E-mail: ndillon@vaxxine.com Len was the '94 Speedway National Champion and at the '95 championship he announced he had retired from racing. But don't let that fool you. In April '96 he got an F.I.M. license, and flew to Sweden as part of the '96 Canadian Speedway Team ! He then flew off to Australia to compete in Ivan Mauger's 1998 Long Track Series and Peter Hendersen reports: "You may have seen my results emails on the longtrack meets held here recently. While trying to get results, I finished up talking to the man himself Ivan Mauger. I mentioned to him that there are people who are interested in how the Canadians were going down here, and he had quite a bit of praise for Len Dillon in particular. He mentioned that without the bad luck he had, Len would have been right there with Loram and Dunker and Co. He really did seem impressed with Len."
Len lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, and when I first met him in
1976, he was in the expert class in dirt-track (short-track and half-mile)
, racing against 750cc Harleys on his 750 Triumph twin. He switched to
speedway in 1980, and has won 13 speedway championships, (held the
Canadian National number one plate ten years). He graded and prepared
the Welland track for fifteen years, starting in the late 70's, and his
wife Noreen, has been very active in the clerical side of racing. He and
his wife are now proud grandparents, and they won the CSRA 1995
Duncan Luke Supporter Award. (see race results for the
'95 Canadian National Championship).
Top left photo: Len at Molmö, Sweden on Bucky Blair's bike.
USA -
Costa Mesa Speedway,
Champion Speedway (NY),
Bear Creek Speedway,
Lawrenceburg Motorcycle Speedway
Canada - Niagara Speedway,
Paris Speedway,
C.C. Speedway,
and half-mile tracks in Ontario and Quebec
Sweden-
Brassarna Speedway (Nassjö),
Molmö, Kaparna (Göteborg), Dackarna Speedway (Målilla)
Photo at right from Champion Speedway Video