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Joy oh joy. Look at the job he did at Cardiff!!! The atmoshere was great the result was brilliant but the track?? The graders never went near the holes on the second bend until the semi's and the watering "can" never got near the inside either. At least he won't have to bother about watering tomorrow after the rain of today.

Haven't got time to check that there are no duplications within the 50cc and 80 cc listed riders but I make it a total of 291 on small speedway bikes out of a population of 5.4 million people. In the UK, my estimate going around the tracks, is probably no more than 70 youth riders maximum, and that could be pushing it. Population of the UK 60.4 million. Of course that doesn't take into account how many of those in Denmark and the UK do grass tracking, but it doesn't take a genius to work out that the odds of Denmark producing many top class riders far outweighs the odds of the UK doing the same. Morganbike is right. The promoters, and the ACU and the BSPA need to wake up and get organised. This winter has certainly seen far more opportunities for practising and I would like to thank all those promoters for putting on the sessions but as iris 123 noted, free training is present in Denmark for the yougsters to try it before "buying". Peter Oakes has done a good job getting the U15/U18 Championship up and running as well as the Academy League but it is not a job for a man with so many other jobs. It is a full time job and the BSPA need to recognise that fact. The SAL was an attempt to give the youngsters a chance so promoters please get organised in 2007, get some rules laid down and really make it happen nationwide and not just in the south. Additionally, the u15 championship needs to understand what machinery is to be used and if it is 250 cc bikes then why not have a 125 championship as well, or an 80 cc one. Just get some rules into it - if 80cc and 125cc bikes are good enough in Denmark for producing World Champions, why not here. Answer there are not enough tracks of the right size, so come on BSPA, get out there and get some built. You don't need huge ares of land for a mini speedway track.