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Or some serious outmuscling and clever lines around the first two corners.

Busy few days in the air for Dan Bewley this week. A mate of mine flew out to Wroclaw yesterday for a few days break - he's going to the Wroclaw v Torun match on Friday night - and Dan was on the same flight. Dan told my mate that Wroclaw had called the team in for a practice session today, and so he (Dan) was then flying back to the UK afterwards for the Oxford v Aces match tomorrow night - and then back to Poland for the Wroclaw v Torun match on Friday.

Did that yesterday didn't he?

It's a good few years ago now, but I used to go quite often too (could be there in under a hour straight from work) when you could stand on the back straight. Saw some brilliant racing. And, when the Aces were visiting way way back when, Owlerton was never better than Wyer & Wilson v PC & Mort imho.

Fair comment, but we might then at least have teams with the same 7 riders week-in week-out. Yes, we'd still get injuries, of course.

Lemo doesn't tally up in most of what he says/does.

Wonder if Kurtz will have the cheek to turn up in the Sheffield pits?

British Speedway and its supporters being taken as mugs!! I was going to go to Sheffield tomorrow, but won't be doing now.

Well, let's say that if a rule existed that purposely weakened one of the teams in meeting I had planned to pay to attend (due to no fault whatsoever of the team concerned) then I would not be parting with my money and wouldn't attend. We may put up with a lot of weird rules, but a rule which intentionally 'robbed' me of seeing two full strength sides would be a rule too far for me to pay to attend such a meeting every single time.

But that would punish the team!!

Yes, parking is £3.00 per match for both Aces and Colts. There are also parking season tickets available.

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Dan Bewley said afterwards that the track was the best it had been all day at the time of the call off, and there was no way anyone would be going out that wide to where the piles were anyway.

Absolutely spot on. My friend and I were saying exactly the same to each other as we sat there contemplating who would be the tac sub instead of R/R in heat 10. Infact, I had to tell him to 'calm down' as my friend in a loud voice aggravated said 'NO, NO Lemon, it has to be a tac sub, cant you see the obvious?'

That's a fair comment Phil - but the day-to-day supporter will still be very disappointed and may well feel 'cheated' by his absence. The optics just don't look when he scored well, and qualified to the next stage of the World Championship, riding in an event between two Aces fixtures that he's missing through injury.