piston197

Take them on with "bat and bike" ? i once saw a rider take on another with a shovel,entertaining ,but hardly a fair contest.

Nice to see Leigh fixed up ,even if only temporary,Rye have one of the best team men in their line up now,with a bit of luck they will soon see the benefits of keeping him in the team ,rather than letting him go as they did with Doyle.Can only make Rye a stronger team ,I say with no Wasps to support,good luck to both rye and Leigh.

Most point added to starting average: Todd Kurtz ( looks like he is up 2.5% already and the season has not even started yet)

patrality only counts with riders who were active in the conference league and had dual nationality status,due to their patrality,Newport Hornets had 2 last year,Todd Kurtz and Jay Herne,both of which were due a reduction for their British patrality,but apparently riding in the Australian championships and nailing your colours to the mast has upset the powers that be,can't see it myself,if you have,dual patrality,you have dual patrality,there are many instances of sportsman competing for different nationalities as the occasion suits

I too have heard the same thing and believe it to be true,but the BSPA website has asterisks against Werner and Tom Armstrong stating these averages are awaiting confirmation,but no asterisks against **** ***** of Newport,so if the strange ways of BSPA are to believed,then there is no problem with the Wasps team?? Watch this space,for more indecision from the dictators of Rugby

Could do with a couple of straights between the corners in my opinion,but maybe you recognise this yourself as your name "english roundabout" seems to suggest

He could always put £1 on entrance fee,and when you have 10 tickets swap them for one £10 share,with the "massive" gates we hear about should take about 20 weeks to sell the lot! perhaps i shouldn't have suggested it?

Just got back in,some good racing,some not so good, ,but some more interested than others,and to single out the triers Ashwoth,Howe,Schramm,and even Boxall and Hertzperg,while Lemon looked good out of the gate,he didn't look capable of passing water,I guess Howe was a popular winner I would still have liked a 16 strong field and a semi and final with top 2 points scorers to the final and next 4 to the semi,but the longer format would have caught the rain which hammered down as we were leaving the stadium,but all in all a good day out ,reasonable racing in difficult conditions,and out of season only got Telford's dancing on ice to compete with.No contest

not only is he not as good as his brother ,he can't even beat him in an ugliest face contest,and having seen his brother you would think it would be difficult not to!,Jokes aside,from his time with Isle of Wight he looked promising,at Newport he always looked likely to step up,but didn't,same at Somerset,marginal increases along the way ,but nothing like the early expectations,doesn't look better than a number 2 in a side ,but with Plymouth's record we could see him in a heat leader position sometime soon?

At the end of the day,the old adage "all publicity is good publicity" is not necessarily true,you only have to ask Gerald Rattner,I have used both sites at various times,a lot of times both appeared for various reasons to be a little late with news,results etc,but between these two,the british speedway forum and speedway updates coupled with the Wasp's hotline,i usually found out the info i was seeking.It's a pity this has descended to an a** kicking contest as both sites have their merits and users have their favourites .Both webmasters have to give up their time to run these sites,maybe a little less ego and a bit more co-operation might be the order of the day

Having watched Brent werner over the years,he could always be counted on to hold position if he made the gate,and could cover an overtake move as good as any,funny enough the races he won at Newport always seemed to be the slowest heats because he was difficult to overtake,problem only occurred when he missed the gate,just never seemed to be able to overtake anybody other than a struggling reserve in his latter years.Could be a good acquisition if he has his gating sorted out,but will probably struggle in the PL against most opposition if he is slow out of the trap.

Thoroughly enjoyed last nights action,great surface,some good racing and some good signs of things to come for the 2011 wasp's season,when you think the wasps scored 46 points between them in this company (yes i do know it was from more heats),but look at the level of competition the lower order faced,most of them top premier performers at least.Particularly pleased to see Mark Jones silencing some of his critics,all riders will have a period getting their bike set up under the new rules,but would be very surprised if even with these new set-ups the track record stands for long this season

Johhno was always entertaining (apparently both on and off the track),don't know if he was a team man or not ,but he appears to have more clubs than a pack of cards (one a year since 2003)maybe he was just making as much as possible from his last years ,and who can blame him,maybe he can now concentrate more on his sky tv work ,and maybe we can reap the benefit by seeing less of Kelvin? and more of Johhno,i would like to think so!

Having been to the Telford ice racing,speedway it ain't more like dancing on ice with bikes! however there is a good event almost next door (sat 12th and sun 13th) at telford,the off road show (speedway,grass,scrambles,trials ,road racing,autojumble etc)fabulous show last year and thats where i will be again this year,if i can't wait till March,i can always,go to queensway meadows for a sunday training session,it's better than the ice racing

With the exception perhaps of the two bodies found dead on the A449 and the M5,

I also took the scenic route through Chepstow and Tintern back to Ross-on Wye,apparently the body of a "unamed 59 year old man" was found on the roadside,unfortunately the police temporarily closed both carriageways causing some spectators to be delayed coming as well (my friend from Cheltenham detouring through Usk and not arriving until heat 5!)Nice to see Mainman prepared to look at the comments,tannoy in the stands no problem,but my son and i chose not to bother with the food queue,not eating until getting back at 5pm presumably others did the same,so some revenue must have been lost here.Otherwise an excellent day of out of season racing,all credit to everyone concerned