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It was announced as 66 seconds which was around 10 seconds slower than conventional heats that day but nearer to the times clocked at Monmore back in 1973.

Take note indeed. They need to be bumping out content on various social media to the tune of around 100 per month on each platform. I’d imagine Plymouth & Glasgow are doing this give the well deserved plaudits but are any top tier clubs dedicating that amount of time to this (not really) new avenue of promotion?

The goal should be signing riders and nurturing them into top stars. If ALL clubs attempted this we wouldn’t have the yearly scramble for riders suitable for heat fifteen. The utopia would be to get to a point where teams didn’t need to be constantly raided to bolster other clubs and this would also allow fans to build up a stronger affinity with “their” riders. Generally riders that have come through the ranks in the UK stick around even when reaching GP stardom and the pull through from world exposure can only be a good thing at domestic level. Just looking at my team over the last few years we have seen several riders doing just that. Brady Kurtz 7.50 Max Fricke 4.50 Jaimon Lidsey 4.00 Dan Bewley 3.00 Tom Brennan last pick RS

I think both teams can be happy with that result. A home win and another bonus to The Aces. When taking the RR rides and Jason’s replacement into account we were around 35 points for the team average. Very weak and some 3 points behind the home team so to get the win over two legs was a fine achievement. Seems the racing was once again an issue at Foxhall. I’d role my eyes and anticipate more of the same had the last lot still been about who were happy to plod on no matter how poor the product - sound familiar. Being a like minded chap I wouldn’t be surprised to see Colman reach out to his British GP colleagues in an attempt to iron out these issues with the circuit. Might venture down again once the magic has been administered. Well done to all riders, staff & fans for being part of this meeting on a hellishly hot evening.

The answer to that also highlights the task Coleman has in turning things around though with the winter changes to the top table, he’ll not have a better chance. I don’t need to go into the ousting of David & Chris by the cartel and shortly after Adrian washing his hands of the sport out of frustration with the way it is run. Fair play to Mark for hanging in there but things have been too heavily stacked against wholesale change so we plough on doing our own thing. Many initiatives have caught on but as they are adopted immediately become the intellectual property of those suddenly coming to the party. I have guarded optimism that Coleman and Co will prevail this time.

I agree but it’s the unnecessary Dutch auction when poaching, sorry discussing contracts with riders from other teams that I don’t like. It leads to even more money leaking out of clubs coffers at a time when they can least accommodate it. As you say, it’s the riders choice and it matters not if a Polish club asks a rider to sign for this or that team. It’s very on brand for witches fans to be rubbing their hands at the prospect of discussing contracts with another of The Aces No1 club but I just don’t see Colman aligning himself with this backwards thinking. We will of course be happy to sit down with any like minded promotions to forge a better future for our league as a whole. To this end, if it means having to offload more of our stars to help others, we will.

We had a similar tie up with Unia Tarnow about 10 years ago and it saw us use several Polish lads throughout the campaign. The Aces also took part in training days at their track plus other commercial & sporting initiatives. A first for British Speedway though different to this latest one with the 30% financial stake.

It absolutely should not be about poaching other clubs riders but more about bringing on your own. You need to swap out the previous mindset of signing off the peg big hitters or repeating the Tom situation between you and Birmingham (remember them). It’s well known that Belle Vue prefer to nurture and bring on riders for the good of all and I would hope Colman follows our lead on this too, he appears to have come on board with many of our initiatives. The age of teams is another thing he is addressing and I would hope he will assist in getting the NDL back to where it was and we can look forward to Ipswich v Colts fixtures. Maybe then we will no longer be the Belle Vue babes as the age of all other teams come down. Fingers crossed things progress and don’t get snuffed out by the cartel.

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I care as much about this as I did when we won the KO Cup after a fabulous race off in 1973 when we had Jim McMillan guesting for us who had no doubt helped eliminate his own team from the competition. Same sh**% different day for over 50 years but at least we had a sponsor. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, until it breaks that is. If I had a pound for all the people who said things were rubbish, I’d be a rich man. If I had a pound for all the people with the answers, I’d have £7.

You’re right to highlight missing riders. Here are the years since you came up to our league that we have completed all fixtures with a fully fit 1-7. 2024

Would be great if we could keep Brady & Dan as it would have been to keep Max, Jaimon, Tom, Ben, Charles etc but at the end of the day there’s a bigger picture to look at. If our league can be healthier then all the better and that’s what we’re fighting for so if Coleman can come to the party I’m all for it. The streaming, the big screen, the tie in with a Polish club etc are the things that we need others to run with. We will prevail and we are always here for you.

Ipswich in a few weeks time.

Belle Vue’s best chance to win at Foxhall has been pretty much every year since you moved up to our league. 2019 Lost-last heat decider 2021 Draw 2022 Won 2023 Won 2024 Won 2025 Lost