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There are other comparison websites as well..

At Leicester, Lynn and Peterborough and I think most tracks in the 70's, 80's and most tracks, were graded manually (rakers) from kickboards to the inside over the racing lines between every race, and the tractor was out grading the raked back dirt in between every race.... Now it seems takers only flick the dirt from the kickboards out a metre maximum and the track only gets tractored around evey 3/4 races..... Anyone know the reason for this reduction in track grading? I would like your thoughts on this and views/thoughts from any riders/promoters/curators out there on this forum............

Dirt? To Much/to Little, Right/wrong Shale, Water, To Much/to Little? The Curator? Have Your Say... Right, everyone's thoughts, solutions, Complaints...... Mod Note: Please note the 'topic title' area is for a title only, not the whole post!

Who'd be a referee! Perhaps it's time to bring technology to the sport, especially for race starts.. Transponders on bikes? That would also generate accurate race times.. Would it be easier to let everyone roll at the start rather than preventing one from rolling? Don't know the answer except it's easy to punish the "perfect start" as we've seen as well.... Don't forget, the "first bend bunching, all four back" rule doesn't actually exist!! That's just a situation that's been handled like it is now for years and is totally at the referees discretion, just how far round the first bend it covers is also discretionary....... The referee doesn't have to exclude anyone, at any point of a race, apparently, but they always do once the first bend bunching area has been negotiated...... The above issues seem to be the most talked about and frequently got wrong by the modern referee, so let's see some serious suggestions/ideas to help cut the times these desisions are incorrectly made....

It's a motorsport..... But unusual as there's individual racing and team racing.....

So, what would you do to try and improve the consistency of refereeing? Everyone sees races/incidents from different positions and viewing angles, would it be better with 2 meeting referees? One in the usual place and one on the centre green? Or is it just inexperience or poor training to blame....?

Slow down the bikes, add more dirt, ban all exotic materials, dump the joker, but most of all, the Elite League and Premier League need to work together!!! As it stands they never agree on anything.. until that happens nowt will or will be allowed to change.. At the moment, it's like Rugby League and Union, or WBF and WBC, constantly agreeing to disagree...

Anyone know any good pubs in Leicester that show Speedway on a big screen on a regular basis? Lots show the footie, but trying to find Speedway pubs is difficult... Cheers Shale Searcher