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THE "ALMOST" INTERNATIONALS
The "Austrian MRC" matches
| When Prof.Franz Renisch became president of Austria's Motor Race Club (Motorrennclub Österreich) in 1958, he was determined to improve the popularity of Speedway in his country. Together with recently retired star Josef Kamper he used the sports top stars, such as Ove Fundin, Barry Briggs, Ronnie Moore, and Peter Craven, to attract the crowds to a series of international events, both team and individual. The meetings were generally successful, but appeared to do little to improve the grass roots of Austrian speedway racing. The MRC were also responsible for the staging of the Soviet Union's first official Tests, a three match series against Sweden, in 1962, details of which can be found here. |
| 1959 | Sweden beat Austrian MRC 3-0 | |
| 04.04 Vienna : 05.04 Linz : 09.04 Graz : |
Austrian MRC 49 Sweden 59 (Att:
25,000) Austrian MRC 40 Sweden 67 (Att: 23,000) Austrian MRC 37 Sweden 68 |
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| POINT SCORERS Austrian MRC Josef Hofmeister (Germany) 31, Ray Cresp (Australia) 30, Josef Kamper 28, Josef Seidl (Germany) 21, Josef Bossner 6, Johan Hartl 5, Ferdinand Troner 5. |
Sweden Ove Fundin 45, Rune Sormander 43, Olle Nygren 40, Joel Jansson 25, Bjorn Knutsson 18, Arne Carlsson 17, Torvald Karlsson 6. |
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| Vienna : Austrian MRC 49 Sweden 59 | Linz : Austrian MRC 40 Sweden 67 | |||||||
| Josef Hofmeister 3 2 1 3 3 3 | 15 | Rune Sormander 2 3 3 2 3 3 | 16 | Josef Hofmeister 3 2 0 3 2 3 | 13 | Ove Fundin 3 3 3 3 3 3 | 18 | |
| Ray Cresp 2 2 3 3 2 1 | 13 | Ove Fundin 3 3 R 3 2 3 | 14 | Ray Cresp 3 3 F 2 2 2 | 12 | Rune Sormander 1 2 2 2 3 3 | 13 | |
| Josef Kamper 2 2 2 1 2 2 | 11 | Olle Nygren 3 3 2 2 3 1 | 14 | Josef Seidl 2 0 2 0 0 2 | 6 | Olle Nygren 2 2 3 3 3 0 | 13 | |
| Josef Seidl 1 1 3 1 R 2 | 8 | Bjorn Knutsson R 2 2 2 | 6 | Josef Kamper 1 1 1 0 | 3 | Joel Jansson 1 3 1 1 2 1 | 9 | |
| Johan Hartl 1 0 0 | 1 | Torvald KarlssonF 1 1 0 1 1 | 4 | Josef Bossner 0 1 2 | 3 | Arne Carlsson 2 1 2 1 1 | 7 | |
| Josef Bossner 0 0 1 0 0 0 | 1 | Joel Jansson 1 1 0 1 1 0 | 4 | Johan Hartl 0 0 0 R 1 1 | 2 | Bjorn Knutsson 3 1 1 2 | 7 | |
| Ferdinand Troner 0 0 0 | 0 | Arne Carlsson 0 1 | 1 | Ferdinand Troner 1 0 | 1 | Torvald Karlsson F 1 1 | 2 | |
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| Graz : Austrian MRC 37 Sweden 68 | ||||||||
| Josef Kamper 2 2 2 3 2 3 | 14 | Rune Sormander 1 2 3 3 3 2 | 14 | |||||
| Josef Seidl 3 1 1 2 F | 7 | Ove Fundin 3 3 R 2 2 3 | 13 | |||||
| Ray Cresp F 1 2 0 0 2 | 5 | Olle Nygren 2 1 3 2 3 2 | 13 | |||||
| Ferdinand Troner 1 0 3 | 4 | Joel Jansson 3 3 2 3 1 R | 12 | |||||
| Josef Hofmeister 2 0 0 1 | 3 | Arne Carlsson 0 2 3 3 1 | 9 | |||||
| Johan Hartl 1 0 1 F 0 0 | 2 | Bjorn Knutsson F 3 0 2 | 5 | |||||
| Josef Bossner F 0 F 1 1 | 2 | Torvald Karlsson F 1 1 | 2 | |||||
| The programme on the right, supplied by Duncan Luke, is for the first "Testmatch" at Vienna. But this was not Austria v Sweden, for the home nation was augmented by riders from Germany and Australia. Just as well, for even the strengthened Austrian team were well beaten by a strong Swedish septet. Denmark's Arne Pander was originally due to ride for the Austrian MRC team, but was replaced by Ray Cresp. | ||||||||
| 1959 | New Zealand won this 3-team series | |
| 10.10 Vienna : 11.10 Linz : 14.10 Graz : |
Austrian MRC 26 England 34 New
Zealand 36 (Att: 30,000) Austrian MRC 31 England 26 New Zealand 39 (Att: 15,000) Austrian MRC 34 England 27 New Zealand 34 |
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| POINT SCORERS Austrian MRC Ove Fundin (Sweden) 33, Josef Hofmeister (Germany) 32, Josef Kamper 21, Josef Bossner 4, Alfred Sitzwohl 1, Josef Seidl (Germany) 0. |
England Mike Broadbank 27, Ron How 26, Ian Williams 19, Cyril Maidment 15. New Zealand Barry Briggs 42, Ronnie Moore 37, Geoff Mardon 18, Trevor Redmond 12. |
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| Vienna | ||||||||||
| Austrian MRC 26 | England 34 | New Zealand 36 | ||||||||
| Josef Hofmeister | 2 2 3 3 1 | 11 | Mike Broadbank | 3 2 1 2 3 | 11 | Ronnie Moore | 0 3 3 2 3 | 11 | ||
| Josef Bossner | 0 0 0 0 1 | 1 | Ian Williams | 1 1' 2 1' 1 | 6+2 | Geoff Mardon | 2 1 1 1' 2 | 7+1 | ||
| Ove Fundin | 0 0 0 3 2 | 5 | Ron How | 3 2 2 3 2 | 12 | Barry Briggs | 3 3 3 2 3 | 14 | ||
| Josef Kamper | 2 3 2 1 1 | 9 | Cyril Maidment | 1 0 1' 0 3 | 5+1 | Trevor Redmond | 1 0 1 0 2 | 4 | ||
| 1:
Broadbank, Mardon, Williams, Moore 2: Briggs, Hofmeister, Redmond, Bossner 3: How, Kamper, Maidment, Fundin 4: Briggs, Broadbank, Williams, Redmond 5: Moore, Hofmeister, Mardon, Bossner 6: Kamper, Williams, Broadbank, Fundin |
7:
Briggs, How, Redmond, Maidment 8: Moore, Kamper, Mardon, Fundin 9: Hofmeister, How, Maidment, Bossner 10: Fundin, Briggs, Kamper, Redmond 11: Hofmeister, Broadbank, Williams, Bossner |
12: How,
Moore, Mardon, Maidment 13: *Maidment, Redmond Bossner 14: *Briggs, How, Hofmeister 15: *Broadbank, Mardon, Kamper 16: *Moore, Fundin, Williams * only 3 riders |
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| Linz | ||||||||||
| Austrian MRC 31 | England 26 | New Zealand 39 | ||||||||
| Josef Hofmeister | 2 2 3 R 1 | 8 | Mike Broadbank | 0 2 0 3 2' | 7+1 | Ronnie Moore | 3 3 2 3 2 | 13 | ||
| Josef Bossner | 0 0 0 1 2 | 3 |
Ian Williams | 2 1' 1 2' 1 | 7+2 | Geoff Mardon | 1 1 0 1 3 | 7 | ||
| Ove Fundin | 3 3 3 2 3 | 14 | Ron How | 2 3 2 R 2 | 9 | Barry Briggs | 3 3 2 3 3 | 14 | ||
| Josef Kamper | 1 2' 1 1' 1 | 6+2 | Cyril Maidment | 0 0 1' 2 R | 3+1 | Trevor Redmond | 1 0 1' 0 3 | 5+1 | ||
| 1: Moore,
Williams, Mardon, Broadbank 2: Briggs, Hofmeister, Redmond, Bossner 3: Fundin, How, Kamper, Maidment 4: Briggs, Broadbank, Williams, Redmond 5: Moore, Hofmeister, Mardon, Bossner 6: Fundin, Kamper, Williams, Broadbank |
7: How,
Briggs, Redmond, Maidment 8: Fundin, Moore, Kamper, Mardon 9: Hofmeister, How, Maidment, Bossner 10: Briggs, Fundin, Kamper, Redmond 11: Broadbank,Williams, Kamper,Hofmeister R 12: Moore, Mardon, Maidment, How R |
13:
*Redmond, Bossner, Maidment R 14: *Briggs, How, Hofmeister 15: *Mardon, Broadbank, Kamper 16: *Fundin, Moore, Williams * only 3 riders STARS RACE: Moore, Briggs, Fundin, How R |
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| Graz | ||||||||||
| Austrian MRC 34 | England 27 | New Zealand 34 | ||||||||
| Josef Hofmeister | 3 2 3 3 2 | 13 | Mike Broadbank | 1' 2 2 2 2 | 9+1 | Ronnie Moore | 3 3 2 3 2 | 13 | ||
| Josef Seidl | 0 0 0 0 - | 0 | Ian Williams | 2 1' 1' 1' 1 | 6+3 | Geoff Mardon | 0 1 1' 1 1 | 4+1 | ||
| Ove Fundin | 3 3 3 2 3 | 14 | Ron How | R 2 1' 2 R | 5+1 | Barry Briggs | 2 3 3 3 3 | 14 | ||
| Josef Kamper | 2' 0 0 1' 3 | 6+2 | Cyril Maidment | 1 1' 2 0 3 | 7+1 | Trevor Redmond | 1' 0 0 0 2 | 3+1 | ||
| res.Alfred Sitzwohl | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 1: Moore,
Williams, Broadbank, Mardon 2: Hofmeister, Briggs, Redmond, Seidl 3: Fundin, Kamper, Maidment, How R 4: Briggs, Broadbank, Williams, Redmond 5: Moore, Hofmeister, Mardon, Seidl 6: Fundin, Broadbank, Williams, Kamper |
7:
Briggs, How, Maidment, Redmond 8: Fundin, Moore, Mardon, Kamper 9: Hofmeister, Maidment, How, Seidl 10: Briggs, Fundin, Kamper, Redmond 11: Hofmeister, Broadbank, Williams, Seidl |
12:
Moore, How, Mardon, Maidment 13: *Maidment, Redmond, Sitzwohl 14: *Briggs, Hofmeister, How R 15: *Kamper, Broadbank, Mardon 16: *Fundin, Moore, Williams * only 3 riders |
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| 1960 | Austrian MRC won this 3-team series | |
| 16.10 Linz : 18.10 Vienna : 19.10 Graz : |
Austrian MRC 33 New Zealand 23½
Australia 21½ Austrian MRC 27 New Zealand 27 Australia 18 (Att: 11,000) Austrian MRC 31 New Zealand 22 Australia 19 |
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| POINT SCORERS Austrian MRC Ove Fundin (Sweden) 39, Josef Hofmeister (Germany) 30, Olle Nygren (Sweden) 17, Erich Luther 3, Erhard Kofler 1, Alfred Sitzwohl 1, Josef Bossner 0. |
New Zealand Ronnie Moore 28½, Barry Briggs 28, Johnny Board 8, Jack Geran (Australia) 7, Erhard Kofler (Austria) 1. Australia Ron Johnston (New Zealand) 26, Neil Street 12, Jack Young 8, Olle Nygren (Sweden) 5½, Peter Moore 5, Erich Luther 2. |
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| Linz | ||||||||||
| Austrian MRC 33 | New Zealand 23½ | Australia 21½ | ||||||||
| Ove Fundin | 3 3 3 3 3 | 15 | Barry Briggs | 2 3 2 2 | 9 | Jack Young | F | 0 | ||
| Olle Nygren | 2' 3 1 | 6+1 | Jack Geran | 1' 0 1' 0 | 2+2 | Neil Street | 1 1' 1 1 | 4+1 | ||
| Josef Hofmeister | 3 2' 3 2 | 10+1 | Ronnie Moore | 2 2 2½ 2 2 | 10½ | Ron Johnston | 3 2 R 3 1 | 9 | ||
| Erich Luther | 1 0 | 1 | Johnny Board | 0 1' 0 1' | 2+2 | Peter Moore | 0 0 1 0 | 1 | ||
| res.Erhard Kofler | 1 | 1 | Note
: Nygren and Kofler each rode for two teams in this match. |
res.Erich Luther | 2 | 2 | ||||
| res.Josef Bossner | 0 0 | 0 | res.Olle Nygren | 2½ 3 | 5½ | |||||
| 1:
Fundin, Nygren, Street, Young F 2: Johnston, Briggs, Geran, P Moore 3: Hofmeister, R Moore, Luther, Board 4: Fundin, Johnston, Kofler, P Moore 5: Briggs, Luther, Street, Geran |
6:
Fundin, R Moore, Board, Bossner 7: Nygren, Hofmeister, P Moore, Johnston R 8: R Moore/Nygren (d-h), Street, Board 9: Hofmeister, Briggs, Geran, Luther 10: Johnston, R Moore, Board, P Moore |
11:
Fundin, Briggs, Nygren, Geran 12: Nygren, Hofmeister, Street, Bossner 13: Fundin, R Moore, Johnston (3 riders) SCRATCH: Nygren, Luther, Kofler, Bossner R H/CAP: Luther scr, Briggs 50yd, Kofler scr, Bossner scr R |
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| Vienna | ||||||||||
| Austrian MRC 27 | New Zealand 27 | Australia 18 | ||||||||
| Ove Fundin | 3 3 3 3 | 12 | Barry Briggs | 3 3 2 2 | 10 | Jack Young | 2 1 2 2 | 7 | ||
| Olle Nygren | 1 1 3 1 | 6 | Jack Geran | 1 2' 0 0 | 3+1 | Neil Street | 0 0 1' 1' | 2+2 | ||
| Josef Hofmeister | 2 3 1 3 | 9 | Ronnie Moore | 3 R 3 3 | 9 | Ron Johnston | 2 2 2 2 | 8 | ||
| Josef Bossner | R | 0 | Johnny Board | 1 2 0 1 | 4 | Peter Moore | 0 1' 0 0 | 1+1 | ||
| res.Erich Luther | 0 | 0 | res.Erhard Kofler | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 1:
Fundin, Young, Nygren, Street 2: Briggs, Johnston, Geran, P Moore 3: R Moore, Hofmeister, Board, Bossner R 4: Fundin, Johnston, P Moore, Luther |
5:
Briggs, Geran, Young, Street 6: Fundin, Board, Kofler, R Moore R 7: Hofmeister, Johnston, Nygren, P Moore 8: R Moore, Young, Street, Board |
9:
Nygren, Briggs, Hofmeister, Geran 10: R Moore, Johnston, Board, P Moore 11: Fundin, Briggs, Nygren, Geran 12: Hofmeister, Young, Street |
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| Graz | ||||||||||
| Austrian MRC 31 | New Zealand 22 | Australia 19 | ||||||||
| Ove Fundin | 3 3 3 3 | 12 | Barry Briggs | 3 3 1 2 | 9 | Jack Young | 1 0 0 0 | 1 | ||
| Olle Nygren | 2' 0 3 | 5+1 | Jack Geran | 0 1 0 1' | 2+1 | Neil Street | 0 2 2 2 | 6 | ||
| Josef Hofmeister | 3 3 2' 3 | 11+1 | Ronnie Moore | 2 2 3 2 | 9 | Ron Johnston | 2 2 2 3 | 9 | ||
| Erich Luther | 0 1 1 | 2 | Johnny Board | 1' 0 1 0 | 2+1 | Peter Moore | 1' 0 1' 1 | 3+2 | ||
| res.Alfred Sitzwohl | 1 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| 1:
Fundin, Nygren, Young, Street 2: Briggs, Johnston, P Moore, Geran 3: Hofmeister, R Moore, Board, Luther 4: Fundin, Johnston, Sitzwohl, P Moore 5: Briggs, Street, Geran, Young |
6:
Fundin, R Moore, Luther, Board 7: Hofmeister, Johnston, P Moore, Nygren 8: R Moore, Street, Board, Young 9: Nygren, Hofmeister, Briggs, Geran 10: Johnston, R Moore, P Moore, Board |
11:
Fundin, Briggs, Geran, Sitzwohl 12: Hofmeister, Street, Luther, Young SCRATCH 1: Sitzwohl, Happer, Gleichweit, Holoubek 2: Happer, Sitzwohl, Gleichweit, Holoubek R H/CAP: Briggs, Happer, Holoubek, Gleichweit |
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| On 22.10 at Vienna, most of the riders in this series, plus other top stars, rode in an individual meeting, the Golden Helmet of Austria: 1 Arne Pander (Denmark) 15, 2 Peter Craven (England) 14, 3 Ronnie Moore (New Zealand) 12. | ||||||||||
| 1960 | In addition to the above international series, two 3-team series against foreign clubs were staged: |
| Austrian MRC v Oxford (UK) v Vargarna (Sweden) | |
| 02.04 at Vienna : Austrian
MRC 37 Vargarna 29 Oxford 29 (Att: 20,000) 03.04 at Linz: Austrian MRC 37 Oxford 31 Vargarna 28 06.04 at Graz: Austrian MRC 40 Vargarna 29 Oxford 22 10.04 at Bruck: Austrian MRC 38 Vargarna 30 Oxford 27 |
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| POINT SCORERS Austrian MRC Ove Fundin (Sweden) (15, 15, 15, 15) 60, Josef Hofmeister (Germany) (12, 14, 8, 15) 49, Josef Bossner (6, 5, 3, 3) 17, Josef Seidl (Germany) (5, 3, 11, 4) 23 Vargarna Olle Nygren (13, 12, 14, 7) 46, Bjorn Knutsson (8, 11, 4, 9) 32, Joel Jansson (6, 4, 8, 11) 29, Soren Sjosten (2, 1, 5, 3) 11 Oxford Arne Pander (Denmark) (13, 11, 8, 8) 40, Ronnie Genz (6, 11, 4, 10) 31, Trevor Redmond (New Zealand) (2, 5, 9, 4) 20, Howdy Byford (8, 4, 1, 5) 18 |
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| The riders also took part in an individual meeting at Vienna on 09.04: 1.Fundin 15, 2.Knutsson 14, 3.Hofmeister 13, 4.Redmond 10. | |
| Thus Ove Fundin went through all five meetings unbeaten! A couple of superb programmes from this series are here | |
| Austrian MRC v Bydgoszcz (Poland) v Vargarna (Sweden) | |
| 13.04 at Graz : Austrian MRC 48 : Ove Fundin (Sweden) 15, Josef Hofmeister (Germany) 15, Josef Seidl (Germany) 10, Josef Bossner 8 Vargarna 28 : Olle Nygren 12, Soren Sjosten 6, Joel Jansson 6, Erich Luther (Austria) 4, Siegfried Gleichweit (Austria) 0 Polonia Bydgoszcz 20 : Mieczyslaw Polukard 8, Edward Kupczynski 5, Alfred Sitzwohl (Austria) 4, Norbert Switala (Austria) 3 |
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| 1961 | Austrian MRC won this 3-team series | |
| 14.10 Vienna (Att:
13,000) : 15.10 Linz : 17.10 Graz : |
Austrian MRC 28 British Eagles 23
New Zealand Lions 21 Austrian MRC 27 British Eagles 22 New Zealand Lions 23 Austrian MRC 25 British Eagles 23 New Zealand Lions 24 |
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| POINT SCORERS Austrian MRC Ove Fundin (Sweden) 34, Josef Hofmeister (Germany) 33, Josef Bossner (Austria) 11, Alois Frach (Germany) 2 |
British Eagles Peter Craven (England) 29, Mike Broadbank (England) 17, Ronnie Moore (New Zealand) 15, Doug Templeton (Scotland) 6 New Zealand Lions Bjorn Knutsson (Sweden) 28, Barry Briggs (New Zealand) 26, Kurt W Pedersen (Denmark) 9, Trevor Redmond (New Zealand) 6 |
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| Vienna | ||||||||||
| Austrian MRC 28 | British Eagles 23 | New Zealand Lions 21 | ||||||||
| Ove Fundin | 3 2 3 3 | 11 | Peter Craven | 2 3 2 2 | 9 | Barry Briggs | R 2 3 2 | 7 | ||
| Josef Bossner | 2' 1' 2' 0 | 5+3 | Doug Templeton | 1' 1 1' 1' | 4+3 | Trevor Redmond | 1 0 0 1' | 2+1 | ||
| Josef Hofmeister | 3 3 3 3 | 12 | Ronnie Moore | 1' 1 2 1' | 5+2 | Bjorn Knutsson | 3 3 2 3 | 11 | ||
| Alois Frach | 0 0 0 0 | 0 | Mike Broadbank | 2 0 1' 2 | 5+1 | Kurt W Pedersen | 0 0 1' 0 | 1+1 | ||
| 1:
Fundin, Bossner, Redmond, Briggs R 2: Knutsson, Craven, Templeton, Pedersen 3: Hofmeister, Broadbank, Moore, Frach 4: Knutsson, Fundin, Bossner, Pedersen |
5:
Craven, Briggs, Templeton, Redmond 6: Fundin, Bossner, Moore, Broadbank 7: Hofmeister, Knutsson, Pedersen, Frach 8: Briggs, Moore, Broadbank, Redmond |
9:
Hofmeister, Craven, Templeton, Frach 10: Knutsson, Broadbank, Moore, Pedersen 11: Fundin, Craven, Templeton, Bossner 12: Hofmeister, Briggs, Redmond, Frach |
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| Linz | ||||||||||
| Austrian MRC 27 | British Eagles 22 | New Zealand Lions 23 | ||||||||
| Ove Fundin | 2 3 3 3 | 11 | Peter Craven | 3 3 2 2 | 10 | Bjorn Knutsson | 1 2 2 2 | 7 | ||
| Josef Bossner | 1' 1 2' 1 | 5+2 | Doug Templeton | 0 0 0 1' | 1+1 | Kurt W Pedersen | 3 1' 1' 0 | 5+2 | ||
| Josef Hofmeister | 2 3 3 3 | 11 | Ronnie Moore | 0 0 2 1' | 3+1 | Barry Briggs | 3 R 3 3 | 9 | ||
| Alois Frach | 0 0 0 0 | 0 | Mike Broadbank | 2 2 1' 2 | 7+1 | Trevor Redmond | 1 1 1 0 | 3 | ||
| 1:
Craven, Fundin, Bossner, Templeton 2: Pedersen, Broadbank, Knutsson, Moore 3: Briggs, Hofmeister, Redmond, Frach 4: Fundin, Broadbank, Bossner, Moore |
5:
Craven, Knutsson, Pedersen, Templeton 6: Fundin, Bossner, Redmond, Briggs R 7: Hofmeister, Moore, Broadbank, Frach 8: Briggs, Craven, Redmond, Templeton |
9:
Hofmeister, Knutsson, Pedersen, Frach 10: Briggs, Broadbank, Moore, Redmond 11: Fundin, Knutsson, Bossner, Pedersen 12: Hofmeister, Craven, Templeton, Frach |
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| Graz | ||||||||||
| Austrian MRC 25 | British Eagles 23 | New Zealand Lions 24 | ||||||||
| Ove Fundin | 3 3 3 3 | 12 | Peter Craven | 3 2 3 2 | 10 | Barry Briggs | 2 3 3 2 | 10 | ||
| Josef Bossner | 1 0 R R | 1 | Doug Templeton | 0 0 0 1' | 1+1 | Trevor Redmond | 0 1 0 0 | 1 | ||
| Josef Hofmeister | 3 2 2 3 | 10 | Ronnie Moore | 2 1' 2 2 | 7+1 | Bjorn Knutsson | 2 2 3 3 | 10 | ||
| Alois Frach | 0 0 1' 1 | 2+1 | Mike Broadbank | 1' 2 1' 1' | 5+3 | Kurt W Pedersen | 1' 1' 1 0 | 3+2 | ||
| 1:
Fundin, Briggs, Bossner, Redmond 2: Craven, Knutsson, Pedersen, Templeton 3: Hofmeister, Moore, Broadbank, Frach 4: Fundin, Knutsson, Pedersen, Bossner |
5:
Briggs, Craven, Redmond, Templeton 6: Fundin, Broadbank, Moore, Bossner R 7: Knutsson, Hofmeister, Pedersen, Frach 8: Briggs, Moore, Broadbank, Redmond |
9:
Craven, Hofmeister, Frach, Templeton 10: Knutsson, Moore, Broadbank, Pedersen 11: Fundin, Craven, Templeton, Bossner R 12: Hofmeister, Briggs, Frach, Redmond |
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| All of these riders had been due to appear in the Golden Helmet of Austria individual meeting at Vienna on 21.10, but it was cancelled due to rain. | ||||||||||
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| This programme was for the meetings at both Vienna and Graz | ||||||||||
| 1961 | 25.10 : Graz | Austrian MRC | 22 | International Team | 50 | |
| The MRC team was all-Austrian for the first time, but despite facing less than top class opposition, they were still well beaten. | ||||||
| Austrian MRC 22 | International Team 50 | |||||
| Josef Bossner 2 2 2 1 |
7 | Kurt W Pedersen (Den) 3 3 3 3 | 12 | 1:
Pedersen, Bossner, Kofler, Templeton F 2: Frach, Happer, Vacano,
Poschenrieder F 3: Medved, Perko, Sitzwohl, Schwingenschlogl R 4:
Pedersen, Templeton, Vacano, Happer 5: Frach, Sitzwohl, Poschenrieder,
Schwingenschlogl 6: Medved, Bossner, Perko, Kofler 7: Pedersen,
Templeton, Sitzwohl, Schwingenschlogl 8: Poschenrieder, Bossner, Frach,
Kofler 9: Medved, Vacano, Perko, Happer F 10: Pedersen, Poschenrieder,
Bossner, Vacano 11: Frach, Schwingenschlogl, Medved, Hofer 12:
Templeton, Kofler, Perko, Sitzwohl ALL STAR RACE: Pedersen, Bossner, Templeton, Medved R |
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| Erhard Kofler 1' 0 0 2 | 3+1 | Doug Templeton (Scot) F 2' 2' 3 | 7+2 | |||
| Wilfried Vacano 1' 1 2 0 | 4+1 | Alois Frach (Ger) 3 3 1 3 | 10 | |||
| Helmut Happer 2 0 F | 2 | Manfred Poschenrieder (Ger) F 1 3 2' | 6+1 | |||
| Alfred Sitzwohl 1 2 1 0 | 4 | Valentin Medved (Yug) 3 3 3 1 | 10 | |||
| Kurt Schwingenschlogl R 0 0 2 | 2 | Drago Perko (Yug) 2' 1 1 1 | 5+1 | |||
| K Hofer 0 | 0 | |||||
| 1962 | A series against two club teams was held this year: | |
| Austrian MRC v Belle Vue (England) v Kaparna (Sweden) | ||
| 31.03 at Vienna : Austrian MRC 21
Belle Vue 18 Kaparna 32 (Att: 20,000) 01.04 at Linz : Austrian MRC 19 Belle Vue 27 Kaparna 26 03.04 at Graz : Austrian MRC 23 Belle Vue 27 Kaparna 22 |
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| POINT SCORERS Austrian MRC Ove Fundin (Sweden) (10, 7, 9) 26, Josef Bossner (Austria) (4, 2, 8) 14, Josef Hofmeister (Germany) (6, 8, -) 14, Erich Luther (Austria) (0, 1, 3) 4, Wilfried Vacano (Austria) (0, -, 3) 3, Kurt Schwingenschlogl (Austria) (-, 1, -) 1, Josef Seidl (Germany) (-, -, 0) 0 Belle Vue Bob Andrews (England) (9, 8, 10) 27, Peter Craven (England) (4, 5, 8) 17, Jack Kitchen (England) (1, 5, 5) 11, Dick Fisher (England) (2, 3, 4) 9, Arne Pander (Denmark) (2, 6, 0) 8 Kaparna Bjorn Knutsson (Sweden) (12, 12, 11) 35, Gote Nordin (Sweden) (9, 6, 6) 21, Arne Carlsson (Sweden) (7, 4, 4) 15, Bengt Brannefors (Sweden) (5, 3, 1) 9, Erich Luther (Austria) (-, 1, -) 1 |
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| After the team event at each meeting, a competition was held for the Golden Helmet. Overall winner was Peter Craven. | ||
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| A combined programme for the meetings at Vienna and Graz | ||
| 1963 | A three-match series against teams of selected riders from Sweden Vargarna riding as Svalorna) and the UK was staged: | |
| Austrian MRC v Svalorna (Sweden) v Wasps (UK) | ||
| 31.03 at Vienna : Austrian MRC 26
Svalorna 35 Wasps 29 (Att: 20,000) 02.04 at Graz : Austrian MRC 29 Svalorna 31 Wasps 28 (Att: 10,000) 06.04 at Wiener Neustadt : Austrian MRC 30+3 Svalorna 30+2 Wasps 30+1 (Att: 8,000) |
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| POINT SCORERS Austrian MRC Ove Fundin (Sweden) (11, 15, -) 26, Ronnie Moore (NZ) (-, -, 13) 13, Josef Bossner (Austria) (8, 4, 6) 18, Josef Hofmeister (Germany) (4, 5, 10) 19, Erich Luther (Austria) (1, 4, 1) 6, Kurt Schwingenschlogl (Austria) (2, -, -) 2, Alfred Sitzwohl (Austria) (-, 1, - ) 1, Wilfried Vacano (Austria) (0, -, -) 0 Svalorna Bjorn Knutsson (Sweden) (14, 9, 12) 35, Per Olaf Soderman (Sweden) (14, 9, 12) 35, Olle Nygren (Sweden) (2, 9, -) 11, Arne Carlsson (Sweden) (5, 4. 5) 14, Kurt Schwingenschlogl (Austria) (-, -, 1) 1 Wasps Peter Craven (England) (10, 12, 11) 33, Peter Vandenberg (Australia) (12, 4, 10) 26, Charlie Monk (Australia) (5, 6, 6) 17, Ronnie Genz (England) (1, 6, 3) 10, Kurt Schwingenschlogl (1, -, -) 1 |
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| Vienna | ||||||||||
| Austrian MRC 26 | Svalorna (Swe) 35 | Wasps (UK) 29 | ||||||||
| Ove Fundin | 3 3 ret 3 2 | 11 | Per Olaf Soderman | 3 3 3 2 3 | 14 | Peter Vandenberg | 3 2 3 2 2 | 12 | ||
| Josef Bossner |
2 2 f 2 2 | 8 | Bjorn Knutsson | 3 2 3 3 3 | 14 | Peter Craven | 2 2 2 3 1 | 10 | ||
| Josef Hofmeister | ret 1 1 1 1 | 4 | Arne Carlsson | 0 ret 1 1 3 | 5 | Charlie Monk | 1 1 0 2 1 | 5 | ||
| Kurt Schwingenschlogl | 2 0 | 2 | Olle Nygren | 1 ret 1 0 0 | 2 | Ronnie Genz | f 1 0 0 0 | 1 | ||
| Erich Luther | 1 ret | 1 | Kurt Schwingenschlogl | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Wilfried Vacano | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Graz | ||||||||||
| Austrian MRC 29 | Svalorna (Swe) 31 | Wasps (UK) 28 | ||||||||
| Ove Fundin | 3 3 3 3 3 | 15 | Bjorn Knutsson | 2 ret 3 3 1 | 9 | Peter Craven | 3 2 3 2 2 | 12 | ||
| Erich Luther | 3 1 1 0 | 5 | Per Olaf Soderman | 3 1 1 1 3 | 9 | Charlie Monk | 1 0 0 3 2 | 6 | ||
| Josef Hofmeister | 0 2 1 0 2 | 5 | Olle Nygren | 2 3 2 2 0 | 9 | Ronnie Genz | 0 2 2 2 0 | 6 | ||
| Josef Bossner | 1 ret 2 0 1 | 4 | Arne Carlsson | 0 ret ret 1 3 | 4 | Peter Vandenberg | 2 ret 1 0 1 | 4 | ||
| Alfred Sitzwohl | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Wiener Neustadt | ||||||||||
| Austrian MRC 30 +3 | Svalorna (Swe) 30 +2 | Wasps (UK) 30 +1 | ||||||||
| Ronnie Moore | 3 3 3 2 2 | 13 | Bjorn Knutsson | 3 2 3 3 1 | 12 | Peter Craven | 1 2 2 3 3 | 11 | ||
| Josef Hofmeister | ? ? ? ? ? | 10 | Per Olaf Soderman | 3 2 3 1 3 | 12 | Peter Vandenberg | 3 3 2 2 0 | 10 | ||
| Josef Bossner | 0 2 1 1 2 | 6 | Arne Carlsson | 2 0 2 1 ret | 5 | Charlie Monk | 0 1 1 1 3 | 6 | ||
| Erich Luther | 0 0 0 0 1 | 1 | Kurt Schwingenschlogl | 1 0 0 ret 0 | 1 | Ronnie Genz | 1 1 0 0 1 | 3 | ||
| Run-off for 1st place : Bossner, Schwingenschlogl, Monk | ||||||||||
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| Many of the above riders also took part in an individual meeting at Vienna on 07.04, the Golden Clasp (or Clip?). Result: 1 Ove Fundin 15, 2 Bjorn Knutsson 14, 3.Ronnie Moore (New Zealand) 12 | ||||||||||
| Contributors : Duncan Luke, Roger Stevens, Christian Weber, David Austin |
© Brian Collins