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(AboveI A group of riders hit the first turn in a grasstrack in Kent. (Below leftl West Germany's George Hack takes the holeshot at the Hereford GP with
Egon Muller close behind.IBelow right! A worm's eye view of the sidehacks, which run clockwise around the track.
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Grasstrack
Green and
sideways
another English
invention
By Len Weed
Photos by Trevor Meeks
1929. That year the dreams and schemes of
America's entrepreneurs took a sudden slide
down a well-greased bannister. The s~d ended
abruptly, to say the least, with the stock market
crash.
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Overseas, before OUT bout with
the green· based blues, the English motorsports set were seeing
another kind of green - grass.
1ll5lead of plunging slraight down they
were skidding sideways.
