Lakeside did this one year, a freebie for the meeting on SKY against Poole. The amount of cars trying to get into the stadium actually caused traffic issues on the M25!

Doesn't look like Nora is on the cards, I think its more a development thing with lots of youth and training, 250's etc..

Both Swedish and Danish teams do this. Typically the free meeting gets around double the usual crowd. Not sure that there is much evidence of increased crowds, but some teams do it every year so there  ust be some perceived benefit.

Oooh, those press agencies

Will miss ur banter old boy, take care xxx

I think both of these points are really strong, but flip me if I would know how to set it up. Maybe it should be pitched to Phil Morris directly? Part of the problem is that there's different sorts of very specific expertise required, legal/planning stuff is one type, setting up business partnerships is another, digging funding out of public bodies is another. As you both say, some kind of central team or even just a deposit of information and strategies that clubs could draw on would be ace.   Do you know whether the campaigners at Peterborough and Coventry are in touch? And the people trying to restart Cradley, and the various others? I mean I assume they will have at least waved at each other, but maybe there might be a way of banking the learning of every project so that even the ones that fail (ie most of them) still contribute something to the next?   This might mean a person having a job. It might be possible to part-fund this by setting it up as a PhD research project, for a clever and business-minded young[-at-heart] speedway fan. Or participant, or former participant.   Pop quiz! Has any speedway rider had a PhD? And which current rider is most likely to be able to do one? Just from the amount of stuff he's involved in, I can imagine Dr. Lemon.   I would also like to second or third everyone who's said speedway should target media colleges. It works for everyone involved in loads of ways. But also might be worth business schools, maybe even local history departments. Basically any way you can think up building a PhD out of speedway. I mean physics! Or engineering. And with all of these wacky ideas, the main, sneaky, round the back benefit is that you're introducing more people to speedway who will probably never have seen it before and really ought to love it because it's brilliant.