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What’s the story behind this?

Whilst your point of two teams operating at Birmingham and thus providing greater rental income is understandable, but as you recognise, in reality it the combined income would still be insufficient to support the total running costs of the facility. As for the council broadening the uses at the stadium, what other activities are there that would generate sufficient income to cover the speedway shortfall?

Their involvement is to acquire content for their TV channels and generate income from advertising & sub-licensing. Unfortunately unlike other sports shown on TV such as football/Rugby/Cricket/Darts/Snooker/MotoGP/etc. there is insufficient money involved to actually feed down to grass roots or actually promote & grow the sport to a wider audience.

Unfortunately a none goer from the start as no TV company would see any financial benefit in doing as you suggest. The reason? Besides running stadiums is not their core activity, to buy Brandon, remove the existing derelict building & then build something capable of holding a GP akin to BV would cost in the region of ten million pounds. This type of investment would require a return (profit) of at least one million pounds per year before inflation - which of course is just not feasible.

There was no insider trading simply because it was a deal done between two private companies. One, who had originally acquired the stadium for housing development but had a change of plan plan and one (another developer) who was offered the stadium/land when the incumbent ran out of available capital. What followed from then up to the present day is well known. 🤷‍♂️ One things for sure is that a tv company would not be remotely interested in acquiring Brandon to stage one or two GP meetings.

Maybe the subsidy by from the Welsh tourist board has finished or been dramatically reduced to make the event unviable. Local businesses are going to suffer unless some other event gets booked in. Also it shows the way not to address the problem of declining attendance is to shove the prices up way beyond inflation. BV need to take heed - no guarantee of the meetings being a sell out as both will be on TV & should price tickets to pass on the benefit of their fixed costs now being spread across two meetings instead of just the one intended.

Huh? Loads of city centre hotels with available rooms for Friday at £150.00 and £350 Sat/sun on booking.com

Is it the presumption that the example used to clarify the scenario is where the British riders actual average is initially higher than that of the overseas rider but once the discount is applied the adjusted average becomes lower?

You are correct that Lawson has an higher average than the no. three's at Ipswich & The Aces....but well off their respective top two riders who he will meet in three of his four programmed rides...plus heat 15! Similarly, ten points maybe possible in some meetings, but they have six riders who could also score six point each....However, they will always have a strong number six which may help matters. Overall, whilst its good to see the Stars having a more reliable look about them than in 2024 a play off place may be just beyond their reach...but will cause one or two upsets.

Haven't they already said land is available, just that other matters have to be considered and overcome before any progress can be made. Equally, if they did say "no land available" then there is not a lot of options open for anyone else to "have a go" as, "no land available " means "no land available". However, keep the faith as sometimes, where there is a will, there is a way, as per the eventual return of speedway to Leicester, even though it took 28 years for it to happen!

To get the top 3 scoring 30/35 points per meeting means that they will each average around 10 from four rides, with additional points coming from whatever happens in heat 15. To put that target it into perspective, the three riders with the highest averages last season in the Premiership when totaled was a tad over 28 points per meeting and with the best will in the world it is hard to imagine the Tigers top 3 being higher than that number. Tigers more than likely to have a good home season (but not 100%) and will struggle on the road due to their bottom four lacking real scoring power - They will get a few aggregate bonus points however and should just about scrape into the play-offs.

It would be indeed silly to offer him any amount of money!

He’s equally as good around Leicester.

Why would he score more points at Brum? Over the season he would race against the same opponents be it at Leicester or Brum