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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.

Firstly it’s very important no matter the level that your team wins it’s home meetings or at least enough of them to keep the crowds coming back, it doesn’t matter if the get a hiding away from home because very few fans actually travel now so unless you pay for a stream, you only see your team when they are at home. Secondly whilst the idea of a promotion being run by members of another seems odd, I know from reading the history of the sport, there used to be promoters who ran many tracks at the same time so it’s nothing new. The basics of speedway as a promoters is always, put together a team that will win most of its home matches and provide a track that will suit those riders and doesn’t leave your patrons covered in dust. I used to go to Rye House on Sundays afternoons every so often, especially when they were in a different league to Arena, I don’t remember many occasions if any where on nice warm afternoon, I would get covered in dust.

Great racing though, more passes in one match than you would see all season at some tracks.

Yes, it’s a professional sport charging professional prices but acting amateurish. The only reason a meeting should ever be delayed is if there has been a bad accident close by and clearly only a small percentage of the normal/expected crowd has been able to arrive, and even the parade should start on time or be canned so that once racing can start, it’s starts promptly.

Foxes do yourselves a favour and sack Batchelor, he will never do anything for you, hes an embarrasment.

Spot on, this is 2026, if you cant get their on time tough.

Its going to be another long night isnt it