THE DEAN MACHINE

Just a quick question, if you’re just a fan, have no job or involvement in any way, you’re literally just a fan do you sometimes feel like it’s us and them ? A bit like it’s a clique and you’re not in it ?

We are dealing with 3 separate councils over many sites and so far no they are not despite what they say in public, I can’t say too much in public but some of the stuff from the councils sometimes borders on a Monty python sketch.

Be interesting to see the councils response to the latest cradley situation,although they not keen on the rocky lane site they say they want to help, well they have been presented with another 4 sites of which 2 of them they own, we went to see those 2 on Thursday and they are as good as perfect for a speedway location, both sites are unused and have been for a number of years, so do they want to help ??? That’s the question

While these 2 and their fake tv programs should not be ignored they appeal to the old generation and they are not the future of speedway, we need to be looking to influencers, now don’t get me wrong imo they are useless twats but for some reason they appeal to the yoof and that’s where we need to be looking

Lindgren not riding

I’ve told this before but it is relevent about schools, back around 20 years ago when the sport had the speedway riders association we had monthly meetings where various issues/problems/ ideas were discussed, one of the ideas was to visit schools to promote the sport and we the SRA would send 2 or 3 riders to each one(whoever lived closest to the school) as there was a bit of money in the pot we would fund the travel expenses ourselves, so come the AGM me,Craig boyce and Shane Parker sat at the table with all the promoters and told them what we would like to do except we didn’t tell them how it would be paid for and all we got back was it costs too much money and not worth doing for the cost and in a nutshell went down like a lead balloon and quickly moved on too the next subject, over the years I’ve done various promotions for different teams, been to shopping centres, rugby matches, ice hockey matches and other days and even took my bikes to the scouts one night and to a car show and still do Telford off road show every year, I don’t know how much success any of them have but to me we need to be everywhere no matter how small the presence or significance is, a lot of tiny things put together make a big thing, you do nothing you get nothing

Thank you, I’ll be coming down to iwade a couple of times this year to ride on my old bikes in some meetings that they putting on

The first thing speedway needs to do is get in the public eye, no matter how small but getting there, something I saw a month a so back really brought it home to me how far out the loop we are, when Linda lusardi did her cup draw and it made the news papers, what was interesting was the comments about it from the general public and one stuck with me, it was guy from Essex around his 20s and his reply was what is speedway Genuine question ? Now that to me and you is ridiculous but he genuinely didn’t seem to know, now you would assume he would google it but up till that point it didn’t even cross his mind, how many other people are like this ? Last week I was talking to a customer who is massively into in fast bikes and I said I’d sell him an engine that would blow his bike out the water for acceleration and went on to tell him it was GM speedway engine and he said he didn’t know what I was talking about, as I went into an explanation he said oh you mean flat track racing like they do in the USA, speedway is just not in the public consciousness and that’s something we need to address

I was going to do it but my van was already loaded for Monday and I couldn’t be arsed to unload it and load it up with bikes and bits to then have unload and load up again for Monday, glad it went well, I’ve done alright there in the past

Back to Northampton, announce they running and then silence again, what a strange way to conduct a business

The site I was referring to is close to cradley heath but houses are literally 100yards from edge of land, the rocky lane site is perfect in every aspect but the council for whatever reason don’t seem keen to have it there, 3 other sites have potential but are 5 miles from cradley but one especially has a very major plus going for it but dealing with councils is a drag, it can be weeks/months be for you get a reply, we contacted entain about a track share to run wolves on a Monday and cradley on a Wednesday but they said not at this time(whatever that means) ?

I loved it, rode there many times, always well prepared

It’s now an abattoir

HNG have many locations on the go at the moment not just rocky lane, I’ve been with them to view 4 over the last few weeks, the effort alone deserves success at at already one of them and if it doesn’t get success at any then the councils are 100% to blame, imo 3 of the 5 are ideal locations and seem to tick the right boxes,one was ideal but not big enough and the other was too close to houses

£25, just a stroke of good luck that nobody who follows speedway or would potentially follow speedway is in any way feeling a pinch on their finances and are having to tighten their belts

There is a polish website called speedway news pl which has covered both Buxton and Northampton on their pages,maybe we should ask them to run British speedways media

I saw him on Sunday, he was the last person I would of thought

Must be really bad the vandals brought some snow with them to sprinkle round the pits

I just hope it works because failure of Northampton while the premier league is decimated by numbers will be catastrophic for speedway as a whole, I will go as a new track as I think many will but when the novelty fan wears off they need a fan base

Well it’s less than a years polish contract so possibly and does have backing of company’s like Betard

Woffinden?

Yes they do, I’m not saying I like it but you have to cater for want the public want and things like Bracknell like him or hate him get views and generate interest

I agree but I know some don’t

Well it was a bit of sarcasm which clearly went over your head but hey ho

Good job that advertising has gone out all over Northampton telling the good folk of Northampton that a new speedway team is happening in their area 🙄