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Ticket site kept crashing today but I guess they wont be at full capacity tonight so will just sort on the door

Correct, glad I have no means of travel after the day I've had lol hope those attending enjoy a good meeting

Would love to attend this one but no transport this week, going for a draw

450cc by the late great Peter Seaton I believe KTM, Honda, Suzuki, Kawasaki engines

This is where everyone has a different idea but if all the best parts were taken from all ideas then there could be something to look at.... For me the main event of British Speedway should be a "British Speedway Grand Prix Championship" The idea is to give British riders a reason to take up the sport as not everyone will reach the heights of World Grand Prix level or Poland. So the British Grand Prix Series take place over say 12 rounds, these are the events that should be on Eurosport. Looking for a series sponsor which would be easier to find for a British Championship as opposed to a league championship, say someone like Vanarama £50k plus a Van Overall winner could take home £30k cheque and a brand new Van 2nd place can be £15k with 3rd place taking £5k I would call it the "Super 12 Grand Prix" as its 12 rounds but also only have 12 riders in it, so from riders here and now I would say 1. Dan Bewley 2. Charles Wright 3. Steve Worrall 4. Danny King 5. Richard Lawson 6. Craig Cook 7. Chris Harris 8. Scott Nicholls 9. Adam Ellis 10. Kyle Howarth 11. Richie Worrall 12. Lewis Kerr 12 race format with riders getting a race from Gates 1-4, top 4 riders into a Final at each round, for "Medal Points" overall champion is decided by total standard race points accumulated with a bonus "medals points table" so Bewley and Wright could finish on 120 points each for their 4 programme races across 12 rounds but the "medals points" table then counts on their overall total so medal points is for each final at each round, Gold is 3 points, Silver is 2 points, Bronze is 1 point. Over the 12 rounds prize money is distributed via ticket sales say 1000 spectators at £20 so £20,000 prize per round, any ticket sales over 1000 is host venue to keep £6k winner, £4k runner up, £2k 3rd place with the £8k distributed between the other 9 riders. Riders with guaranteed 12 meetings on Eurosport LIVE should get decent sponsorship revenue. £50k of Eurosport money should go towards developing riders for the future £50k should go towards promoting the British Grand Prix Championship and other marketing As part of this you have a "Rising Stars Championship" for riders under 23 who are not racing in the top flight Polish league and not at heat leader status in the Top British League so for now you would have a field consisting of 1. Anders Rowe 2. Tom Brennan 3. Kyle Bickley 4. Leon Flint 5. Drew Kemp 6. James Shanes 7. Connor Bailey 8. Jack Smith (not sure if any are over 23) These race as part of the programme, their championship is over 8 heats top 4 into the final. so overall you get a "British Super '12' Speedway Grand Prix Series" consisting of 12 races + 1 final, incorporated into this you get a "British Super 8 Rising Star Grand Prix Series" consisting of 8 races + 1 final so 22 races. League racing should then be a 10 team British League built to Championship strength now, riding home and away once then play offs with a Cup competition, then a 12 team National League built to what Championship strength is now but you replace the top average rider with a rising star so it's a weaker league racing home and away once with play offs and a cup competition League meetings can be 15 heats as now, cup meetings can be the old 13 heat format to add variety The BSPL to set up a league channel similar to a Netflix, say £6.99 per month you get live meetings from British and National League say 6-8 meetings per month, British & National League Riders Championship, England test matches vs Germany/Sweden/Poland/Latvia etc. plus old reruns of classic matches, interviews, behind the scenes, documentaries etc. Enough content to make is a 12 month subscription and VFM if the 22 league clubs had say 200 subscribers each that's 22 × 200 x £6.99 x 12 months = £369,072 revenue I'm going with a less is more theory with the aim of ensuring clubs get bums on seats and only have the individual series on TV to benefit British riders, and to benefit clubs and promoters people will have to buy tickets to actually see it, not on TV only every now and again on the Speedway GB Channel As league racing is minimal I would even look at doing PPV extras on the channel maybe doing a 3 round Commenwealth Championship and/or a 3 round Inter-Continental Championship which rewards some of the foreign lads that are dedicated to British Speedway make the PPV £9.99 restricted to a 50mile radius from the host venue and use some of the revenue from the Channel as prize money Commonwealth Championship could consist of 1. Brady Kurtz (Australia) 2. Charles Wright (UK) 3. Dan Bewley (UK) 4. Jason Crump (Australia) 5. Danny King (UK) 6. Jake Allen (Australia) 7. Bradley Wilson-Dean (New Zealand) 8. Craig Cook (UK) 9. Troy Batchelor (Australia) 10. Jack Holder (Australia) 11. Adam Ellis (UK) 12. Rory Schlein (UK) 13. Sam Masters (Australia) 14. Chris Harris (UK) 15. Scott Nicholls (UK) 16. Nick Morris (Australia) an Inter-Continental Championship could consist of 1. Luke Becker (USA) 2. Craig Cook (UK) 3. Brady Kurtz (Australia) 4. Eric Riss (Germany) 5. Jason Crump (Australia) 6. Bjarne Pedersen (Denmark) 7. Troy Batchelor (Australia) 8. Thomas Jorgensen (Denmark) 9. Jack Holder (Australia) 10. Dan Bewley (UK) 11. Broc Nicol (USA) 12. Adam Ellis (UK) 13. Michael Palm-Toft (Denmark) 14. Sam Masters (Australia) 15. Charles Wright (UK) 16. Danny King (UK) If these meetings had a decent level of prize money on offer, its rewarding riders who commit to British Speedway, gives them an incentive to take home some good prize money at the end of the season, looking at that list where are the Swedes? should be more Danes, could tempt some riders over.

I've started my own grass roots Sunday football league side www.youtube.com/realsuffolkfc any subscribers welcome, first of all it is a very long process but SE Dons is the level to be at, I think the Dons have done well in terms of having a platform to launch from as Don Strapzy one of the key figures behind it had a following in the grime scene, but they have certainly built up a good reputation across social media they have fans in Brazil that buy their shirts etc, to be honest at the moment I am working on setting up a friendly with them in 2022 however they have and quite rightly built up the rights to dictate how this happens, so i have to cover travel, food and drinks etc. for their whole team YouTube now alongside Facebook and Insta allow for mini videos to be played as mini adverts this is where British Speedway should look to do, big passes, crashes etc. promote on social media to younger people, make them think WOW and get the shares, likes, views up even some subscriptions to the channels and social media links, then its captured more numbers to market meetings to I think domestic Speedway in all honestly would work better having a Grand Prix Style British Championship say over 7 rounds, and market this as the main event, the big event to get people to attend and watch potentially as their first meeting, if marketed correctly you will find people are interested or may be interested in a big event in their local area as opposed to something that is more regular, for example if there was a World or British round of Motocross locally people would be engaged as its a "world or british championship round" sounds like a one-off opportunity to watch, once they are there, league racing can be promoted by the host venue etc.

Is there something in the rules to stop in the same heat. 1. Nominating a rider for an R/R ride 2. Also making a tactical substitute for the other rider Are you only allowed to do one in the same heat?

when do Bet 365 update? Been looking all day for tonights meetings

Streaming isnt a zero cost thing, there are set up costs, if streaming was to be done correctly it should be by the BSPA not individual clubs. Shame a few witches fans stayed behind to watch the kings Lynn victory lap (on foot) only to boo

I'd take Kennet, Barker, Wilson-Dean Jakobsen when he was at Rye House used to go well at Foxhall then I think (could be wrong) his most recent visits haven't been great plus he's not UK based no? So I'd take one of the top 3 let Cookie guest for Crumpet til he is fit

What would Kennet be on?

could they not look at something like this, now could be way off as I cannot seem to find the team building points limit anywhere ha 1 . Crump 8.00 (Replaced by Cook for 28 days 7.59) 2. Heeps 6.17 3. 4. Allen 5.70 5. King 6.85 6. Rowe 3.00 7. Kemp 3* not sure who can fill that gap? What is left 5.78? or more? If so would any of these fit, Jakobsen, Wells, Pickering, Starke, Barker, Wethers, Auty? Not many option if any of these fit anyway

This is where for me speedway needs an independent body running the sport. Birmingham should be fined for delaying the start of the meeting, they had ample time to get the track prepared but failed to do so. The official reason for abandoning the meeting is lack of medical cover and a 10pm curfue?, so what happens if you have a 4 rider first bend smash where all 4 riders are in need of urgent treatment and all have life threatening injuries? Most if not all clubs have one st johns ambulance if I'm correct, that is the first change that needs to be made, more medical cover yes it's a cost but you can't have a professional sport running with minimal medical cover It should be a fine to the brummies for a late start, give clubs say 15 minutes maximum to start later than advertised. Lack of medical cover should also be a fine, after the first fine then it should be points docked. I used to run events (different sport) it was notorious for not always starting on time maybe by 10-15 minutes but as said in here the paying public are who matter most, our punters accepted it as its 10-15 minute once it becomes 20-30 or more its unacceptable We would have a st John's ambulance plus at an additional cost a professional medical team with what is called an "ambulance car" so any injuries would be assessed by either medics, if it was a non serious injury the person would go to hospital in the ambulance car, if it was a serious injury they would go in the ambulance, with two sets of medics there, at least there would always be one on site to keep the event running, if another competitor required hospitalization with only one medic on site they would be treated while awaiting for an ambulance Lack of medical cover in Speedway literally just means the promotion has paid as little as possible to cover the meeting, there is no cost for potentially 1. Saving lives 2. Keeping the meeting running

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Crump 9 Stewart 2 Heeps 6 Allen 6 King 5 Rowe 7 Kemp 2 Witches 37 Wolves 53

I used to stream my MMA promotion we done them free worldwide but had to bare the costs of the stream which isnt cheap in itself. A streaming service should be run by the BSPA for X amount of meetings per month for a one-off monthly fee with the profit going into marketing the sport £6.99 a month marketed at ALL fans would work better than individual clubs bareing these costs

Think fans really need to "give" a little over normal regulations for this season with the current restrictions that are in place, the usual rules will most likely "give" just to get meetings on in most cases, it may get worse as we progress as well, so for one season R/R and guests for many reasons will happen, sounds like a normal season anyway so not sure what all the fuss is about, each to their own for why they go to Speedway, I go to see some close racing and hope one or two score well, i'm not overly fussed about the result so won't pick apart any rule type to give either side an advantage or disadvantage. The alternative could be no speedway? I know which I would prefer

I'm sure you'll be able to remove a mask to smoke in a designated area Recently at work in front of someone being interviewed for a job, I lit a posh smelly candle using a match, I then attempted to blow the match out forgetting I was wearing my mask... After several burnt fingers the interviewee decided he was too intelligent to work with me

Well it should be £15 or £20 most press releases are asking fans to bring correct change, so might as well round it up or down £19 means handling change, it's a no from me

Maybe the club have miscommunicated the wearing of masks As for the £19.... may of just as well made it £20

streaming only adds to the cost of running a meeting, would be a financial disaster for most if not all promotors

Crump 3rd in the Brisbane masters Jordan Stewart looked quick

Yes mate

laugh at this comment Lewy if you're hung like a gnat

what averages do they come in on?