Nickinho

Er .. 13-year-old Willie Cairns on a 250cc is better! Armadale June 3rd 2023 British Youth Championship Round 4 Celina Liebmann's times: 64.7 64.1 No time 62.5 62.9 Willie Cairns' times: No time 61.6 62.0 61.7 No time To put it into even more perspective... The fastest time around Armadale in 2023: Justin Sedgman 12/05/23 in a time of 56.5 And for the record... Jody Scott and Ashton Vale were posting sub 60 second times that day. Celina Liebmann was distinctly unimpressive.

So, just one last rider to be confirmed in this league, perhaps now the mods could finally pin this thread...

I've never known her to be 'negative' about anything and she's one of the most chilled members on this site.

Yes. Some peak early and never become what people think they will become. There are many examples of this throughout history.

That's almost exactly what I think the league will look like before the playoffs come around except I think Poole will be third above Berwick and Oxford and maybe even second if Flint doesn't hit the ground running for Glasgow.

I'd have preferred to see Vissing back at Ashfield over Flint because I always liked his no-nonsense style. Flint is a good rider although I believe he has pretty much reached his ceiling now.

I don't know how Workington's stadium will be able to hold the half dozen new spectators who will flock there after hearing that they've signed a female at reserve. Huge coup.

When a certain team is hiring German riders solely due to their gender it's no real shock to me to see young British riders finding themselves squeezed out.

Edinburgh (on account of them only having one real heat leader), Workington (on account of them having the weakest reserves) and Plymouth (on account of them being Plymouth) to be the three teams to finish outside the playoffs. As for the rest I'd say anyone can win it this season but if I had to pick one I'd plump for Redcar.

Oh well

Well, if she's at home riding at 6 then her heats after heat 2 will be heat 7, heat 11 and heat 14 If she's riding at 6 away from home then her other rides after heat two will be heat 6, heat 9 and heat 12. Anything else I can help you with?

Any links to any of her many other wins..?

One is but she won't just be facing the reserves all evening. Do you ever buy a program?

I've seen lots of YouTube videos of young footballing prospects who all look like Pele but who in reality are pants. I saw her around Armadale in real life and she failed to convince me of her being worthy of a place in a Championship team. I'm trying to imagine her in a heat at Ashfield against Harris and Complin and if there's first bend bunching I'm covering my eyes.

I can't see both Vuolas and Zischke riding at 3 and 4, one of them will probably be at number 2.

I stopped reading at 40° heat and just wept. You lucky sod!

It's precisely BECAUSE she is a girl/woman that the Comets have signed her. Be honest with yourself, would they have signed a rider on a 4.00 who struggles to get a point in the continent if they were male? Her signing is just pure tokenism, a gimmick. And giving her "the boot" if she fails to make any kind of impact will look even worse for Workington after they've made such a big deal of her signing. If she fails Workington are stuck with her.

That's who I was thinking of honest

I'm surprised Anders and Dan are still available

Giving a place to a female didn't help Nascar bring in extra fans although in Danica Patrick's case she was fully deserving of a place in that motorsport, this is just tokenism in this particular case. Interest will be garnered for a few weeks over the Comets new signing then everyone will see her trail in last and soon get over their excitement and realise that it was just a bad team signing.

Having seen her ride before i doubt she will get more than 0.71 in the Championship

Go be a white knight somewhere else

Most teams will probably sign one in future years simply because of their gender which doesn't help at all it's just tokenism and is happening in all walks of life but I was hopeful that it would pass speedway by but i was obviously fooling myself. I'm not surprised by all the celebrations about this but I doubt that any of the male NDL riders who have missed out on a Championship place are happy. I seem to remember all the Edinburgh fans complaining about Dayle Wood at the expense of younger riders because he wasn't very good yet I guarantee he isn't any worse than the Comets new rider. So much for encouraging young British riders...

He was banned for nine months (as of September 5th) so it should be June the 5th although I'm confused because he also picked up a 30 day ban a week later for a social media post he made so I don't know if that will run concurrently or consecutively. The BSPA along with their rule book and their arbitrary judgements are not exactly easy to understand at the best of times.

Good enough to ride in the premiership though.