uk_martin

Exactly how much do you want to pay?

So will Birmingham be the first victim of the sport's general failure in cultivating a younger audience?

Eh? So YOU do all the grafting, and Terry Russell gets all the profits from it? Is Russel / SlowSpeed still in business? He used to have the worldwide television rights to distribute Polish Speedway, which he used purely to stop anyone outside of Poland from seeing it...but obviously, that cornerstone to his business is no longer in place, so I wonder if the business is still going?

Or if you bought a season ticket? Or if you donated to the Just Giving pot? A lot of fans, many of them pensioners, could be having to resign themselves to writing off a lot of their own money.

Prophetic.

Now I'm confused. Is this the same meeting that we're talking about here? By "second half" are you referring to heat's 5-9, after which point the meeting was abandoned? According to Speedway Updates, only 2 races out of the 9 had any overtaking at all - https://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/20052/redcar-championship-koc-02-2021

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Why not upload it on here then for everyone else to see...I'm sure that they are bound to agree with you if the video is that conclusive.

Damned good point, bloody well made.

Feeling really sorry for all the Redcar fans whose long journey has been totally wasted. I'm sure that the Brummies will have a Just Giving web page set up to raise funds for the unexpected refunds... It seems to be the way that things get financed there these days. I took a walk to the stadium this evening, but my heart sank when I saw the farce outside the stadium. Given that the weather forecast was for rain showers, with one thing and another I just gave up and went back home again. It makes you wonder how many of those who persevered and paid to get in will ever want to go again. "Elite Sport" they call this??? What a joke.

Don't forget to use your jumpers to represent the starting gate / finish line.

Why not have a "team" of 7 such riders? You could have 1 x RR plus 6 x guests to suit any given track. Makes you wonder if the old rule about facilities not being available for riders who have never ridden for you didn't have a virtue.

Interesting question....just who do the FIM and FIME think that they are, daring to have their meetings at weekends? Don't they know that we British have three teams, yeah, count them, THREE teams, who these pesky World and European tournaments interfere with. How dare they! About time the FIM and FIME got their priorities straight. Because WE say so, innit?

It's a rule that the Brummies came a cropper under in 2007 when Emiliano Sanchez was unable to ride in his first fixture and the Brummies had to track a 3 point NL reserve. I'm pretty sure that I saw the rule still in the book around 2010(ish) but it doesn't appear to be there now, as has been witnessed by Sheffield on Monday and Birmingham today fielding guests for riders who've not ridden for these two teams before. I was just interested when the rule was dropped?

It was a change to the rules made in recent years that allowed for today's situation to crop up. Up to recently (not sure exactly when) you weren't allowed a "facility" for riders who had never ridden for your team. The Brummies came a cropper under that rule in 2007 when Emiliano Sanchez missed the first meeting and we had to use a 3 point NL reserve in his place. Now imagine if the Brummies (or even Sheffield last Monday) had to track 3 point NL reserves instead of "proper" guests. But as has been said elsewhere. The FIM & FIME fixtures have been known for months. And like in many previous years in the past, nobody cares about these when setting up British fixtures. The sport's organisation is a joke.

Wrong. Much more recent than that.

As a matter of interest, when was the regulation that prohibited a Guest or RR facility being given for a rider that had never ridden for a club, removed from the rule book?

As I said, some people won't care. The way I look at it is that if they have a cavalier (& possibly illegal - GDPR and all that) attitude towards personal & data security, what sort of password protects the database that your credit card information will be stored on? "12345" by any chance? or just "password".? By all means, take a chance on them...I won't be.

An example.... Some people might not care, but to an information harvester and an identity thief, this is GOLD! And you think that I'm going to be entrusting my credit card information with a web site that is so cavalier with people's personal information? Think again.

i'll wait until they accept cash at the door. I had a look at that ticketing web site, and if they are splashing people's names and booking information on their web site, then that's a GDPR nightmare waiting to explode. I'm not trusting my credit card details to a web site with such a cavalier attitude to personal data protection.

That's a load of Bull.

I have an open mind on the matter until there is evidence to support one theory or another. However it's not the first time that there's been a mysterious bout of vandalism. Was the last time in 2018 or 2019 which caused a meeting to be postponed just at the time when one of the Brummies riders was unable to be in the country to fulfill the fixture, or something like that? Not that it will ever be admitted of course. Ever since Buster & Jonathan Chapman were allowed to get away with that mysterious electrical fault that caused their home fixture against the Brummies to be postponed in 2010, I've had a healthy doubt about calamities of convenience in the world of speedway.

This "NEW LOOK for the Star" thread has been going since 2018. How many new looks has it had in that time?

Great idea,. I wonder if Tractor Replacement would work too?

Really? Not that I've seen, and I walk past the place on a daily basis. What I do see though are a significant number of 24h site security personnel from the adjacent construction sites constantly in the area. If I was a vandal looking at torching some laid-up vehicles, this wouldn't have been my first choice place to do it, Also on the subject of what's been explained before, apparently insurance CAN be obtained for fire and vandalism for business plant and machinery. At least two contributors to another thread say that they could have arranged it. But hey ho. Who needs to pay the premiums when the Go-Fund-Me Insurance Company will bail you out of a crisis?