marko

Excellent meeting and once again this track serves it up (note to BSN, don’t bother with tracks like Kings Lynn, come here four times instead) Brady will be Bartosz’s main challenger and I think he could do it with more performances like tonight, just one thing though and this is aimed at Aces fans, would Brady still race in the UK, if he was World Champion?

You can’t blame fans from other clubs staying away, Belle Vue is the best track bar none and it seems it can handle a bit of rain, but other tracks have educated fans that even the slightest hint of rain and it will be a no go, it’s hard to overcome that.

I hope Brady to name one, shows more interest in racing tonight than he did a couple of weeks ago at Ipswich 😉

Serious question, in an age when meetings are called off at a whim, Why hasn’t this been called off when there is rain forecasted all day and night in Manchester.

This won’t go ahead, too much chance of it raining for a couple of minutes 😉

Would have loved to have been in my 20s in the 70s and known about speedway, all those tracks I could potentially visit, I would have loved to have been able to go to White City, Custom House, Rayleigh and Romford to name four off the top of my head. Lots of of teams, lots of riders, high in quality too, what’s not to love?

Unbelievable Jeff 😂

Forecast is for rain later in the day so if they are consistent then they will call this one tomorrow morning if not sooner.

I have no time for people who only want to play at being speedway riders, I am not trying to say that mental health isn’t important, of course it is but if you are having issues you shouldn’t be racing in a team sport where your lack of wanting to ride doesn’t affect anyone else. Same goes to riders who only try when they make the start and always pull off the track after two laps when at the back.

Good meeting that, hope Dan Gilkes will be ok, lad hasn’t had much luck with injuries.

I watched it on catch up and after heat one I was tempted to turn it off right there but Oxford did make an effort to try and put it right and it did improve. Think the issue for them is if those small tanks on the back of a van is all they have then no wonder they had trouble getting water into the track during the day.

Did not see the match let alone the incidents but yes its 100% the bikes. Thing is also when you see how much these things are costing to run, it makes you wonder how any rider can afford to ride in this country unless the promoters are paying out far more than they get in revenue which is not sustainable. Dan Thompson on his channel covered costs and it mind blowing to me.

Been on this forum since 2003 so you can probably imagine the list of posters I have blocked is quite extensive lol

You could see there was a bit of a top surface but not a lot at all, had the day been dry I bet you that track would have produced a blue groove very quickly. There wasn’t much to blade off and you would still have the issue of the base being wet and that being hard would have been slippery, same as you don’t water a track which has blue grooved. Yes that late shower did sod it up but for them to say that before the shower the track was nothing more than just OK, does wind me up a bit, how could it have been better than just ok? Dry as a bone?

They should have held an impromptu practice session, any second half riders invited to, would have soon scrubbed the top surface off without having to race flat out under pressure. But as others have said, A blade is a part of the equipment that a club has to prove they have in order to to get a track licence. The main issue as I see it is that you have some riders who are just too afraid to ride on anything less than perfect because they fear if they get hurt here, their Polish club will throw the book at them.