Standing on the back straight, I have to agree that the lighting is far from ideal but I think that 1 thing that could be done to establish who some of the riders are is to reinstate the black & yellow helmet colour instead of the plain yellow, which under poor lighting, can often be mistaken for white, particularly if the rider has a very light yellow helmet colour.  Problem is, I suppose that this would have to be adopted by every team in the country.

I went over to see the bulldogs ride the sand track😁 many times and watched newpirt every week racing was good

I believe this was the last season of Eurosport?     

Article in this weeks star entitled TV switch fears, it all adds up to the fact at present that watching the GP,s and British Premiership this year will cost everyone around £31 a month extra, best of luck with that as I for one won’t be bothering and judging by the letters accompanying it I won’t be alone as the vast majority will be doing the same. BSN for me going forward and I will be picking my meetings which I am sure will improve when the deal with Eurosport, Discovery + or TNT runs out.  

Ipswich  Belle Vue Sheffield King's Lynn Leicester Birmingham  Oxford You can basically split them into 3 groups.  Ipswich are clearly the best side and you have to believe they'll comfortably finish top and win the play-offs as long as they avoid injuries. The next two should also easily make the top 4, Belle Vue's strength in depth gives them the edge over Sheffield and I think they'll end up beating them in the semi-final.  Then you have 2 sides competing for that 4th spot. Both look decent teams but Leicester will miss Lawson and so King's Lynn will just make it ahead of them.  Birmingham are stronger than last season at least and possibly not that far off a team that could challenge the two above. They'll have a few nights where they're all on form but also take some hammerings as it looks a team that will suffer from not being consistent enough. I didn't particularly rate Oxford's side last year but it was one that was capable of finishing 4th until they kept weakening it, can only hope for their supporters sake that they don't do that again as they already look unconvincing.