mikebv

Last heat decider and the tractor would suddenly appear!!😆 I remember one televised meeting with the tractor going over the starting gates in circles ready for the next race, and their opponents team manager going mental!!!😁

Jason Doyle has twice helped Sheffield reach the play offs in the last few weeks.. Best to not take it too seriously, just like those who run UK Speedway, and just watch the racing...

What about a Swedish or Danish system? Sweden gets probably double the crowds, and more, than the UK does, so maybe follow Denmark's operating model given their crowds are more akin to the UK's?.. Guests are just a lazy way of running the sport and does it zero favours from a credibility point of view, which won't help gain sponsors from outside the Speedway bubble.. Doubling Up isn't a problem given, as you say, different leagues exist with no impact to the top tier in the UK, and helps both tiers afford riders, and provides riders with more income opportunity... And given so few riders want to ride over here DU'ing is currently something fundamentally required...

UK Speedway would benefit from a one hour round up, magazine type programme each week, with a couple of riders in attendance.. Making them personalities and identifiable... Mix in a few of the best heats from around the country, and a "what's on where?" over the next seven days...

And on, and on, and on, the farce goes... Nothing changes does it?... Apart from less people attending obviously.,

Charles Wright has to get back from Gorzow on Friday evening too...

According to Luke Killeen's Vlog most riders are on a minimum three point guarantee...

According to Luke Killeen's Vlog most riders are on a minimum three point guarantee...

Isn't the capacity well over 10,000?... Improve the track for racing and I would think they could get 10,000 there considering KL, Peterborough and Mildenhall all will have a fair few in attendance... 5,000 or so attended the PO final didn't they?... A weekend in Ipswich would be OK...

Promising numbers then for a non mainstream channel, Saturday evening backwater slot... Hopefully good enough to see some further development into league racing...

So Arthur73's 134k off BARB, and screenshot by eric i, was accurate given some will have watched post those numbers coming out...?.. Where did Phil get his half a million from that PTA mentions? Any idea?..

If the local authorities help out, like Cardiff used to, with the staging costs, it could maybe work..? A suburb of Adelaide and is only about 9 miles away from the city centre...

That's a lot of middle aged, and over, men to target for advertisers...😁 It will be interesting to see how that number came about as the BARB figures, already shown, show a lot less than that... Maybe Social Media and YT views added?...

Careful.... I can see some stats coming in from "someone" soon, detailing, to the penny, the money paid out to each individual rider, by the Aces and Ipswich... Probably covering the past five years or so, in an attempt to disprove your theory......

So is not finishing your job, and stopping many times without any good reason before it is completed... Promoters certainly let the tails wag the dogs, and it does them little favour.. Even worse, they lose even more respect by still giving certain riders jobs...

I am the target audience.... Like 90% of everyone else that follows the sport... Those who identify as male that is...

Just for Men?.... Tena Men?.... Steradent?... SAGA Holidays?.. Over 50's Life Assurance?.. Those "Cheapo Funeral" Adverts?.. Just like watching U&Alibi and C5 now.....😁 Edit. Almost forgot... Those chairs that tip you out of them.. Walk in, sit down baths .. And those trainers that you don't need to bend down to put on, or tie any laces...😀

Dan T's Vlog was very telling... For the CLRC there wasn't even race jackets and he got sent the wrong numbers so had to use duct tape to make up his number!!!😁 He also said how many people came out of the Sheff Wed match and mentioned that maybe someone giving some free Speedway tickets away as they came out would have been a good idea.. He shared £800 at the pairs, and got £500 for the CLRC, which after costs, at the pairs, he said, "we won't be eating well tonight"..😁 It cost him £100 in fuel to Poole, and bought new clutch plates for the event, and paid his mechanic... There also wasn't a team manager at Poole for Edinburgh and they went out in one race in the wrong helmet colours..😁 He was very positive about Mayfield's plans and said some news coming out in the next few weeks would be extremely positive..

Given it is an offficial fixture, the rules for missing it should apply as per all meetings... And only if rescheduled, and riders already elsewhere, should any drop outs be allowed . The BSP don't help themselves when these events always have riders missing from the original line up, and their compliance with riders dropping out just undermines both themselves and their competitions... And running them so late in the season, (after many blank weeks during the summer for many tracks), is just asking for riders dropping out given many will have play offs in their respective leagues to focus on.. And also for the majority of competitors they potentially will earn less than a normal meeting... The irony of that of course, being that the last decade or so has seen riders not take part, which then dilutes the prestige, which then reduces the fan numbers, which then reduces the money on offer.. Another vicious circle UK Speedway got itself into given its lack of clear independent, disciplined, leadership..

BARB are the official company that gets used by the industry...

That's a pretty decent number for a Saturday evening slot on ITV4 I would think.. Don't think the Motorbike Show, that has that slot, would pull that many in...

A great night ahead for the last GP.. Best of Luck to Lambert, as he is easily the best rider of the 2nd half of the season...

And the year before that.... And the year before that .... And the etc etc etc....

Who would have thought?..…

Because he loved riding in it.., Knee deep in mud, and grippy as f**k was Kelvins favourite track.,