poppetman

Handicap racing will never work for the simple reason that the top riders don't want to risk injury by having to pass lower grade riders and won't accept it. Same reason Briggs,Fundin etc weren't having it over fifty years ago. It's an end of season gimmick that seems to go down well in Wolverhampton much like the Ipswich sixteen lapper.

What Chris Harris earns is his business and nobody else's.

Fact is Blair had the bottle to become a professional speedway rider and now has the bottle to appear on national television with the parents he let down so badly and show willing to make amends.This is the first step on the road to recovery and I for one wish him all the best.

OK then--how about Rye House Rockets.

Move into Hoddesdon,drop the K and swap the A and E around and there you have it-Leaside Hammers. It's your only hope.

Yes he didn't dilly dalle on the (speed)way.

Rod Stewart.(True) Quote from his autobiography: 'Mary and Peggy, my sisters, would take me to watch speedway at Harringay, which was hugely popular then'.

Here's the Gordon Kennett clip: https://www.britishpathe.com/video/speedway-white-city/query/speedway

Leaside Hammers.

Never understood why anyone would hit the M25 on a Friday evening to go to one of the most depressing areas of the country to watch racing you need binoculars to see!

The best option for a British fan these days is to watch Polish/Swedish league on Freesports.

Reading between the lines I think BMR,regardless of the state of their finances, have looked at their involvement in speedway and decided **** this for a game of soldiers. Steve Jensen,who I must say has come in for some undeserved stick on this forum, expressed his disappointment at the decision to have fixed race nights (which was going to attract the big names back remember)? and then enforce a points limit to prevent self same big names from returning. The Rye House website is still advertising flat track meetings into September and BMR still have their investment (I presume) in the bike dealership so I think, IMHO motor sports will continue at Rye House but not speedway. I'd love to be proved wrong.

Van Stratten and Ford got the race nights they wanted so that's all that matters.

A change of name from 'speedway' wouldn't do any harm. The majority of people who even understand the word put it in a similar category to cock fighting. This, by the way, is utter tosh: "Numbers drawn out of a hat for who rides what bike before the start of a race with team selections made after practice." Riders give up the ghost half the time when they're on a bike that suits them!

This from our esteemed team manager on the BSPA website: “You know, it’s still relatively early in the season; it’s not a case of alarm bells. We’ve got to look at a couple of things, but that will come in time.” Strange that.I heard alarm bells around March this year.Talk about fiddling while Rome burns!