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Looks promising ? old firm wound up due to not filing with companies house, new firm started should see that hurdle overcome, just got to hope that any rider that the previous admin held Visa rights for, can be transferred as quickly to the new company, looks like only one rider is subject to this problem, even if the Visa issue is not sorted, it is beginning to look like Worky can be back, with possible R/R or guest ( if allowed ?

Tony Atkin, probably the last of the full time speedway riders to have a full time job throughout his career in both speedway and Grasstrack Tony Atkin - Speedway-stats.co.uk Tony Atkin Born Chester, Cheshire, 8th April 1966 Top Grass-track exponent who was British 350cc champion before having initial shale outings at Stoke in 1986. Returned to the speedway circuits in 1993 at Wolverhampton where he held down a reserve berth for much of the season, and played a similar role when moving to Bradford last term. Made his Owlerton debut on August 18, 1994 when finishing runner-up (12 points) to Peter Scully in the Young Guns Individual meeting. Joined Sheffield on the eve of the season. Off-track he runs an office cleaning business in his home town.

Tim passed away and a bunch of muppets took over the running, sounds like a fair assumption to me, there was a consortium headed by Phil Morris who were keen to take over, the council wanted speedway to continue, but the promotion did everything in their power to make sure it did not, a mysterious fire did not help either ? Phil Morris , given his position in world speedway would probably thank them for that now !! You can state that there are interested parties willing to carry on with speedway at the Venue...... Morris remains interested in bringing speedway back to Queensway Meadows and has an unnamed “experienced promoter” backing him. But he can’t save his local team unless Sydney & London’s demolition bid is quashed and has called on speedway fans to fight the club’s corner. Details as follows:

One thing we should be grateful for is, Northside is a magnificent track, and the stadium has wonderful potential for development through eventual installation of lighting and some spectator cover. Unlike the permanent loss of places such as Wolverhampton, Peterborough, etc, Northside will be there, and can hopefully push on and up again, after this unfortunate situation is resolved Newport ( Queensway meadows) was still there, had everything in place, lights, stands, safety fence, long lease, no curfews or restrictions, and look what happened there !

What you can see is 2 other companies both in Andrew Bain's name where they have both been threatened with action and then dissolved, one where his occupation is "Director" and one where his occupation is "Labourer "

Yes agreed, but giving them the option of a couple of practice laps and being able to adjust gearing, carburation & timing on a standard tune/standardised horse power, rev limited engine would allow adjustment for grip/spin in those basic set-ups to alter the suitability according to the riders weight/height/ability

Here is how the Karting world do it with the club 100 Junior Britain class perhaps the promoters should look at this model, all riders on the same kit,? but maybe mechanics allowed to alter sprockets, timing carburettor settings only, on the day, each rider given a standard bike at the start of the event and allowed a couple of laps to see how the track behaves, before making the basic changes to timing/gearing/jetting prior to racing CLUB100 Junior/Senior Karts All the karts are race prepared before each day’s events by a top team of mechanics and test drivers, no expense is spared to ensure the equipment performs to it’s full potential, leaving it down to the driver to make the difference! The Karts All the karts are race prepared before each day’s events by a top team of mechanics and test drivers, no expense is spared to ensure the equipment performs to its full potential, leaving it down to the driver to The Karts All the karts are race prepared before each day’s events by a top team of mechanics and test drivers, no expense is spared to ensure the equipment performs to its full potential, leaving it down to the driver to

These minority sports got sorted out Through Matchroom, Hearn is also involved in many sports including boxing, snooker, darts, pool, tenpin bowling, golf, table tennis and fishing. Providing the product to mainstream TV means the public watch and follow and be prepared to attend these previously ignored minor sports, selling a poor product via a pay to view stream or a TV franchise which needs subscription will never promote the product successfully as you are only looking at an existing/shrinking fan base .

Not sure this will have any relevance, but it is very close to the date ? NORTHSIDE SPEEDWAY TRAINING TRACK LIMITED Company number 04261535 Follow this company CompanyOverviewfor NORTHSIDE SPEEDWAY TRAINING TRACK LIMITED (04261535) Filing historyfor NORTHSIDE SPEEDWAY TRAINING TRACK LIMITED (04261535) Peoplefor NORTHSIDE SPEEDWAY TRAINING TRACK LIMITED (04261535) Morefor NORTHSIDE SPEEDWAY TRAINING TRACK LIMITED (04261535) Registered office address 64 Moorpark Avenue, Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom, CA2 7LZ Company status Dissolved Dissolved on 17 June 2025

Last had a chat with him at Ledbury grass track, still has his sense of humour though ! I well remember him singing the night away in the Bonanza scramble/trial/grasstrack marquee especially his favourite song, "The hole in the elephant's bottom" Raymond Crooke - The Hole in the Elephant's Bottom lyrics

I will probably be taken out by tripping over my slippers The thought of watching Cyril Jones bouncing down the grass tracks around the country, going end over end through the ropes, and getting up and walking away, now sadly in a wheelchair after falling down the stairs in the dark a number of years ago !

When you look at the Trophy you will see Sam Hagon's name on it twice in the last 2 years, there will be no comments section engraved on the cup. It is a case of "how many" not "how", you could say he was lucky, but I have found the harder you work, the luckier you get ! It is not his fault the system is set up for a winner takes all final, but it was there for all 4 riders to take advantage of, you just have to accrue enough points to get to the final, then in the most important race you need to want it more, and make your own "luck"

Newport ( R.I.P)

If you are going to have a deciding heat to determine a win, then one nominated rider from each side, one wins, one loses would suffice, the stupid 4-3-2-1 points fiasco where one side can win the meeting by finishing 2nd/3rd is a daft idea, even if you put 4 riders out on track, then the winning side should be the side whose rider wins the decider .

I used to hear the argument with pre 65 trials bikes, people were spending £12,000 building trick Ariel HT5's which got the weight down to around 210Lbs for a 500cc bike which would normally weigh above 300Lbs, alloy rims, alloy replica Whitton Bantam hubs with plated brake surface, tubeless tyres, modern lightweight fork internals in Norton sliders, PVL ignition, 350cc flywheels, carbon fibre primary cases, sintered alloy barrel with chrome liner and Yamaha XT 350 piston, alloy guards/levers/bars, NEB clutch foam pad seat etc. etc. Then saddle it with a 14 stone rider !, sometimes the cheapest option would be to lose 3 stone off the rider ?