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I know that, just can't get my head how we've always had wet meetings, yet just lately, it seems as though the whole speedway scene has suddenly turned into sugar, the first drop of rain in the forecast and we are doomed!!! Can't get wet, we'll all melt!! Just dissapointed that no effort has been made to get this meeting on, if it's skys call, then that is just plain and simply wrong.....

A drying breeze, a good trackman, should be able to cope with today....

Rain radar not so convinced that no rain will fall until 11pm...... We shall have to see....

Think he means Peter Kil®erman®

The rain arrived around 4/4.30 this morning and is due to clear to showers around 10/11am. Brandon could end up catching all the showers this afternoon and evening or none of them... I'm not saying it's the wrong call, just to early... Speedway has been ridden in all sorts of weather over the years, it's just now it seems it's a sunshine only sport, unless it's absolutely spot-on, sky aren't interested....

The semi final qualifying scores were probably the highest I have ever seen in a GP in its current format. Poor Janowski missing out on 9 points! Sometimes 7 gets you in.... What is the lowest score from 5 rides that could get you a semi final, and what technically is the highest non qualifying score possible, are these known quantities? I am sure I have seen a 6 get in before, never remember a 9 not qualifying.......

Nothing changed except it was British lads scoring 9,11, 15 points from reserve, instead of foreign ringers!! So it was better...?

The weather for Monday is not such a wash-out as it was 24 hours ago.... Trying to forecast T100 is a very loose prediction, to get a reasonably accurate forecast, T24/T36 is much more accurate.... (T) hours to forecast time...

Just wondering. Will the FTR'S current club get first dibs?

So, the fact that it was a bank holiday fixture, rained off and hastily rearranged for 3 days later, on a school night, had no bearing on the size of the crowd? Blimey!! Even track staff were at a premium because it was rearranged for the Thursday, for God's sake!! Unbelievable....!!

Less than 24 hours left now, still time to own it.....

To be fair, the way you say costs around £60 means you can't afford to go on a regular basis, is not a problem unique to Leicester.. if you lived roughly the same distance from any Elite League circuit the "nights cost" would be roughly the same... This is a speedway issue, not A Leicester Speedway issue.. The racing at BP is improving, as the banking increases, the depth and density of the racing surface beds and settles and also gets a fair bit of rubber granules mixed in. However, it could be so much better, but I think Leicesters place is in the Elite League, or the top division, whatever it's called...

Can I listen to Wolves v Lions on a dab radio? If I can, where will I find it?

Doh!! Speed against wheelspin makes more sense... Finding the optimum top end straight line speed, whilst still being able to get out the gate and to the first corner first without killing the motor...

"GPS" for "racing lines" Is GPS really that sensitive? A metre left, metre right? Surely can't be that sensitive?

Team riding, you remember, 2 riders from the same team, riding together in close proximity, bossing the lines, race speed to gain that all important 5-1 or in some cases a 3-3 by keeping the opposition behind them.... Don't see a lot of it these days, what are the main reasons? Is it mostly lost forever?

Well done Bomber, if only you could produce this form more often in the GP series....

But in these meetings glory days, the regular league meetings had finished and the ELRC/BLRC/PLRC meetings were held in October..... Not early ruddy September!!

Why not have a bar on the track behind the wheels, all riders have to have their rear wheels in contact with it until the tapes rise....? Can't roll back because of the bar, can't roll forward, they will touch the tapes..... Sorted for less than the price of a couple of tyres!! Unless an ex rider sticks his nickname on it!!!

Per Olef Seranius, watched him live and in the flesh at the 1985 world ice racing final at Assen, Holland... A real frightening sight to see in full flight!!!

Doesn't it say riders must be stationery under the green light?

You are bang on there, he did guest regularly towards end of season, a lot thought he would be Bees bound at the end of last season...... Quality rider with bright future if he can stay focussed and injury free..

Totally agree, getting ridiculous now, either go/don't go... If you want to criticise, then fair enough, but be critical.. but where you are critical, what other could be done to alleviate the problem you're critical of.. With the conditions tonight as they were, thought it was a decent meeting.. obviously we would prefer the Sun shining, 23C, riders according to programme, free beer and a close meeting, a bit of passing, bit of controversy, with a home win...!! But it's not like that, 99.5% of the time, it can't be.

This type of set up guarantees this type of shower... but hard to predict when/where, and they can do lots of track damage in short time Windows..

Infra red res says another 10/15mins then clear....