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Post by coombes on Jul 9, 2017 17:44:21 GMT 1
What's the furthest you've ever gone for a rained off meeting. In my teens I got to Coventry and saw three heats before a huge cloudburst ended any chances of further racing. A few years later I went down to Canterbury from London for what I thought would be the first meeting of the season, only to find it had been postponed ten days earlier. Did we have a rain off at Exeter during the Shawfield era?
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Post by daveallan on Jul 9, 2017 21:02:16 GMT 1
The only rain-offs at Exeter I can find are 25th September 1967 and 27th April 1981.
Falcons were washed out at Shawfield 6th September 1992. At Ashfield the 16th June 2002 match was abandoned and the restaging just 6 days later was rained off.
Three times I've been in Poole on holiday and had the meeting rained off! Never for a Glasgow match funnily enough. My first visit to Wimbledon for the 1984 N.L.R.C. ended in an abandonment as did my final visit there in 1990 for the National Series final. I remember going to Cradley in 1995, match being rained off just after we arrived, then blasting up the motorway to Bradford which ended up abandoned after heat 8.
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Post by coombes on Jul 10, 2017 7:45:21 GMT 1
Interesting that the 2002 restaging was six days later. Was that to give them more time to get back to Exeter for a home meeting. Seem to remember the Falcons racing at Ashfield on a Sunday and having a Bank Holiday Monday morning meeting the next day. I believe we had an earlier start that afternoon.
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Post by daveallan on Jul 10, 2017 22:44:10 GMT 1
There's no obvious reason for Falcons to come back on that date. They did it as a one-off. Tigers raced Reading the next day, the 23rd.
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