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I ve only done Warsaw the once so only seen from one perspective but it appeared to me that Warsaw seem far faster (in terms of bikespeed) the Cardiff. Especially the speed carried around the bends. I am a lot closer and at the opposite end this year, so will be able to make better comparison then.

Oh I know, until some serious debt gets cleared one way or another there wont be any change in status there. But I do think a current or even a wannabe promoter will eventually go in and buy out Warren Scott and his buisneses. Whether that's in a year or in five years time who knows. As long as the venue is regularly used then its future as a shale oval at least seems as secure as anything can be these days.

Last forecast i saw gave light rain at different parts of the day for every day till Friday. Then no rain Saturday or Sunday, so we are planning on trekking up still. Will benefit Stoke to get it on as I believe we are without Drew Kemp on sunday who is championship duty.

I read the post and found it entirely reasonable too, what I will say is, i think without exception all curfew related issues last season involved riders being taken to hospital or being attended to by medics. Kent in general do tend to get on with it. But along with Weather, work schedule etc something like abandonments would all be in the mix when I worked out wether to travel greater distances to a meeting.

It would be a waste if that's all it stayed as. At the bare minimum if it was allowed league speedway next year, you could be pretty certain promotions would be looking to race a Raiders and a Hammers team out of there in the NL at the very least. I was convinced that both Rye House and The Hammers were going to both come to the tapes at hoddesdon this season. With one traditionally a Friday team and one a Saturday it could and can work I would of thought. Due to the relatively relaxed restrictions on the venue and its location, I am actually surprised more nomadic clubs have not tried using it as a temporary home.

I spoken to Craig albeit briefly on a couple of occasions, once at a track, once in Cardiff city centre. I think he is quite a shy person which can get mistaken for arrogance. I also think he is nieve at times, he tends to go on little tangents about things, and often echoing the majority (although silently held) of peoples opinions. Where he is Nieve is that there is no solidarity in speedway between riders. They see a mate get shafted somewhere but never stand by thier pals for fear of losing a potential future employer themselves. Until riders all stick together what ever wrongs befall them, anyone speaking out, no matter how truthful they are will come across as a baby, a sulker, or hardwork. Craig needs a season out the limelight, with no unwanted media attention. Just plug away banging in scores and rebuilding that on track reputation. With a view to having a serious crack at Sweden and Poland next year.

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I was referring to training tracks. Not sure it's that easy for Joe public to have a skid at Eastbourne. Whereas both iwade and Lydd,you or i could roll up with correct equipment, fill out relevant paperwork, pay our money and ride. That's why I added Rye House as again its solely a training track atm.

Think we are blessed in the south east to have Both Iwade and Lydd with well prepared tracks for riders of all standards. Then rye house is not a million miles away either.

Was 30'c last year, me an the pregnant mrs decided to take the 1 hr 10 min walk to practice from our hotel..... except when I checked that it must of been cycling time or something as the walk took just over 3 hours and when we got to the stadium we found no refeshment outlets open at all! Luckily for me I spotted one of Monster Joe's mates who at least know well enough to nod to at various places, and he sorted me out a few cans. Cant remember the temperature on race day but again its was shorts and t shirt weather, but where the fan zone was, was a bit of a sun trap and a dust bowl. So 18-22 degrees sounds nice and comfortable to me. 8 more sleeps till I set off on the train.. cant wait. Better still I ve got Loomer road to visit before then too....

The question was asked mainly bend 2 in the post meeting press conference by a member of the audience. I firstly put it to Ben Morley as he has done the most laps of central park and he said he saw no problems out there and the track was as good as ever, and he still loved the place. I then put it to Nathan Ablitt who has gone through the fence a couple of times already. And he basically said the track is fine, and consistent and it's just a case of learning how to ride the deep dirt that's out there. But for sure having to abandon a busy bank holiday fixture will do nothing positive for the club, although today despite the delays, actually the county ambulance arrived pretty swiftly, and the transfer seemed to take far less time this week. So actually a potential abandonment after only half a meeting being staged was avoided, mainly due to the riders of both teams getting on with it after the enforced break.

Yeah, i am a tight wad and stood on the gravel in front of the temporary stands. Think the tickets worked out about 30 quid for the 2 nights. And whilst everyone else was moaning about queues, we had a beer tent, burger van, and toilet block just for our section which had 200 or so people in each night, so we escaped any queuing as well.

The viewing on bends 3 and 4 is far greater then you would expect looking down at it from the stands. I watched the world cup race off and final there and dont remember think my view or enjoyment was impaired in anyway.

That dont sound like a quick fix.

I am doing Warsaw by train, if all goes well then I intend to take the mrs out in the summer and use poznan or bysdgosz as a base. Cost me around 150 quid return, would of been cheaper but we are stopping at Berlin overnight each direction.

Seeing the videos from the bangers at the stan woods on Saturday the place was completely saturated. And well over 100 bangers racing , whilst not as bad as the F1 stock Cars will have certainly caused a few issues as well.

I have also considered that he will probably get an Ipswich spot at some stage this year. Which will add more clashes inevitably and I believe rules will give Ipswich priority over both Kent and Sheffield. But what you can never question with Drew is commitment. The sort of lad that will thrive off 4 or 5 meetings a week, where some others just would have the equipment or support to do so. As a rule I dont like doubling up and want to see it gone, that being said Drew is the sort of lad the doubling up rule was brought into help. Rather then just throw him to the wolves it allows young brits to continue the winning mentality at the lower level, whilst honing thier skills chasing better riders in the higher league.

Yes that's been confirmed on the SGP website. For Warsaw at least although Greg's statement gave me the impression he will take a few months off rather then a few weeks. Thoughts are with his family of course, hopefully it's all been caught early and after a bit of time thier lives return back to normal.

Will come find you and say hello mate.

I see the result has been amended to a 16-17 scoreline. The elligability of Chad's 4th ride being questioned I believe.

If by the time the first gp happens and no TV deal is in place, I am certain it will then be available in your zone. The fact that it isn't already would suggest a TV deal is not far off being signed imo.

I think Len takes as much pride in trying to help young brits make thier way in the sport as he does silverware. Which is great but when you support a team it's nice to have a plastic pot the cheer for every now and again. This year certainly has the potential. Of course Kent riders have succeeded in the NLRC both Boxall and Morley taking that accolade, and Morley and Ayres are still reigning pairs champions. We would have won the fours in 2013 at stoke, bar a blinding last lap of the last race from Lewis Blackbird if I recall taking the win for the heathens.Then again in 2015 at Coventry when Rob Shuttleworth knocked of James Shane's and injured him when Kent were ahead. We ve also had a National trophy final and 4 play off semis, so it's fair to say Kent has been far from unsuccessful. We just need to add that elusive first team championship medal. Hopefully this year is the year.

We are booked on a train from Warsaw to Berlin leaving at 12.37 Sunday lunchtime, I have a feeling we might be making a diversion now. 1 random question obviously we will be travelling with luggage, we cant be the first people to have the problem of what to do with said luggage (probably a holdal) as I assume they aren't going to let us take them in the stadium...lol

A friend of mine was heavily involved with an app in development, that was to provide live commentary from less media covered sports. I believe she invested an awful lot of money and time into the venture, but as time when on the programmer who was solely interested in football, basically made an app for non league football and speedway never featured and my friends fingers got burnt. What I do think if the initial outlay is not too expensive, is some kind of commentary to head sets. Much like what you used to get at cardiff. People wishing to have race commentary would simply purchase or hire a headset at the turnstiles and listen in. Probably not viable with current crowd levels but maybe worth trialling at matches with guaranteed big gates, like the British final or play off matches. (For those matches you could surely just plug into the bt sports audio??) But commentary over the horrible tinny sound systems at many tracks is gonna be inaudible inside the stadium, and carry a fair distance towards neighbour's homes. In the latest planning battles at Kent, some residents cited the running commentary as unbearable and prevent conversations in the back garden from 6.30-8.30 every Monday, but like as this thread suggests, we have never had race commentary, and I often have to text Derek and Glenn in the box to ask for race times etc because the Pa is so patchy. Imagine the complaints if it actually work.....

Team manager was John Sampford, then John and Chris shared the role. When the Raiders re entered the NL John went there which left Chris in sole charge. After Len sold rye house John returned and ran the mdl team. I wondered if the reference was about Nikko Day, I ve never actually dealt with him face to face but when you hear people describe him he seems to polarise opinions.