After looking through the Utube Grasstrack videos at Teterow etc I went looking for this photo
Manfred Poschenreider was a top Grasstracker and Longtracker of his day, right behind him in this shot is gun English rider Lew Coffin, there almost seems to have been some needle, just under the surface, in Anglo / German clashes on the track. Is that a bullseye or an RAF roundel on Lew's helmet ??
The 2007 ?? World Longtrack final was held in Unzud, New Plymouth on a 1000 metre track , Crumpy the younger rode and won the B final. The A final and the World Title, were gunna be decided between Gerd Riss and Kelvin Tatum, bloody hell, what a race !! No quarter asked and none given, there were four other riders in that race but they may as well have been on another planet !. I still watch the video of it from time to time.
Foss