Scipio777

omg another embarrassing away performance by the Sheffield "team" ... playoffs I guess, but going out in the first round for sure...reality check needed by the riders here...they are not as good as they think they are..If Dimitri cant organise himself better than this, we need to let him go...this is not the first time....

cant see any benefit at all in team changes in the main this year. One day they will all ride to their potential and we will hammer someone. Siisis needs to get some consistency. Sorry but Nathan Greaves just does not seem to have it at this level. JBP is outscoring him at NL level so would expect him to come in at the end of the season for a few matches experience. Maybe we can hang in for the play offs and spring a surprise but other teams so far showing they have more in the tank than us when it comes to the crunch...

You heard the announcer?? Obviously not on the 3rd bend then - PA in the temporary stand a joke, even after they added another (tiny) speaker on Saturday. Cant believe this was not tested properly. I took binoculars on the 2nd day so I could see the "big Screen", as I couldn't hear what was going on. Race programme very poor. Not easy to use the scorecard for the various permutations/substitutes etc. Track really good though.

Re Camping - Mixed feelings about this one. We went down with the intention of camping for 3 nights, with electric hook up. On arrival we were told we could now only camp for two nights because there was an event at the showground on Monday. Really annoying, but could have been a disaster if this was part of a main camping holiday, with the next sites booked. I booked Monday off work and was looking forward to the slightly longer break. Also the late arrival time - you could not get in until 5pm which was inconvenient. Lunchtime would be better. The loss of the Sunday night meant camping with hook up now worked out at £35.00 a night - for that money you expect top quality, which Peterborough is not - very basic, dated facilities which did not appear to be cleaned and we had to prompt to get the loo roll refreshed. Didn't find any facilities for dish washing either. Not bad for £10.00 a night, but appalling for £35.00 (I appreciate hook up was my choice!) Also had to pay the £2.00 parking fee for driving through the car park to get to the camp site!! If this was a donation to the Ben fund then great, but no one said anything about that to us. Re Racing - The racing was great. The track staff largely kept the dust down , though they seemed to struggle more with it on the Sunday for some reason. Earlier start would have been better on Saturday, followed by Big Screen TV showing the SWC round. Would have made more money than the singer I imagine. As would some decent bands. It would have been nice to be able to pick up a printed race-sheet on Sunday rather than have to do all that writing, again a donation to the ben fund for a colour race card would have been a nice touch? Good weekend all in all, with some niggles.