Chris116

R.I.P Len A good rider, a great promoter and a nice person. I saw you race a attended many of the meetings you promoted. Thanks for the great memories.

With 8 riders, the same as the Ipswich 16 lapper. I think Arena ran it over 12 laps just to make it different to the Ipswich race.

Very unlikely but we would all love to see your back as you leave the forum.

If you are worried about a £1 increase in admission for the Playoff finals I would advise you not to follow BriSCA F1 Stock Cars as their normal admission is the same as a normal Speedway meeting but for their main event of the season it was £45! If I still had a car there is no way I would have missed it even at that price.

I have been watching the snooker that is on Eurosport this week and compared to BBC coverage it has the same faults as their Speedway coverage when compared to BSN. It seems that Eurosport are just not very good at sports coverage.

Retain - Speedway Replace - BSPL

The simple solution would have been to agree the dates each team would run their home meeting on, which means TV know where they need their OB team to be and then sort out the opposition in accordance with the rules.

I am a member of another forum that uses the same software and the mods regularly merge threads there so it is possible but only for the mods.

That always works.

Sadly since 22nd July the Warriors website has not been updated with either meeting previews or reports.

It has been boring for a long time and is like a leopard, so won't change its spots.

When I started watching speedway (1955, age eight months) and through the 60s and 70s the tractor came onto the track as the riders left. It did two laps and left the track as the riders came out for the next race. While that was happening about twenty rakers were busy pulling the shale back towards the inside line and away from the fence which meant the tractor had shale to move around. The racing was never delayed by track grades but the racing surface was well looked after. Then we got health and safety saying that no riders or staff could be on the track while the tractors were and the tractor had to be in the pits not on the centre green. Add to that the near total absence of rakers and we end up with lots of delays for tractor racing while the track is not maintained as well as it used to be.

Here is a copy of their message on the website. "Mildenhall Stadium was the victim of a large fire on Tuesday 30th July - causing significant damage to the venue. As the leader in promoting oval motorsport events in the country, our commitment to improving the facilities at our venues was no clearer than at Mildenhall - with significant investment and hours of hard work being undertaken at this much-loved venue prior to the fire. We are devastated at what has happened, but remain committed to getting the venue back on the map, and back on track to play host to more oval motorsport in the future. Crucially, we can thankfully say that nobody was injured, and we would also like to thank the firefighters who tackled the blaze. We will be making no further comment on the matter until an official investigation into the fire is completed. Spedeworth/Incarace/Mildenhall."

Spedeworth do own the stadium and have put out a message on their website to say that they intend to get the stadium back working and look forward to continuing the improvement works they have been doing since taking over the ownership of the stadium.

Surely you mean Canterbury.

I have just watched the video on YouTube of heat 2. Two riders landed in the fence in different incidents and both times it looked as though they had assistance from the rider on the inside line but both times the rider who had fallen was excluded. Maybe this is why a lot of riders won't try to go around someone. I fully accept that the angle shown in the video may give a false impression of what actually happened and would be interested in the views of those who were there.

I find it interesting that Scunthorpe Eddie Wright Raceway are affiliated to NORA for Flat Track, Speedway and Oval racing, practice and training. I wonder what the difference is between Leicester and Scunthorpe other than where they are situated in the country.

No, just on the football fans with any luck!

If you are going to start a duplicate thread with information that had been on the original thread for an hour when you started this one, you could at least get the thread title to show some understanding of how a calendar works. Please close this waste of pixels.

If what has been reported in Speedway Star is true then the BSPL needs to get their act together and advertise the meeting correctly. As I said above the sport appears to be run by clowns and sadly they are not at all funny.

According to the BSPL website Poole are staging the first round of the series on the same date as Poole are advertising a meeting as the National League Riders Championship. It appears that the BSPL need to sort out exactly what is being run at Poole on 26th June and then make sure ALL adverts show the correct details. This situation just shows what a set of clowns are running the sport, can you imagine other professional sports allowing a club to advertise an event as one thing while the overall organisation advertised it as something else. Personally I would love to attend this meeting, whatever the truth about what is being staged. Sadly the last train back to London now leaves around 9pm whereas before COVID it was just after 10pm. I can't afford a hotel and travelling back the following day adds nearly 70% to the cost of the rail tickets.

The last two videos of races in Poland I have seen on here the crowd looked very small. Is the bubble starting to burst which means that Polish promoters don't want to upset their remaining supporters? This is only based on two random videos which may have had the worst crowds of the season but it does raise suspicions.

Certainly NOT from you.

Could someone please start a special topic for @Trackrat and @LagutaRacingFan to post in so they can leave the rest of us in peace?

Would that be closed tracks?