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Well done Redcar, solid pairing... Never In Doubt

Nick Morris ok to try and ride slow and block an opponent tonight... unlike when he wasn't looking where he was going in the PL Pairs at Wolverhampton and threw his toys out of the pram

In these days of 4 guests and R/R why not? Anything seems to go

Track down to the base in places

Is English Alun Rossiter's first language?

Bassimo anyone?

9 heats in 30 mins... if only they'd run the British Final at this pace!

I wonder if we'll get a race with 4 finishers?

Has Knudsen resigned for Berwick then?

That's what the Rider's Championships are for... British Championship is a national Championship and should be open to any rider with UK nationality imo

I thought he opened his van door and fell out amongst a load of beer tins... if you believe some of the things you read on here

Scunthorpe? I'll be there... I searched for a hotel room last weekend for what it'd cost me to travel from Leicester... found a pub/inn 20 miles from Cardiff for £40, so with my GP ticket for £22 it was a no brainer

Ok, lets look at probably the daftest fixture ever ridden in British Speedway, and that takes some beating... Pretend Plymouth vs Pretend Birmingham, both teams made up of riders pretending to replace a rider pretending to ride for a pretend club: Pretend Plymouth: 1. Richie Worral: Kings Lynn & Leicester pretending to be Ben Barker: Plymouth & Ipswich (+Wetherspoons) 2. R/R for Alfie Bowtell: Plymouth & Kent 3. Lewis Kerr: Kings Lynn (at the time) & Redcar pretending to be Ed Kennett, who was pretending to be a Speedway rider 4. Danyon Hume: Ippo (at the time?) & Glasgow pretending to be MPT: Plymouth & Peterborough 5. Josh Pickering: Kings Lynn & Edinburgh pretending to be Hans Andersen: Plymouth & Peterborough 6. Ben Morley: Plymouth & Kent 7. Harry McGurk: Plymouth & Belle Vue Pretend Birmingham: 1. Kye Thomson: Edinburgh pretending to be Claus Vissing, who was pretending to be a Birmingham rider 2. Jacob Hook: Edinburgh pretending to be Josh Auty? 3. R/R for Stefan Nielsen: Birmingham... but wasn't there 4. Broc Nicol: Glasgow pretending to be Ashley Morris? 5. Justin Sedgmen: Birmingham & Sheffield 6. Lee Complin: Armadale pretending to be James Shanes: Birmingham & Mildenhall 7. James Pearson: Birmingham! Woo Hoo! an actual Birmingham rider! ... I'm going for a lie down

Add them both together and you need to be Inspector Morse to actually determine who is guesting for who and from which club! At the moment there just seems to be a pool of riders that clubs are picking to get a match on... with the fat kid stood by himself as the last pick!

That news went down well then

I'm generally not adversed to guests but for me the majority of the team i.e. 4 riders should be from your club, 2 guests + 1 R/R. Anything more than that should not be run as an "official" fixture imo.

Can't disagree with anything he said except he said they were rushing it through 2mins, 2mins, 2mins... this clearly was NOT the case. Eurosport seemed to be calling the shots with zero flexibility in the schedule of the meeting

How many guests/RR's in a single team is too many?

Depends what the "actual" length of the track is... i mean Plymouth could be FIM length if they rode over 5 laps lol

Yeah it's 260m which is the minimum length for an FIM track... seems a bit of a cheat though as it'll only be 260m for one lap... Plymouth are putting up a hell of a fight here with half a team

Does a track have to be a minimum length then? Isn't Plymouth smaller? Has it always been like this at Armadale?

No, never have been, nearly went to the Ace of Aces once, but they're few and far between these days. Seriously though, do you know the reason?

Why is the finish line further along the straight from the start line? Is that legal? Are the canny Scots trying to get a bit more speedway for their money?

Paco Castanga just said the shape of the Leicester track is weird! How very dare he

Yeah, no acknowledgement. I think they're trying to estimate how much of the stadium to open up as R&R hints at... I foresee another massive balls up