If you live local it's not a chore, but I have a 120 mile round trip to Arlington. A good way to improve things would be to have the first race dead on start time and the parade 15 minutes earlier. Football matches rarely kick off late, do they?
A few years ago a 1928 glasgow (celtic park) programme sold for £1000, I'm sure at the time it was the only one known to exist. Walthamstow's short season from 1934 usually hit the £400 mark!. I have a members badge from that year in my own collection which is mega rare.
As I get older I get less tolerant about most things in life, this includes long delays at speedway meetings. Most of my mates feel the same way, so I am not unique. The rapidly shrinking speedway fan base is mostly made up of older people, so it might be an idea for the promoters to run a slicker show, to stop us dying of boredom!
There must be a deadline for work to begin on the new stadium. Won't swindon have to declare at the BSPA conference their intention to run next season.
i agree, well done to the council for protecting belle vue's heritage. Here in london, once the power base of british speedway, our famous clubs were just left to die.