THE DEAN MACHINE

Riders actually clearly affected by drugs at a meeting is a rarity, but taking drugs socially between meetings is not

Oh Don’t get me started on that filthy habit, it’s disgusting

This is what I was told at the weekend by someone in the FIM a rider was suspected of taking drugs and the testing people were alerted and they were told you can’t target a rider on a tip off (well not officially anyway ) it has to be random or appear to be

That's probably why most of the guilty have got away with it over the years

From a fans point of view I think GP2 a bit of a non starter but for me this is speedway all over, they trying to make it a competitor sport like Motox which at heart it isn’t , but hey it’s free, the reality check will be when they charge to watch it

Apart from the roof most football stadiums could be used, the track is on a false floor in Cardiff and other venues like Warsaw so putting a track in shouldn’t be an issue, if willing let’s say Newcastle United , to hire the stadium will surely be the same or even less than cardiff , nitro circus is at a stadium in Glasgow, if the stadium has a full size football pitch then it’s big enough for speedway

I hope the crowd holds up this year , I’ve just got a feeling it will be noticeably down, I just don’t see or feel the buzz around speedway for it and everyone seems to say no I’ll watch it on TV , I do feel it’s time for a change of venue, maybe up in the north east somewhere ,anything to get that buzz back

Whilst on the subject of barker over the weekend I learnt that drug tests have to random, even if someone gives a name of a rider that is suspected of taking drugs to the testers they can’t target that rider, I suppose they could say it was random but they know a certain rider was in a certain race or meeting

Where was scott Nicholls, is he injured ?

Just caught up with today’s meetings, Bartoz is a class act and I can’t see how gorzow will stay in the extraleague without him

I actually find it quite disrespectful how pretty much all ex riders are treated by British speedway, unless a rider stays in the sport in another capacity they are quickly cast aside and that goes for former world or even national champions

Łódź is such an impressive stadium, surprised it doesn’t get big meetings

Yes

Little side note there, in the final madsen was 5kmh faster than the other 3 and came last

I’ve been thinking about doing something up there, maybe upright meeting but the very little feelers I’ve put out didn’t fill me with hope

That Hartel is a bit wild, 1st to last in 1 lap

Had a skid up there 2 weeks ago, such a waste,

First 3 meetings

Although it’s a bit better now Leicester was just awful to ride when it was made, it was one line into the corners at the end of a long straight which was disproportionate to the tightish bends , it just made for dreadful racing, which was baffling when they had a blank paper to start with

And Iwade

I like this track, it rides like a circle but you do get good racing here and proves you don’t need a track to be big to get good racing

This rawicz v poznan looks like a bit of a bad tempered affair, saw my old mate skornicki involved in some handbags at 5 paces after heat 7

How much roughly was admission for the Vojens SON both semi and final ? In £

Maybe one day the bspa or l or whatever they call themselves these days will wonder where all the riders have gone and wonder if they had any part in it, if they solve that they can then start on finding the missing fans and wonder if they had any part in their disappearance

Don’t think it’s too long now till members of the crowd are asked to ride