THE DEAN MACHINE

And all that ignores the fundamental reason Birmingham wheels was set up in the first place and that should never change, I was one of those kids who it kept off the streets,not everyone likes football or athletics or any other corporate entity that is forced into our psyche,?I know the campaigners will loose but it’s not about speedway or stock cars,,it’s about corruption at council level

The Black Country still has a really big speedway fan base, I was making this point to a councillor a month back, saying other than football I think speedway still has the second biggest demographic of people that follow sport in the Black Country , cricket, rugby are not big in the West Midlands at team level motox has a big participation levels but not really a fan sport, don’t think we have ice hockey in the Black Country so if they claim to pander to the electorate why is speedway not up there in their priority of sport and lesuire?

On our first conversation with the stadium itself they were quick to point out it wasn’t them that kicked it out,it came from 2 Americans at entain who wouldn’t know speedway from a toilet duck so from that you can only think it’s some sort of financial decision and as documented last year those 2 people no longer work at entain, I was hoping that monmore was just a franchise of entain and make their own decisions as to what happens at the stadium but seems that isn’t the case, as long as the stadium is still there we will not give up

I genuinely think I’ve become one of those people who use to go to speedway, not by choice either, with wolves closing and now Birmingham gone, my nearest track is Buxton and although I will go there a couple of times this coming season I just can’t see me going to watch speedway regularly any more, I might go to an odd match here and there but I’ve become my speedway friends, they still follow it but don’t go anymore, even having a skid myself was reduced to 2 meetings (worky IOW) in 2025, hardly worth the effort of keeping my bikes or the hours of driving to do it

A long read but the Birmingham wheels project campaigners talk about the council and Perry Barr and Birmingham speedway https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AMragEP5u/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Yes i know, we have been corresponding with the stadium and entain but at the moment the door is shut to speedway, it’s very difficult to get to the bottom of what the issue is, why speedway was kicked out, the stadium say is wasn’t them, CVS says he is angry at it all but doesn’t say much else and entain are a multi billion dollar company that quite frankly don’t give speedway a second glance and they don’t give reasons just answers, I have my own theory after chatting with CVS and someone who worked at the stadium for 30 years but it’s just that a theory but I will with others will keep on trying, it may be a tiny-nil chance of ever going back there but it wolves only chance of ever coming back, time changes, people change, ideas change, you never know

Depends on who you know and the equipment you can get hold of

It just needs the cost of installing a new track which is not a little cost

Not a mention of the sterling work that speedway futures Ltd habe done behind the scenes,not a mention of who the new Ipswich owners are if indeed there are any, a statement that told us very little but what did we expect really ? You don’t need to wait for an AGM to fix a problem and it’s clear they have no idea how to fix the sport, carry on doing the same and pound to a penny they haven’t addressed any issues of cost either for riders and more importantly the long suffering dwindling fan base

The AGM news is being published at 6pm tonight

Unfortunately yes I can but more worryingly it’s the bunny brained idea they will have come up with to make it 5 if Ipswich don’t run

Maybe they could of just got 5 championships promoters to guest for them at the AGM

Could it have been they waited so long they forgot ?

Maybe they waiting to announce after a TV deal fell through they have decided to join onlyfans and once a month the 5 promoters have to strip for money ?

Then we are truly in trouble if it not sorted by now, the season is 10 weeks away