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It's raining 🌧 East Stand W@nkers 😂😂

He should be made to ride with brakes fitted to his bikes!

Yes, but... you have no sympathy for anybody or anything 😂

Some big rain heading in 🌧

BREAKING NEWS: DJ Woffy manages to conduct an interview without dropping an F-Bomb 💣 😂

Never looked like that around the NSS with a Lions race suit on 😂

Bewley & Lindgren are missed more on the track 😟

He's doing exactly as I expected, much like all of the other U21 champs who've been way out of their depth, it's not a finishing school

It'll be at Leicester soon enough, a couple of years 😁

Have you seen the forecast! 😲

Roll over to the next season, or refund or sell season tickets for a percentage of matches... or, and this is a novel idea, get their bloody matches on! Believe it or not you can buy a season ticket for your local county cricket club... they actually seem to manage 👍🏻

First practice/quali/sprint I've been to and as a spectator experience it's a complete non event 😂 It was good to sit high up in the East Stand though and get a different perspective of the track, never knew it dipped down into turn 1 and then "up hill" into turn 2

If only their service was a good as their marketing!

Where there's a will, there's a way!

The Speedway fraternity is a moaning lot (I'm not averse to a little moan myself now and again), but the organisers of this event bent over backwards to try and placate the bunch of moaners that the British Speedway fans are... They setup no air horn zones because people complained it was too noisy, they slashed the ticket prices because people complained they were too expensive, they altered the start time to enable people to travel back after the meeting because people complained about the hotel prices, they improved the track (they actually did from the early years) because people moaned the racing was not up to muster... eventually they came to the conclusion, "what's the bloody point", and quite rightly so from their point of view.

The only other league sport, that I can think of, that is so badly effected by weather is Cricket, they don't faff about trying to rearrange matches etc. Points are divided up and everybody moves on... Cricket seems to be doing quite well these days with their £880,000,000 4 year TV deal 🤔. ... still, we know best 👌

Spot on, for me it was similar to attending a metal concert, it's not mainstream, gets zero media coverage but you're all there to watch you're "secret" thing... while everybody else is watching Taylor Swift (Football)

Oxford or Poole

I miss it, it brought a different demographic to Speedway a younger and often female demographic that you just tended not to see at league Speedway, some of these were foreign but a lot seemed to be British. I know of people with little to no interest in Speedway who used to attend from Leicester, so there must have been others. As league Speedway is followed by an older, more male demographic, a lot of who arent interested in actually having a good time socially or enjoying the atmosphere that a big crowd generates and only interested in "the racing" and filling their programmes in before a race is complete and standing there in stoney faced silence offering no applause when a rider comes round and acknowledges the crowd... when they stopped going it only left "the normals" and that just wasn't enough to sustain it. (Controversial, sorry if that's you). It's done the sport as much damage as the loss of Wembley did back in the 80's and it's going to take some coming back from. I went to every one and enjoyed every experience I had... even the ones with crap racing. I only stayed over twice, never in Cardiff, never went just to get p155ed up, never paid more than £30 for a ticket after year one and just had a cheap maccies to keep the costs down. With the 14 odd tracks we currently have running today it's difficult to see how the British Speedway showpiece event can attract a crowd of more than 6,500 ever again in the current setup.

Well, there's ckall else to do with every speedway match in the country being called off this week, when they mostly could have been run with some effort from those involved.

We had absolutely biblical rain in Leicester for over an hour during the night before the Sheffield match last week yet the track was dusty after a couple of races, yes we did have 30 degree temps during that day but with the wind we're having at the moment and around 15 hours of daylight I do feel this was a bit of a premature postponement. When you've sat and watched a GP qualifier from Glasgow at the weekend being ridden, often in driving rain, on a wet track you have to wonder why Ippo meetings get called off so easily... like the BV match the other week! Have the Foxhole drainage problems resurfaced?

Probably no riders, Klindt will need to rest his poorly knee after all of the recent exertion!

6,500 each night, most of them the same people

F*ckenback replaces Lindgren

I blame El Nino (and Poole, of course) 😁