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They race around oval circuits of around 300 metres in length in an anticlockwise direction. An updated and extended edition of john berrys confessions of a speedway promoter. With the first event in the books, a rule change has been dropped. They were overshadowed by the maitland story which has been perpetuated over the years without.
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