Tom Brennan is a great signing, he had a bad injury and of course last season was a non event so a couple of wasted years, but he can go far in the sport..
Booked my ticket for the double header with Newcastle, catching up with a couple of friends who like myself, have not been for a few seasons.
Sounds like interest is high at Eastie with a few guys coming out of the woodwork to attend agin..
Difficult to predict at this stage as there are many factors, injuries, team changes and form to the end of the season.
But for me, Eastbourne and Leicester are the two stand out teams at this stage.
Its more that if a mistake is made, the bike will launch forward and with a narrow track there is no room to recover, so your in the fence..
The NSS was designed for modern speedway, wide and fast unlike a lot of UK tracks built and designed to fit inside the stadia they had to work with..
If you look at a speedway rider as a basic buisness model it becomes simple with the needs.
Look at it as a basic XYZ
X Turnover
Y Expense
Z profit
Rider needs to make a lot of X to pay Y in order to make Z
Reduce Y and then X can be reduced so Z can still be achieved
Reduce X then wages will be reduced and clubs can be sustainable with a wage bill they can afford.
Reducing rider costs is a way forward in my mind.
He was spot on, the way it could be done is to limit the RPM on engines to make them more suitable for uk tracks and thus limit service intervals for engines.
Engines won't need to be tuned like they are with a rev limit, cutting costs to riders and the bikes will be suited far more to our unique tracks that we have built due to the stadia we have worked with.
I think it would be worth looking at but it will go against what the rest of the world in speedway is going with so I very much doubt it will ever be considered.