LesR

Do you mean " Rye House Rockets Ltd " the newly incorporated company, on 30th March 2019, with James Mead as sole director?

On offical SCB site. http://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/files/downloads/c19_issue_1.pdf Les

Sad news, R.I.P. John.

It certainly must be Mike, just look how it has flourished since the begining of the 2000's Certainly feels like 2019 has started off worse than last year. With Chapman now having 3 clubs he can p!$s off at least 42% of the leagues supporters, maybe ' you reap what you sow ' will be coming home to roost, sooner than later, with his people skills!

Great clip from a time when we had proper promoters who relied on speedway for their living, not fans with big egos who could/can offset speedway losses through their another business. Thanks for sharing and I'm glad I was involved during that period.

What a mess this is turning out to be. You have the Official Peterborough Speedway website advertising 2019 Season Tickets with it's full team of 7 riders advertised. Anyone buying these can do so by BACS to a Lloyds bank account or by cheque, to a Middlesborough address for the Peterborough Speedway Office, payable to Peterborough Panthers Speedway. You have a newly incorporated company, on the 16th November 2018, called Peterborough Speedway Limited with Keith & Cheryl Chapman as the only Directors, with a Downham Market, Norfolk address. Finally you have a changed team line up from that advertised to tempt you to buy a season ticket. I find that no better than internet scams where the advertised products don't turn into reality. Somewhere along the line someone must be the guilty party in this. So for those wanting to cancel their season ticket for a refund, which company refunds the money? Is it Peterborough Panthers Speedway or Peterborough Speedway Limited? I know that I wouldn't buy a season ticket from most of the promotions that are now running speedway

I agree with you Dean, the money wasn't the be all and end all of racing, it was the excitement, the adrenaline pumping going into corners fast and only inches from your opponent, the feeling of elation when you beat a more experienced opponent that you didn't expect to 70 seconds earlier. It wasn't just a means to make money or drive around in a sign written van, we used trailers or bike racks, saying " look at me I must be good my names all over my van " which is what I see from a lot of would be racers. The expense of all the trick bits that the GP riders use, throttles at £150 each, seem to remember Ivan used a Jawa throttle, longer so better for throttle control. Maybe some of the riders need to go back to basics and maybe improve their situation.

This is similar to the 70's when first division clubs had tie ups with second division clubs. For instance Exeter had Canterbury and Steve Koppe, Les Rumsey and Bob Spelta were numbers 8,9 and 10. Any absences or injuries to second strings and reserves were covered by these riders. I think it was guest or r/r for heat leaders. Seemed to work very well.

Agree with all the above, the very balanced side reminds me of the Poole team, the British League Division 1 Champions in 1969, who were not at all fancied front runners. Great performances from all the Workington riders, and guests, who really wanted the double. Hope you are successful in the Shield final for a tremendous treble against a lot of adversity!! I hope you will be able to defend your titles next year, Derwent Park was on of my favourite tracks back in the 70's.

Great result Workington, keep focussed and take the league title too. Ian Thomas would have loved this.

Sad news, R.I.P. Bob, one of speedways best. Condolences to his family and friends.

My mistake...

Seems Riss has gone to Bellvue!

It's still there, look under Premiership Headlines.

I agree with Rob Mc, we should have a full season of home matches, league, challenges, 4 team, individual and revive some of the test matches. You knew you had speedway to go to every saturday, sunday, monday or whatever you home night was. The problems started when, I think it was Eastbourne, wouldn't run more than 14 home meetings. Since then it seems more tracks have joined that band waggon. Seems there are very true Promoters out there with any foresight!

Well Charles certainly gives the other side of the story on his facebook page.

Perhaps if the teams had a minimum average for the top 5 riders and then any 2 British riders below a certain premier or championship average and any national league rider. I'm sure this would have helped Bickley this year.

Nice to see Robbo back and scoring good points and Kus picking up good points. Good team effort with everyone picking up at least a paid win and scoring at least paid 7.

I think B.V. will just do it. Their 2018 Away averages mount up to 32.4 for 6 riders, plus whatever Garrity scores. Wolves 2018 home average is 47.4, these are both GSA averages excluding bonus points.

Looks like Robert Lambert through on 14, great result for the Brits, looking promising for the future.

Unlucky Zach, needed to beat Skorja in his last heat to avoid a run off.

It was reported that Poland were only selling 2 day tickets. Maybe the Polish fans either couldn't afford that, or only wanted to see the main action of the second day and not be charged double to see one day!

4320 scoring in SON would not have made any difference this weekend. After 42 heats scores would be GB 67, Russia 65 and Poland 56, Final would have had same result, as Phil mentioned, GB 4, Russia 5. The only way that GB could win is if the scoring, 3210 or 4320, was over 42 heats AND final.

With the emphasis on team riding in SON and the Bonus Point is counted for the final, maybe the bonus points should have counted for all 42 heats as well! That would have given the following result over the 42 heats. Russia 45 + 6 = 51 Great Britain 46 + 2 = 48 Poland 36 + 4 = 40 Denmark 35 + 4 = 39 Sweden 32 + 5 = 37 Australia 35 + 1 = 36 Germany 23 + 1 = 24 No change in top 3 places.

Quote from Laguta after the meeting - “It showed we needed to work harder and we did it in the final qualifier. In the Grand Final, we knew second and third would give us gold, so we planned to let Tai go and try to hold those places.” Maybe Laguta did slow up a bit to allow Tai to pass and Lambert didn't really try the outside pass, so Emil kept him stuck round the line.