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RR for Brum already, great start.

Can they use industrial power lazers that will chop off the front wheels of any riders rolling at the start?

That's news to me and quite a few others, I would imagine.

There is another downside to having such a young squad, apart from the obvious inexperience, it's the limited amount of sponsorship opportunities. I mean, look. Pubs etc-too young to drink Male grooming products-too young to shave Car/Van manufacturers-too young to drive Wedding planners-too young to get married Durex-too young to, well you get my drift.............................

Very impressive.

One of the biggest problems with speedway now is identity. I mean, where does it stand in the world of sport? Is it a motorsport? Well there are motors involved, but it doesn't attract traditional motorsport fans, probably because nobody can identify with a particular manufacturer like they can in road racing, MX etc. Anyway, how many motorcycles do you see parked outside a speedway stadium? Is it an extreme sport? Well yes, it probably is. but it doesn't appeal to the Nitro Circus types in the way it should. Maybe speedway promoters should treat themselves to a trip to a BSB round. £25-30 all day. not much more than that for the whole weekend package. Generally decent facilities, pit walks with meet the riders, paddock access, stalls, things for kids to do, all in all a sport that gears itself to keeping fans happy and entertained. Decent crowds bearing in mind that each event is heavily televised. There's a lot to be learned.

These are good points. Many fans (me included) have drifted away from speedway over the years and maybe the "powers that be" need to address this issue just as much as attracting new supporters, after all, at least they loved the sport once in the first place.

Carter was the only rider I'd go to another track just to watch. He was a bums on seat star and as has someone else said, how speedway could do with that today.

I know you mean the top class, but we did have a MotoGP champion this year, the first for 38 years, Danny Kent in Moto 3.

Sorry to report the passing of Derek Timms after a short illness. He was a great servant to the sport and rode for many teams over the years, Cradley probably being his most well known. He was a smashing bloke and will be sadly missed by all who knew him.

They both have talent in spades, they'll do a job at the heart of the club, that's for sure. I'd fit puns about jokers and packs in too, but I'd probably get decked.

A point well missed, just watch the way some riders treat their own national anthems, wherever they're from. I've watched them chatting to each other whilst theirs was playing. Disgusting isn't it?

You should watch MotoGP, WSBK more often/

I always sing the ELP version of Jerusalem and finish ages after everyone else.

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And practice on it too, which is a luxury riders at PB will never have.

Perhaps he drank too much Monster.

Sharper or one/both injured.

Storm in a teacup maybe, but not until it's hit 50 posts plus on the BSF.

He did well to come back from the broken leg he sustained in the ISDT in Czecho in 1972. I remember there being a right old rigmarole to get him back over here. I also heard that he did the Cadbury's ad in one take, telling the director where to go when he asked him to do it again.

Any coincidence that both teams dropped 2 tiers to be here though GP?

At last, revenge for the last meeting at the Ladbroke in 1983. Yay!

At the absolute very least the NL should cancel RR when both teams are operating it. Luckily that doesn't apply in this case.