Fortythirtyeight

There is junior racing every week at Redcar, either NJL, individual and now MDL as well.

Which is the wrong way to do it and makes it look like a load of points have gone missing. If a rider is ineligible and wins three races, your penalising the rider who finishes second each time when actually he’s WON the races and you’ve taken 3 points off him. Just ignore anything the ineligible rider scores and promote up each rider behind him, simples ! or even better….don’t use an ineligible rider ! Theres a reason the MDL is virtually dead and the NJL has been running for 13 consecutive years, get with the times, get 125 kids involved, there’s so many about now the BYC class is having to be split into separate rounds !

Lifted from Redcar Cubs page…. Cubs went down with a fight last night finally succumbing to a last heat 1-5 to lose 15-19 to the Birmingham Ductair Bulls . The Bulls fielded Luke Muff who’s points would not count as his NDL average is too high for the MDL rules so they were left with a three rider team but a strong one at that and it was an entertaining six heats. The Cubs suffered some mechanical gremlins with both Captain Katie and Dayle Wood having issues, major in Katie’s case , but it was good to see Edfell completing all of his races and top scoring as a result. Alex still looks rusty from the starts but chipped in with supporting points. Dayle Wood 5 Katie Gordon zero Alex Goldie 3+2. Edward Davison 7. Luke Muff points Did Not Count ( 9 max ) Tim Colley 7+1 Jason Garrad 9 max. Jacob Fellows 3.

2 ways to become an asset. You get ‘ signed ‘ or you ride enough matches for the club to be automatically an asset.

Riders are self employed. Being a club ‘ asset ‘ means nothing other than the owning club can charge another club a loan fee, a fee hundred quid, if he’s used by another club. As a self employed rider he will look for the best deal he can get , anywhere !, the rider will talk to other promoters before the season has ended to sound out his options for the next season. Doesn’t matter if his parent club want him, he will still go where he wants as the asset system has no legal standing and is only there so that the BSPL can reclaim some money if a club folds by ‘selling on’ that asset. Promoters do exactly the same, sound out a rider before ‘officially’ approaching his owning club. There is a policy, it is ignored by all except brand new promoters till they have learnt the game. Redcar have had a number of new promoters since the Havelock days and each has had to learn the hard way how the inner workings of the sport actually function. Yes, they have been hard done by on a number of occasions by the ‘old school’ who run the sport but you calling Oxford promoters names isn’t on, they did what is good for their business and what all other promoters do, nothing more. Just be thankful you have a club to support who have a fantastic race track and an enthusiastic management team.

As Ive stated, you have absolutely no idea how this sport has been run for donkeys years, and you moaning about it isn’t going to change things. I pay my money , home and away and have done since 1972 , nothings changed in all that time when it comes to the running of the sport.

Your definitely wrong on this one.

Are you for real ? How do you think Redcar approach riders ? The same as everyone else you idiot !

Think you need to grow up. The Oxford promotion are far from that ridiculous comment and are showing the way forward in very difficult times for the sport. Tapping up ? It happens all the time, in every sport and more so in speedway. Who’s going to sanction anybody when it’s done by absolutely all of them from the top down, it always has done since the sport started.

Oxford thoroughly deserved their win , good solid points scoring throughout as opposed to the Bears but not a very entertaining meeting which was very disappointing as the track shouldn’t be prepared to stop the opposition , which was clearly the tactic by only watering the last six feet by the fence despite it being as dusty as a nomads pockets. Track ‘ grading ‘ took an age due to using the same driver/ promoter to use both vehicles then add in an interval , it did drag on after the late start. Still, an impressive home win and a very , very good crowd, Oxford are a certain play off team and Atkins and Jenkins very impressive British youngsters.

I never mentioned Jake, a chain, or Scunthorpe , but they did deserve the point, oh….and Jake DID shed a chain…..in a different race ! But you were right on ONE thing……Wright was sensational.

Prices….quite a few people , probably away supporters, last night were frustrated as no card payments on the gate and had to ask friends for funds.

Quick and steady at this level , not sure he’ll be banging in big scores in the NDL but he’ll do ok till he finds his feet. Not looking like championship level but not easy to tell on a couple of rides.

Three new riders trying to get used to a knew home track, let’s give them a bit of time. The away match at Birmingham showed they can score points, especially Jake Mulford, so let’s be patient. The Redcar track hasn’t been the same consistency two matches running due to the weather and length of time between home meetings so is difficult for newbies to get a perfect setting. Mulford has shown speed in every race he just lacks track craft as he’s still a novice at this level. Redcar are a patient club and will give the youngsters time to grow, unlike some, and good on them for it.

Birmingham Buffaloes 21 The Redcar ‘ Gallagher Insurance ‘ Cubs 15 Scorers. Buffaloes. M.James 3,3,3….9 MAX. Bailey Fellows 2*,1,X…3+1. J.Shimelt 2,1*,2……5+1. Eli Meadows 1*,2,1…4+1. Redcar 'Gallagher insurance' Cubs Kyran Lyden 1,3,2…..6 Katie Gordon 0,0,1…1 Dayle Wood 3,2,3…..8 Edward Davison …0,0,0 …O

Well you have had issues with wind but you told me the ‘damp patches overnight’ had been cured.

You haven’t factored in the dreaded guarantee. Most 3-4 pointers will be on one so you ARE halving their income.

I watch more amateur racing than most, and quite a bit of NDL, the IOW do have a sprinkling of NDL riders but so does Scunthorpe , Iwade and Redcar amateur meetings, doesn’t mean you get a viable crowd to watch.

You sure ? making two dozen riders pay to ride and a hundred or so spectators half a dozen times a year isn’t go to make you a viable business.

Who else wants to amateur events but charge the public to watch ? You think they would get a crowd ???

Minor point but IOW jumped ship of their own accord , they were not expelled.

It’s still not a ‘MDL league ‘, it’s a challenge fixture between Birmingham and Redcar at best . As the MDL only used 500 riders the parents/guardian issue wouldn’t have a great deal of bearing , the NJL manages because of Jamie Swales getting the 125’s integrated into the league in 2013 which the MDL refused to do , very short sighted in my opinion. Also the NJL is run by the clubs themselves not ‘ghost teams’ although they did have Halifax and Castleford at various times in the their history.

Wouldn’t know, just others making 2+2 = 7.

With just Birmingham and Redcar ? You can’t call that a league .

Correct.