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There’s direct flight from Perth which takes 17 hours. Or via Asia stop offs such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur or Hong Kong all served by Qantas.

Think about what you have said. in one breath you state UK can’t afford top riders then mention Kvech & PHB who can only ride in the UK because they will ride on Mondays & Thursdays. Also please consider that having NDL riders in same meetings or even races as the two aforementioned is in no way the best approach to providing competitive racing and confidence development of younger riders.

Fair to say that the math of combining current teams doesn't lead to many more team than the current five of the top flight - well, eight to be precise. Then the number of quality available riders run out. Remember the two current leagues exist at the moment because a good number of riders ride for two clubs in the two different leagues which would disappear if there was to be only one league.

I was focusing on one league made up of quality riders including those who would ride in GP's and/or Poland. so riders of a NDL standard and current lower second strings championship would be uncompetitive. Thus, as you well know, Mondays and Thursday would be the only days available for teams to field "top riders". I totally agree that one league could be made up excluding riders who ride in Gp's and or Poland as well as are of Scandinavian nationality and instead have teams including NDL & lower second string championship riders. But frankly, such low quality, and teams of 4, 5 or six riders is not the answer as a way to develop the sport.

Of how many teams? and remember, no doubling up and (if teams of seven) meeting only on Monday & Thursday

Of how many teams? and remember, no doubling up and (if teams of seven) meeting only on Monday & Thursday

Great final, was there too on back straight about ten rows from the front opposite the start/finish line. Penhall v Olsen & Knudsen absolute classic races.

He might no be far off the mark considering at the time of the last Wembley world finals 25k would buy a decent house. The promoters may not have made enough to buy one from scratch but many mortgage's could have been paid off. Just imagine today, a sold out Wembley for speedway would create a minimum of £5 million in revenues - Although typical sold out events there generate upwards towards £11 million. we can dream!

Understood. Onwards & upwards. 🤞

In the main the football foundation & FA look to support amateur football clubs at national level local level. If your proposal was to use a football clubs ground/facility to incorporate a speedway track, then so long as you were not expecting the club to use funds via the FA/Football foundation to finance the new track or associated facilities then there is no immediate reason why the football club would not be entitled to either apply for new or continue with existing funded projects. I appreciate I am not aware of the full circumstances relative to your dealings with the two clubs and the devil maybe in the detail, but it might well be worth asking them what the specifics are as “ground sharing” by itself is not a restrictive issue to funding. Good luck.

Think you’ve been fed a line there. Ground sharing with another sport does not automatically stop a football club in the UK from receiving funding from the Football Association or the Football Foundation In many cases, it is actively encouraged. However one of the qualifying criteria is that the funding must be football led I.e in the case of new changing rooms they should be suitable for the football club to benefit from first and foremost.

Premier runs Monday & Thursday. Championship on other days. It’s how doubling up works

Couldn’t agree more. It’s the promoters job to promote fixtures which they and their fellow BSPL members have the responsibility to arrange & publish. Clearly at this moment they are failing miserably- but it’s not the riders fault which was the point I originally made.

It’s not the riders responsibility to put bums on seats. That the responsibility of the promoter who has two key tasks. 1. Build a competitive team. 2. Promote the team/fixtures. Clearly a winning team puts bums on seats - even more if well promoted. The riders have two key tasks. 1. Ensure they have competitive bikes. 2. Race to the best of their ability. Obviously it helps the promotion if the riders avail themselves to PR activities which most do willingly.

Becker not available anyway as he has already signed to ride in three countries.

Becker has already said he will not be available to ride in UK in 2026.

But there's no intention of claim by the developers to include a track in their plans.

So this is a proposal for the development of the old speedway/greyhound stadium? Meanwhile any news on the proposed “new” speedway facility?

There are only a few established riders who do not double up. Those that don’t (putting aside those who ride in other countries in addition to UK) are by and large riders starting out. One league would not mean additional meetings because there would only be eight professional clubs (it’s the math of riders available).

Well you may not buy it, but you need to consider the realty of what one league means in terms of earnings. Assuming rates of pay remain the same then one league would mean a rider such as Howarth would lose at best 35% of his current pay but in reality more likely 50%. So quite reasonable that in such circumstances a rider would need to quit the sport to take up full time employment and no, in today’s job market, unlike yesteryear there is far less opportunity for a family man like Kyle to double up with conventional employment and riding speedway.

If there was no Premiership- but only one “senior” league running on something like a 38 - 40 point limit then that league would consist of no more than eight (maybe nine) teams simply because of a lack of suitable riders. And to be clear, this is not a personal opinion, just an outcome of the math involved. One thing to be sure of …. The eight or nine surviving teams would not all come from this year’s Championship.

Other than it would take a significant amount of cash to get to a level where it conforms to FIM standards.

License’s are issued by the Speedway Control Board (SCB) not BSPL.

License’s are issued by the Speedway Control Board (SCB) not BSPL.

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