Peter Collins - Keeping It On The Tyres
Peter Collins MBE is without doubt one of the most successful British riders of all time, and a Belle Vue Aces legend. He's finally put together his autobiography called Keeping It On The Tyres, and recently at his book launch at Longsight Sports on Social Club on Kirkmanshulme Lane, I managed to get some time with him beside his world title winning bike..!
His book is over 500 pages and documents everything you could ever want to know, and you can get hold of it at retro-speedway.com
An overnight sensation when he burst onto the Cheshire grasstrack scene as a 16-year-old, Mancunian PC quickly shot to speedway fame, too, as a Rochdale rookie in the early 70s and became the most famous graduate of the Belle Vue training school.
His 16 loyal seasons with Belle Vue - the local club he supported from the age of eight when he dreamed of emulating his boyhood hero Peter Craven - brought him the highest league and cup honours and, thanks to his trademark thrilling bursts from the back, a permanent place among the pantheon of Aces and England greats.
He was beyond compare, the supreme racer who took the breath away, admired by fans and TV audiences worldwide. No other rider in the history of speedway has dominated the front and back pages of top-selling English tabloid newspapers as Peter did the day after his biggest triumph in front of a capacity 120,000 crowd at Katowice, Poland in 1976.
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I’ve read his book and thought it was great and covered lots of things I didn’t know about his career. My all time favourite rider with out a shadow of a doubt, went to see him race all over when British Speedway was at its peak and what a gentleman too, I’ll always remember watching one of the best riders that this country has produced.. Thanks PC for the memories loved every minute…👍🙂
Pc was fantastic around Hyde Road! Very very fast!!! And a great guy!! Can't wait to read this book!!!
This guy is an Absolute Legend !!
Love PC he is a legend alright my favorite speedway photo pf all time is the 1980 world final when PC went to try to pass Dave Jessup on the outside which let Michael Lee under PC. He could have stayed safe in second but in typical PC style he wound it on to try to win the race and would not settle. The photo is taken from directly behind the three in the middle of the corner it is just fantastic it was in the book about the 1980 season when speedway book 1980 England Ian Thomas and Eric Boocock were the team managers.
Legend pc is 💪🏁
One of my lasting race memories of pc was the saturday night meeting can't remember the other team i think that peter's father god bless him had passed away earlier in the week it was a sunny evening the track surface had a different look to it, it just looked as smooth as glass, not being a rider myself i don'tknow how that would change anything , as a rule peter would usually ride his first ride in i think heat 3 there was a change around for some reason and he came out in heat1 the tapes went up he got the gate went straight into the lead and pulled away from the others and maintained nearly half a lap for the whole race obviousley winning, everybody knew they had just witnessed something very special the commentator announced the race time with something like '' and peters time is wait for it a new track record beating ivan mauger's time with 67.9 second's'' the whole place erupted,that was how special peter was,thank's peter for some very great memories