lucifer sam

Cheers. Staying overnight, and heading back early on Friday, so it sounds all will be OK!

Are there day-time closures on the A66 for someone coming up from the south, joining from the M6? Thanks!

I'm not. The SCB precedent last year did.

There’s two precedents set. One is to go on the meetings that have been completed. In this case, Lakeside win by 46-44. The other comes from Redcar v Glasgow last year, when a result was declared before Heat 10. The SCB took into account that even if neither Glasgow completed Heat 10, the result was still conclusive. Two 5-0s to Peterborough in Heats 9 and 10 and Lakeside would have still progressed. To be quite frank, no more time can be spent on the semi-final – it’s not fair on Workington, in particular. Workington and Lakeside need to start planning the final, which must take place next weekend.

What a terrific night of speedway. That was simply top drawer. Both sides battling away and Scorpions ended with a 18-point lead, which sets up the second leg very nicely. But just hope it’s as good as advert for speedway as the first leg.

Spoke to Rob G trackside not long ago.... the word he used was "GLORIOUS". Jake Allen is fit to ride.

Ooops. Yes makes sense now. I didn't realise Jenga was talking about the second leg (no-one seems to want to use that thread )

That would be clever, seeing that Tero is already guesting for Peterborough tomorrow

A lot of the neutral support will be with the Comets - I particularly would like to see them win a long overdue league title. Not that bothered who wins the Shield, while I'm hoping Scunny can stop the Comets juggernaut in the cup (I'm not neutral when it comes to that one ).

Surely having the European Champion qualify would be rather unfair on any Americans or Australians or any other non-Europeans? I don't see any reason to have a major overhaul of the current system, as pretty much the best riders are currently in the series. Maybe there should be restriction where a maximum of 2 wildcards go to riders already in the series (unless there is a good case otherwise due to injuries). That would help keep it fresh.

Everything crossed that Peterborough are back in 2019.

Terrific fighting performance by Scorpions from Heat 7 onwards, after a poor start to the meeting. Another great team performance, with Jake, Jason and Steve taking the starring roles. Eventually Scorpions won quite comfortably on aggregate. Fair play to Peterborough on coming out all guns blazing in the opening races. Hard luck to Panthers - you need a bit of luck with injuries in speedway. It hit Scunny earlier in the season, and now it's hit Panthers. Although last night, the Panthers guests were excellent, it was actually a Panthers rider who had a stinker. As for the little petulant act of denying Scunny a victory parade for their win (and yes they did win, who cares about the winners on the night in the second leg of a cup tie? ), it didn't really spoil things. As already mentioned, the riders still came around to thank the fans.

In this case, it was. Common sense has prevailed. And that can be seen by everyone with common sense.

Only for 28 days, though. After that, I'm not sure. NL guests? I also agree that I can't believe he's going home, while Peterborough and Somerset both have so much still to race for.

Blimey, haven't you worked out yet that it wasn't a meeting involving Scunthorpe that triggered the whole Friday fixtures thing? Speedy recovery to Josh Auty. He's been fantastic for Scorpions this season.

Workington can still finish top by winning their final two matches. It would be too late to choose your play-off opponents, but will still go down in the league table in the record books.

Well done Berwick. PS Why wasn't Drew Kemp in Heat 14?

I would love to have seen Berwick in the play-offs, but Lakeside are already safe, even if Bandits win the last race tonight.

Read this week's Speedway Star. Danny no longer wants to ride for Scunthorpe - so it's the same as Riss at Ipswich. Despite that, Scunthorpe are still not allowed to use NL guests for him. Either guests are not allowed for Riss, or Scunthorpe are allowed NL guests for Danny. A little consistency is needed here from the SCB.

Interesting situation, given the precedent set by the SCB with Danny Phillips. If Neil Vatcher is consistent, then he will insist that Riss returns or Witches have to go to the tapes in three races with one rider only.

Keep your re-admission ticket for the £17 meeting, take a photocopy (at work, if you haven't got one at home) and then post off the original to Lakeside speedway, with a quick word of explanation. I've done it with other tracks, where I've been a long-distance supporter, with no chance of getting back that year to another meeting. I've always got a refund. If you email them beforehand, I'm sure they will confirm this is OK.

Gavan is in an alternative universe

I just chuckle at most of it. The funniest was the Lakeside Live fan twitter blaming Rob G for two successive blank Fridays at Lakeside, when one was a rain-off and the other was because another event was staged all weekend at the Arena Essex Raceway.

There have been instances of both 14 and 28 day bans. Auty is not the only rider to have received a 14 day ban.

He wasn't back a week later. He had a 14 day ban, in compliance with the rules.