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That's what my kid calls him Rory Slime but also calls Cameron Heeps Cameron Creeps maybe should be Cameron Sleeps unless of course he gates haha

48-42 to Wolves

The only way to push team riding would be to change the points system to 4-3-2-0 but then in most heats you'll see riders settle for 2nd and 3rd, and I want to see racing, maybe this format could be used in development league racing only so educate and encourage team riding from a young age

Yes I thought that and also how any pits area could handle that amount of bikes plus for a day of that duration there has to be other things that people can do to kill a little bit of time between races etc.

Just a question I asked myself this morning, certainly not replacing "League" Racing but either to run alongside it or potentially if league racing disppeared So the "British" Superbike Championship does feature riders from lots of different nationalities but it is raced in the UK. It comprises of 2-3 days worth of action due to practice, Qualifying etc. however that is because it allows all competitors on track at the same time for racing where Speedway is different... So would people pay £25/£30 for a days of Speedway action say an 8/10/12 round series on a Saturday? it could feature 8 Rider - British 125cc Championship (8 races plus a Final) 8 Rider - British 250cc Championship (8 races plus a Final) 12 Rider - British U23 500cc Championship (12 races plus a Final) 8 Team - British Speedway Sidecar Championship (8 races plus a Final) 12 Rider - British 450cc Open Championship (12 races plus a Final) featuring the great late Peter Seaton's idea of 450cc MotoX engines in Speedway Chasis so guys running Honda, Kawasaki etc. 16 Rider - British Speedway Championship (20 races plus 2 semi & Final) If Racing Started at 2pm, gates open from 11.30am practice sessions for each championship from 12pm until 1.30pm Could something like this work?

There is a whole host of different reasons why someone might watch Speedway but not view it For example I watch MotoGP but I am not motivated to watch it LIVE really, I watch BSB on and off now but used to be part of the paddock there. I watch Premier League Football games that involve the club I support and clubs I don't support but the costs of watching my club weekly is something that I cannot afford to do, so people will watch Speedway on TV as they have paid for their subscription, they would not necessarily pay for their TV and then watch live I watch Darts on/off on occasion but never really would go and watch it live This is what Barry Hearn said about Speedway “It doesn’t necessarily need a Barry Hearn, what it needs is someone with my ethics. They have to be passionate about the sport but they have to be business minded. They have to be realistic and they have to graft their nuts off… in those days they were getting good crowds, big crowds at speedway, and I don’t know why the sport is in the demise it currently is. Somewhere along the line, they made a wrong move or didn’t maximise or maybe got complacent. It was easy but now we see a sport that looks to be <sigh> I won’t say it’s terminal decline because they’ll always be hard core pockets of resistance. But would you wanna be a speedway rider? And put your life on the line at all those speeds for nothing? Or for very little? They were household names thirty years ago, famous people, and big crowds at Belle Vue and places like that. People still talk about it and probably because some of the premises are slightly in decline as well they’ve not offered the level of entertainment value today’s consumer wants. And when you couple that all together. Whereas, if something is going higher and higher, it’s quite easy to ride the coattails but it actually works the other way round, it’s really difficult to stop the decline.” Hearn continues, “motorsports is massive….[so] where did it all go wrong?….the Blazers, while they love the sport, are just not the businessmen of today. If you don’t treat it like a business that’s fine you will still have people who absolutely love it. What’s not fine [is] if that passion is not shared or is not delivered in a package that’s acceptable to today’s consumer [then] that passion is wasted cos you’ll get nowhere…better people than me would have to do market research to say ‘is this a reasonable proposition? Or, are wasting our time?’ It’s a hard decision to take but you either invest or work to take it forward or you give up. What you don’t do is just sit there in a slowly declining market because it’s boring” https://www.methanolpress.com/best-worst-speedway-grand-prix-television-viewing-figures-by-year-from-1999-to-2018-plus-average-viewing-figures/

An interesting read https://www.methanolpress.com/best-worst-live-british-speedway-tv-viewing-figures-by-year-from-2002-to-2017-plus-average-viewing-figures/

The season started late this year did it not? So could be the reason less meeting have been put on plus there were more teams when the deal was agreed so already there are less fixtures

The Championship will not feature on Eurosports coverage of British Speedway, time to move on. It is a few league meetings, the Play Offs and the British Final that is all that is in the contract.

The BBC's global reach increased by 11% year on year in 2020 to 468.2m people a week - the highest number ever. BBC News accounts for 438.4m of the total with an annual increase of 13%. Digital platforms are key to the success, with an increase of 53% in BBC News users. 59% ITV reaches 35.9m Individuals a week, that's 59% of TV viewers. 899 ITV showed 899 of the top 1000 commercial audiences in 2020. Eurosport had 157 million subscribers for the year 2019, marking no increase from the previous year. The Eurosport 2 channel had an audience of 87 million viewers in 2019, an increase in size of one million. Eurosport comes free on some packages including digi boxes etc. The APP or Eurosport IPlayer whatever you want to call it you have to pay for it yes but the overall reach for Eurosport is huge especially not they are part of the discovery network If you are looking to ITV for example then the only way they would ever show it would be ITV4 not their main channel

Eurosport reaches more homes than ITV...

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but as for 2022 who knows as the talk was 2 rising stars at Reserve next season Could Witches still run with Kemp and Rowe as the latter is on the rising star list? Without knowing what is what the first thing they need to do is identify a number one and secure him ASAP

Jorgensen - 6 Heeps - 4 Riss - 5 Kerr - 8 Lawson - 13 Mountain - 1 Wells - 2 51-39??

Batch & Wright Out Covatti & Tungate In? Does it fit Does it fit?

doubt he even reads the forum to be honest but do screenshot it and let him know!

well lets have a look shall we.... Martin Vaculik Slovakia Frederik Jakobsen Denmark Nicki Pedersen Denmark Jason Doyle Australia Jaimon Lidsey Australia Rohan Tungate Australia Chris Holder Australia Max Fricke Australia Nico Covatti Italy Tomas H Jonasson Sweden Jacob Thorsell Sweden Kai Huckenbeck Germany Michael Haertel Germany Pontus Aspgren Sweden Timo Lahti Finland Peter Kildemand Denmark Rasmus Jensen Denmark Niels Kristian Iversen Denmark David Bellego France Ludvig Lindgren Sweden Joel Andersson Sweden Dimitri Berge France Adrian Miedzinski Poland Linus Sundstroem Sweden Victor Palovaara Sweden Josh Grajczonek Australia Krystian Pieszczek Poland Rene Bach Denmark Claus Vissing Denmark Jonas B Andersen Denmark I am sure someone will tell me if i am wrong but haven't most of these riders ridden in the UK over the past 2-3 completed seasons or have been linked to racing here again? I am simply asking that people are saying there are a lack of riders but would some of these have ridden in the UK if travel restrictions allowed, plus add Klindt to that list Pedersen agreed to ride, Vaculik has ridden in the UK although briefly, Kildemand, Doyle, Rasmus Jensen, Covatti etc.

if for 2022 restriction ease for travel, how many of these riders do you think could be enticed either back or into British Speedway? Marcus Birkemose Denmark Martin Vaculik Slovakia Anders Thomson Denmark Jonas Jeppesen Denmark Kenneth Bjerre Denmark Patrick Hansen Denmark Frederik Jakobsen Denmark Nicki Pedersen Denmark Jason Doyle Australia Jaimon Lidsey Australia Rohan Tungate Australia Chris Holder Australia Petr Chlupac Czech Francis Gusts Latvia Andzej Lebedevs Latvia Max Fricke Australia Matej Zagar Slovakia Jan Kvech Czech Nico Covatti Italy Tomas H Jonasson Sweden Jacob Thorsell Sweden Matthew Gilmore Australia Keynan Rew Australia Kai Huckenbeck Germany Michael Haertel Germany Fraser Bowes Australia Pontus Aspgren Sweden Michael Jepsen Jensen Denmark Timo Lahti Finland Peter Ljung Sweden Peter Kildemand Denmark Philip Hellstroem Baengs Sweden Ben Ernst Germany Rasmus Jensen Denmark Lukas Gienhage Germany Kevin Juhl Pedersen Denmark Niels Kristian Iversen Denmark Kim Nilsson Sweden Alexander Woentin Sweden Oliver Berntzon Sweden David Bellego France Andreas Lyager Denmark Brayden McGuiness Australia Mathias Thoernblom Sweden Jason Joergensen Denmark Mathias Nielsen Denmark Ludvig Lindgren Sweden Joel Andersson Sweden Dimitri Berge France Adrian Miedzinski Poland Linus Sundstroem Sweden Victor Palovaara Sweden Josh Grajczonek Australia Krystian Pieszczek Poland Rene Bach Denmark Grzegorz Zengota Poland Claus Vissing Denmark Jonas B Andersen Denmark

It's easy, as only maybe 2 or 3 riders dont double down from the prem, make it to Championship standard so the 6 prem sides come down with Glasgow, Kent, Leicester & Poole rebrand it as the British League, 10 sides. Leaving the other 8 clubs, Mildenhall and any second sides such as the Colts to run in the National League circa 12-14 sides No rider currently a heat leader in the Championship can double down from British League to National League, use the rising star system extend it to no.6 and no.7 but have a squad system of 3 riders per club in the top league. National League for Commonwealth riders only

Thought the starke/kemp 5-1 could of been a turning point but then I should probably not think

Witches failed to capitalise on a 5-1

These are only the figures they accounted for, if the world goes cashless then Speedway will be over If these were true losses they wouldn't do it Most probably saying they got 300 in the gate when it's more like 900, speedway is small enough to get away with being investigated

what a way to go out though

Sponsor a club and become team manager, be interesting to see how this one pans out......

Yeah he did, but I think if you take 100 riders from other disciplines you might get 2 or 3 who could probably go straight in at a good level the rest would probably have to go through some sort of development league

I understand from memory an Ipswich based Road Racer called Kieran Murphy I believe he raced Superstock 1000 class, he stopped road racing and had some goes on a Speedway bike but don't think he raced competitively, not sure if that was down to costs or just not picking the sport up quick enough to earn money, he would not have been super young and i guess you need riders that would pick it up straight away and be competitive to earn and the younger ones would be more patient going through the development or national leagues