IainB

The comment was not silly at all and to call comments silly and accuse people of being trolls are normally the comments that are reached for when somebody has no real cogent case to put forward. A better analogy was my holding the FA Cup Final at a non-league ground. Speedway is not in the business of economics (or selling Ferrari's), it's in the business of Sports Entertainment and it's a shame you do not understand that, if it were purely down to economics they should concentrate on the Financial Services industry or something and get out of Speedway. Did I ever say I found the racing at Cardiff a draw? No, I did not, that's something you've assumed. What attracted me to Cardiff was the sense of event, thousands of people being at the same place I was because of a shared passion and while we're on the subject of the racing, I never thought it was quite as bad as some of the naysayers on here claimed (but then I do watch my Speedway at Leicester 😉). For me it was very much like a music concert event, I've seen Dave Grohl murder his Foo Fighters songs for 2 hours live, the quality was shocking but the experience was unforgettable... and by the way that was with 80,000 others at the MK Bowl and not the local Village Church Hall. The NSS has the best Speedway race track in the world in my opinion... it's just not fit for purpose as a SGP venue.

To be fair we don't really know do we? Who knows if the few hundred on here represent the 40,000 that used to turn up at Cardiff?

To, in your first sentence, say that my comment is silly and in the very next paragraph go on about Ferrari's is quite absurd, we are talking about a working class sport that is struggling to attract a new generation of fans. Of course the capacity is variable, that's why they've got the East Stand! If they didn't the capacity would be around 4,000! To say the draw of Cardiff was the social side, well that may have been the case for you, but it wasn't for me and who's to say it was for anybody else, that's quite an assumption. The fact of the matter is that even at Cardiff's worst attendance there'll be around 15,000 less people attending the British Speedway GP this year, result!

By on, you of course mean backwards

Come on you need to take your Belle Vue blinkers off... holding a GP at Belle Vue after 25 years at Cardiff is like holding the FA Cup Final at a non league ground! If you think that losing Cardiff is a positive then the sport in this country really is finished. And by the way, I have got my tickets and I will be going along and enjoying myself despite the cost which I will have forgotten about by then.

I see you made Speedway Shambles headlines 🤣 Congratulations 👏 Even I haven't achieved that! 😂

Got to hold them before Poland starts up I would have thought.

Probably to do with Poland 🇵🇱

Only with an outboard motor 🚤

Modern day Speedway riders just don't want it! 😂

Didn't see many Scunny fans there, which was disappointing considering how many years Dougy spent riding for them.

Or it says the capacity wasn't enough... it may be a harder sell next year when the prices will undoubtedly be higher and all those that have given Cardiff a miss because "the racing was crap" realise that watching a GP at the NSS is just like watching the PCMT or British Final, absolutely nothing "special" about it at all.

That's not what I'm saying at all... I'm saying 1 night next year will be quite a bit more than 1 night this year.

You don't seem to understand that it's going to cost them the same to hire a 3,000 seater grandstand whether it be a 1 or 2 day event and if you're running your event only on 1 day you're going to have to charge more to cover your costs than spreading your costs over 2 days worth of ticket sales... it's basic maths and economics

A triple header at Belle Vue on the Sunday! Kerching 🤑💰

There's sponsorship and TV money offsetting this year's ticket price also though, so I'm not sure what you mean by this. You expect it to go up but be cheaper than this year, that's a total contradiction, do you mean you expect it to be less than this year's single day ticket price of £69? I beg to differ, £90 as a starting price for a Speedway GP is far too much.

Just doing a quick Google search the price of hiring grandstands seems to be around £100 per seat, so assuming the East Stand seats 3,000 that's £300,000, divide that by the total capacity, let's go with 7,000, and split that over the 2 nights, that suggests that each ticket this year includes a £21 charge for the East Stand. Double that for 1 night means a £69 ticket this year could start from £90 next year, assuming there's no double header again... that'll test people!

Do you think so? I would have thought it'd be more as the cost of the East Stand will have to be recouped in one night next year. Surely that's the main cost, I would assume any staging fees for 2 GP's this year will have been reduced to help WBD out with the pulling of the plug at Cardiff... who knows 🤷‍♂️

Does anybody on here continue to use the one stop?

Absolutely anytime 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

That was never really going to be difficult to sell-out tbh, how sustainable it is remains to be seen

Shut up Jock (strap)

It's gone because the FIM have let everything revolve around Polish Speedway. British Speedway is in no real worse state than it was in 2019 when there was about 40,000 attending Cardiff... WBD take over and the rest is history I'm afraid.