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British final 2020
OveFundinFan replied to Nassa10's topic in Speedway Testimonials & Individual and Shared Events
The few are those who not only disagree with what an elected government is advising, but is actively demonstrating with their actions they are ignoring any advice and mix with society in general without taking precautions. Thus, the increase that is taking place meaning the many who want to work along with the advice so restrictions can be lifted and get back to as much normality we can at any point in time. -
British final 2020
OveFundinFan replied to Nassa10's topic in Speedway Testimonials & Individual and Shared Events
Nothing wrong in what you saying if that’s how you feel, but not all thinking the same are following the rules, and that’s the problem, too many are not adhering fro the advice and therefore stifling aNy sort of recovery from the situation. -
British final 2020
OveFundinFan replied to Nassa10's topic in Speedway Testimonials & Individual and Shared Events
and there we have it.....”more people shopping in a market close to 4 days a week and not wearing masks and social distancing is unheard of”. These are the sort of people that are knowingly flouting the advice and so the virus takes hold again. There our speedway supporters on hear who happily tell they too are flouting the advice, some saying they hope to go to Ipswich and would flout the advice their too. Selfish self centred people who do not care there are others who would love to go to speedway too, but may be vulnerable to infection so are put off going anywhere, never mind a speedway meeting, because they know others couldn’t care less how others feel. A case of a few spoiling it for the many. -
British final 2020
OveFundinFan replied to Nassa10's topic in Speedway Testimonials & Individual and Shared Events
Just seen on BBC new app,Boris announced crowds at sports events from October will not now go ahead. -
Tape infringement
OveFundinFan replied to Mark's topic in Speedway Grand Prix and Speedway World Cup
The start area for Moto x, the gate does drop “flush” with the start block which is usually concrete. Thing is with Moto x is that per race it is only used once ie it’s part of the course not used for the following laps, unlike speedway. Using the same design on a speedway track probably would cause problems due to a) concrete start block b) metal grid may not give a flush surface (some bikes are into some sort of slide around the start area at some tracks.) -
That, unfortunately, is the lax attitude in the UK generally. Look into the Moto GP scene, of the Formula 1 scene, or even the Speedway GP scene in Poland, and riders and pit crew ARE wearing face masks, though social distancing is difficult within a pit area, that has to be accepted (but only 2 pit crew at speedway GP’s). At the San Marino, Italy, GP this last two weekends there has been a crowd of 5,000 in a 100,000 stadium, nicely spread out, in the UK some fans are demanding full capacity to watch a weak British Final at Ipswich.
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MotoGp must have a system that detects the finest of movement. I think it was Argentina GP last year, Cal Crutchlow moved ever so slightly, just moved - didnt go, it was detected and he had to do a "pit ride through" which costs about 30 seconds. They magnified his front wheel, did it in slowmo, yet ou could only just see the movement - as I said, such a small movement yet it was detected. Would be a bit crazy giving a speedway rider a "pit ride through" penalty though !
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Overall the Czech GP was poor speedway entertainment. Too often races were strung out. Not what viewers want, not what riders want. Yes, I will sit through it tonight for Round 6, all the time hoping it will be better then Round 5. The fact 8 of the riders were on a start infringement warning/exclusions shows the riders knew they had to get a good start to have a chance of winning the race. Some of the infringements, when shown in slowmo, were so close to perfect anticipation it was difficult see why a penalty was given. The fact some races, not only las night, were called false starts and the race stopped, but then after the ref replayed in slowmo he decided it was not an infringement just shows how difficult a job the ref has to uphold the rules. In MotoGP, and F1, do not have start tapes (not practical) and especially in modern day F1 a good start is imperative, but rarely do you see riders/drivers being penalised for moving at the start. One of the reasons for this is that the have many laps to claw a “poor” start back., in speedway there is just 4. Remember Warsaw GP a few years ago, the tape system failed, so they used the green light system to start races and the system worked. Refine the green line system such that it includes a beam in front of the front wheel AND a beam behind the rear wheel. The rider cannot have his machine too far away from the front beam (the rear beam would be broken) so cannot do massive rollers, but has no fluttering tapes in front to distract, nor magnets too watch......... just, when the green light comes on then the beams go off and the rider is free to go. For sure, the rider can anticipate the start but the amount would be so small it wouldn’t matter. The rollers that were in the 70’s etc were allowed and they spoilt races, IMO, I hated them. But today, equally races are spoilt when a rider anticipates perfectly but it’s stopped and potentially a rider excluded for really a very minimal offence.
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British final 2020
OveFundinFan replied to Nassa10's topic in Speedway Testimonials & Individual and Shared Events
For starters........ higher pay per point for orders. Income must cover outgoings plus a profit. If people are not coming through the gate then Alternative incomes need to be found. -
British final 2020
OveFundinFan replied to Nassa10's topic in Speedway Testimonials & Individual and Shared Events
Is this possibly going to be the lowest stand of competitors in a British Final? i don’t want to show disrespect to any of the riders in it, they are having a go at speedway at least, but a British Championship without the current champion, plus the top two Brits and Cookie who is in the top 5 Brits seems a bit of a joke to me. Getting riders to go into a highly promoted event (for British speedway in the year 2020) without having much race practice is a disaster IMO. And the cost of streaming at £13...... that will probably set the price for British League racing next year if the bigwigs decide to stream it. Personally I was hoping for more like £10, probably attract more people at 10 then 13 quid. -
That is not what has apparantly happened. Anlas tyres were submitted for approval, passed the test and approved, but on testing what was available at Wroclaw the results differed from the approval standard so are now banned. From the Anlas statement I read it appears that they are saying the limit of approval was not too clear for them..... so what becomes of this is to be seen.
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British final 2020
OveFundinFan replied to Nassa10's topic in Speedway Testimonials & Individual and Shared Events
Perhaps the clue was he didn’t list every year, just those where a “foreigner” won it. -
British final 2020
OveFundinFan replied to Nassa10's topic in Speedway Testimonials & Individual and Shared Events
You better find out quick..... one day you will need it.... and be thankful. -
Last time I looked it was half full. ☺️
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So 25%. Even at that ratio facemasks and social distancing would be required and I not too sure that many speedway spectators on here would be willing to go along with the rules judging by some posts made. That would mean going to empty stadiums just because some clowns don’t want to comply with orders meant to protect others.
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2k in what sized stadium?