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Gallery: The Art of Speedway
We delve into the visual culture of the sport of speedway
Speedway’s history reaches way back to a time when there were no computers, no electronic timings, no million dollar sponsorship deals and no TV coverage. Still, this stripped down sport of working class heroes produced a noble visual culture. From the beautiful graphically rendered programmes that reflected the aesthetics of the age to the gorgeous mechanicity of early speedway machines – here is a gallery of niceness for your delectation.
Speedway: the board game, was a big seller in the 1970s
The drama of the skid resounds from little boys to old gits.
Jawa: a speedway standard
Speedway Star magazine has traced the movements
This modern render of a vintage speedway look brings out the beauty of the beast
Life magazine captured some of the coolness of the stateside speedway steez
Speedway programmes were so often artfully rendered by anonymous artists.
Simple stripped down aesthetic for this vintage machine.
Beautiful detail on another classic Jawa machine
Pre-war speedway was a mass spectator sport shot through with a futurist aesthetic
Style. Nuff said.
A collection of vintage speedway programmes.
Delving into high art, again, prewar in style.
Illustration was easier to achieve than crisp photography. Times have indeed changed.
Crocker was a legendary maker of speedway machines.
Crocker ceased production, sadly, as American involvement in WW2 began
BSA made beautiful excursions into speedway territory.
Ride fast, turn left. The creed continues.
The team colours of speedway have created so much of the spectacle.
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