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PETERBOROUGH TO STAGE BEN FUND The annual Ben Fund Bonanza has reached the significant milestone of its tenth staging, and this historic event will take place at Peterborough Speedway on Sunday 18th March with a start time of 2pm. Paul Ackroyd, now the Chairman of the Speedway Riders Benevolent Fund and of course the originator of the Bonanza meeting, has been working hard behind the scenes towards this later-than-usual announcement, but he says “Now that we are able to say where and when our tenth annual meeting will be I’m obviously relieved but also thrilled that the meeting will be at such an excellent venue. We have big plans and intend to make this a real fun day for the supporters.”Ackroyd also revealed the first five names for what he believes will be the best Bonanza field for several seasons. These are top Danish duo Kenneth Bjerre and Hans Andersen, the English “old firm” of Scott Nicholls and Chris Harris, and of course, for his tenth appearance in the Ben Fund Bonanza, Ben Barker. Barker has done the most Bonanzas, obviously, but Harris last year became the highest point scorer in the event’s history with 58 points from his 6 appearances.For Panthers’ go-ahead promoter Ged Rathbone, this is something he has wanted for a while. “We as a club are over the moon to be staging the Ben Fund Bonanza. We have looked at doing it and talked about doing it for a couple of years, and we’ve finally been given the go-ahead to try and put on a really good show for Paul and the paying public who come and watch it. We are genuinely over the moon.“The stadium and facilities are ideal for this type of meeting and the location should be good for supporters from all parts of the country. We all know about the Ben Fund and the help it gives, but we don’t necessarily know just how much money is needed – it’s actually quite scary.”Of all the things Ben Barker has done in his eventful career, nothing has earned him greater respect than the unstinting support he has given to the Benevolent Fund. He said “It’s something I agreed to when I first started doing the Ben Fund meetings, I said I’d do the first ten and I’m here now! “One of the reasons I’m so keen to support it, they’ve helped me not just last year but in previous years as well. It’s a great cause and that’s why I’m so keen to do my bit for it. “I’ve got a couple of friends who have bad injuries and have been helped by the Fund, and that does play on my mind. That’s why I look on it as such a good thing.”Scott Nicholls rode in the first two Bonanzas back in 2009-10 and he will be back this year, sending his own message of support. “It will be a great afternoon for the fans for their first speedway ‘fix’ of the season. It will be a brilliant meeting I know that. I think the Ben Fund do an absolutely brilliant job supporting these guys. It makes the injured riders still feel part of the speedway family and world which I think is really cool. It just goes to highlight just how special and unique the Speedway community really is, I don’t think there’s many other sports out there that have a support network the same.” http://www.speedwaygb.co/benfundbonanza http://www.peterboroughpanthers.co/news.php?extend.3279

PETERBOROUGH TO STAGE BEN FUND The annual Ben Fund Bonanza has reached the significant milestone of its tenth staging, and this historic event will take place at Peterborough Speedway on Sunday 18th March with a start time of 2pm. Paul Ackroyd, now the Chairman of the Speedway Riders Benevolent Fund and of course the originator of the Bonanza meeting, has been working hard behind the scenes towards this later-than-usual announcement, but he says “Now that we are able to say where and when our tenth annual meeting will be I’m obviously relieved but also thrilled that the meeting will be at such an excellent venue. We have big plans and intend to make this a real fun day for the supporters.”Ackroyd also revealed the first five names for what he believes will be the best Bonanza field for several seasons. These are top Danish duo Kenneth Bjerre and Hans Andersen, the English “old firm” of Scott Nicholls and Chris Harris, and of course, for his tenth appearance in the Ben Fund Bonanza, Ben Barker. Barker has done the most Bonanzas, obviously, but Harris last year became the highest point scorer in the event’s history with 58 points from his 6 appearances.For Panthers’ go-ahead promoter Ged Rathbone, this is something he has wanted for a while. “We as a club are over the moon to be staging the Ben Fund Bonanza. We have looked at doing it and talked about doing it for a couple of years, and we’ve finally been given the go-ahead to try and put on a really good show for Paul and the paying public who come and watch it. We are genuinely over the moon.“The stadium and facilities are ideal for this type of meeting and the location should be good for supporters from all parts of the country. We all know about the Ben Fund and the help it gives, but we don’t necessarily know just how much money is needed – it’s actually quite scary.”Of all the things Ben Barker has done in his eventful career, nothing has earned him greater respect than the unstinting support he has given to the Benevolent Fund. He said “It’s something I agreed to when I first started doing the Ben Fund meetings, I said I’d do the first ten and I’m here now! “One of the reasons I’m so keen to support it, they’ve helped me not just last year but in previous years as well. It’s a great cause and that’s why I’m so keen to do my bit for it. “I’ve got a couple of friends who have bad injuries and have been helped by the Fund, and that does play on my mind. That’s why I look on it as such a good thing.”Scott Nicholls rode in the first two Bonanzas back in 2009-10 and he will be back this year, sending his own message of support. “It will be a great afternoon for the fans for their first speedway ‘fix’ of the season. It will be a brilliant meeting I know that. I think the Ben Fund do an absolutely brilliant job supporting these guys. It makes the injured riders still feel part of the speedway family and world which I think is really cool. It just goes to highlight just how special and unique the Speedway community really is, I don’t think there’s many other sports out there that have a support network the same.” http://www.speedwaygb.co/benfundbonanza http://www.peterboroughpanthers.co/news.php?extend.3279

Just Another Vodka & Not A Role Model also in the line up - seems to be Darcy Ward themed race.

Seems it's not free & you have to pay to watch. It's about £5.75 per round or £15.00 for all 4 rounds.

Edited because I can't be arsed. Hopefully I'll get some enthusiasm back by March.

And how has that partnership turned out?

No, just asking him not to help fook our club up again.

Impressive? Have you seen his speedway CV?

Seriously WTF. Watson?

I didn't know him but reading all these stories he sounds like a special person. RIP

All I remember was that it was freezing cold.

2009 Scores: Kevin Doolan 6, Ricky Ashworth 11, Kauko Nieminen 5, Ben Barker 10, Fredrik Lindgren 9, Leigh Adams 14, Davey Watt 7, Filip Sitera 5, Josh Auty 3, Jason Lyons 1, Tai Woffinden 13, Scott Nicholls 7, Andre Compton 7, Jason Crump 13, Richard Hall 5, Edward Kennett 4.

It can't have taken him very long to visit the successful speedway tracks.

Lambert, J Holder & BWD in the same team? Jeez you really are asking for trouble!

Nah, Greenwood was better.

Sort of, it depends on what BT TV package you have. The Plusnet youview+ box is the same 500gb youview+ box you get on the BT TV middle package. If you have the BT TV top package you get the 1tb ultra version. However Plusnet TV will work on any youview box. I have kept my BT TV ultra box as my main box downstairs & Plusnet TV is working just fine through it. I then put the Plusnet box they sent me upstairs in the bedroom.

It is on their website, link below https://www.plus.net/tv/

Just got Plusnet unlimited fibre & line rental £22.99 a month & Plusnet TV £5 a month. Eurosport, BT sport 1 & Freesports included as standard & then I'll be adding the remaining BT sport channels for May - Oct only, which will be just £5 extra in those months.

Or it's the same as paying on the gate but with free parking & a free programme.

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Hans & Nicholls have been heavily touted - but if you are right then Kenneth Bjerre may be more likely?

They've already said Holder isn't returning.

Do you know what, I'd take that. We would at least see the same team week in week out.

A robin reliant with two big shiny trophies in the boot. The Ferraris and Porsches had bottles in theirs but lost them when it mattered.