PhilK

Thanks for saving me the effort of responding Derek. 30 stand alone tracks (incl Boston) x 3 equates to 90 meetings a year which to mind is too many However there should be nothing to stop each Elite and Premier track running ONE , which would give us 25 meetings of this type a season. Add to that some proper second half events, that actually get run, rather than being abandoned because the 'main' event has been protracted, and we'd be heading in the right direction. Personally I am amazed why the U15 championship is only 4 or 5 rounds!

Does anyone have any details of the 'Conference Championship' event please?

Taken from the Updates Site KOPIOWANIE TYLKO ZA ZGOD¥ ADMINISTRATORA Please remember that these updates cost the texter and updater money, please don't ruin it for others by posting the score up before the updater has had a chance to update this screen All Updates will appear in this window, please feel free to post any comments below. Texter: Bagpuss Updater: Fozzie Kings Lynn = 43 1. Oliver Rayson 2, 6!, 3, 2, R = 13 2. Ashley Morris 0, 2', 2, 1 = 5+1 3. James Sarjeant 2, 1, X, 3, 6!, 1 = 13 4. Jake Knight 1', 0, 2, 2' = 5+2 5. Kye Norton F, 2, 1, R = 3 6. Scott Meakins X, 0, 0 = 0 7. Rhys Naylor 2, 1, 0, 1 = 4 Rye House = 53 1. Richard Franklin 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 = 18 2. Marc Owen 1, 3, 2', 3, 2', 2' = 13+3 3. R/R 4. Joe Jacobs 0, 1, 0, 1 = 2 5. Jack Hirst 2', 0, 1, 1 = 4+1 6. John Resch 3, 1, 3, 2, 2 = 11 7. Jack Butler 1, 3, 1, 0, 0 = 5 Heat Results Heat 01: Franklin, Rayson, Owen, Morris 2-4 63.88 Sponsored by Clean Cut Sports @ www.cleancutsports.com Franklin very quick. Owen passed Morris on last bend. Track ultra slick. Heat 02: Resch, Naylor, Butler, Meakins Ex 2-4 4-8 Aw Sponsored by Steve Dixon www.stevedixonphotography.co.uk Naylor passed Butler last lap before Meakins fell on the last bend causing Naylor to hit fence avoiding him. Both up and ok. Heat 03: Owen, Sarjeant, Knight, Jacobs 3-3 7-11 64.69 Sponsored by Boxer123 Stamps bought & sold. Pm me here or via the Witches forum Owen R/R. Knight passed Jacobs on 1st lap Heat 04: Butler, Hirst, Naylor, Norton 1-5 8-16 68.56 Sponsored by Friends of Edinburgh Speedway http://www.foes.info/ Norton fell 1st lap. Heat 05: Franklin, Owen, Sarjeant, Knight 1-5 9-21 64.69 Sponsored by Richard and Anne Hollingsworth www.scunthorpespeedway.com From Gate Heat 06: RAYSON, Morris, Recsh, Hirst 8-1 17-22 65.35 Sponsored by http://www.SpeedwayInfo.co.uk - speedway information for all UK leagues plus Grand Prix & World Cup stats Resch slowed lap 3 and Morris nipped passed Heat 07: Franklin, Norton, Jacobs, Meakins 2-4 19-26 64.15 Sponsored by Merlin Franklin R/R. Norton passed Jacobs on 2nd lap. Heat 08: Owen, Morris, Butler, Naylor 2-4 21-30 65.65 Sponsored by Speedway Souvenirs available at www.enjaydesigns.net Morris off 15metres after touching tapes. Morris into 2nd by end of lap 1. Heat 09: Re-run Resch, Knight, Hirst 2-4 23-34 65.43 Sponsored by inthedirt clothing - Speedway inspired attire - Website - Ebay - Sale now on! Sarjeant excluded he fell at the end of 1st lap chasing Resch up and ok. Knight gave good chase. Heat 10: Rayson, Resch, Morris, Jacobs 4-2 27-36 66.5 Sponsored by KanDysoft Speedway spreadsheets www.kandysoft.com Resch R/R. From Gate Heat 11: Franklin, Owen, Norton, Meakins 1-5 28-41 65.69 Sponsored by Peter Hopkins Meakins off 15metres after breaking tapes. Great pass by Owen inside Norton lap 3. Heat 12: Sarjeant, Resch, Naylor, Butler 4-2 32-43 65.94 Sponsored by http://www.cablestar.co.uk - computer cables & accessories. Save 10% using promo code SPEEDWAY Butler R/R. From Gate. Heat 13: Franklin, Rayson, Hirst, Norton ef 2-4 34-47 65.18 Sponsored by www.rpm.org.uk Good race between first 2. Heat 14: SARJEANT, Knight, Jacobs, Butler 8-1 42-48 67.63 Sponsored by http://www.ebuyitnow.co.uk/ 10% discount coupon code SPEEDWAY Sarjeant for Meakins at GDTS off 15metres. Maturity beyond his years from Knight to slow down and let Sarjeant through Heat 15: Franklin, Owen, Sarjeant, Rayson ret 1-5 43-53 65.85 Sponsored by www.msj.edu.pl www.msjspeedway.com Rye off 1 and 3 Line-up: Sarjeant, Rayson, Franklin, Owen Rayson led for 3 and half laps before throwning a chain. Owen grabbed 2nd on last bend. ************************* Comments: Teams confirmed. Ref: Mr M Bates Lynn win toss take 1 and 3.

What a fantastic nights Speedway in front of a decent crowd (looked over 200). Everyone of the 13 riders present were a credit to themselves as they provided some excellent racing, from Heat 1 when Marc Owen executed the first of three quality passes, through to heat 15 when Oliver Rayson unfortunately suffered an engine failure on the final lap when leading the unbeaten Richard Franklin and Marc Owen again made a super pass to get up into second on the line. For me the two highlights of the evening were Ashley Morris excellent effort to get second in Heat 8 after starting off 15 metres for a tapes touching ofence, which was only surpassed in Heat 14 when James Sargeant on a TS ride came from 4th to last in a race where Jake Knight showed maturity beyond his years to keep looking for his partner and when he saw him come through into second place intellegently going out wide to let Sargeant through. Knight had earlier shown excellent bike skills to avoid the fallen Sargeant and remain on and in control of his machine. Hopefully other clubs will take note and look to run similar meetings next season. Although Mike Bennetts assertion that all Elite , Premier and Conference clubs should run three of these meetings a year was a little over the top, surely all Elite and Premier clubs could run one full 15 heat Junior Meeting without much trouble. The meeting moved along at a good pace, and was over by 9.25pm, even with a 15 minute interval, plenty of league meetings I've attended this season have taken much longer to run!! I couldn't stay on for the second half but if anyone has the details could they post them on here please. Good to catch up with Parsloes and Mimmo as well

Thought I'd bring this back to the top. Weather looks set fair, and there's only bl**dy Champions League tosh on the box. Hopefully the crowd will be better than Monday night, to see 14 of the countries most promising youngsters in a full 15 heat match

You really need to get out more Should be an excellent final round at Buxton with a number of riders in with a chance of winning the Championship

Sounds good to me! I have it on good authority that Swift Saint will also be present

Really looking forward to this meeting, hopefully the weather will be kind. Well done to Kings Lynn for putting this meeting on and giving the youngsters a chance to ride in a proper 15 heat meeting rather than the often rushed few laps after the main meeting at certain tracks. The chance to see 14 promising young British riders of the future will hopefully bring a decent crowd to the Norfolk Arena! Hopefully with this and the recent 3TT Junior meeting at Ipswich we are seeing clubs at last give our youngsters decent track time and hopefully more of these type of meetings will take place in 2009. I feel they are better than the 6 heat Academy meetings which often get hit by curfews etc and when they are run its often in front of emptying stadiums. Maybe the Chapmans would consider running a similar style meeting at Mildenhall once our season completes on 28th September

QUOTE (sean b @ Sep 10 2008, 06:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> whats the line up for the junior meeting? See the U15 section its there!

Excellent line up, with tonight, the Junior meeting next wednesday and this I'll be at Kings Lynn three wednesdays in a row Lets hope the line up doesnt have to change too much, and KL dont do one of those hideous A4 progs

Agreed Graversen or Truminski,would be much more suitable, but Pijper Doubt he'll even bother to turn up!!

Have any riders been announced yet?

Is this event taking place this year?

Does anyone have full heat details / times for this meeting please?

And is it a stand alone fixture or the second part of a d/h

Excellent news Heathen76, always a meeting that is worth attending

Hope to get to a couple of these, Wolves and Swindon. Is there anymore information on potential line-ups /squads? Would be good to see an Academy style Young England v Young Australia second half at these tracks. Aussies could track the Sedgmans, Sweetman and Ward for example!

Any news on what is happening with this years CL 4TT? All seems to have gone rather quiet in the last two weeks!

[quote name='tas' date='Jul 13 2008,will this meeting return this year as last year it was postponed due to rain off so this year is not looking much better. Any news would be appreciated Thanks There was nothing in tonights programme about this meeting Tas. Although in the fixture list there is a reserved date, October 19th, which is if memory serves the time of year this meeting has been run previously

Real shame indeed. Would have come down for this meeting, having enjoyed previous Young Guns at Poole

Certainly agree Paulco, is it any coincidence that the best Speedway racing I've seen this season has been at Somerset, Redcar and Scunthorpe? All fairly recent new tracks.

True David, and these are the best riders in the world trying to navigate it safely at speed

One minute its excellent racing Ashie, then ........ make your mind up You must concede that this was one poor excuse for a speedway track! You should have been at Somerset last night, great racing on a PROPER speedway track

The referee is a disgrace The track is a disgrace If this is the best Speedway can offer no wonder the sport is in a mess! The GP series is at a watershed, time for Speedway on speedway tracks!! Great to see Nicholls and Bomber going well, but its really a lottery. ***Post split from referee topic by mod to start new topic***

Pretty fair assessment Rob. I didn't though have a problem with the speed of the heats, although I can understand your point of view. Personally I think this is one way we might get more new people coming to watch Speedway. 20 heats in 90 minutes was pure entertainment. Often though 15 heat meetings can take over 2 hours which in my opinion is far too long to be watching a match, Mildenhall by the way are sometimes a culprit so i'm not pointing the finger just at other teams.