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It wasn't that much better actually being there... Parade advertised for 18:50, they came out just before 19:00, did a lap of the track on the back of fancy bikes, lined up in front of the crowd and then just got on their bikes and did a load of practice starts, Tapes Up advertised 19:00, 2 minutes went on at 19:11. The announcer reading out the line-up often only read it out once after giving the result of the previous race and often read it out incorrectly. For the first section of the meeting it seemed to be being dictated around the BVTV coverage, which we in the crowd couldn't hear anyway with the ref seemingly not knowing where the 2 minutes button was. Fortunately the Speedway was pretty entertaining... the rest, must do better!

Continuing on from what British Horse Racing are doing... Free pair of Horse Racing tickets to one of 5 events + kids go free (9,000 tickets available) https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/free-pair-of-horse-racing-tickets-to-one-of-5-events-kids-go-free-9000-tickets-available-4843039 British Speedway...

... and now it's raining! If they hadn't faffed about so much and started on time we'd be done by now... when will they ever learn 🤷‍♂️

Chris Holder rolling back the years tonight... superb stuff 👏

Could have been Luke Becker as the replacement if America hadn't started an illegal war with Iran 😂 ... I presume the FIM will be banning all American and Israeli riders from all of their events 🤔

Northampton No Stars

The whole presentation is a bit crap tbh

Parade at 18:50... Fail! It's good to be back 😂

That's the Manchester wild cards sorted at least, he'll get them both if he starts the season well I'd have thought

It's a start isn't it (a good start)... It's effectively a student ticket, but there's still a 64% increase on your 19th birthday... happy birthday! I'd still like to see a reduced price ticket for up to 24/25 year olds, that is the average age of people flying their parents nest in the UK and suggests they're not on a sound enough financial footing until that age.

Do we get some money back? 😂

Business Studies... how not to run a business 😂

The thing is surely it's better to have a bunch of 18-24 year olds in for £15-£18... + maybe burger, chips and a pint (I know some tracks don't receive catering money) rather than none at £25. Speedway's pricing structure is so rigid, you go from next to nothing as a non adult to a massive £25 minimum as an adult whatever your age. As a sport with such an aging supporter base there doesn't seem to be any middle ground for the next generation of supporter.

I think this is all well and good for those currently showing an interest in Speedway and it may very well show up in people's algorithm's for those that have an interest in motorcycle sports, which traditionally the sport hasn't really attracted as they can't go out and buy one of the machines to ride on the road. But only a paid ad campaign, such as the one I've been going on about for British Horse Racing, will get it shoved under peoples noses. I don't know why I keep seeing it recently as I've never shown any interest in horses on YouTube, maybe it's because I'm a resident of Leicester that have a race track or maybe everybody is seeing it, I don't really know enough about it... but I am certainly aware of British Horse Racing now 🤷‍♂️

Or the next Jesper B Jensen (Monberg)... or the many others who were heading in the wrong direction until they had something to focus on.

You'd think that a Further Education college may be a good bet, especially those running mechanical courses, also the age of those attending the college are more the age of most of the participants in Speedway, the only problem would come is if they then thought of attending Speedway there is no pricing policy to encourage them. There's a yoof riding round my area (and probably around everybody who reads this's area), on an electric bike, more often than not only on his back wheel down the middle of the road, always wearing a balaclava... he looks like he has potential, pulls better wheelies than most Speedway riders and obviously has no fear for his own safety, just the type of person that should be steered towards a sport like Speedway and away from whatever he's currently doing with his day (and the mind boggles at that)

Are any clubs offering a "young adult" ticket? I heard on the radio the other night that Nottingham Forest FC are reintroducing their young adult ticket, other football clubs seem to do similar scheme offering 25% discount for 18-24 year olds 🤔

It may very well be on YouTube as are hundreds of millions of other videos... and you have to seek it out unless your algorithm waves it under your eyes... What is probably more needed is a paid ad campaign such as the one that British Horse Racing is currently running, that forces it in front of your eyes while you're watching other content.

What the bloody hell was Mr Morris blathering on about then? 🤷‍♂️😂

From the press release: "Premiership CEO Phil Morris said: “The people in charge of Northampton will make their own announcements in the near future but I know they have been talking to riders""

Most of the stuff that @ouchmentioned is so last decade or even last century... I watch quite a bit on YouTube (I believe it's quite popular) and recently British Horse Racing have been running a promotional campaign and I keep seeing it quite regularly, not each individual race track but British Horse Racing as a whole, it shows lots of young people having fun with not a tartan blanket or camping chair in sight 😂 I'm never going to races (again) as its just not something that interests me, especially as a sport, as a social event maybe. But I'm certainly very much aware of it and their promotional campaign, especially during this Cheltenham week.

There's a nice picture of the entrance... what more do you want 🤷‍♂️😂

They do have a website though 😉😂 http://www.northampton-speedway.com/

Can we all be on our best behaviour please we don't want to scare off our new friends from Northampton 😉😁

Everybody?