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Speedway International Let Us Make You r Bike Go Fast! .Trick-St utf We Carr y A ll Of These Brands: ~ " Results (P et e r Co llIn s 12 , Da ve Jess up 8 ) ; 5. Pola nd 18 (Z enon Piech 12. Ed wa rd Janca r z 6); 6. U.s.s.R . 10 (G r lgorl C h ly n ovskl 6. Vlad i m ir Gordeev 4) ; 1. Czec hos lo vakia 6 ( Jan Holub 4 . Jan Had ek 2) . ... as Autrey stokes for World Final Californian S c o t t Autr e y too k the biggest ga mble of his speedway life whe n he o pted o ut of the A merican ra c in g scene to ri de in Britain. It mean t a cut in his likely earnings and possibly an unofficial 'blacking' by the powers that be. But no w Autrey's gamble has paid off. Not only is he one of Europe's top riders . . . he's also going to be A meri ca's repr e sentative in th e Anglo-American-Nordic Fina l of the '-* .'" Scott Autrey's wea n ing ground : t h e long , long slides of English c lub match competit ion. Scott (belo w) ridi ng for Exeter. gained the lo ng-track e xpe rience that q ualif ied h im as America's first entr y in world speedway competit ion in twenty yea rs . ,. ',. ' .' England gets a shock . . . 1. S we den 28 (AnderS Ml chanek 14, So re n 5 Jost en 1 4) ; 2 . Aust ra lia 23 (Phil C r u m p 14 , John Bouige r 9 ) ; 3 . New Z ea land 2 1 (Iva n M a uge r 1 7 Ba rry Br igg s 4 ) ; 4. Eng land 20 ~ ~ By Peter Oakes BEL LE VUE, MA NCHEST ER , ENG., JULY 13 Everything w as se t for a fa mous England victory. Pre-rac e pundits had opted for a home vi ctory in the 1974 World Best Pai rs F ina l. After all the host nat ion was tra cking 20-year-old whizzkid Peter Collins on his home Belle Vue tr ack pa rtnered by 2 1-year -old Dave Jessup wh o had _ dropped but a single po int - to Collins - on his previous visit to Belle Vue this year. But that wasn't the way it worked out wit h a resu lt that shoc ked Brit ish spee dway . For not o nly were the English pair beaten . .. but they didn 't even get a place on the rostrum . Instead, victory went to Sweden - in the shape of European Cha mpion Mich anek and A nders Manchester-do miciled Belle Vue ace Soren Sjosten - with Australia second and New Zealand thi rd . The Swed ish pairing were in brilliant form and followed each other h om e five times o ut of six. The sixth saw them beaten into first place by Kiwi Ivan Mauger who was Overall top scorer with 17 out of a possible eighteen points. But sadly for Mauger - and New Zealand had ha d no real support from fellow four-ti me world champion Barry Briggs who didn't pic k up a solitary p oin t in his first four rides and then only scored at the expense of the outclassed Czechoslovakians an d the out of touch Russian s. * 1t 13347 W. 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This year, his second in Britain, he is averaging nearly eight p o i n t s a meeting fo r his cha mp ions hi p-c hasing club side Exeter an d is a n ear certain starter in all the big individual meetings. From a European viewpoint the re's litt le d oubt that Aut rey is the wisest c hoice. His regu lar ri ding on Euro pe an-s ty le tracks - bigger tha n th e min iscul e Costa Mesa bo wl - his big-mee t ing e xperience and , abo ve all, th e fact th at he rode at Fre dericia last year, mean s th at of all the Americans the rid er with the best chance of progr essing still fur ther in this year's World Championship is the blond bache lor fr om Bellflower. 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