PHILIPRISING

LET'S not forget that three Presidents of the Togliatti club were assassinated.

KEEP up ...

THE GTR is a completely new engine, nothing to do with GMs. Marcel has been a tuner ever since he quit racing.

WHAT a time to tell me that wth Christmas approaching...

DOYLE will probably win most races everywhere! Much easier British season ahead for him than in 2016.

APPARENTLY this one is over the limit. Hougaard definitely wanted to go to BV.

Jonas Kylmakorpi used one all season and had no problems and added that his service bills were dramatically reduced.

WHICH will no doubt come out in the wash once the immediate future of the Aces is secured. From what I am hearing the team that has been mentioned on a few posts here looks pretty accurate

SO many tuners at the least, many riders at all levels don't know anything more than how to fill in a programme. Astonishing.

VERY unlikely that Zagar will be back at Belle Vue. It was never on the cards for 2017 anyway and Holder has at least said he loves riding at the NSS.

THEY have

I THINK there is a lot of confusion on here about the possible future use of GTRs in Britain. It would be impossible to make them compulsory for all sorts of reasons, not least the fact that so many riders who race in other countries, not to mention international events, would wish to continue to use GMs, There is also the fact that Marcel Gerhard hasn't the funds to mass produce the engines that would be required. My understanding is that the BSPA could possibly underwrite the cost of producing a significant number of GTR engines that would then be made available (sold) to riders racing in the UK. They (BSPA) see this as a way of helping riders reduce their costs significantly over the course of a season, as has been the case with Freddie Lindgren. That would particularly benefit riders at the lower end of the scale who quite frankly cannot afford the service bills they incur during the course of a season. As long as the GTR is competitive, and Lindgren's performances suggest that it is, it will attract many who do not require the super-tuned ones currently favoured by those at the very top of the ladder. It will build its own niche market. GM, who apparently are now in the process of modifying their own product, will remain the number one engine of choice not least because only they, at present, can meet the demand.

HAVE been plenty critical of the BSPA, which is why we have such a fractured relationship with them as a body, but they take as much notice as they do the bsf.

AS I have said before, this isn't the time for upsetting the applecart at Belle Vue. Lots off delicate negotiating going on which will come out in the fullness of time and when the future of the stadium is secured for speedway we can examine what previously went wrong. Our prime concern now is for British speedway not to lose its most iconic name and an outstanding stadium. As for changes at the SCB, you obviously don't read SS otherwise you would know the answers to the questions you pose.

THERE isn't a supremo ... HAD it from good authority this week that Belle Vue speedway will continue into 2017 thanks in no small part to the prompt and decisive action of Buster Chapman.

IT'S not a supremo but a collective who endeavour to take a stronger grip on British speedway. Just the messenger here, time will tell.

HAVE done that many times. However, the new-look SCB which kicks in on January 1st, 2017, will adopt stronger authority over the BSPA that the previous set-up.

FROM what I understand the limit would be set at around 13,000 rpm and would only in practice kick in at the start line. You wouldn't need an engine revving at over 13,000 to get round the Rye House corners, or anywhere else for that matter, unless you had made a complete pig's ear of the gearing.

DO you actually read Speedway Star?

DOESN'T really answer the question of rev limiters which so many people do actually think would help bring down costs for riders. Peter Johns also makes many other good points about maintenance of engines which are hardly designed to increase his work load.

ONE man's opinion and all that but with respect think that possibly people like Peter Johns, Marcel Gerhard and Kelvin Tatum, to name but a few, actually do know better.

HAVE actually written quite a few 'editorials' (In My View) over the past few months and I don't think you will find any that toe the BSPA line.

I HONESTLY don't know but pretty sure it wouldn't have gone to BSPA. I imagine (no more) that it was to settle outstanding debts, probably including the Council, to ensure that the meeting could proceed.

THE thing about an editorial comment is that it is actually the view of the person who is writing it and not necessarily of the readership as a whole. A editorial in the Times, Telegraph or Daily Mail probably does reflect the views of their readership because that is why they buy that particular newspaper. I could probably write an editorial every week but why should the opinion of Philip Rising carry any more weight than anyone else. By previous experience, it certainly hasn't at the BSPA! AND I have never said I have a problem with that. I'm not that thin-skinned.

BUT at least I put my own name forward to be ridiculed.