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Racing at most, if not all tracks is processional in the early heats, that is always brought up on Sky transmissions!! Not until a dirt line has been built up on the last third of the track do you get any passing, other than sporadic overtakes from other riders mistakes..

Ray Wilson also had that terrible crash on the exit of turn 4, if memory serves me correctly, Dougie Underwood was also involved.. Wilson broke his Femur in that crash as he slid under the fence and got trapped under the hare rail on the dog track! He moved to Birmingham after that crash, he was never the same rider again.....

That's probably not far from the truth!! As the track and surrounds were being built/laid, the associated rubble/rubbish is dragged along on the uncompleteted track until they got to the last section, bend 3 & 4, they were probably running out of the recommended track substrate and literally ran out, and also buried the "rubble" under the shale on 3 and 4, and that could be the underlying problem, pardon the pun!

Wrong.

I was working on the first corner, if I remember correctly, didn't Ricard Hellsen have an ef directly in front of Cook, and Cook skewed into the fence trying to avoid him? I know he was thrown a long way!! I also seem to remember Mike Lanham having a carbon copy accident, Hellsen May have been involved again, and Lanham was thrown a very long way and was really badly injured, multiple fractures and all sorts of internal damage.. He never rode again, I saw him in the 90's at the fours, still needed a sling for one of his arms, lucky to be alive I think..

Are Cov allowed a guest for Woryna, or is it a squad replacement or R/R?

Absolutely spot on............ As it is now, the first sign of rain, anywhere near the track, and people think it's gonna get cancelled, abandoned, heat 10'd... That "seed" of doubt is well and truly planted in supporters noggins, and they don't attend. The few that do attend, rattle around in a half empty stadium and then the staging promoter decides to cancel early the next meeting on a mildly "iffy" forecast that doesn't materialise, and the evening turns out nice, and that haemorrhages more supporters who lose interest with no speedway, they try some other event/sport/cinema or save the cash and go to Cardiff, knowing it's a banker... Also social media can be great for garnering new spectators/fans, but equally it can damage the sport with so many negative, and sometimes damn right nasty/rude/spiteful posts about speedway and its problems especially unnecessarily cancelled meetings. Promoters should do everything in their power to get meetings on, not look for reasons to not run..

If it takes a man a week to walk a fortnight, how many sticks of rhubarb does it take to make a rabbit pie?

Where is his original statement about the crash the other night?

Where/when has Rory said this then?

Colin Cook in full flight on the pits bend at Blackbird Rd if I'm not mistaken??

Weather Forecast: Well, unbelievably, it's a good one!! Sunny spells, chance of an isolated shower. Temps around 12c come the evening will feel pleasantly comfortable with little or no breeze. All Systems Go! (as they say)

I know what you mean, at Leicester on Saturday, there was a rider there that was not in either the Leicester or Belle Vue line up, we did have a MDL encounter, Long Eaton Invaders v Belle Vue Colts after the EL match. I will not name him, I don't want to embarrass the lad, but he had a fairly new, fully sign written van, with: First Name, Surname RACING emblazoned all over the van. Now, I am not knocking the fact he had a van, but it just goes to show how the younger generation of would be riders prioritise equipment!!

Yea, good nails are expensive, think I'll try "No More Nails" in a tube!! But how do you add a picture to a topic....? I have seen one or two, or is it only a select few that can do it?

A bold statement, so how do you see the future structure of speedway in the UK then? The split/difference between amateur and professional, there still will be a professional level of speedway in the UK, but how do you see it??

That was a good example of why it should not of been cancelled earlier. The band of rain could easily have stayed exactly where it was a 3pm, it was touch and go wether or not it moved north.... And in the end it did nudge north and caused Coventry to be rained off, but it was a knife edge forecast... And it just, and I do mean only just went against Coventry..

And that is the problem, Doyley let rip when Wolverhampton called off late, dry day, threat of rain, that did arrive, but surely, as a professional rider, you get your kit ready, and travel to a meeting and if it is called off, well, you made the effort to go to work.... Obviously, there are occasions when a weather forecast is absolutely set in stone, and a club calls it off at lunchtime on the day, but it should NEVER be called off 24/48/72 hours before start time based on a forecast that at best, that far ahead is only ever going to be 10, maybe 15% accurate.. Speedway has turned into oval road racing, no dirt, no bumps, and heaven forbid no wet shale!!

I know it is, but 450 spectators? That's got to be borderline on run/not run? At, and I agree, Scunney is a great little racetrack, done a few laps there myself, but if they can only attract 450 spectators, and I bet there's a few in there for free, how can they survive? Or, say 1,000 at an Elite League track... Something has to be done, and done quickly, otherwise we won't have a sport left....!! I don't have any answers, except, I can't believe how many people I bump into through my work, haven't heard of, or know what speedway is, but don't know where there local track is!! I kid you not....

Ok, so if the Premier League is so much better to watch, cheaper to get in, closer racing, the place to be.... How come that Scunthorpe, who supposedly have the best racing track in the UK for close racing, why did their match against Peterborough on Sunday 10th April 2016 (yesterday) Only attract a crowd of around 450 spectators??? This really needs answering.....

Sorry, didn't make myself clear, a picture into an actual post...

Ooooooh, errrrrrrrrrr!!!! Just clicked on the speedwayp link at the bottom, so far so good, then clicked on "no brakes uk" link, and it directed me to a very, very, very RUDE, EXPLICIT, NAUGHTY SEX SITE!!!! Thats not good, not suitable for anyone under 30 yrs old!!!!!!!!!!!

If Auty or Starke, or both get Knocks, we're really stuffed down the drain and a hard place!!

How to get a picture on here?

When I was younger, I used to really look forward to going to the speedway, if the weather was iffy, the conversations were about which team would adapt better to a heavy track, would the rain give the advantage to the visiting team, a leveller, would any of our riders be able to find their gating gloves... It was never, well, this will be cancelled because we've had a bit of rain, we looked forward to seeing a different kind of meeting.. We never expected a rain off, we always looked forward to a different kind of meeting..