Cyril Brine
Born(1918-02-06)6 February 1918
Borehamwood, England
DiedQ3, 1988 (aged 70)
NicknameSalty[1]
NationalityBritish (English)
Career history
1946–1962Wimbledon
Team honours
1954, 1955, 1956, 1958,
1959, 1960, 1961
1950, 1951, 1953, 1956,
1959, 1960, 1962		National League Champion

National Trophy winner
1962National League KO Cup Winner
1954RAC Cup Winner
1959Britannia Shield Winner

Cyril Harry Brine (born 6 February 1918 in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England[2][3] – died 1988) was an international speedway who qualified for the Speedway World Championship finals twice.[4][5]

Career

Brine began speedway racing in 1938.[1] He initially rode at the training track at Rye House.[1] Brine spent his entire career with one club, the Wimbledon Dons,[6] where he made over 460 league appearances and scored over 2700 points, a club record. In his seventeen-season career with the Dons, he won the National League Championship seven times and the National Trophy seven times.

During the speedway winters, he built bike frames in a Boreham Wood garage, with his brother Percy Brine and brother-in-law Dick Geary.[7]

Brine made his debut for England national speedway team in 1949. He retired from speedway in early 1963.[1] At retirement he had earned 12 international caps for England.[5]

Elder brother Percy also rode.[1]

World final appearances

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Cyril 'Salty' Brine Calls it a Day", Speedway Star, 23 March 1963, p. 4
  2. ↑ Addison J. (1948). The People Speedway Guide. Odhams Press Limited
  3. ↑ Speedway Star 23 March 1963 suggests he was born in 1920
  4. 1 2 Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2002). A History of the World Speedway Championship. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-2402-5
  5. 1 2 "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  6. ↑ Jacobs, Norman (2001). Speedway in London. Stroud: Tempus Publishing ISBN 0-7524-2221-9
  7. ↑ "When the speed motors are silent". Daily Mirror. 24 January 1947. Retrieved 5 January 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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