Jonny the spud

Come on boys !!!!!

Looking at the islanders string of injuries this year. I'm amazed they've done this well. Their team now looks nothing like the starting 7 and most riders have missed a meeting or two with injuries. It's a credit to the riders and management that they've managed to keep a competetive team in the hunt throughout the season.

Well done Kent. Deserved win my first time at this track and it was a bit worrying that the base of the track was showing through the shale after heat one on the first bend. Is this normal ?

It's 5-30am French time ( 4-30 UK time) and I'm just setting off for this match. Hope the weather stays good.

Believe me he doesn't. We can't afford it !

I'm sure if I asked Mitch he'd lend one but Adam's all set up for GM's now

Not tuned. No special parts. Just put together right

Aren't all these 2014 threads jumping the gun a bit considering the league set ups haven't been thrashed out yet ? If there is a minimum Brit rule / combined EL-PL, I can see a lot of clubs pulling back there assets to cover themselves.

Powerful engine ? Adam Ellis scored 13 points last week on a €800 eBay engine

My 17 year old son is six foot tall and still growing. I think he weighs about 68-70 kg which isn't light. He raced against Dimitri Berge in the French 250 grass track championships and was at a bit of a disadvantage as Dimi is knee high to a grasshopper and weighs 51 kgs.

It doesn't help riders trying to attract sponsors if they can't say where / what league they'll be riding in either.

after being taken out heavily in his second ride and with the abysmal state of the stoke track which saw many fallers he decided to pull out He did drive to Glasgow and after being unable to find a hotel ended up sleeping in the van. Hardly ideal preparation but he's up for it.

When is the AGM to decide what's happening next year in terms of leagues etc ?? With the end of this season fast approaching, riders / sponsors etc will need to sort out affairs for next year so will there be any sense of urgency from the powers that be ?

Depends if you're the one going into a bend at 70mph with no vision I suppose.

It's a vicious circle. People bemoan the lack of English talent while sponsors throw money at foreigners. Young Brits will get there if given a fraction of the backing that overseas riders get.

I was following the Kent official twitter feed. There were fallers / tape breakages in each of the first six heats plus restarts for broken tapes in heat 4&6 I got fed up trying to follow it. All I asked is why there seems to be so many fallers at the Kent track every week

You missed my point. Twitter is faster than the updates site. I got fed up as apart from heat 7 which had RR. every other heat has either had a re start or a fall. I don't know of any other track that has so many fallers.

Tried following the match on twitter but I think every heat has had a stoppage of some kind. Got fed up in the end. What is it at Kent. It's like that every week

Can someone explain the point in making the track completely different between practice and racing ? Why bother with practice in the first place if you're gonna bloody change it !!

The amount of times he's ridden round there he should do !

what's the weather report for tomorrow ?

How about Ellis, Howarth and Jacobs ? Well I can dream can't I ?

How comes nearly every speedway thread soon descends into an almost train spotting level of percentages and averages ? I fear my son has got into this sport at a time where it's just about to disappear up its own exhaust pipe with an almost lemming like tendency to shoot itself in the foot as far as over complicated rules go

My son (Adam Ellis ) represented GB in the U21's in both Italy and Poland this year. Did he even stand half a chance of breaking even, let alone making any money ??? No chance. But in our mind its international experience and should be grabbed with both hands, and if you don't like travelling then you're in the wrong sport. With the GB test being held in the UK it does look as if cook could be shooting himself in the foot as far as future selection may go. Time will tell I suppose

I'm stuck 1,000 kms away but this is a match I'd love to have seen