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BUXTON: 52.9 James Wright (27 June 2004)

COVENTRY: 61.6 Joe Jacobs (30 August 2013)

CRADLEY HEATH: 55.69 Paul Starke (3 September 2013)

DEVON: 49.50 Thomas Jorgensen (9 July 2010)

KENT: 57.5 Steve Boxall (8 July 2013)

KING'S LYNN: 59.50 Robert Lambert (19 June 2013)

MILDENHALL: 49.68 Steve Boxall (14 July 2013)

SCUNTHORPE: 56.65 Ashley Birks (14 October 2011)

STOKE: 62.0 Andrew Tully (29 August 2007)

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Stoke, for some reason, has 3 different TR's

 

Overall TR: 60.5 - Ty Procter and Steve Johnstone

NL Track Record: 62.2 - Richie Worrall

CL Track Record: 62.0 - Andrew Tully

 

Take your pick ;)

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Surely a track record is a track record? How is it determined that Coventry NL track record is the time from an Under 19 meeting where potentially a non-NL rider could get the time.

 

Frankly, as the sport has a guy with a stopwatch timing things I'm amazed anyone cares about track records.

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Frankly, as the sport has a guy with a stopwatch timing things I'm amazed anyone cares about track records.

?????

 

Always amazes me tbh, how you have virtually no interest in anything. You don't complete a programme and think everyone who does is wasting their time.

 

Now your latest is that you don't care about tracks records because, er, there's a time keeper..? Not sure I get this, would you rather count in your head to work out the race time..?!

 

I sometimes wonder if you actually like Speedway at all!!

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Who's going to be the first track to use transponders on the bikes connected to a big screen. Morizes club in south west France uses them. They're just attached to the bikes with two cable ties. A guy with a stopwatch is such an unreliable and outdated way of doing things.

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?????Always amazes me tbh, how you have virtually no interest in anything. You don't complete a programme and think everyone who does is wasting their time.Now your latest is that you don't care about tracks records because, er, there's a time keeper..? Not sure I get this, would you rather count in your head to work out the race time..?!I sometimes wonder if you actually like Speedway at all!!

I'm guessing all SCB is really saying is that speedway should be brought up to the 21st century. Electronic transponders fitted to a rider's handlebars is a really simple and inexpensive process.

 

And he's right that track records shouldn't be taken to seriously as a guy with a stopwatch isn't exactly accurate.

 

Saying that, I'm not sure how King's Lynn do our times as each lap is displayed during the race not just all 4 laps.

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Stoke, for some reason, has 3 different TR's

 

Overall TR: 60.5 - Ty Procter and Steve Johnstone

NL Track Record: 62.2 - Richie Worrall

CL Track Record: 62.0 - Andrew Tully

 

Take your pick ;)

I can understand Stoke recording 60.5 in their official records, as this was timed at a higher level of racing (i.e. 2nd tier).

 

I can't understand the reason for showing separate records for National & Conference Leagues, as they are one and the same thing (i.e. 3rdtier), so IMO, the listing of Richie Worrall doesn't justify being shown.

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I'm guessing all SCB is really saying is that speedway should be brought up to the 21st century. Electronic transponders fitted to a rider's handlebars is a really simple and inexpensive process.

 

And he's right that track records shouldn't be taken to seriously as a guy with a stopwatch isn't exactly accurate.

 

Saying that, I'm not sure how King's Lynn do our times as each lap is displayed during the race not just all 4 laps.

 

 

Who's going to be the first track to use transponders on the bikes connected to a big screen. Morizes club in south west France uses them. They're just attached to the bikes with two cable ties. A guy with a stopwatch is such an unreliable and outdated way of doing things.

 

Or girl. :wink:

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Stoke, for some reason, has 3 different TR's

 

Overall TR: 60.5 - Ty Procter and Steve Johnstone

NL Track Record: 62.2 - Richie Worrall

CL Track Record: 62.0 - Andrew Tully

 

Take your pick ;)

 

Doesn't Andrew Silver still hold the all time track record at Stoke?

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Doesn't Andrew Silver still hold the all time track record at Stoke?

 

Yes, but we can in theory discount it because the track has changed shape and length since then.

 

In reality, the track was made marginally shorter, and Silver rode a 59.1 if memory serves.

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Yes, but we can in theory discount it because the track has changed shape and length since then.

 

In reality, the track was made marginally shorter, and Silver rode a 59.1 if memory serves.

I don't want to discount it Vog, Andrew owns that record fair and square and probably will do for a long time to come and I hope it always stands as something riders aspire to better.

In any case, if the track is shorter, the times should be faster, but are not by a mile. Certainly, I doubt Andrew's Godden (if that was what he was riding that day) was anything like as powerful as todays GM's, but that is opening another can of worms entirely.

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