Star Lady

Due to finish on Aug 12th so as long as you travel after that you will only hit the normal bottlenecks. If before pm me.

At Bell Vue last night the ref had obviously spoken to the riders before the meetings cos when a restart was called the pit gate remained closed and the riders went straight back to the tapes. That's how it should always be. Sadly the faffing about at the tapes did go on. 2 minutes should mean 2 minutes. Years ago the 2 minutes sounded and when the riders were in the tapes area if they didn't settle down the green light was flashed. If they still didn't settle many a ref stuck their exclusion light on. Riders coped then so why can't they now? Or is it all a cunning plan by promoters so the fans don't realise how little entertainment they actually see

Don't really care who it is as long as someone does it

Interesting that Tai and Rosco both alluded to a plan for the future. Question is - is it with the cooperation of the BSPA or inspite of them?

Which Ivesen would that be ?

Once again the speedway loving Poles sem to have found other things to do.

Hubby has just reminded me they also used the William Tell Overture at some point. My daughter says they also used the music the BBC use for their Golf coverage but we think that's after the time we are looking for.

I'm like you tellboy can hum it but can't name it. Pretty sure it was Trees that finally came up with the title. Have searched on Google and I'm almost certain it's the Old Comrades March but my memory does play tricks. If you google it multiple links come up so you can have a listen to confirm or not (not the German band tho ry one of the British ones). I also remember The Post Horn Gallop being played at Lynn but whether that was during Big Al's time I don't know. I've just searched on the unofficial Lynn forum and a thread there also suggested it was The Old Comrades March. I hope this helps. I have very fond memories of Alan Littlechild.

If you don't like the racing ,don't go. It's so simple a solution even I can manage it.

It will be interesting to see if Mr Lawrence is consistent on Saturday if Nicki P performs one of his more "interesting" moves.

Oh dear . Whatever you think of his decision tonight and, I think he got it wrong, he is gonna be wide open to accusations of bias. Would have been far better to have had a Swedish/Czech or any neutral referee.

Please tell me we have a Swedish ref on Saturday.

Monster error by Jim Lawrence

The argument between Racers & Royals and Alan Jones is nearly as interesting as that between Tony Olsen and Billy Hamill

Bet if tickets were £2 in Britain the place would be packed even without GB riding

Obviously the speedway loving Poles only love it when Poles are riding

I wonder if any regular Lynn attendees saw who was actually searching the bags. Was it regular NA staff? I can understand not allowing large cool boxes etc but on a scorching hot day (or even a cool one) everyone should be allowed to take one bottle of water in. It's not as if there are water fountains etc available inside is it. Surely access to water is a basic human right.

Racing slightly better tonight but possibly caused by the ruts in the track. Nrxt opinion please

I did enjoy seeing Kildeman behind the Czech and the Swede and not being able to get near enough to sideswipe them.

And this thread would have been 4 pages longer

c Agreed. It only needs a couple of problems -tapes or efs and they could be in trouble. The Latvians won't be a push over IMO. If Dryml gates he could spring a surprise or two and who knows what Milik will do. The Swedes I'm not sure about could be brilliant could be carp. As Event 1 didn't go to the expected (by everyone except Rosco) script who knows what tonight will bring.

Can't see a specific thread for this one apologies if I've missed it. Big question will the Danes go through or have they made a mistake thinking GB would go to the race off and not Australia. Other question is who will Nigel Pearson be touting for a British berth tonight?

After the first few races I thought Oh here we go again - boring. Delighted to be proved wrong after that. I've been a fan of PL for some time now, you don't need superstars to provide good racing and last night proved it. There was some brilliant racing, as someone else said track staff looked smart, even the empty back straight looked clean and tidy (perhaps doesn't close up but it did on TV). Two horrible crashes and I, and probably most others, thought the worst but Olly Allen has tweeted this morning that he is sore but OK and I've seen posted elsewhere that Andre Compton is OK and awaiting results of CT scan. Hopefully that's correct and neither have serious injuries. Someone must have been looking out for them last night if that's the case. Wishing a full and speedy recovery to both of them.

Must be my failing memory but the Sheffield track I remember and loved used to have loads of dirt on it. This tonight looks bare by comparison.

He's not tried to get Covatti a job tonight yet either!