mikebv

The rights holders make their money by charging the tracks a hosting fee.. I saw the list once a few years ago and it did change from venue to venue, but all were six figures... Cardiff was ran by the series owners themselves as it was the biggest money earner at that time.. It also has been said that temporary seating works out roughly at £1k per seat, which therefore can be very expensive to install...

Putting his money where his mouth is... Makes perfect sense, given he runs Speedway at Ipswich and runs the GP series... Hopefully he gets the track to deliver several racing lines as the GP lads don't make too many mistakes when in front.... But plenty of tracks on the GP circuit deliver poor racing and people still watch.. I presume the NSS and June 12 are entwined currently, however one night, with no extra seating, could be a tough profit maker, and admission charges for 4,500 or so would have to be on the very high side... Plus many hotels in and around Manchester are already showing fully booked with Oasis being in town.. Maybe the NSS could negotiate a much reduced fee to run it?.. It could be possible if no one else wants to run one I would suggest... Does Glasgow hold over 4,000? If so, maybe they may want to join the GP circus?... At least if the GP doesn't get ran at the NSS then the Aces attendances should not be impacted like they have the last two years for those meetings leading up to it, and just after... A new GP venue is always something to gain some interest, so best of luck to the venture...

As is often said... The size of the crowd makes the atmosphere.... Which then ensures memories of the event are good ones... A very ordinary event can live long in the memory when you were part of something with great audience numbers and participation .. Baffling why so many promoters don't seem to understand that and make kids their target market, and let them in for free... Hopefully there will be a knock on early next season and crowds will see more yearly growth... Such a small town should have some kind of "civic event" if (when) they win the cup, that would bring some great publicity.

Motorways and Dual Carriageways?... You been to Ipswich from the North of the country? And it won't be 3 hours when you get stuck behind Farmer Palmer in his tractor on the "dual carriageway", or sat there stopped, for a herd of 100 cows to cross over the "dual carriageway" as their grazing field is on the opposite side to the milking barn.. I remember when Manchester got the GP's and all the negative comments about the lack of bars, restaurants and hotels when compared to Cardiff... I presume Ipswich must be very similar to Cardiff given I haven't read anything negative about it yet... Is the track in the city centre like Cardiff, or just 5 mine outside like the NSS is?.. Or will the "dual carriageways" be busy..?..

And Belle Vue... #aceslegend....

He certainly isn't like Woffy.. A rider who never swore when being interviewed, and dedicated his whole career to riding over here season in, season out, as he won his World Titles.. Oh! Wait a minute...

What's Instagram? I follow UK Speedway...

Love the lad, but, he didn't help himself this year ... Rode some daft outside lines when if riding the kerb, which he easily can do, wouldn't have got him passed.... Still, proper balls out rider though, so always great to watch..

Fair play, got the Kevlar's made too...😁

Robert Lambert. . Aces Legend ...😁😎

Get in there!!! Well done Robert!!!!!

Lambert wins and Kurtz second ..???

Are the clowns running it going to show the current positions?...

Eventually Kurtz rode an inside line!!!😁

Wouldn't Zmarzlik pee it without the sprints?..