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Masters has been dreadful all season so far, and we've never really gone that well at BV, need to be quick or you've got no chance.

I think the issue for me is having it on consecutive nights, although I appreciate why financially. I just find it odd to say that Max Fricke won the British GP, but so did Brady Kurtz, all in the same weekend. Would it be enviable to have the usual gap? Perhaps it would.

I do think going back to 6/7 rounds makes more sense. I'm also still not sure why we have two consecutive GP's in Manchester either, so the idea of having one in London if we need to have two would be more interesting.

Who said I was or wasn't a Kemp fan? I think when his head is right he can be really good, as he proved later on in the meeting. It was depressingly predictable, though, that as soon as he got baulked in that race he lost his head.

If the Kyle had impeded another rider I might agree, but he came off without causing any harm to anyone but himself, I don't see how that nullified any chance of Sheffield riders overhauling Drew.

Of course, but how often does that realistically happen on the last lap, especially when the riders in front is clear?

And Flint's move there was naughty. Turning right on the straight.

How can they re-run ht 14 if they'd started the last lap when the lights came on?

Yes, that was annoyingly predictable.

Joe Thompson replaces Dan Gilkes: https://www.leicesterspeedway.com/News/Details/7965

Think Dan Thompson should be riding at 3 or 4 rather than 2. Solid if uninspiring performance from the Lions.

Brilliant race from Bewley there, he really is great to watch.

We've almost always been terrible at Belle Vue, even with Fricke in the side.

He came off during P&P just after Nick Morris did in the same spot

Unless they end up signing a load of riders from abroad it's more likely to be the Northampton Knackers.

You could argue that any successful sport needs to attract people it didn't before. Look at football, they have huge ethnic followings for what in the 60s and 70s was very much a white working class sport.

Kemp completes the Lions line-up.

He certainly has experience and can gate. Mind you so can Kemp. If he can get over the pulling up at the back he could still do a job. I guess the question would be who has the most improvement in them?

What do we have left?

Howarth confirmed. One rider left.

Only taken 2 years to come out with it, but there is a sort of apology there: Morris said: “I’m really excited to be back with Leicester, it’s a club I have loved racing for. “I feel I owe it to them and all the people who I let down, and everyone who has supported me, to put in a big season there. “I just want to work hard and win races, and being back with Stewart, the man who brought me to the UK when I was 15, I would love nothing more to win a league title for Leicester.”

Some music suggestions for next year now then: White Lines (Don't Don't It) Just Say No Message in a (specimen) Bottle

Given that there's a real danger the current Premiership champions might not come to the tapes next year I think people are right to be impatient. Any business worth its salt would have had a holding statement ready at least by now.

Baffles me that everywhere seems to want something the size of BV when Somerset, Redcar and Scunthorpe sizes produce good racing and would be far easier to squeeze in somewhere.

Baffles me that everywhere seems to want something the size of BV when Somerset, Redcar and Scunthorpe sizes produce good racing and would be far easier to squeeze in somewhere.