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...great speedway pic included. Scroll down. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-8095877/The-pictures-shortlisted-Sony-World-Photography-Awards-youth-student-categories.html

I've got Mcafee anti virus, so I'll be ok.

Every year at the Grand National, horses are killed for 'our entertainment'. Not much difference between this and greyhounds in my view.

Please tell me the stock cars won't move to the NSS.

NP won't put any bums on seats at Sheffield because Sheffield has no seating.

I'm sure I remember something from years ago which concluded that Owlerton didn't meet requirements to hold international meetings because of the narrowness of the track.

Does anything happen on the centre green at Owlerton? The Sheffield track always strikes me as ridiculously narrow especially given how fast it is. It needs widening to bring it into line with Belle Vue and nearly all European tracks.

'You've got to search for the Aero inside yourself' M People (1994)

George Michael was always losing his chocolate bars, often very careless with his Wispa.

We all know about 'Once A Jolly Swagman', but I'm amazed I never been aware of this film which features some good action from Walthamstow later on in the film..

Just watching this back...am I the only one who thought there was something suspicious about the sound? There was constant air horn and crowd noise much like Cardiff but the stadium was half empty and In the many crowd shots, I didn't see a single air horn anywhere, so where was all this noise coming from? Dare I say it. Was sound imported in to enhance the atmosphere much like an audience laughter track on some dismal BBC sit-com? Someone tell me I'm wrong.

Ha ha precocious I should have said.

I accept that many people, including even Mr Shovler, have amended their view of Tia Woffinden from that of precious upstart to a much more dignified figure in recent times. So disappointing then to witness him spitting whilst the Welsh national anthem was being played. Why would you do that? Fairly disgusting and disrespectful I would have thought.

I can only conclude that most people on this forum were too young to be watching speedway in the 60's, 70's or 80's. I know some will disagree but speedway is no different now to what it always has been, and generally, overall may be actually better than it used to be. Great racing, not great racing, that's how it has always been.

Superbly articulate...

OK, not great racing but we should rejoice at the size of the crowd, surely the biggest there since the 1994 world final.

Here's a curio. In a recent special edition of Mojo music magazine on Pink Floyd, a tour programme from 1974 is reprinted in which the four members of Floyd are depicted in separate alter ego cartoon strip adventures. Guitarist Dave Gilmore is Dave Derring, speedway rider who, in true 'boys own' style wins the crucial race at the last moment and wins back his girlfriend in the process. The Pink Floyd song title/speedway connection was the best I could come up with although I suppose I could have gone with Shine On You Crazy Newcastle Diamonds.

Today again raises the issue of meetings taking place in the afternoon. Regular fans understand and will tolerate the watering delays but first timers may take a different view.

A GP was held there in 1997. Think the crowd was around 10,000.

At this point, I'll just interject and make it clear that my original post was not entirely meant to be taken seriously although I wouldn't mind, one day, seeing 'Speedway Star and Classic Water Bowser' on the news stand.

There is an excellent interview with Richard Clarke of Speedway Star in the current edition of Backtrack magazine which includes concerns about sales in line with the general decline of speedway. However I believe there may be a way of boosting interest. Given that speedway fans spend almost as much time watching tractors circling the track as they do actually watching racing, wouldn't it be an idea for Speedway Star to merge with one the tractor magazines? 'Speedway Star & Tractor Weekly'. It has a ring to it. This will bring added interest to the evening as Instead of whinging and complaining about the tractor breaks, fans would thumb through the mag and try and identify the tractor type and engage with fellow fans on the terrace. Backtrack magazine could also engage with this idea with vintage features on the tractors we fondly remember going round and round in the 70’s and 80’s. Naturally the mag would be renamed Backtractor. Just an idea.

Does grandad know about this?

Rampant envy can be the only explanation for the odd instances of criticism of the racing and the Belle Vue track on this thread. BV is the only true, proper speedway circuit in this country and speedway fans lucky enough to live anywhere near this superb venue have basically won the speedway lottery of life.

Someone in the grandstand was brandishing....a rattle!! I haven't seen of of those since about 1978!

Wonder how many people in Manchester even know about speedway at the NSS?