Rob B

Nearly banned? Why put that in the title, he was 12 in 2005! I think it was referring that basically at that age he wasn't allowed to race so couldn't progress in his speedway career. A big problem with the youth system in British speedway where as the likes of Denmark and Sweden have regular racing at young age on smaller bikes and why we don't have many decent riders coming through.

Also live results from the Belle Vue meeting here Belle Vue Aces Fans Site

Yep Colts could do with a point from this one. Problem is Colts haven't ridden for weeks so may be bit rusty.

Polish TV showed replay of the final and clearly shows the outside of the tapes went up before the inside at about 2:55.10 Holder made a big deal about this happening in one of the heats in Italy, this was a final should be an even bigger deal made of it! Can't be that hard to have two sensors on tapes that tell referee if tapes don't go up together, some simple electronics needed in SGP at least as referee has no idea looking in line with the tapes.

Great final, but if you watch it again looks like tapes went up on outside first slightly giving Jonsson & Hampel the advantage.

There was no other choice, either that date or no Cardiff next year. The Stadium is only available in June/July/August due to football & rugby union, but next year the olympics are using it in July & start of August, can't be used in June as pitch will be being prepared so is perfect for Olympics.

From what they showed last night it seemed to be Phil Morris doing the team managing on the night rather then Middlo. He was talking to riders before they went out, patting them on the back and doing the team meeting before heat 21.

LOL this shows how silly you really are Suggest you watch this again : http://www.itv.com/central-west/dudley-speedway14929/

No offence to Ken but he is getting quite old now, maybe bit confused. Most of the time they try and have racing finished by 10pm as goodwill to local residents but the official curfew set by the council is 10.30 and has been for 20+ years. As for why didn't they carry on till exactly 10.30, Dudley had no riders in heat 13 what was the point doing more 2 rider races and annoying local residents more. Peter Clark

Curfew is 10.30 at Belle Vue.

Currently sunny, just partly cloudy, no problems at all.

Nice day up in Manchester today, don't forget after the moaning last time, all Wednesday meetings at Belle Vue start at 8.00pm due to greyhounds not finishing till 6.30.

I didn't say better, I said 2 of the best, I did say their average are higher then those 4 which is fact.

Was just about to post why on earth are Kyle Howarth and Jason Garrity not in this team, they are two of the best under 19 riders, higher averages then all those 4!

That's a ridiculous excuse, world cup date has been known long time before this one!

The trophy one was the last one I think so you must of missed the others before that, even though I'm a speedway die hard they were interesting.

Sweden have never hosted race off/world final, someone once did tell me reason, can't remember why now.

They showed the draw being done on the video screen in the build up.

We were sat just below to the side of this we saw the stewards go up a few times eventually throwing out 2 guys one of them wearing a green t-shirt, when we went out afterwards Police had both of them outside, guy in green t-shirt and a guy in white s-shirt covered in quite a lot of blood. Not surprised to hear it was Dudley fans involved.

They did that 2 years ago. Regards the build up last night, we all knew Stacy Soloman would be terrible and thank God she was only on 15 minutes but one thing that was miles better this year was all the videos they showed beforehand like the Steve Johnston bike setup, Chris Holder body protection, Chris Harris drag race, making the trophy etc.

How does this 3d work, maybe flagrag can explain? There looked to me to be mixture of the standard 2d hd cameras in the normal positions like up high on home straight on outside of bends and in the pits etc, with the larger 3d cameras on the centre green and one on home straight, so on the 3d channel are only the 3d cameras used or do they flick between the 3d and 2d footage?

How does this 3d work, maybe flagrag can explain? There looked to me to be mixture of the standard 2d hd cameras in the normal positions like up high on home straight on outside of bends and in the pits etc, with the larger 3d cameras on the centre green and one on home straight, so on the 3d channel are only the 3d cameras used or do they flick between the 3d and 2d footage?

Bump this up.

Belle Vue have signed Charles Wright as temporary replacement for Byron Bekker (cracked shoulder blade)

Good post, it is a minority few who are the big idiots like the guy at Belle Vue who threw a punch and tried to grab Belle Vue fan by the throat BUT at Belle Vue and from what I've been told at Buxton today the majority (not all, but most) of Dudley fans were cheering every time an opposing rider fell off.