IainB

If you thought the track was slick and the meeting was prolonged, you should have seen some of the other meetings this season. The track was in far better condition than it has been for a long long time and the match was completed in 92 minutes with a 10-15 minute interval... on a lovely summer's Saturday night, with a healthy crowd, with many good races, it was one of the better nights at Leicester Speedway. Perhaps the performance of your team has clouded your judgement? Things looked up for Scunny with King and Lambert heading for a 5-1 in heat 1 until "Ans" Andersen managed to pick Lambert off. So 75-15 went out the door from the start Personally, I'm not sure "Ans" is a number one these days, hope he proves me wrong but I'd like to see him at 3 or 4 (if the rules permit)

First time I've heard of them... Reading the thread on the International Speedway forum it all seems a bit mickey mouse to me. Still... good luck to our boys!

FIME?

Hungary "A" and Hungary "B"? This isn't an FIM event then?

Who are GB riding against? Hungary?

Is Ellis injured?

Translates to The Wasps on Google translate

Yes, I get the explanations and thank @Ghostwalker for them. What I don't get is why there's no uniformity. Unless I'm wrong, and it has been known, Sweden seems to be the only place to break from the "Location" & "Nickname" convention.

I'm even more confused now... wish I hadn't asked

What's a Njudungarna... and The Ships Not The Roast Pigs then lol

In my effort to try and get my head around the way Sweden name their Speedway teams, I ran them through Google translate and here are the results: The Blacksmiths The Ducks Vastervik The Lion Vetlanda Rospiggarna The Masses The Indians The Pirates Question: Why do some teams use their emblem name and others use their location name? It makes it mighty confusing when sometimes in commentary clubs are referred to with both/either or any of their names like Kumla/Inianarna/The Indians... sometimes it's like 6 teams are on show. "arna" seems to indicate "the" and the previous part of the word except for Rospiggarna which Google won't translate... what's a Rospigg? Some kind of Pig? Why haven't Vetlanda or Vastervik got other names? Confused

Reading some posts elsewhere you'd think it's gonna be 75-15 for every match for the rest of the season

75-15?

Followed the link R&R posted

Can anybody enlighten me on who Dale Allitt is? Where did he come from? Ex-Rider, mechanic, sponsor, businessman, fan?

Should have gone to Specsavers!

Imo, KL is a shadow of the "race" track it used to be, that's the reason I have absolutely no interest in attending as a neutral anymore, I used to get along to Lynn about 5 or 6 times a season... I've been 5 or 6 times in the last 10 years

I thought the track was terrible for the first 5 races, peaked for the 2nd 5 and then slickened off for the last 5

Agree with you... well at least 66.6% Killer falls off if the wind is blowing in the wrong direction and he seemed alright with it after the incident With Lahti, Nicki didn't move off his line, was marginally in front when Lahti came off, there was still a lot of track left to ride and the throttle goes both ways Birkemose would do well to wind his neck in and show a bit more respect to the 3 x World Champ, all his histrionics after the incident was embarrassing To be involved in 3 incidents in one night is unusual and the law of averages says there's going to be one wrong decision, no excuse for any alleged violent behaviour but nothing wrong with a frank exchange of opinions

Like I said, I think the visibility "excuse" was a red herring.

Doesn't the man at the top not even talk to his own son... "by mutual consent"? Seems like a bit of a Sociopath

Sadly, it was Swindon... where are they now?

British Speedway "Promoters" Limited... I agree, they are franchise holders, but really some promotion really does cost little to nothing and some clubs just aren't doing this, they're doing the "if you build it, they will come" style of "promotion". It's not difficult and there are some easy wins to be had, if I can think of them as a humble fan then others should also be able to.

As a Leicester fan this is a great signing, I've always liked Hans and the way he goes about his Speedway. He may well help us defend our league and cup titles but really outside of anybody already in the know... who cares? Will he put bums on seats? I can't imagine he's cheap. Still a great signing, can't wait to see him in action!

Don't even suggest that in jest, because if the powers that be see it... I suggested that last year for running the British Championship, it's certainly something I'd go to watch. Every British track to stage a round with a final to be held at the end of the season at the NSS