Motorcycle speedway - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A speedway rider on the track | |
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 |
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.[1]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Hodgdon, T. A. (July 1934). "With the Short Track Racers". Popular Science: 61–62. ISSN 0161-7370.