All Activity

Who will head up the venture? A promoter can't run two tracks can they? Presume they will need a figurehead? Chris Louis maybe???

Given the importance of this new venture, they are going to need a big star to front the team. Got to be Tai surely.

If anybody wants to follow Michaels work with the youth, you can follow it on facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1806730963136661

I think technically they didn't enter, so there was no need to pull out.

Wonder if this will be anything near the Northampton 1-7 for the coming season: 1 Jaimon Lidsey 7.87 2 Rohan Tungate 5.89 3 Nicolai Klindt 6.46 4 Charles Wright 6.11 5 Niels Iversen 6.71 6 Kye Thomson 3.95 7 Luke Harrison RS Using the last updated 2025 averages including any reductions I think that the team total is 36.99

Messsage from Michael Gray, last years promotor.

The opportunity for growth is truly massive Dean.. Given its ultra low starting point base. Millions don't know about the sport because they grew up with no one in their family attending the sport... When the sport was "booming" in the 70's, crowds were still nowhere near "Manchester United" levels, with very few running to five figures each week, but ITV's World Of Sport kept Speedway firmly in the public eye of millions.. A big prize fund should be the aim of all the promoters... Darts and Snooker have shown that getting some big sponsors increases interest massively... The games of Darts and Snooker are exactly the same if you are playing for £1000 or £1,000,000... The competition with the big money on offer will sell out, whilst the smaller one will have "one man and his dog' in attendance... How they get those big sponsors with such an operating model, and a lack of marketing savvy people in charge, is the million pound question though..

My money is on the BV guys and Facenna

Both Richard Lawson and Scott Nicholls (maybe others too) have pulled out of the British Final in the past and didn't get any kind of sanction. I do see where you're coming from, but it hasn't been enforced.

The first thing speedway needs to do is get in the public eye, no matter how small but getting there, something I saw a month a so back really brought it home to me how far out the loop we are, when Linda lusardi did her cup draw and it made the news papers, what was interesting was the comments about it from the general public and one stuck with me, it was guy from Essex around his 20s and his reply was what is speedway Genuine question ? Now that to me and you is ridiculous but he genuinely didn’t seem to know, now you would assume he would google it but up till that point it didn’t even cross his mind, how many other people are like this ? Last week I was talking to a customer who is massively into in fast bikes and I said I’d sell him an engine that would blow his bike out the water for acceleration and went on to tell him it was GM speedway engine and he said he didn’t know what I was talking about, as I went into an explanation he said oh you mean flat track racing like they do in the USA, speedway is just not in the public consciousness and that’s something we need to address

2500 or so will turn up at the NSS for the PCMT... 14,000 will turn up at the GP's at the NSS... 2500 - 3000 will turn up at the PO Final if the Aces get there... Proving there still is a reasonable demand if the product has some decent levels of relevance, jeopardy, consequence and authenticity.... The issue is that the vast majority of meetings have very little of the above.... That is what needs sorting...

You're living in cuckoo land. Its speedway. Nobodys interested. Its not 1976 anymore, theres no hope. The sport is dying

No not all of them

It may very well be on YouTube as are hundreds of millions of other videos... and you have to seek it out unless your algorithm waves it under your eyes... What is probably more needed is a paid ad campaign such as the one that British Horse Racing is currently running, that forces it in front of your eyes while you're watching other content.

It has had over half a million views.... It just doesnt do anything for the domestic leagues though... A team Vlog would link the algorithm to other sporting clubs in the area.. eg anyone watching any United or City YT coverage would, due to the sports team geography algorithm, get a recommended on YT should the Aces do their own programme on there... Those huge sporting clubs, local to Speedway tracks, with millions of subscribers, could be piggy backed onto on YT... And. If clubs had already done their own Vlogs, then over half a million viewers of the 2025 BF would have been recommended them... How many of that half million viewers are living within 45 mins of a Speedway team, but just don't know it?

In fact, he (and Russell) both said Studley is NOT dependent on the Abbey housing. Swindon Motorsports have been asked to legally link the Studley and Abbey plans to make Studley dependent on S106 monies from the Abbey. They have repeatedly refused to do so! Park actually said "he would walk away from Studley" if they were forced to link it to the Abbey plans. Go figure...

And Cheryl will be on the turnstiles grabbing the cash

A Top Hat immediately comes into my mind! Hopefully a tv deal of sorts can now be struck, which would defray some of the costs incurred by other promoters?

It’s top secret. Buster is doing the groundworks at the stadium removing the grass banks so we can assume he is one of them

It is in Youtube; I've seen it several times.

all prem teams have signed a prem deal for 2 years, so it will be at least 6 teams premiership next year anyway. they are looking at more stock car tracks to hopefully bring more clubs to the sport

What the bloody hell was Mr Morris blathering on about then? 🤷‍♂️😂

Possibly all of them given the need for doubling up to keep both leagues affording the same riders... And the optics of a new track opening make the sport look progressive, which can only help with trying to bring tracks back, or defend further potential closures ...

Richard Lawson doesn’t do the British Final anymore because he doesn’t like the NSS.

Might be worth a few quid on Northampton being Champions.... That should mean a successful season and a buyer!!