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Certainly a factor, although that may be more of the reason bookies were not rushing to get involved. I think historically it is more to do with the 'gentleman's club' environment of speedway's administrators [The ACU was set up by the Royal Automobile Club to administer motorcycle sports]. There were a series of unlicensed meetings at Lea Bridge in 1932 where betting was allowed but it didn't catch on. See: https://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/leabridge.html

We've had on course betting at Oxford Speedway (at the Championship Pairs). Don't think it wax a great sucess as they don't seem to have returned. I think the betting industry's problem with Speedway is they don't like events that can be easily fixed.

Looked brilliant as an under 19 rider [6th in world under 21 aged 18 in 2021], but hasn't progressed as fast as some of his contemporaries (Pollestad, Parnitsky). Not Oxfords first Latvian - anyone remember Kjasts Puodzouks?

Not unless 10.2.2 is rewritten. Otherwise is absolutely certain he will be 8.00 "Any rider who has been a GP rider for two consecutive seasons within the last five" => 8.00.

Gb speedway shows 3.64 home and 4.62 away. [Prem all matches 2024]

Also people tend to judge riders on their home average [it is where people see them most] and MPT's away average was a point higher than his home average last season.

Assuming Kildemand is 6.00 [the inference to be drawn from the Berwick announcement], then 7.40.

I'd expect MJJ to average more than Zagar. Firstly because MJJ was in excellent form last year, but also because Zagar only rode one meeting last season.

James Sarjeant, Kyle Bickley, Willie Lawson and Nathan Greaves would appear to fall into that category.

Didn't Isle of Wight use a similar model 10-15 years ago?

But, but, I thought everything was to do with Poole, the British speedway world revolves around them, and other teams exist only to ride against Poole. 🤪😉

Tedious waste of time, the only council meetings I ever missed. Main purpose is so Peter Soulsby (or local equivalent) can get photographed with Gary Lineker or David Attenborough.

Bakersfield is 100 miles north of the current fires. It may be a problem for some of those involved in the fixture, but with a substantial distance and very little vegetation the venue itself should be OK.

Sorry, I'll try not to do it again.

In the considerably higher profile Formula 1 twelve Brits have become world champion. Of those only four have been knighted, and with one exception [Lewis Hamilton] they have all been after retirement. So why would anyone think a competitor who once finished sixth in the world in a considerably lower profile sport is beyond me.

Except that's only half the story. Proch actually replaced Glynn Taylor - which brought the Reading team's average down. Add Silver's spurious claim that Reading should only have one work permit rider and the latitude allowed Bristol and White City then I will continue to assert we were stiched up.

Because they weren't allowed to bring their own food?

The dirt track is inside the car track, as a result there is no safety fence on the back straight. The riders are just told not to ride there opponents out onto the car track. Perris is the largest of the US tracks.

It's considerably smaller than that [I was there last June]

No it wasn't. The original limit was 50 including bonus.

Points limit came in in 1977 - so yes there was one.

No that's not how assessed averages work. The conversions are different - in this case 6.00.

He needs to concentrate on his speedway and stop wasting his time throwing money changers out of the temple and turning water into wine. PS maybe he should consider the catering franchise at Scunny. Feeding of the bedraggled 500 should present no challenge.

You seem to confusing prize with contractual obligation. Reading speedway won their bet and got their £50,000. £40,000 went to the riders and the owning promotion kept the rest. Dave Lanning [the 1980 managing promoter) then sued for the share of the bonus.

No and No The 'prize' goes to the club. [Footballers get nothing for winning the league except a medal. The prize goes to the club - £63 million in Man City's case]. Did the Poole promotion get a prize ? No. Did they decide to incentives their riders by offering them a win bonus in the form of a holiday - yes. The Reading prize was simply a bet at a bookies [called Lloyd's of London]. Had another team won the league the only winners would have been the Lloyd's underwriters bookies.