Seeing Luke,cooper and will on BSN is always a joy. So enthusiastic and loads of charisma. Great to see them progress. Darren Thompson dad of the twins is always brilliant with letting kids have photos on the bikes. I guess once the pressures of deadlines of getting to airports starts it unfortunately changes things.
Until speedway has a credible product it will be difficult to get the tv coverage it needs. You won’t attract a decent sponsor until the tv deal is in place.
we need two equal sized leagues with promotion and relegation so all meetings are relevant. Champions of the league decided by who tops the league and play offs for promotion and relegation.
for this to truly work it must be run by a independent board with financial backing for the teams getting promoted to not only survive but to actually compete with the others
Every speedway club last year lost money apart from Poole and Ipswich which is probably only down to extra play off meetings with large crowds.
this season there is no tv money so every club is £70k down before a wheel has turned. Sheffield have lost their main sponsor so that’s possibly another £20k down. Also the cost of starting up of Northampton is possibly being shared by the promotion too so further funding diminishing.
But the BSPL have a cunning plan. Simply cut the points limit and loose a few top riders while at the same time put up admission.
now this has been done about 28 times previously failing miserably and losing more disillusion fans each time so it’s very likely to work in 2026.
Mildenhall have got a air fence rather than the poly foam fence that Scunthorpe Lynn Berwick and Northampton use which is the biggest difference
and slightly worryingly have purchased the old air fence from Ipswich which is not fit to use as it’s over ten years old now.