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Yes. If not exactly 3000, certainly very close. Maybe 2999

Poole speedway supplies Poole supporters with what makes them come back in their droves - are Poole’s crowd levels the best in the country? - riders who want to be there and victories. If the track isn’t the best so what? Poole wanted the win but the weak opposition made for largely processional racing. Let’s face it, Glasgow came expecting to be beaten. Their choice of guests always looked poor and so it proved. I’m probably crazy saying this but most of the time I love the racing at Poole. There are no easy laps, no Polish style flat out road racing but instead, riders don’t have time to relax - just look at the entertainment served up by two of the leagues best, Lawson and Harris. On the detail - Lawson dirty? He had Hodder beaten and left him plenty of room. And the fast start that some thought the referee missed? Transponders are what are now used to determine a jump. Even by a fraction. No red light equals no jump

I think it’s the previous company - Northside Speedway Training Track Limited - that has been dissolved but don’t know anything about any other entity. Flat track is licensed by ACU so there would be no BSPL/SCB involvement and it’s that licence that has been suspended.

I agree completely and was under the impression that BSPL required promotions to be limited liability companies. But I can’t find any other active companies under Andrew Bain’s name

That company was wound up last month and couldn’t have been without HMRC consent. It has no further obligation to prepare accounts. My guess is that Workington Speedway operates as an unincorporated business rather than a limited company

Discovery lost 7 figure sums in each of the years they ran Cardiff. There was neither greed nor complacency, just inexperience and, some might say, incompetence.

I rarely agree with anything you say but am 100% behind you on this

I didn’t know that. I was sure I’d seen loads of moto-x riders wearing them but it must have just been a fancy scarf shaped like a neck brace or something like that…….

I’m clearly lost these days…….:) Why a guest for Boughen who rode (badly again) for KL last night? Likewise Dan Thompson rode for Ipswich. And what’s happened to Zach?

Is Cairns on the RS list? Or will he be on 29 June? Seems tough on Mulford if he’s dropped as he’s doing the job he was taken on to do. 4+3 last Monday from three rides plus a fall when it looked like he was wiped out by his team partner, seems pretty solid to me.

The speed at which this name has appeared has to suggest a deal was done a few days ago, possibly after the under 21 qualifier at Glasgow. Ashton seemed to lose confidence towards the end of last year and has simply not ridden as expected in 2025. Such a shame as he looked fantastic when he burst on to the scene and it’s only to be hoped he finds his motivation again.

I admit to having very limited mechanical knowledge but, if you roll off the throttle, surely that limits the fuel so would reduce not increase “carbon stains”? And as methanol is a clean fuel, does it actually create carbon stains anywhere? ok

When will he get his new average and move to number 1?

Matt Marson is hardly a young man. His first UK season was 7 years ago and he’s sadly not progressed beyond NDL level. He’s scored 2 points from 12 races for Poole, both gifts when Barker fell at Plymouth and Kerr retired at Oxford. This gives him a home average of zero, away of 1.33. it was brave of him to accept the offer of a CL place, but it can’t do his confidence any good being so far off the pace. So maybe he’s relieved to be let go?

The “in the pits area” makes no sense. So they’re not allowed to wear casual clothes at any time in the pits? Every single rider breached that, and quite right too. Fair enough for when they are practicing, racing and any time on tv but why the rest of the time?

Thanks.

I’m sure it’ll have been said somewhere and I missed it but where was Stewart Dickson on Saturday?

Surely it makes sense for British Speedway to follow international standards on crash helmets? If only they’d do the same with air barriers

The Premiership media launch is at Oxford on 23 March. Sounds similar to last year with plenty of riders - in race suits - attending and opportunities for interviews with everyone involved. From all accounts, last year’s launch was well run and received and hopefully this will also apply this year especially with the venue being closer for the southern-centric media.

I think one of the main problems is WBD are licence holders and not promoters whereas BSI knew how to promote. The pre-meeting entertainment in the BSI era was usually well worth watching but WBD have brought us……balloons. The racing at Cardiff has seldom been great - compare and contrast Cardiff with Wroclaw, Gorzow or Toruń - but the atmosphere made up for it. But not with 20,000. Melbourne found that at what was then called the Etihad with a really good race track but poor atmosphere resulting in the 5 year deal being cancelled after three. i’lll miss Cardiff. But only a little. Poor racetrack and extortionate hotel prices were always a disincentive. Every year I said never again only to be seduced back over the border. I’m happy the cycle has been broken.

I reckon Gladgoe would get a crowd of 2000 if GB involved. Nowhere in Poland would attract that sort of number if Poland not involved. Wrocław didn’t make 2000 in total for the three qualifiers. Nothing like it. Similarly, the NSS for the SoN had maybe a thousand in total for the qualifiers and maybe 1200 for the under 21 SoN final - when GB was involved.

The qualifiers have often been poorly attended - there were almost more people in the pits in Wrocław than the stands for the qualifiers. So it makes sense to stage the qualifiers each with a home team, so that would be GB and Denmark. But, for logistical reasons, not in the week of the final. GB should be either NSS (though there might be a GP there in 2026) or Glasgow

Was it not the third attempt to get it on and only ran because it was the last available date?

I seem to recall another Polish rider predicted to find Armadale not to his liking - Kasprzak riding for Belle Vue in the 2009 promotion/relegation match. How did that work out?

Is it a coincidence that for three years in a row, Craig has been “let go” by his previous teams? And, regardless of press releases, always for the same reason - unreliability? Was there not a suggestion that, when Leicester signed him earlier this year it was because they knew his top league average meant they’d be able to get decent guests when he went missing? How many meetings did he end up racing for Leicester?