Littleze

The grandstand was outdated, and pretty crap if we are being honest. Find somewhere else and make it a multi functional facility. I accept there is a lot of history etc there & this will irk many.. and the challenges are obviously big.

Can they not even spell benevolent..

A rally… effing hell… I hope Buster hasn’t approached a local school to come up with some *cough* rallying words for a sing a long. This has happy clappers written all over it. They should seek out some No To Oil protesters… that would get some attention, maybe splash Purple & White paint over some retailers window and glue their knackers to a programme board.

Tarnished? lol… I guess all the multi national sponsors will pull out, and the back page headlines will have a huge effect, I get your sentiment but please!!!

You’re not putting your life on the line, £1000 a week isn’t that much money, especially once taxed etc.. until anyone tells me what a generic Speedway riders contract looks like.. then it’s all conjecture, riders can also get dropped at a moments notice.. unlike most other jobs. I know what a footballer’s contract is largely consisted of, because it’s an open sport, helping it to appeal to a broader audience. A footballer could well be/and is on a basic salary over a period of time, appearance bonuses, win bonuses, image rights, cup/league bonuses, goal bonuses, loyalty bonuses, likely to get a bonus if represents their country (if they haven’t already) individual targets set by the club.. clauses to allow personal appearances on radio/tv etc.. and clauses inserted to do work in the local community and so forth….

I don’t blame you… it’s playing on diehards emotions basically.. and offering up, not a lot.

Irresistible

He could make it as a Speedway promoter then

Blame the promoters for that and the governing authorities.. people pay through the gate, they raise money for Ben fund, used to be collected from the crowd back in the day, people give up their time to help in the off season etc.. sponsor a rider.. and so on. You can’t expect people to keep stepping up when the general consensus is the promoters don’t.

Bloody Nora

I’d watch that all day long.. looks great.

It would be good to hear what has been tried & tested, agree with concrete/tarmac..

Closest racing there has been for years.. similar sized crowd too :)

I recall Ole Olsen saying that he/they (the authorities) were looking at different surfaces to race on, this was probably 10 or more years ago… never heard the outcome of this (unsurprisingly)

EXACTLY.. a quick win, that’s makes it look professional and that you’re bothered.. they expect riders to be immaculate. There are many quick, cheap easy wins.. but hey, said this a zillion times.