HackneyHawk

Grow up

What have 'woke' people got to do with this???????

How on earth have you brought 'woke culture' into a debate about speedway tracks????

Why would it be up the BBC's alley? what's your point?

Why wouldn't you be able to call ladies, ladies?????

That's great thanks v much

Fab thanks, any info available on where and when?!

Think I would probably attend every week if the Rockets returned to first or second div speedway! Good luck with everything!

Hello all, will Iwade allow spectators? if so do you just turn up and pay to get in?

I was at Coventry once and asked the hot food stall for chips. The lady replied "we don't do chips - they're too popular" And that my friends is Speedway merchandising

That's a terrible example of merchandising, really poor but very Speedway

A brilliant post, I agree with every word. It is the team aspect and in particular TEAM RIDING that sets speedway apart from all other motorsports and needs to be capitalised on in order to save it.

Will definitely now bow out of this thread on the grounds that it is an echo chamber of old fashioned nonsense. Let's hope that Speedway i Having recruited many times at public sector institutions I'm afraid I don't believe this. It sounds a little bit like the made up anti PC stories that most of you forum users probably vehemently believe. These forum pages make for depressing reading in 2021 and it's a terrible shame that adults choose to believe and then write these laughable, childish anachronistic comments. My advice to you all, is to read a book, watch documentaries, talk to people outside of your immediate cultural circle and stop reading the Sun/Star/Mail/Express Hackney Hawk out (you'll all be pleased to hear)

I agree BV72 that there isn't a huge interest from people of minority ethnic backgrounds in motor sport. I don't twist things to sound bad because I find the whole thing frustrating and depressing and have no wish to make it worse than it is. Also, you are accusing me of being dishonest which is insulting and childish. Black people historically would not get a warm welcome in motorsport and would have to work harder at being accepted. Motorsport is notoriously unfriendly for white people let alone black people. This is a fact. The NHS have published recent data that says black mothers are 4 times more likely to die in childbirth than white. "Lead researcher, Prof Marian Knight, said: "Pregnant women get inequitable care for several reasons. "Healthcare professionals often attribute their symptoms to pregnancy alone and they do not always end up getting the treatment they need because people can be incorrectly concerned about giving them medication. "On top of that is the unconscious bias that black and Asian women can experience. It all adds up" If that is the NHS, can you imagine what black people face in sport? Your comments about some (a tiny number) of BAME people being involved in the sport is a bit silly. The exception doesn't prove the rule does it? You say we have taken different things from the thread and neither one of us is right........I'd suggest reading up on the history of race and equality in the UK from the early twentieth century until the present day. I'm going to have to disagree with you that neither of us is right. Unfortunately, as I predicted at the beginning of the thread I am a rare voice on a speedway forum about racial equality and I have horrible feeling that Speedway is in the predicament it is because of how out of step it is with the real (modern) world on many many isuues.

I couldn't resist reading the rest of this thread, it was just too tempting. Absolutely hilarious, better than even I could have imagined I would have said depressing but speedway fans (myself included) are older white men so these opinions are dying out and gradually society is improving and healing In response to the brilliant comment about Black people "NEVER" taking an interest in motorsport while one of the most successful british drivers and reigning world champion is a black chap, I could go on about it not being about black people being interested, it's about being given a fair chance......but I'll keep that to my snowflake, woke bubble