THE DEAN MACHINE

BSN breaking down on route to Leicester just about sums up British speedway this season

That says more about the others than it does about Dickson’s quality

Never rated Dickson as a TM and he is a bit like Rossiter and picks his mates

One of the comments says speedway dirty noisy and dangerous, that’s how I like my women 😂

Leicester look very poor today

This is speedway so who knows 😂 I think there will be a emergency zoom meeting called for tomorrow to discuss the right decision for the sport while completely ignoring the actual rules

I posted about something like this when Linda lusardi did the KOC draw, when it was reported in the sun newspaper the comment were an eye opener to where the sport is in the public perception and there was one comment from a guy from Essex who said genuine question what is speedway ?

Not just stoney but Greg Blair too have that type of banter that you hear in vans on way to meeting and not that forced corporate polished speak you get on TNT, sky etc

They are saying on BVTV he is still not well and maybe wouldn’t of rode if he wasn’t banned

I don’t know numbers but I would say over 500 both stands were fairly full and obviously a lot of people watched from their cars, I would say they were more than happy with the crowd

Yes and he is hilarious, sounding like he just come out the pub 😂

may have been riding in the grasstrack meeting at tallington,?I agree not acceptable but that may have been the reason

Good crowd today,track held up as well as Buxton can, few teething issues that need addressing, for me it was good to catch up with many former hitmen,staff and fans and I should of thawed out by Tuesday

I don’t use twitter so don’t know about that but they been doing their tales from the dales interviews on Facebook and posts everyday and also been on podcasts in last couple of weeks

I’m 40 miles away at the moment and the sun is out and has been for last 2 hours and forecast is dry for this afternoon in Buxton

They have been very active on social media in general, not sure any team bothers on here anymore, it’s become a very small group of mainly ex fans which is sad but anyway weather is good up in them hills today if not a little chilly, I expect one of if not the biggest crowd for Buxton today and I’ll be there and best of luck to the new venture

From what I understand in this saga is the new insurance doesn’t cover loss of earnings like the old system did although it was no where near enough it was something and that has now changed to a system that is more suited to someone like a motox or trails rider,I would estimate that 95% of ACU licence holders over all sports don’t have their chosen sport as their job where as speedway 95% does

Interesting that the mystery guy at the head of speedway futures Ltd Neil Clayton is an insurance specialist and at one time previously worked for Doodsons who if I’m right we’re the company who insured British speedway

No not FIM, they don’t get involved domestically, it will be country’s own licence issuer but up till now a British speedway insurance was paid per race by the rider and now that’s been dropped

I’m not sure why riders don’t get their own cover anyway, I took mine out in 1994 with the CICA and still have it today because it covers you for pretty much everything except war but even with personal cover it does not let speedway off the hook to provide cover too, I see the bspl are saying the ACU covers it now, what about foreign riders who don’t ride under the ACU ?

just spoke to Ben, it seems there is no insurance from the bspl/SCB now, it was deducted from your wages per race but it seems this is not the case anymore, some riders do have personal cover and the Ben fund do help but no insurance is bad and needs to be addressed

Yes could only happen in speedway 😂

Yes but has been doing grasstrack, looked ok Sunday

I do think nowadays riders don’t really go through the hard yards like they use to,the fact is for everyone that really makes it (top 5 in world) there are a couple of hundred that fail, there are some really exceptional talents in speedway who were always going to make it like zmarzlik and bewley and then there are others like gollob and Pedersen who went that extra mile to make it but on the whole 99% just forge a league career which is no bad thing but my original point to this is you have to ride the struggle and get through it because it will come when you’re up against it and nothing goes right and the world is to blame and that experience will help you get through it,speedway is a mind game, the head on your shoulders is as important as the head on your engine, I’ve watched both Rushen and Cairns and indeed bickley, they all have the talent,Rushen seems the most natural on a bike but all 3 seemed from the outside looking in to have had the their career so far on the crest of a wave but the moment you take that to the serious stuff and three others want your peice of track it’s a whole new world and unless you are headstrong it’s a harsh one, good luck to both Cairns and Rushen and hope bickley makes a comeback too

No but Jack roberts and Liam Ashcroft were there practicing