mikebv

What an opportunity to show the people of Peterborough that the sport is worth keeping in the area... What better than to get a chance to massively promote a BHM so they can deliver themselves a huge crowd...?

Bet 365... Still a few "bankers" to be found too if you know your stuff... Especially given Speedways RR rules, who likes which track, home track advantage, who is guesting where, etc..

Plus the damper colder nights will being grippier tracks... Many of the races I have seen either live or on TV this year have seen the opposition in front down the back straight, lap one, only to get picked off later in the race . When the track is a bit more "inside line, plenty of grip" it might not be so easy to pass.. The track staff have certainly nailed the track prep for "summer nights" which sometimes proves the most difficult to achieve when you look around all the tracks... Play offs will be a lot closer for me given the change in track, and obviously, no one knows who will have Bomber in their team ..

Spot on.. Certainly the best of both worlds.. Without going "all our yesterdays" I remember a fair few 50-28's at Hyde Rd over 10 years or so, with Mauger, Collins and Morton in particular, providing the "worth the admission money alone" rides, even though the opposition got hammered..

Extremely simple... It really doesn't matter who wins or loses, as pretty much every team will beg steal or borrow from each other.. Therefore.. Just enjoy the racing.. Peterborough in particular is one of the better tracks which must be a bonus.. The sport is slowly dying with the current operating model in use but there seems to be no alternative, (and has already died in at least one part of the UK each season for a fair few of the recent past years now)... So just be grateful there is Speedway to watch in the UK.. I went to the PCMM this year and a couple of Aces meetings and they were all value for money... Who won? If think Jason Doyle, (although that may have been last year?), and the Aces won both the matches I went to but I dont remember who they rode against to be honest.. Three very good value for money nights out though with some fantastic racing featuring Woffy, Bewley, Lambert, Doyle, Fricke, Kurtz, Zagar et al.... Off to Cardiff for the two GP's this weekend to watch some "proper speedway" but the racing probably wont be as good as the NSS and Peterborough (as well as others), can provide... With the threat of development for housing, and the cost of living challenges ahead, tracks need as many "die hards" to stick with them I would think... If your team wins then great, if not, then there is always next week..

100%... The worst ever team in Peterborough's history ever, ever, ever.. (It appears according to some)... Yet. They scored just two points less than many peoples' favourites for the title at the NSS.. And Bomber must have been good to watch getting so many...? Winning the league last year hardly raised a ripple of recognition outside a few followers of a very small (but very expensive to run), minority sport, therefore it makes perfect sense to save yourself a few quid when you have zero chance of doing anything other than finishing bottom... No promotion, nor relegation, usually means often a lot of "dead rubbers" from halfway/two thirds into the season, with play off places already secured early on many occasions, so saving money/looking to next year has to be a consideration for those at the bottom.. Not read any reports, but presume the crowd was "ok"? If so, the home team won at home so their fans went home happy, (so important to maintain a crowd level), and the away team didnt spend a fortune on wages, also so important in the overall scheme of things.....

Personally I think good weather will still attract a very decent crowd.. Gone are the days of too many within any clubs' support taking it "too seriously", which helps maintain crowd levels on evenings like this I would suggest... If you are still attending regularly nowadays then you have become pretty much "immune" to what tries to be passed off as a "proper team sport", so will be there come hell or high water.. And a good night weather wise will 100% guaranteed bring out some of the many thousands who dont attend regularly, but still follow the sport at a local and national level.. My lad has a game tonight or I would have been at the NSS given it's going to be a nice evening and Jason Doyle is always worth watching.. The teams put together, and the result, will both be what they will be, but the racing will I am sure be great to watch.. And with Bomber and Basso at Monmore tonight then I am sure several races there will be more than decent enough to pay in to watch...

Come on Dean.... Don't let everyone know next year's plan until they have had the AGM and officially announced it...

Another cracker from Poland... Wroclaw will be very frustrated....

Young Kowalski appears to be one of those riders who you would prefer to ride wiith rather than against.. But even riding with him, you will probably keep one eye on him, just in case..... Certainly one for the future...

Some cracking juniors in Poland.. Quite a few seem to be able to lower the colours of GP stars..

The sort of place for me that could have held regular (monthly?) decent level racing on Saturday or Sunday afternoons... Individuals, made up teams (who just said like is usual?), Buxton v Cradley etc.. And should have been used by the BSP to provide plenty of laps to juniors during the week...

Went to that... Half expected the riders to get off at the end of the straights and push their bikes round... The current track still has plenty of space on its "footprint" to become more wider and more circular... Just needs a few quid spent.... Form an orderly queue...

Based on a cycle Speedway track shape wasnt it? Or Togliatti?

The more sideways riders go, the better and closer the racing.. And the less horsepower counts, and the more talent influences races.. Everyone who watches knows that, and you as riders too obviously.. Which still baffles me why somewhere like Leicester built an "oval"..! I loved watching handicap racing on 120m tracks in the USA, 8 rider races... No race was a foregone conclusion 3 and a half laps out.. Tiny tracks, wide bends, talent counts...

Keep the start line where it is. Have the finish line further down the straight.. Like Wimbledon used to do.. And Edinburgh still do (?)..

Bye Bye Kai...

Some good racing so far .. It can be great this track... Maybe putting a finish line in a further 25 yards down the straight would help the racing too given the last bend often sees riders in contention to pass..

Maybe some fall out from this will also be to run the meeting earlier in the season? Well before the GP itself... The first reason being the obvious one that it could still be concluded if it got rained off, without recourse to "in the event of" regulations.. And the other being the winner gets a decent amount of time to prepare for the GP itself.. It is a huge opportunity for riders, and this year, whoever won it, it wouldn't leave them much time for bike prep when they need top kit, gaining extra sponsors wanting to be seen around the globe, and planning how to actually look after sponsors on the night... Lots to do logistically so the more prep time the better..

Wow... Could have been a true "Sliding Doors' moment that one Dean... Whoi knows... If you had said "yes" maybe it could be you now over watering, and over grading GP tracks each fortnight or so, just when they start to produce good racing.....

Maybe "birth right" would have been a better phrase to use? Good luck to Adam in Cardiff...

To be fair, domestic Speedway in the UK is now beyond parody... It is make it up as you go along, and probably won't ever change given it is the 'easiest way' to run it... But individual tracks are getting decent enough crowds, so enough fans seem happy enough just watching 'any Speedway, without having too much investment in the result... If you watch the Polish Speedway and attend a UK meeting each week you get the best of both worlds... In Poland? A proper, bona fide, sporting contest, with a host of world class talent riding in front of thousands of passionate tribal fans, with big financial rewards for success and relegation for failure, financed by major sponsors and massive media coverage... And over here? You get to see, (whilst none of the above,) "live action", which can still deliver a "very good night out"...

Maybe it is free from the constraint of Europsorts coverage now it has already been ran? Or maybe Eurosport cannot fit it in? Streamed maybe? Either way, it is an opportunity to experiment with the night it gets ran so a Saturday ticks a lot of boxes I would think.. The season started with a big crowd at the NSS for the PCMM so ending with another one would send it off well into the close season...

Not quite correct... The whole point of it is you do make it up... (In the UK that is obviously)...

You cannot take it seriously granted, but it keeps the sport going... And it is all fans will get so they might as well join in and go, as if they dont then even "made up Speedway", like we get weekly, might not exist in the UK... It will never grow using this operating model obviously, but I dont think promoters are too bothered as they seem to not focus on growth in any way shape or form, and seem more than happy just running an individual Speedway track, and providing racing to the fans that are quite happy to pay for what they provide..