Max Grosskreutz
Born(1906-04-27)27 April 1906
Proserpine, Queensland
Died20 September 1994(1994-09-20) (aged 88)
NationalityAustralian
Career history
1929Lea Bridge
1930Manchester White City
1931–1936Belle Vue Aces
1938Norwich Stars
1947–1948Odsal Boomerangs
Individual honours
1929, 1936Australian Champion
1936, 1946NSW State Champion
Team honours
1933, 1934, 1935, 1936National League Champion
1931Northern League Champion
1933, 1934, 1935, 1936National Trophy winner
1934, 1935, 1936A.C.U. Cup winner
1938Provincial Trophy winner

Max Octavius Grosskreutz (27 April 1906 in Proserpine, Queensland[1] – 20 September 1994) was an Australian speedway rider.[2]

Speedway career

Grosskreutz finished third in the Star Riders' Championship in 1935, the forerunner to the Speedway World Championship which began a year later in 1936.

He won the Australian Championship at Davies Park Speedway in Brisbane in 1929 and again in 1936 at the famous Sydney Showground.[3] He was also NSW State Champion in 1936 and 1946.

He moved to the Belle Vue Aces in 1931. He stayed with the aces until the end of the 1936 season when he retired to manage the Norwich Stars.[1] During this time he made forty-one Test Match appearances for Australia.[4] He did however ride for Norwich during the 1938 Speedway National League Division Two and topped the league averages.[5]

1937 cigarette card

In 1947, he made a comeback, riding for the Odsal Boomerangs and made three further Test Match appearances.[6]

Players cigarette cards

Grosskreutz is listed as number 17 of 50 in the 1930s Player's cigarette card collection.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Bamford, R. & Stallworthy, D. (2003) Speedway – The Pre War Years, Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-2749-0
  2. ↑ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "Individual Australian Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  4. ↑ Foster, P. (2005) History of the Speedway Ashes, The History Press Ltd. ISBN 0-7524-3468-3
  5. ↑ "Max Grosskreutz will make the cinders fly". Evening Despatch. 10 August 1938. Retrieved 2 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ Addison J. (1948). The People Speedway Guide. Odhams Press Limited
  7. ↑ "Speedway Riders 17 Max Grosskreutz". Speedway Museum Online. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
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