Fourentee

Am I looking in the wrong places? Can't see those posts on either source. Edit: Forget it, through now as new posts.

Lindgren, of course, qualified for this year's series through the Challenge rounds.

Some biographical details here. http://www.cradleyspeedway.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/riders/markrobinson.htm Edit: No less a luminary than Jan O Pedersen was asking after his performance today!

Hope you enjoyed that, Kev, and have dried out now.

Not raining at the moment (in city centre). But very grey. One of those where you're damned if you do, damned if you don't! Track held up very well last night and as a rule of thumb if Doc and Co can get on it early enough during the day (as today) then it should be OK. But I'm not promising... Edit: Put it this way, Kev. You'd feel bad if you made the journey and it was off. But you'd feel even worse if you didn't and it was on...

I take your point, but one can hardly tweak the meeting formula just because one of the riders is currently so good! Anyway, I like to see a little tradition in these days of play-offs, grand final, T20 cricket and all the rest of the instant gratification. Best of luck to your two; King is very capable around Monmore and Barker has come to terms with it recently. I would discount his below-par last appearance when it was extremely wet. Proctor would be my bet were Woffinden not riding. Really looking forward to this; it's a meeting which has produced very exciting racing in the last two stagings.

Match definitely on, according to text just received from club chairman.

Looked utterly innocuous, didn't it? Simple error, out of shape, gentle slide. Salutary reminder to us terrace experts about just how dangerous a sport it can be. It wasn't lost on me that Luke Priest, who knows all there is to know about major injury from a smash, was one of the first riders on the scene.

Broken bone in his back. But got his voice back! http://www.dudleyheathens.co/news.php?extend.411

That's correct.

Dudley +4, surely? Five dropped at home (a loss and a brace of two-point wins), nine gained away (two three-point wins, a draw and a narrow defeat). http://www.speedwaygb.co/nltable11.html

He wasn't slow (far from it), he just had a bad meeting. Holder won heat one in, from memory, a very fast time, the quickest of the night. He then had a third in a Poole 4-2. His two blanks were both first turn disqualifications, one for losing control and bringing down Karlsson, one for falling himself. To take a rider's one-off poor score and then extrapolate it into possible previous dodgy silencer use surely stretches the bounds of common sense. But wait! Of course! Clearly he was still on a dodgy unit in heat one, heard the winning time and thought "Whoops, must lie low now! Two disqualifications should do it!" It all fits!

From my viewpoint Blackbird may have just clipped the kerb, straightening him up and into the Dudley rider. Just one of those things. I think the booing may have had more to do with the contrast in speed displayed by Blackbird when getting up after falls, depending on where his partner was in the race at the time.

Hugely impressive from Heeps but on a tiny point of order he has ridden the circuit before, having done a few post-match laps last season. Very different from competitive team racing, of course. Tipped by Ty Proctor last year as one to watch. A very good performance by Mildenhall last night, well done to them.

Apparently 12 heats were listed in the meeting's original supplementary regulations but it was made clear at the team managers' briefing that there would be only eight, as per programme. FWIW I don't think Mildenhall's press release reads bitterly. They were lying fourth, six points off the lead, so would have been unlikely winners from that point anyway.

As mentioned by other posters, let's not get on the lad's back and expect too much, too soon. He's clearly a talent (Ty Proctor was raving about him last season when he came over for second-half rides) and is also very pleasant (as is his dad, who I spoke to last year and at Lynn the other week). But easy does it. Give him time.

Actually I was referring to Ipswich...

Ipswich v Dudley? Getting above themselves a bit?

Exactly what Nicholls said afterwards!

Curiously, all the wheel moving by the starting marshall at Buxton yesterday (and my word, was there plenty of it) was to get riders further away from the tapes.

Many moons ago a British League best pairs had the red-hot favourites paired against each other in the last heat. I recall that Collins/Morton was one pair, don't recollect the other. The charge of "fix" was levelled against the home promoter, whose reply has always (to me, at any rate) had the ring of veracity: "That's how they came out of the ashtray."

I blame Tom Perry (if he'd stopped on in heat 14, no last-heat decider and no stress!).

I wasn't at Belle Vue. There were two home falls at Buxton today, the first of which was Luke Priest's very nasty looking crash after clipping Jon Armstrong's back wheel. That was greeted with silence (it was clearly a heavy one) and a few shocked exclamations of "Oh!" followed by applause when Priest eventually got up. He was also applauded on the walk back to the pits, which took him past the Dudley fans who were gathered largely by or near the starting gate. The second fall, that of Jason Garrity in heat 15, was certainly cheered loudly. By way of explanation, though not of excuse, it didn't look initially anything like as dangerous as the Priest fall (although in the event Garrity was a long time getting up and clearly felt the impact), it confirmed the result of the meeting and tensions were by that time running very high. Garrity was also applauded on his way back to the pits. But, no, they should not have cheered it. I am merely attempting from a speedway fan's perspective to set the context. With regard to other posts alleging Ashley Morris hitting out at the starting marshall, I certainly saw nothing remotely resembling a blow or even an arm being raised. I watched the meeting one pace back from the fence (which many will know is very close to the track itself), perhaps a yard in advance of the starting gate. Morris was on gate four.

Four.

Ward was a bit of a loose cannon all night; he has so much ability it's almost as if feels capable of extricating himself from any situation successfully. He was very lucky not to wipe out Nicholls in heat one when losing control out of turn four. It got him the win, too, as Nicholls had to back off to avoid the carnage although Ward apologised immediately afterwards. As for "Woffinden dived under" Doyle into bend one, come come. Woffinden had got the line and the drive out of four, got his nose fractionally ahead down the home straight and Doyle, very bravely to my mind, refused to yield as they approached turn one. The inevitable contact happened and the man on the outside, as per usual, got the short end of the stick. A racing incident, not that it hurts any the less for that and best wishes to him. But an excellent meeting, arguably the best I've seen this season. Startling level of commitment from both sides; I'm sure we've all seen the odd bore-fest at this level but this was an absolute belter.