Main Man Posted July 17, 2014 Report Share Posted July 17, 2014 COVENTRY will be staging a double-header of National League action next Friday (July 25).A bumper 30-heat schedule of racing will commence at the earlier time of 7pm with the re-arranged second leg of the City Gearboxes Storm’s KO Cup second leg tie against Buxton.Aggregate victory for the Storm, who won the first leg at the Hi-Edge Raceway last month, will set up a mouth-watering semi-final clash with local rivals Cradley.The clash with the Hitmen will be followed by the league encounter with King’s Lynn as the Storm bid to enhance their position in the play-off zone.Admission for the double header will be £15. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woz01 Posted July 18, 2014 Report Share Posted July 18, 2014 Will certainly be there! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdmc82 Posted July 18, 2014 Report Share Posted July 18, 2014 Looking forward to it. Good value as well at £15 for 30 heats. Good luck Coventry Storm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Main Man Posted July 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 and good racing!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heathen1984 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 Good racing at Coventry. Have I missed something in the last 30 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vog Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 I'll be there. Anything for a bit of speedway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazysue Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Is there anyone going to this meeting who would be able to text updates to the Updates site? If so, could you please send me a private message including your mobile number. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazysue Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Still looking for a texter for this meeting. .can anyone help please? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyb Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 (edited) Gonna be a long night. 90 minutes in and only on race 11. 20 to go. Absolute dross at the moment too Wish I had gone to b&q instead and bought some paint to watch dry instead. Edited July 25, 2014 by markyb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heathen1984 Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Every meeting at Coventry is terrible. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyb Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 9.12 pm and still no second match started. Will Horton charge again if meeting runs into a 2nd day - the words brewery, pis$ up, couldn't, organise, a & in spring to mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyb Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Coventry tonight - the first race started at 6.58 pm. The 29th and final race of the evening ended at roughly 10.40 Almost 3 and 3/4 hours - what an absolute joke. The final 30th race did not run due to the Coventry curfew. No incidents, no medical staff called upon, no starting gate malfunctions, no air fence issues. Just poor inept and blasé actions by the so called Coventry promotion team of Horton and Watson. A fantastic night weather wise - but probably the lowest crowd I seen for a Storm meeting ( and there were 2 tonight ) reckon 500 people tops and that being generous. Based on tonight, no way I gonna waste time and effort in attending in the future as the "muppets" don't appear to want to make the effort themselves. I wonder if we will get another Horton apology for tonight. however he has apologised so many times this season, these are now worthless and Mick (or are you Colin in disguise) you been taking the Mickey of us fans for too long ! I must end with one good point about tonight - Tony Atkin winning heat 15 - well done mate - it was a pleasure and hope you enjoyed the reception the hardy Coventry souls gave you. I could tell the win meant a lot to you from your reaction. happy days ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdmc82 Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 I thought tonight's meeting was good value for money. Agree that the delay between meetings could have been shorter. Congratulations to Storm on 2 wins, Stefan was brilliant tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heathen1984 Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 2 Wins yeh but was anythin else expected than the 2 wins. I'm just suprised u didn't win by more in both meetings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMungo Posted July 26, 2014 Report Share Posted July 26, 2014 Coventry tonight - the first race started at 6.58 pm. The 29th and final race of the evening ended at roughly 10.40 Almost 3 and 3/4 hours - what an absolute joke. The final 30th race did not run due to the Coventry curfew. No incidents, no medical staff called upon, no starting gate malfunctions, no air fence issues. Just poor inept and blasé actions by the so called Coventry promotion team of Horton and Watson. A fantastic night weather wise - but probably the lowest crowd I seen for a Storm meeting ( and there were 2 tonight ) reckon 500 people tops and that being generous. Based on tonight, no way I gonna waste time and effort in attending in the future as the "muppets" don't appear to want to make the effort themselves. I wonder if we will get another Horton apology for tonight. however he has apologised so many times this season, these are now worthless and Mick (or are you Colin in disguise) you been taking the Mickey of us fans for too long ! I must end with one good point about tonight - Tony Atkin winning heat 15 - well done mate - it was a pleasure and hope you enjoyed the reception the hardy Coventry souls gave you. I could tell the win meant a lot to you from your reaction. happy days ! Not sure that we were at the same meetings tonight. There were numerous hold-ups during the first meeting due to spills (Dan Greenwood was down for a while), several re-runs, riders taking 2 on a trot due to R/R and mostly track grading and lots of it. And it was needed. The 2nd meeting was run reasonably swiftly. 90 mins for almost a whole meeting is pretty good going. There was also going to be a lengthy gap between the 2 meetings, it always happens. It's a necessity to allow riders to prepare for the 2nd meeting. It was just the first meeting that took a while to run, and that was due to a poor track surface again. On the plus side, Extance looks impressive for Buxton - he'll be at Dudley next year then! And the young lad Atkin still has it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted July 26, 2014 Report Share Posted July 26, 2014 I always go to the Storm meetings but sounds like I was lucky to miss this one as we had been in North Yorkshire for the week and went to Scunthorpe via a detour back home. Never been before as it always clashes with Coventry's race night but was very impressed with the set up there and the racing was first class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTM Posted July 26, 2014 Report Share Posted July 26, 2014 What was wrong with the track I Wasn,t there to see first hand any details Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 What was wrong with the track I Wasn,t there to see first hand any details Riders were struggling to turn on bends three and four. Rider's reports were that the track was very patchy and inconsistent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredbogge Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Rider's reports were that the track was very patchy and inconsistent. Buxton track is nothing to write home about, most weeks big stones showing through bend 1 deep grove on inside bend 2 very slick into bend 3 down to sand base on bend 4 . track material very deep from half way out on bends 1&2 also bends 3&4. All this soon into meeting , so sad Ken Moss would not have had His track like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Just answering the question Fred Bogge which was regarding Coventry not Buxton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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