Ray Stadia

A very popular rider, Neil Copestake has sadly passed away. I knew of him, rather than knew him, but I do know he was well known in the Grass Track scene. RIP

I suppose they could use a foamfence?

Wiki says he died in Ipswich, so maybe Ipswich hospital. However, the East Anglian Daily Times, has a picture of Olle walking along Felixstowe seafront (near Ipswich), so I don't know?

I live in Ipswich and am embarrassed to say, I didn't know he lived here. RIP Mr Nygren

I hope they will be using heavy heavy duty cable for the cars? If a car goes into a support, it could surely bring the lot down!

The Olympic Stadium or Wembley?

Looks dodgy for both cars and bikes!

It looks as though they have laid a tarmac track, so if speedway was to happen, surely it would have to be a temporary track, 'Cardiff style'?

The Rayleigh Rockets moved to Rye House in 1974. At least (apart from a few years break), Rye House have had a speedway track for more years than Rayleigh had. An idea, to keep some kind of 'Castrol R' sport alive in the area, would be to run some Grasstracks in Hertfordshire. Hertfordshire is quite rural, so there must be a field available somewhere. There used to be a great track in Ware, but due to some Roman ruins under the field, was stopped. They have run, recently, events at Ugly, but the original great track they had there, can't be used anymore, due to land slip or something, so they use a field which is quite small. However, a few years back, I did see James Shanes blast round there and on the small track, he was brilliant! From a 'Grasstrack springboard', maybe a new track can be found, eventually.

Maybe 'Steve' is the same guy, who was going to bring speedway back to Milton Keynes?

I would imagine some tracks dream, to get 600 through the turnstiles!

However, the contestant may have a dilemma if the question was about Tai...'hmm, is he Australian or is he British?'.

I said year's ago, the survival of speedway in Britain, will be a 'track in a field' and maybe we aren't far away from that fact. You will still get people who want to support the sport, probably the same number of people who have been supporting it up until now. Also, league racing would need to go and have individual meetings instead. Perhaps, if it took off from that base, the sport could creep back into some decent stadiums.

I think there is some kind of legal protection/tie-in for the stadium. I believe some of the locals would love to see the stadium go, but it is fairly well protected.

Actually, Ipswich Town football stadium is owned by the council.

Hi John, hope you are well. Yes, but to be fair, the state of speedway's stadiums has been discussed many times on here, for all the years since I joined this forum. While speedway remains in the doldrums, that isn't going to change. I imagine the watchword for British speedway at the present time, is survival!

I wonder if 'Fortythirtyeight' is 'Philip Rising' incognito?

It surely has to be the case, going forward, riders expecting promoters to give them big bucks to turn up and ride, will, in many respects go. The money just won't be there, not sure it really was there anyway. The current situation, could mean, promoters 'setting out their stall' in a 'reboot' way and looking at things from a fresh angle, with the emphasis on the sports survival.

Out of interest and maybe it's already been mentioned, but are any riders/teams practicing at their tracks at the moment? I know there was grass track practice in Suffolk yesterday, which apparently went well. Obviously adhering to the rules. I imagine spectators weren't allowed.

I agree. But the government should never have imposed such a draconian lockdown. I can still see Bojo standing behind the lectern telling us we had all been very naughty and saying we had to hibernate. No proper plan, no proper thought. Sod the old folks in the old peoples homes, sod the economy, just take pressure off the NHS, at the cost of everything else! Shambles! And now they realise their mistake, but are having difficulty convincing many people, to come out of their air raid shelter!

If you give a baby the name 'Priti', you are gambling that your daughter is not going to be ugly!

There are ladies on this forum too! (just in case any of the sisters are offended!).

The trouble is, while I agree, if everyone was safe distancing, where's the harm? But the police may take a different view and the authorities don't want us to create our own 'workarounds' or us 'pushing the envelope'. They have presented their message in a black and white way and they want us to adopt it in a black and white way, not bending the rules. Don't get me wrong, I'm as frustrated as everyone else with these draconian measures.

I can....please see my post, 5 or 6 back!

I had to go to the bank last week, Barclays and NatWest. Obviously I had to queue outside. While in each queue, I witnessed a gaggle of men, around 2 maybe 3, shaking the hand of someone in the queue. Nobody said anything, including me. If I had said something, I could end up having an argument or worse, which would ramp up the danger for us all who were in the queues. By the way, not sure if this is significant, but in both cases the men spoke in a foreign language.