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Thanks to Radio Fremantle for all the work they have put in to make the boradcasts happen. Really enjoyed listening in. Cheers guys

Racing due to start around 10am Steve.

Radio Fremantle will be broadcasting the final round, the coverage starts at 9.30am and can be heard by logging on to www.radiofremantle.com.

The second round of the Championship will once again be covered by Radio Fremantle. The broadcast starts at 8am UK time. www.radiofremantle.com

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Radio Freo coming through perfectly this morning! 1. Ty Proctor 2. Kozza Smith 3.Cory Gathercole 4. Aaron Summers 5. Leigh Adams 6. Darcy Ward 7. Jason Doyle 8. Justin Sedgmen 9.Cam Woodward 10. Rory Schlein 11. Dave Watt 12. Troy Batchelor 13. Jay Herne 14. Lee Herne 15. Josh Grajczonek 16. Chris Holder Res 1: James Holder Res 2: Hugh Skidmore

Coming through loud and clear on Radio Fremantle this morning, great stuff! Nev and the boys are doing an excellent job.

That's right everyone, Radio Fremantle will be covering the Australian National Championship live for a third successive season. The station has invested heavily in an uprated broadband listening capacity which hopefully means the buffering issues off 2008 are now a thing of the past. All the action can be heard on www.radiofremantle.com on the dates and times detailed in the first post.

Flight £136, Hotel £50, Car Hire £52, Ticket £25, Changing to an earlier return flight £55 admin charge – arriving at the stadium and discovering a complete disaster, priceless! Three of us flew out yesterday (Friday) from Heathrow and were scheduled to return mid afternoon on Sunday. Arrived at the stadium on Saturday morning to purchase tickets at around 10.30am. Everything seemed very quiet compared to 2007 when even early in the day there was a real buzz about the stadium. Still, the weather was absolutely glorious, the temperature gauge on the hire car read 19 degrees and it was most certainly t-shirt weather. Brilliant! At the ticket booth we found one window was open, there was no queue so we walked up and purchased our tickets – no problem at all. We were informed by the lady behind the ticketing window that meeting programmes were currently not available. Apparently this was because there had been a major printing error and subsequently the programmes were ALL being printed again. This seemed very strange, but hey mistakes happen and we thought we’d purchase a programme later in the day. Still things around the arena were eerily quiet, we walked the whole stadium and saw no more than fifty people, by now it’s about 11am. Still early I know, but the place was just dead. We peered through the gates into the stadium and everything looked fine, the roof was open and even though the shale looked a touch darker than usual there was no reason to be concerned. We headed back to the hotel for some lunch and then planned to return to the stadium about three. Still the weather was beautiful. About 1.30ish we received a text from a friend saying that the meeting had been postponed. We thought this was a joke and laughed it off between us, the weather was glorious why would the meeting be off? Just out of curiosity we checked the speedwayworld.tv website on our mobile phones. Jaws collectively dropped when we read the official statement. We jumped in the car, drove to the stadium and parked up. The first thing that became apparent was the poor level of communication coming from the organisers. In the space of an hour, the trikes that were obviously scheduled to take the riders on parade showed up. Then, the Audi cars that were clearly intended for the presentation laps showed up. The Girl Band who were meant to be performing even arrived!! Spectators were arriving still expecting to see a meeting. There was no signs telling fans the meeting was off, there were no handouts. We walked to the ticket booth to get a refund on our tickets and the whole place was locked up, the shutters were pulled down. The fans were treated with utter contempt and the organisers acted weakly by fleeing the stadium and leaving sheer chaos in their wake. I understand if the track was dangerous then the riders can’t race, I perfectly appreciate that but the organisers have a duty to ensure a surface is prepared that is acceptable. We paid £55 to change our flight to get home early, so in that sense we were fortunate to get away. I feel sorry for those who have stayed tonight, they must feel completely and utterly deflated. All in all it cost us around £320 each so a grand total of £960. That’s a fair chunk of money for a completely wasted journey.

Sickening crash, fingers crossed he's ok.

Trees, Radio Freo recently raised $2,500 for an enhanced broadband link that will let about 600 more people listen online. As your aware, the system couldn't cope with more than 70 last time!! Fingers croseed Nev and the boys will be back in 2009, the enthusiasm is still alive! Thanks Chris

After the progress made in 2007 it seems strange that information about 2008 Malaysian Speedway is not forthcoming. However, i'm sure something must be going on. By all accounts 2007 was a great success which appeared to have been prompted by significant investment. I'd be amazed if all this has gone to waste. There was a whole new circuit constructed, loads of bikes, kevlars, helmets, boots e.t.c purchased so kids racing their bikes on the road could now do it safely on a circuit. Plus a speedway themed cafe was placed in the centre of a main Malaysian city. Hope to hear something soon.

The Gillman decision does seem a strange one considering the club have made big efforts to enhance facilities. The crowd seemed pretty strong this year, and i'm led to believe it was even better in 2007. I'd imagine Sydney Showground will still be on the calendar after the superb night that concluded the series this year. Probably not likely, but it would be fantastic if someone took a risk and promoted a round at the Perth motoplex.

Whilst Mt Gambier is a decent race track there is no chance it would hold a GP. Like Ozyace says it's in the middle of nowhere and would be a logistical nightmare. In my opinion, if they made some slight alterations to the Sydney Showground track and were able to attatch an air fence to the corners they that would be a suitable venue for a round of the GP series.

Hi everyone from sunny Adelaide! Good news. Nev spoke to the radio station today who have agreed to double the bandwidth for the next broadcast from Gillman. The station had already increased the badwidth but were literally overwhelmed by the amount of hits and listeners, the figures look to be a record. We have been at the track today setting up in preparation for Wednesday and fingers crossed everything should be ok. Apologies for the problems with the first broadcast and thanks for sticking with us. Chris Seaward - speedway@radiofremantlelive.com www.radiofremantle.com www.myspace.com/radiofremantlelive