The
first annual Team USA sp€edway Testimonial,
presented
by
I
System
Edstrom, was held aboard rhe
Queen
MarI in Lont Beach.
California,
on
January
28.
Former World Speedway Champions Bruce Penhall, Sam
Ermolenko,
Billy Hamill and Greg Hancock were greeted by approxi-
mately
200
supponers
during the
$7o-a-plate
testimonial. Addint to
the huge display of
memorabilia wes the 1932
J.A.P
that the late
Jack
Mjlne
rode to the World Championship at England's Wembley Stadium
in 1917.
Other
recognizable speedwa),, flgures in attendance included Costa
Mesa
Speedway
promoter Brad Oxley, who represented his father,
Harry
Oxley,
in memorializin8
Jack
l4ilne; Bobby
"Captain
America"
Schwanz, who with Penhall won the l98l
World
Pairs Speedway
Championship; four-time World Speedway Champion Barry BrigSs;
and seven-time Al'lA National Speedway Champion Mike Bast,
The event was ortanized to mise funds to a5sist Team USA in its
elloru to represent America in international speedway competition.
Former World Poirs Chompions Bru.e
Penhqll
ond
Eobby
gchworlr
offended the firgt onnuol Teom USA
Tcrlimoniol dinner ol the
Queen
lrlory in Long Beo
