International SPEEDWAY

INTERNATIONALS - ITALY

4-Team Matches

1965	Sun 24.10 : Udine	Italy	v.	Austria	v.	Germany	v.	Yugoslavia
				This programme is from Roger Stevens. Does anyone have any details of this meeting? 5 July 2011 : Duncan Luke now has proof that this was NOT a team match, but an individual event featuring riders from these four countries.

1966	18.06 : Cesenatico	New Zealand	v.	England	v.	Australia	v.	Scotland
		This was one of a series of meetings staged in Italy by English promoter Mike Parker.
		29.11.07 Thanks to Duncan Luke for this information! He writes: "I have the programme for the event but it is not filled in. As noted this was a Mike Parker promotion. However, the meeting was not a genuine international but rather a low key event featuring only eight riders brought in from the UK to race there and at another nearby track he operated at Rimini. The "International" label looks as if it was a convenient way to help promote the event as most of the riders are (I believe) Englishmen. e.g. Caisley may have been a Scottish junior but I have never heard that Jack Winstanley had any claim to Scottish relatives! The make up of the teams (Pairs would be a better term) was :- England - M. Robinson and P. Sharples. Australia - G. Beattie and A. Paynter. New Zealand - P. Harris and B. Oliver. Scotland - J. Winstanley and M. Caisley" 12.01.09 Andy Reid points out that M Caisley was erstwhile Newcastle junior rider Milton Caisley, and probably English.
Cesenatico programme
	17.01.10 Kevin Twohigg has now kindly supplied the programme - and full details - of a second match held the next day. This was the first ever speedway meeting at Rimini. After 10 heats of speedway, the same 8 riders took part in 6 races of (midget?) car racing.
	19.06 : Rimini	England	21	Scotland	14	Australia	14	New Zealand	8
		Maurie Robinson	8	Jack Winstanley	10	Graham Beattie	5	Peter Harris	4
		Paul Sharples	13	Milton Caisley	4	Alan Paynter	9	Brian Oliver	4
		1 Harris, Beattie, Winstanley, Robinson 2 Paynter, Sharples, Caisley, Oliver 3 Winstanley, Oliver, Robinson nf, Harris nf 4 Sharples, Caisley, Paynter, Beattie 5 Sharples, Winstanley, Beattie f, Harris ef				6 Paynter, Robinson, Harris, Oliver ef 7 Robinson, Winstanley, Caisley, Oliver 8 Beattie, Sharples, Paynter, Harris f 9 Robinson, Oliver, Paynter, Caisley 10 Sharples, Winstanley, Caisley, Beattie
		Rimini programme

				28.10 : Lonigo
West Germany 32				Italy 31
Mario Lehner	2 1 2 2	7		Francesco Biginato	nf 3 1 3	7
Wolfgang Maier	3 2 3 3	11		Mauro Ferraccioli	1 3 3 2	9
Franz Kreimoser	nf 2 3 2	7		Guiseppe Marzotto	3 3 3 0	9
Heinrich Sprenger	2 1 1 3	7		Sandro Pastorelli	2 0 2 2	6
Hungary 25				Yugoslavia 7
Janos Oresko	0 1 2 1	4		Franc Pribovsek	0 - 0 0	0
Antal Tamcsu	1 2 1 1	5		Stefan Kekec	3 2 0 0	5
Istvan Sziraczki	3 3 2 3	11		Bojan Kozmus	0 0 - 0	0
Janos Szoke	2 1 1 1	5		Franc Zagar	1 0 0 -	1
				Joze Kekec	0 0 1	1
1 Maier, Pastorelli, Zagar, Oresko 2 Marzotto, Lehner, Tamcsu, Kozmus 3 S Kekec, Szoke, Biginato nf, Kreimoser nf 4 Sziraczki, Sprenger, Ferraccioli, Pribovsek 5 Biginato, Tamcsu, Sprenger, Zagar 6 Ferraccioli, Kreimoser, Oresko, Kozmus 7 Sziraczki, S Kekec, Lehner, Pastorelli 8 Marzotto, Maier, Szoke, J Kekec				9 Ferraccioli, Lehner, Szoke, Zagar 10 Maier, Sziraczki, Biginato, J Kekec 11 Marzotto, Oresko, Sprenger, S Kekec 12 Kreimoser, Pastorelli, Tamcsu, Pribovsek 13 Sprenger, Pastorelli, Szoke, Kozmus 14 Sziraczki, Kreimoser, J Kekec, Marzotto 15 Maier, Ferraccioli, Tamcsu, S Kekec 16 Biginato, Lehner, Oresko, Pribovsek
				29.10 : Lonigo
Italy 42				Hungary 22
Francesco Biginato	2 3 3 3	11		Janos Oresko	2 1 1 1	5
Guiseppe Marzotto	3 2 3 3	11		Antal Tamcsu	0 1 1 1	3
Mauro Ferraccioli	3 2 3 3	11		Janos Szoke	1 1 0 1	3
Sandro Pastorelli	3 2 2 2	9		Istvan Sziraczki	3 3 2 3	11
West Germany 26				Yugoslavia 6
Wolfgang Maier	2 3 1 2	8		Bojan Kozmus	0 0 nf 0	0
Franz Kreimoser	nf 1 2 2	5		Franc Zagar	0 0 0 0	0
Heinrich Sprenger	2 2 2 1	7		Franc Pribovsek	1 0 - 0	1
Leonhard Osswald	- - 3 2	5		Stefan Kekec	1 3 1 0	5
Mario Lehner	1 0	1		Joze Kekec	0	0
1 Sziraczki, Biginato, Lehner, Zagar 2 Marzotto, Sprenger, Szoke, Kozmus 3 Pastorelli, Oresko, Pribovsek, Kreimoser nf 4 Ferraccioli, Maier, S Kekec, Tamcsu 5 S Kekec, Marzotto, Oresko, Lehner 6 Biginato, Sprenger, Tamcsu, Probovsek 7 Sziraczki, Ferraccioli, Kreimoser, Kozmus 8 Maier, Pastorelli, Szoke, Zagar				9 Osswald, Pastorelli, Tamcsu, Kozmus nf 10 Ferraccioli, Sprenger, Oresko, Zagar 11 Biginato, Kreimoser, S Kekec, Szoke 12 Marzotto, Sziraczki, Maier, J Kekec 13 Sziraczki, Pastorelli, Sprenger, S Kekec 14 Ferraccioli, Osswald, Szoke, Pribovsek 15 Marzotto, Kreimoser, Tamcsu, Zagar 16 Biginato, Maier, Oresko, Kozmus
Note: Guiseppe Marzotto rode in these matches as "Charley Brown"

1979	Sat 23.06 : Badia Polesine	Italy	v.	West Germany	v.	Great Britain	v.	Hungary
		Sandro Pastorelli		Christian Brandt		Craig Pendlebury		Janos Jakob
		Guiseppe Marzotto		Walter Grubmuller		Eric Broadbelt		Janos Szoke
		Gian Paolo Noro		Franz Kreimoser		Nicky Allott		Istvan Sziraczky
		Mauro Ferraccioli		Andreas Niedermeyer		Keith Evans		Laszlo Meszaros
	Meeting reserves were Giovanni Brizzolari and Fausto Birbini
	No details available

1980	Thu 01.05 : Lonigo	Italy A	v.	Italy B	v.	England	v.	West Germany
	David Austin writes: "The England side was essentially a Canterbury Crusaders team, and consisted of Mike Ferreira, Barney Kennett, Denzil Kent, and Dave Kennett of Eastbourne as a guest. The Team Manager was Maurice Morley. The invitation to participate in the meeting was a result of the hosting by Canterbury of the Italian touring team earlier that season"
		Meeting won by England

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