Wayne Chivers

From the Weymouth Site. WANTAWAY promoter Phil Bartlett has confirmed that the National League “will survive” and could be stronger than ever in 2011. The Weymouth Weyline Wildcats’ outgoing chairman, who recently put the club up for sale for £1, received the assurances at a BSPA meeting earlier this week. It is understood the amount of teams in the league could even be increased – contrary to recent rumours that several clubs were considering pulling out. Bartlett refused to disclose any private information from the meeting but did offer a positive outlook for the future of grassroots speedway in this country. He told Echosport: “The National League will survive and it will be strong and healthy next season. As for the sale of the club, there have been no further developments although I am still in talks with an interested party but cannot say any more than that.” Hopefuly good news for all the young English speedway riders.

LINE-UP FOR THE 2011 FIM SPEEDWAY GRAND PRIX SERIES: 1 Tomasz GOLLOB (Poland) 2 Jaroslaw HAMPEL (Poland) 3 Jason CRUMP (Australia) 4 Rune HOLTA (Poland) 5 Greg HANCOCK (USA) 6 Chris HARRIS (Great Britain) 7 Kenneth BJERRE (Denmark) 8 Chris HOLDER (Australia) 9 Andreas JONSSON (Sweden) 10 Nicki PEDERSEN (Denmark) 11 Fredrik LINDGREN (Sweden) 12 Emil SAYFUTDINOV (Russia) 13 Artem LAGUTA (Russia) 14 Antonio LINDBÄCK (Sweden) 15 Janusz KOLODZIEJ (Poland) 16 WILD CARD 17 TRACK RESERVE 18 TRACK RESERVE QUALIFIED SUBSTITUTES 19 Magnus ZETTERSTRÖM (Sweden) 20 Thomas H JONASSON (Sweden) 21 Niels Kristian IVERSEN (Denmark) 22 Andrey KARPOV (Ukraine) 23 Grigory LAGUTA (Russia)

The problem is the BSPA dont give a s**t about the young riders, as long as they are making money. If more people did put in the effort they would get the rewards and help from the youngsters.

Nikko I am not having ago because I do understand about the costs for the club. On your 3rd point the engine costs is the same for all, so we still pay for engine tunning and service out of r own pockets, so it is no expenes to the club. So if we did sign for a club and got paid it would help us. Plus as I said early there is alot of youngster that would only want travelling money.

standard of racing is NDL level in which a lot of riders in meetings like Scunny our, that is what the league was called and is called by alot of the BSPA.

There is simple answer to all of this, NDL 1 rider over 25 to help the youngsters out, 1 comm, 3 under 25 English and 2 under 18's

Hi shippy22, we have travelled all over thee country from Basingstoke for 2nd halfs and will keep going. But one problem is some meetings run over and dont get the time on the track. u spend out alot of money to do so, when u could spend it on a training/amateur days. We wrote to every promotor asking if they had a 2nd half place to let us know. Replies 0

When Adam and me have been to amateur meetings we have talk to the young English riders. Most say they would ride for nothing, all they wanted was to get there travelling expenses. Then when the club thought they were ready to sort out payment of £10 a point, all of which would go done in a contract. There are schools out there run by riders/ex riders but when they wont to charge £100 to £200 a school it is getting to high. As when u take in the travelling as well u r looking in paying out £200 to £300 a school.