mikebv

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?..

He does seem to get a fair bit of luck... But he also makes it ...

Come on Belle Vue.... Brady has to get through...😁

To be fair, I once watched Joe Screen team ride Mark Loram to a World Title...😁

Woryna covering his mate ...

Come on Dan!! And Jason!!!

Brilliant from Brady, but, did he not do exactly the same thing last week though at Torun... And keep getting passed!!!! Ride the bloody inside!!!😁

"Shut up! I can't hear the time!"....😁

They need to sort the track out by a huge margin from where it currently is... Emil and Doyle could pass riders around there, but, no disrespect, they, in the main, passed riders not of GP level... I have seen Dan B try and pass both of them around Foxhall and get nowhere near given the, usual, one line available... I have also seen Brady, who doesn't like the track, beat both just by riding one line at speed... Ride fast down the short straight on a rocket ship, lock up sideways mid track, meaning not much room either side, put wheels in line, fire off down short straight, then rinse and repeat.. Chris Louis was inspired by what he saw at the NSS re the entry and exit widths, and circumference size of the bends, and he changed the track dimensions at Foxhall off the back of it.. But he couldn't go "all in", which hopefully Richard Coleman can and will do... What's under the circuit can be the biggest challenge and cost to move... Hopefully it will deliver great racing, providing several different lines, which can only be good for Ipswich and not just the GP's..

Two nights at the GP's cost me well over £300 for two tickets and that kind of outlay (and more for others to sit down), definitely, once again, meant that domestic meeting attendances before, and after, got hit, and quite severely... Maybe not having a GP next season will help the Aces attendance wise?... I will be very surprised if they run on the 12th of June given Oasis are in town, a mile away, and there is hardly a "very expensive" room available now, already, in Manchester for that evening... And one GP wouldn't justify the six figure outlay for the extra seating that needs putting in to take the capacity up to "profit levels"... Maybe Glasgow would fancy it?...

I dread to think what the second b is...😁

Do you have hotels in Ipswich?..😁

I thought it was being sent to citeh's owner ...😁

World of Sport finishing was the catalyst... The domestic offering has always been a "bit Mickey Mouse" but lived off the "proper stuff" that you watched on a Saturday afternoon, be it individual championships that meant something, with good prize money, or England winning World Titles .. When domestic UK Speedway had to stand alone without that TV coverage to engage people to attend, it was simply found wanting, and unable to evolve... The TV package was very much highlights driven, therefore the sport looked like it was that way all the time. Eg. Watching PC win three races of his five from the back gave the sport huge interest at the turnstiles when these riders visited... Instead of evolving, the same old, same old has been trotted out year after year, to ever dwindling numbers who, after voicing their frustration for a fair old time, eventually gave up complaining and voted with their feet... UK Speedway is the "Woolworths" of sport in the UK, ie stuck in a one dimensional time warp and unable to change given the skill set of those who lead it... You could walk into a Woolworths in the early 2000's and it looked pretty much the same as it did when you walked in to one as a kid in the 70's.. UK Speedway has a similar vibe...