to go behind the scenes at their Farnham headquarters to watch how the thing is put together. It’s a mighty rush against time for them as the footage is part of the ‘world feed’ that BSI provide to
broadcasters around the world. Basically, their job is to chop up the
three hours or so you would devour live on a Saturday night on Sky, adding interviews and some unseen footage, into a neat, 52-minute bundle for those broadcasters to transmit as an hour- long programme.
The box set comprises all those
‘programmes’ plus a few extras. Get this week’s Speedway Star for a
comprehensive low-down from the magicians at Artifex on how they conjure up the goods.
PLUS, PLUS, PLUS, there’s a chance to WIN your own copy of the box set and be the envy of your speedway buddies. To be in with a chance of winning make sure you get a copy of this week’s Speedway Star for details.
Or you can order a copy for just £19.99 plus p&p by visiting
www.smokeandrubber.com
See advert on following spread…
In the meantime, here’s what PAUL BURBIDGE thought of ‘Speedway in the 80s’…
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S SOMEONE who was born in 1987 and has only covered speedway since 2003, watching speedway in the 80s was possibly the most insightful four hours of video I have watched all year.
Seeing how the shale sport has changed over the past 30 years was one thing; but seeing the things that haven’t changed was equally as fascinating.
Those fans who were around in the eighties will enjoy a trip down memory lane, although many of the comparisons that could be drawn with today are not favourable ones.
The decade started with Michael Lee winning the World Final in front of a packed-to-the-rafters Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg. How we’d all love to see even half those fans there now. Watching footage of the last-ever
World Final at Wembley, won by Bruce Penhall in 1981, was also incredible. It’s a tragedy to see that venue lost to the sport along with so many others. How I’d have loved to pay a visit to Hyde Road – the iconic home of the Belle Vue Aces, which was lost to the bulldozers in 1987.
Speedway in the 80s isn’t just a spool of old video and memories. This DVD delves deeper into the stories behind some of the key moments of the decade and talks to the people affected. It’s not all doom and gloom either. In fact, its most inspirational tale comes from one of the blackest moments of the 1980s – Erik Gundersen’s brave battle following the crash which nearly claimed his life in the 1989 World Team Cup Final at Bradford. To go from fearing he may be paralysed for life to doing a tandem parachute jump into the Vojens
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