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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.

F*cking embarrassing, your a top flight track run by the same people as the Grand Prix and you don’t have a blade. State of this sport in this country, why did I f*cking sub to BSN again? it’s the same every week, either too dry and dusty or it’s too wet and we can’t race.

Just get on with it, doesn’t look that bad, seen far far worse.

Unfortunately my track only covers an area of 40ft by 15ft, it is an oval though. But seriously everyone always worries about rain yet it’s the best way to water a track, after all it has to be watered anyway, so long as it doesn’t chuck it down within an hour of start time so it leaves surface water or during the meeting itself, it shouldn’t be an issue. Ok so you might end up with one line, but you have that if it’s bone dry and dusty so what difference does it make?

In Essex we have had plenty of hail, I have a small RC dirt track in my back garden, I have a home made grader which is towed around using an Rc car it to rip the top surface a bit, but track still hard as nails from when it was rolled and sun baked dry, water just runs off it, and I suspect go down a few CMs and it will be dry as a bone.

Surely this will be called off, can’t expect riders to race on a track with moisture in it, they are to used to riding on dust bowls.