Fortythirtyeight

Redcar ‘ Gallagher Insurance ‘ Cubs fixtures NJL 2023 season. Home fixtures. Newcastle challlange 24/3/23 RESULT: Redcar 22 Sapphires 14 Berwick 9/6/23 West Lothian 16/6/23 Glasgow 4/8/23 Armadale 11/8/23 Workington 18/8/23 AWAY fixtures. Berwick 3/6/23 West Lothian 23/6/23 Glasgow 19 or 26/5/23 Armadale 14/7/23 Workington 24/6/23

Redcar ‘ Gallagher Insurance ‘ Cubs squad for 2023 season. 500cc riders. Kyran Lyden , Katie Gordon, Edward Davison, Alex Goldsbrough. and Dan McTeer 125cc riders Seth Norman, Ollie Binns, Ollie Bovingdon.

With one midland club and the help of a NJL club.

Sorry but can’t agree with your thought process. What will a rider learn from riding against a different rider once ? If he gets to ride against a slightly quicker rider twice or more he can possibly learn his line etc but that’s all a matter of opinion I suppose. the NJL has used this format for several years now and has flourished, the MDL has finished so that suggests something. The crowds that stop back and watch the NJL meetings have always stopped to the end without being ‘bored’, indeed they often comment how improved a junior might be in his third ride against a better rider than his first ride , but I guess MDL crowds must be different ? I do hope someone gets the MDL back , in whatever state, preferably to include 125 riders but it needs riders willing to do it and others willing to run it. The riders are there, 50% of the 125 riders in the NJL reside in the midlands and the south, we have NJL 500’s riding at Wolverhampton , Birmingham and Belle Vue so they are willing to travel for rides.

Can’t agree with your opinion on 125’s , but that’s your opinion, they can produce fantastic racing on a good track, they are the future. As for reasons for the MDL not running, they refused to adapt to 125’s, look what’s happened ! If you really want to something to happen, you commit to it and make it happen, the NJL has !

Again…,read my post slowly. I said the BSPA , as was, have done NOTHING to help the NJL in 13 years but it still runs. There are no fees to pay for junior teams , no fees for volunteers , never have been as Ive run teams since the mid 80’s and still doing it now, our only cost is race jackets. The MDL should have embraced the 125cc concept , the midlands is full of them but they travel ‘up north’ to get rides , then the MDL may have survived.

Why blame the BSPL ? They have done nothing to support the NJL for 13 years and it’s still running so it’s not their fault that others gave up.

As I said, short memory, you were offered rides at Redcar but said it was too far.

Try reading my post again. I have said there are opportunities out there, particularly at the northern tracks who run NJL etc but they are limited. Outside of those , most tracks don’t bother with second half racing, the Premiership junior league never even got started but yes, there is AMSA and the Carter school but what are the rest of the tracks doing ?

You have a short memory. Your ‘protege’ was offered rides at a northern track when you were complaining then of a lack of opportunities, you turned it down as it was too far to travel. That was when there was several teams in the MDL as he rode for most of them at least once, so plenty of rides being offered then. There was opportunities then and there still is now, Birmingham are crying out for riders to join the MDL ! The riders have simply disappeared, retired as they were never going to ‘ make it ‘, given up, got too old or too skint or simply had enough and have not been replaced by new novices for reasons stated before.

Covid meant that no newbies got on a speedway bike, the current issues are due to lack of investment in providing any sort of opportunities for people to try speedway without committing to purchasing a bike and everything else and now we are seeing the results of this, a lack of riders and a lack of opportunities. How many tracks have second half racing outside of the NJL and Birmingham ?

That will be Cooper Rushen, multi title winner in last seasons British Youth rounds, on the grass, flat track and rode in the NJL for Redcar last season.

Good point. I applaud both clubs for giving youth a chance but TWO clubs is hardly a league, and one from the north doesn’t make it a MDL league, it is what it is, two clubs trying their best to give youngsters rides. personally I’d like to see it with the NJL format with the teams incorporating two 125cc riders and yes, there’s quite a few of those around the midlands, but I’m not decrying the effort being made by both clubs. Just goes to show the state the sport is in when this is called a ‘ league’.

Beautiful day on Teesside for todays meeting,

Not pedantic at all, just not speculating like some, the price was advertised that’s how the fans paid for them. is the 20% your cut? No extras, no postage , they were collected by a member of staff.

Try 7 x £600 …..but use a calculator this time. Riders don’t pay for club race suits, club and/or sponsors do ( in this case sponsors includes individual fans ) .

Standard SCB insurance only covers you for life or loss of limb , ‘ private hire ‘ has its own rules as you state. Private hire also can mean no medical cover in place, see Scunthorpes own adverts. You pay your money, you take your chance !

Read carefully, I wrote ‘ if it lifts ‘, which despite the previous comments, it CAN do , under certain circumstances . Yes, they are heavier than ‘air ‘ panels but a bike going in first is still capable of lifting a panel.

Won’t make one ounce of difference , if it lifts, it’s the Armco that they hit that causes the majority of injuries.

and as you don’t know the answer perhaps you get your own house in order before trying to stir things up. Even I don’t think the chairman of the sport would run a practice session on his own track without insurance in order.

There’s some lovely soft Armco barrier before you hit the concrete., you are buggered if the bike goes in first and lifts the air fence panel before you get there as Steve Worrall and a few others will tell you.

As Ashfield is twice the size of Redcar I struggle to see the connection, but hopefully the lad will settle in and do well.

Plus Morris retired. Aarnio not UK Pijper severely restricted options due to his sons riding commitments and Longtrack.

At least 5 of those have retired, two have declared they aren’t riding in the UK and another two have long term injury issues.

Heat 1, followed by heat 2…. oh ! , you mean riders wearing what numbers ? Go for King, Hume, Riss, Edwards, Wright, Shane’s, Mulford but that’s just a guess as I don’t know the averages.