We used to have the speedway at our fairgrounds. Such a great time, the smell, sounds, and dirt formed a great impression on a young child. Really lived the newzeland sidcars too.
@@didgeteria9068A sport is defined as an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Motorsports are more physically draining than playing baseball and require a ton of finesse skills
@@224L I'll explain my comment : this "sport" is way more than just a sport . It needs its own definition for what it is... This is good stuff , risking life and limb for that win , they have the same thing on ice 😳 , crazy dudes sit on their massive huge balls no chairs needed , Gods on wheels them dudes . Insanely good stuff. This isn't a sport in my opinion, it's more than that...and the pay is low af for what they're doing . Any sport with dudes chasing after a ball like a happy dog earn millions , these dudes risk their lives and get paid enough to get through the month ... I guess what I meant with my previous comment was that , by definition, sports doesn't do this modality justice..
It’s one of the hardest types of racing & almost strictly a young man’s game, we used to drink cases then rip it up all weekend, now I can do one & my old ass is laid up & hobbling around for a week & a wipeout is unthinkable, probably $hit my spleen
@@billfoster213 Did a bit of speedway myself in SA. Was 35 when I started. WE WERE NEVER ON THIS LEVEL. KNOW EXACTLY THE REQUIREMENTS. These guys are on Moto Gp level.
I saw speedway in England on a Saturday night. It was absolutly fabulous. They compete with other cities of counties like a league . Teams travel and next time race at the home track. Great competition!
I remember seeing a race like that,, the vibration from the single cylinder would shake your heart,,and the noise from the engine and exhaust would shake your head off,, makes your ears ring for a week 😂
It is Speedway racing. Tourist Trophy is what the Isle of Mann is. Speedway is, or was as I new it 50 years ago, a single cylinder 500 cc J.A. Prestwitch or a Jawa Czech built engine that run on a slight nitromethane/ alcohol blend and mounted in a rigid frame that aint much bigger than a 26" beach cruiser bicycle. They have no starter, no brakes, one gear and are so low range ratio'd that it takes everything the rider has to keep the front wheel down. Why? I dont know cuz all the turning is done by keeping the rear tire in a 1/2 to 3/4 throttle drift when in the corners and a wide open straightaway. It takes a pretty big pair to ride em. Because my Dad was an adrenaline fueled ego on feet, he would never lift even when banging bars with younger, better riders with big sponsor dollars and he would inevitably blow the bottom end out of 5 or 6 engines a season and being he had two jobs, a limited sponsor budget and no spare time for repairs, I was taught at the age of 4-5 years old how to heli-arc aluminum for the crankcases he'd blow up and chromemoly steel for the frames and forks he'd bend and break when he'd get put into the wall. I was a damn good welder before I even haired over and why I was able to get hired at 15 as one of a 3 man team that would weld up all of the SE Racing PK Ripper bmx frames sold around the world from 79-84.
Oh man when I was a kid my late father would take me to watch the weekend warriors race flat track at Possum Cove(Seriously 😂 ) in SW Louisiana. This short brought back memories that mean more to me than I could ever express in a comment section. Thanks for posting.
When I was young, I used to go to these races. It's called speedway, and my dad personally knew one of the riders' dads, his name was Mr. Woods, his son's name is Rick Woods a world champion speedway racer, Their bikes have no brakes, One of the engines they use is a jawa, Its a lot of fun watching them, Very exciting!
Jawa is a Cheskoslovakia built engine. We had a track in Miskolc Hungary in communist times. Many Jawas 500cc 4 velves . We had international races the Poles, the Checks, Austrians would come race the Hungarian teams. So much fun.
We had a Speedway right behind our High School during the 60's and 70's, a quarter mile banked dirt oval which was later asphalt, with a bike track in the centre.
@@thomasschwab1727flat. The most obvious difference can be found on the bikes themselves. Speedway bikes famously run with no brakes, whereas flat trackers have the luxury of a rear anchor which explains the disparities in cornering
sounds a little familiar if I remember right it was every Thursday night or Wednesday night this is 1970 71-72 Costa Mesa when I see these things it reminds me when I was a young boy, I remember a rider named Bass, or Miller I think,
Long live Costa Mesa Friday nights where the Bast Brothers, Rick Woods, Sliding Sonny Nutter and sometimes my Dad, kept you on the edge of your bleacher seat for a solid 5 hours of nitro/alcohol fueled entertainment.
I'm lucky I live within 2 miles of a flat track. And another one just reopened about 10 miles away. They are fun to watch live. I like the east coast vs west coast championships. Awesome.
Couldn’t say for certain but Warsaw is typically wider and slightly longer than other tracks on our calendar. Helps that these boys are the top of the top and riding 500cc bikes though 💪
I remember watching this as a kid in the 90's. It used to be flat track, monster jam and PBR every Friday night. Reply on Saturday morning with the weekly strongman highlights or the world strongman tryouts.
Love speedway. Got to ride one in the early 70's. I was riding 125 & 250 class on 1/4 mile dirt ovals. Got to take a few laps and it was a beast. 2 speed tranny...fast and holy shit. The longer back straight was 😳😵💫
❤❤❤❤😂😂😂 and they used to have flat track racing up there in Auburn California and I loved going how entertaining it was a smell of gas people going fast wow brings back great memories😅
The wheelie while drifting was pretty sweet
Yeah until it isnt lol
Dom Toretto style!
@noahknorr7504 this man also lives his life a quarter mile at a time????
Is that a spinning saw blade in back?
I agree powerslide wheelie,passing people to boot,hell yes that's racing
See them in live. There's nothing like it.
Where (UK) ?
@@SjMk1. Everywhere over the uk
Man, these guys are insane 😳
They also do it on ice, with spiked tyres
@@johnbaker1256 i have seen them, and atvs also
We used to have the speedway at our fairgrounds. Such a great time, the smell, sounds, and dirt formed a great impression on a young child. Really lived the newzeland sidcars too.
Same here , Costa Mesa ca fairgrounds 1970s
Now that some BADASS racing right there ! Way cool.
American Soldier
1980 - 1990 Germany
These races live... 🤯
Then ice racing in winter...😎
Love this
Under rated sports this
Yes , it'll keep on being like that as long as it's called a sport...
@@didgeteria9068A sport is defined as an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Motorsports are more physically draining than playing baseball and require a ton of finesse skills
@@224L I'll explain my comment : this "sport" is way more than just a sport . It needs its own definition for what it is...
This is good stuff , risking life and limb for that win , they have the same thing on ice 😳 , crazy dudes sit on their massive huge balls no chairs needed , Gods on wheels them dudes . Insanely good stuff. This isn't a sport in my opinion, it's more than that...and the pay is low af for what they're doing . Any sport with dudes chasing after a ball like a happy dog earn millions , these dudes risk their lives and get paid enough to get through the month ... I guess what I meant with my previous comment was that , by definition, sports doesn't do this modality justice..
In the 70s there was a track between Nichols and Owego, NY where they did this on Saturday nights. It was nuts!
I raced at that track from 1979 to 2006. # 36 they are having a 50 year anniversary in May of 2024
These guys are really ripping it! Super cool! 💪💪💪
Now that's ACTION 👍
The fact that this would exist just warms my heart. Men we are the greatest
J,D, did not create any carnage it was just great racing
Love the comment,I agree 👍 welcome to speedway wimps.😅☠👊
Holy crap that looks like fun
Nope
It’s one of the hardest types of racing & almost strictly a young man’s game, we used to drink cases then rip it up all weekend, now I can do one & my old ass is laid up & hobbling around for a week & a wipeout is unthinkable, probably $hit my spleen
@@patrickancona1193it sucks doesn't it. My mind still wants to do shit like this but being 47 with 3 life changing accidents says otherwise.
@@patrickancona1193i hear ya man. Im only 30 but years of bull riding through my teens and 20s have me walking around like im 70 lol
I was gonna say the same thing lol
Nothing more fun than a speedway bike.
watching*
The absolute control of these riders is crazy😳😳
Speedway, bikes are in sane those guys flat hall, but if you’ve never seen them in person go, it is fantastic
This is the most underrated sport ever. Badass
No carnage, just great racing.
That's for sure. Great control for Lengren
Absolutely! Good control from Lingren!
@@quartusbuys6831 ya, Lindgren was very impressive 👏.
Agreed!
@@billfoster213 Did a bit of speedway myself in SA. Was 35 when I started. WE WERE NEVER ON THIS LEVEL. KNOW EXACTLY THE REQUIREMENTS. These guys are on Moto Gp level.
We have a small race track in our town and a friend back in the 70's would race with no brakes running about 90 mph around it every weekend
This has always been awesome and now looks even better!
I saw speedway in England on a Saturday night. It was absolutly fabulous. They compete with other cities of counties like a league . Teams travel and next time race at the home track. Great competition!
My grandfather used to race these, but on ice with spiked tires.
Featured in the movie "on any Sunday"
Jawa!
Love the announcement, Chaos in turns 3 n 4
Kaos, carnage, thrills & spills.
It's all part of the fun and excitement at the dirty oval!
I remember seeing a race like that,, the vibration from the single cylinder would shake your heart,,and the noise from the engine and exhaust would shake your head off,, makes your ears ring for a week 😂
have you seen the stadiums and the crowds for this stuff in Europe?!!
massive support for a spectacular sport
What kinda racing is this? What’s it called? I wanna see more of this ASAP!
I thought it was tourist trophy. These guys are calling it Speedway. Thoughts?
It is Speedway racing. Tourist Trophy is what the Isle of Mann is. Speedway is, or was as I new it 50 years ago, a single cylinder 500 cc J.A. Prestwitch or a Jawa Czech built engine that run on a slight nitromethane/ alcohol blend and mounted in a rigid frame that aint much bigger than a 26" beach cruiser bicycle. They have no starter, no brakes, one gear and are so low range ratio'd that it takes everything the rider has to keep the front wheel down. Why? I dont know cuz all the turning is done by keeping the rear tire in a 1/2 to 3/4 throttle drift when in the corners and a wide open straightaway. It takes a pretty big pair to ride em. Because my Dad was an adrenaline fueled ego on feet, he would never lift even when banging bars with younger, better riders with big sponsor dollars and he would inevitably blow the bottom end out of 5 or 6 engines a season and being he had two jobs, a limited sponsor budget and no spare time for repairs, I was taught at the age of 4-5 years old how to heli-arc aluminum for the crankcases he'd blow up and chromemoly steel for the frames and forks he'd bend and break when he'd get put into the wall. I was a damn good welder before I even haired over and why I was able to get hired at 15 as one of a 3 man team that would weld up all of the SE Racing PK Ripper bmx frames sold around the world from 79-84.
Brilliant, remember watching Ivan Mauger in the 70's...watched Glasgow Tigers at Hamden.
Oh man when I was a kid my late father would take me to watch the weekend warriors race flat track at Possum Cove(Seriously 😂 ) in SW Louisiana. This short brought back memories that mean more to me than I could ever express in a comment section. Thanks for posting.
I cannot believe that speedway isn’t more popular in places like North America! It is racing at its best as far as I’m concerned!
Every time I watch this, I see something incredible that makes me watch it again. You are hypnotizing me.
FINALLY Sickle racing is BACK!
When I was young, I used to go to these races. It's called speedway, and my dad personally knew one of the riders' dads, his name was Mr. Woods, his son's name is Rick Woods a world champion speedway racer, Their bikes have no brakes, One of the engines they use is a jawa, Its a lot of fun watching them, Very exciting!
Jawa is a Cheskoslovakia built engine. We had a track in Miskolc Hungary in communist times. Many Jawas 500cc 4 velves . We had international races the Poles, the Checks, Austrians would come race the Hungarian teams. So much fun.
That right there is some great hard racing. Something NASCAR no longer knows absolutely nothing about.
Crashing in Nascar has dyer consequences.
nascar has hard racing. not sure why you're crying.
you know all about hard whining lmao
Pure badassness and that wheelie was savage damn
this looks like SO much fun!
These guys are a different breed
We had a Speedway right behind our High School during the 60's and 70's, a quarter mile banked dirt oval which was later asphalt, with a bike track in the centre.
I love this stuff.
In the seventies we called it a flat track I used to race in Anchorage Alaska
It's Speedway racing, way different from flat track! These are nitro powered single speed drive!
@@ronaldthomas9396but is the track flat or very slightly banked? I've never seen this racing. Pretty cool stuff
@@thomasschwab1727flat. The most obvious difference can be found on the bikes themselves. Speedway bikes famously run with no brakes, whereas flat trackers have the luxury of a rear anchor which explains the disparities in cornering
Wow. Have speedway bikes changed since I raced them. Europe racing tracks are much larger then our 1/8 mile bullring tracks in Costa Mesa CA.
sounds a little familiar if I remember right it was every Thursday night or Wednesday night this is 1970 71-72 Costa Mesa when I see these things it reminds me when I was a young boy, I remember a rider named Bass, or Miller I think,
Long live Costa Mesa Friday nights where the Bast Brothers, Rick Woods, Sliding Sonny Nutter and sometimes my Dad, kept you on the edge of your bleacher seat for a solid 5 hours of nitro/alcohol fueled entertainment.
Saw speedway racing atcCosta Mesa fairgrounds. Some of the best moto racing i have ever seen.
Speedway has always looked so insanely fun
Very nice thank you for this video
That looks like a lot of fun!;)
I'm too high for this 😂😂
I wasn't expecting all that tq out the corner!! 😂😂😂😂
I'm lucky I live within 2 miles of a flat track. And another one just reopened about 10 miles away. They are fun to watch live. I like the east coast vs west coast championships. Awesome.
I remember watching races like this at the fairgrounds as a kid.
Oh the memory s... I remember watching the last race at ascott on TV. thank you 👍💯😎
I was a spanner man for rider in Australia n Jason Doyle taught him how to put blokes up the fence,,, Aussie Aussie aussie,,,,
Huh??!!
I have never seen this before! Amazing
I'd love try one these bikes, looks like fun
Use to watch this when I was a kid in Brewerton Ny. John Tilton was my guy to watch
500cc JAWA's....AN ART IN SLIDE....SPEEDWAY....WHAHOOOO
I raced flatrack for 19 years. Always thought those speedway guys were nuts.
This must be a bigger track than the speedway they have near me. They appear to be going much faster.
Couldn’t say for certain but Warsaw is typically wider and slightly longer than other tracks on our calendar. Helps that these boys are the top of the top and riding 500cc bikes though 💪
That wheelie while drifting was sick. Flat track is more exciting than I thought.
That’s not flat track, it’s speedway.
Flat-track speed-way.
1968-72, California valley, Yuba to Modesto.
Yamaha 250.
Pat and Mike Rooney.
Glen Artenian.
Gene Rayburn.
That guy the rage man pulling that Willie was like wow not on my watch
I see my comment has already made it a thousand times! Nice drift wheelie!
Yeah Doyle no Mercy !!!
Screaming me-mies. Unbelievable. Full on side tork. Wow.
If ya ever get a chance to go watch bikes on a dirt track definitely go....it's a blast every time!!!
Bad ass video 😊
Bro we do this shit in the states finally a sport we got in common
That's racing, Doyles a legend!
Wow best example of counter steering.
I watched this with my fiancee and her polish family. Pretty fun.
This looks fun
Racing at it's best
Dude did a damn wheelie drift 😂😂😂😂
We went to one tonight it was awesome
These guys are crazy.... Full throttle all the way....
Costs Mesa speedway when I was a kid. Best ever
That looks fun
I remember watching this as a kid in the 90's. It used to be flat track, monster jam and PBR every Friday night. Reply on Saturday morning with the weekly strongman highlights or the world strongman tryouts.
This pretty good video
Love speedway. Got to ride one in the early 70's. I was riding 125 & 250 class on 1/4 mile dirt ovals. Got to take a few laps and it was a beast. 2 speed tranny...fast and holy shit. The longer back straight was 😳😵💫
I used to love doing this on my crosser 😅
that looks like incredible fun if you know what you are doing wow!!!
Sport is nuts
Dude this is sick. I'd love to rip a few laps
This is one crazy sport those bikes can move and if im right they don't have brakes... you've got to have some balls to do this.
Id love to try one of those
Doyle was smooth as silk.
This is fu------ awesome. I want to try this out.
I've never seen that pad behind the bike like they have here 😊
Thats a spinning saw blade
Pretty sure this still happens in my old hometown Rockhampton Queensland Australia
What a race
Love it❤
Just when i thought hill climbing on a 2 stroke was nuts, you gotta drop this on me.
The original drift racing
❤❤❤❤😂😂😂 and they used to have flat track racing up there in Auburn California and I loved going how entertaining it was a smell of gas people going fast wow brings back great memories😅
A wheelie while drifting?!?!😮 damn bro.
That wheel speed is unbelievable
The announcer is crushing it
Please tell me someone got a pic of that wheelie from the front.
A big difference from the 1970s flat trackers in Colorado Springs $2.50 to get in.
magnifique école de pilotage que ce circuit de moto j adore et la moto jamais électrique pitier le moteur essence et genial
I think those would be awesome to race.