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- ↑ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ↑ "Steve Reinke". WWOS backup. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ↑ "Individual Australian Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ↑ "Good start vital for Vikings" . Hull Daily Mail. 23 April 1974. Retrieved 18 February 2024– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Exeter swoop for Reinke" . Coventry Evening Telegraph. 6 July 1974. Retrieved 18 February 2024– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "1974 season" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ↑ Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
- ↑ "Year by Year". Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ↑ "Rider averages 1929 to 2009" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ↑ "Honour Board". MQLD. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
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