A regular feature of Humans of Speedway, our Speedway Paradise feature asks guests to create their dream speedway meeting, including designing their perfect stadium and their all time 1-7..

Peter Oakes, an award winning Fleet Street journalist in his day job but also went way beyond just reporting on speedway. He became firmly a part of it, working on PR for clubs, becoming a promoter, a team manager, and the personal manager & best friend of one of the sports greatest ever riders Ivan Mauger. 

Find out who makes Peter's all time team, where the meeting would be help and who the opposition would be..! Some fantastic stories ahead so relax and enjoy!

 

 

 

 

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1992 World Champion, Bradford Dukes and Great Britain living legend Gary Havelock talks about his early beginnings in speedway, following in his father's footsteps, and realising his dream of becoming champion of the world... A must not miss episode..!

 

 

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Helen Charlesworth is a lifelong speedway supporter, starting out in her native Newcastle before heading a long way south to Plymouth, where she has contributed to both teams programmes on a regular basis, including an Emil Sayfutdinov exclusive!

Did you know Jason Doyle features as a lead character in a novel..? Well he does and Helen wrote the book, find out about how she came to write 2 speedway novels, featuring riders you will know..!

And how about an actual real life ghost story? Helen described details of a ghostly event which occurred at a track, and was witnessed by numerous people..!

Plus we have speedway paradise, and it's a battle of the eras with a team featuring riders from pre war to the present day.

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In this episode we meet Ipswich centre green legend Kev Long, who has spent 20 years entertaining crowds at Foxhall, plus Mildenhall for a few years too. His first season on the mic was in 1998, a year which the Ipswich team went down in speedway folklore. 

In this episode Kev relives the rhyming rider intros for that 98 team (no air horns allowed), talks being drenched by Shane Parker, and how he thought he'd died and Gove to heaven only to find it was Richie Worrall with a fire extinguisher.. AND, a preview of the rhyming intro he has ready for Jason Crump at the British Final..!

Plus his dream meeting is assembled on speedway paradise, and much more too..!

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Roy Clarke is a well known voice at speedway tracks in the North East as centregreen host at Redcar and Newcastle. But did you know he used to be a rider, a much sought after speedway mechanic and someone who shared their house with various riders from overseas too? 
This episode also takes a close look at mental health in speedway, particularly from a rider point of view. Roy suffered himself overcoming mental obstacles when he got on a bike, and the pressures riders are under to perform is discussed. It’s a subject very close to Roy’s heart, he was already a campaigner for better help for speedway riders before the death of friend Danny Ayers.

Roy also puts together his Speedway paradise, there’s laughs along the way, listen now..!

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FIM Race Director for the Speedway GP and Speedway of Nations series, Phil Morris is the man responsible for ensuring the action on the track of the Speedway's greatest stage runs like clockwork. 

But with a career as a rider spanning almost 20 years as well as time in management, he's seen the sport from many different angles & has a few insights into how the sport could progress in future.

Of course Phil also describes how his dream meeting would look, including his all time 1-7.

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British speedway referee Chris Durno has presided over domestic and international speedway events for nearly 20 years, and not just regular speedway, but also long track and ice speedway meeting too. In this episode we find out more detail about the journey potential referees go on before they finally earn their stripes, or in actual fact, their carb checking tool..! We also discover the most difficult decisions a ref has to make, some of the more unusual reasons a rider might be excluded, plus the perils of watching over ice speedway north or the arctic circle.

Plus Chris also designs his dream speedway meeting in Speedway Paradise... But who will he choose as his referee?!

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While there's nothing happening at the track this year, there is plenty of speedway content to listen to in this series.

Here's a quick way to get a flavour of the first 6 episodes of Humans Of Speedway, featuring:

Scott Nicholls

Nigel Pearson

Jeff Scott

Neil Machin

Peter Oakes

Shane Parker

You can listen to the full episodes wherever you listen to your podcasts, and don't forget to follow us on social media @speedwayhumans on Twitter, and on Facebook, just search for Humans Of Speedway to get all the latest updates.

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Shane Parker left Australia in his early 20's to fulfil his ambition of making it big in speedway. Over more than 20 years Shane became a legend with a number of clubs including Ipswich, Kings Lynn, Glasgow, Peterborough, before ending his career at Sheffield. A real character of the sport he entertained on the track as well as off, and he recalls some of his favourite stories..!

Hear the amazing story of how Shane discovered his biological father, and how his wife and daughter saved his life last year after a suffering a cardiac arrest.

Plus as always there's another round of Speedway Paradise where he chooses his all time team, his favourite track, changes some rules, and as ever tells is as it is..!

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My guest in this episode has been described by others to me, as possibly the most influential man in British Speedway over the years. 

This is the story of Peter Oakes, an award winning Fleet Street journalist in his day job but also went way beyond just reporting on speedway. He became firmly a part of it, working on PR for clubs, becoming a promoter, a team manager, and the personal manager & best friend of one of the sports greatest ever riders Ivan Mauger. 

Before the end of the show Peter is going to harness all of that knowledge to create his Speedway Paradise, his all time team, at the all time venue, and some tweaks to the rule book as well.. 

There’s so many great stories all the way through so settle yourself in as we welcome to Humans of Speedway, Peter Oakes..! 

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