Max Grosskreutz Explained

Nationality:Australian
Birth Date:1906 4, df=yes
Birth Place:Proserpine, Queensland
Years1:1929
Career1:Lea Bridge
Years2:1930
Career2:Manchester White City
Years3:1931–1936
Career3:Belle Vue Aces
Years4:1938
Career4:Norwich Stars
Years5:1947–1948
Career5:Odsal Boomerangs
Indivyear1:1929, 1936
Indivhonour1:Australian Champion
Indivyear2:1936, 1946
Indivhonour2:NSW State Champion
Teamyear1:1933, 1934, 1935, 1936
Teamhonour1:National League Champion
Teamyear2:1931
Teamhonour2:Northern League Champion
Teamyear3:1933, 1934, 1935, 1936
Teamhonour3:National Trophy winner
Teamyear4:1934, 1935, 1936
Teamhonour4:A.C.U. Cup winner
Teamyear5:1938
Teamhonour5:Provincial 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] 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]

Notes and References

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