Potential Idea For The Future Of British Speedway?

[Christopher Bcmma Cook]

British Premier League North

 

Berwick

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Newcastle

RedCar

Sheffield

Workington

Belle Vue

Birmingham

Coventry

Leicester

 

British Premier League South

 

Ipswich

Peterborough

Plymouth

Rye House

Scunthorpe

Somerset

Eastbourne

Kings Lynn

Lakeside

Poole

Swindon

 

11 teams per league playing each other Home & Away (20 matches) in Total.

 

Overall League Winner is crowned respective Champion of each Division i.e. a Northern & Southern regional Champion (receives a trophy)

 

Both Northern & Southern Champions have a two-legged “Final” to be crowned overall British Speedway Premier League Champion (receives a trophy)

 

Introduce – British Speedway KO Cup

10 Team seeded into Round 2 (Random Draw)

Round1 - 12 teams race off for 6 places in the next round home & away legs

Round 2 – Last 16 home & away legs

Round 3 – Last 8 home & away legs

Semi Finals – home & away legs

Final – Last 2 home & away legs

 

Maximum meetings to win the trophy = 10 minimum or 8 if seeded

 

Introduce – British Speedway League Cup

 

Same format as above but no home/away legs, luck of the draw as to who gets home advantage, neutral venues however for Semi Finals and Final.

 

Maximum meetings to win the trophy = 5 meetings or 4 if seeded

 

If someone was to do the Quadrupal of Regional League Champion, British Champion. KO Cup and League Cup champion it would be no more than 37 meetings or minimum of 34

 

Regional Main leagues in order to boost attendances

 

Teams to go back to 6-rider teams running a same format as in 97’ with 15 heats.

 

All Cup competitions to run under the 13 heat format.

 

Rider no.6 to be a Fast Track rider either nominated by the league or through the Academy team if the club has one. Must be British and you convert their National League average (unless they already have premier league average).

 

For the first season, all averages must be converted from either the conference or elite league into what their "premier league" average would be (unless they already have a premier league average) for team building purposes.

 

Guest riders can only be sought from the other regional championship i.e. a Glasgow guest can be acquired from any team in the Southern league and vice versa.

 

Need to look at getting the “British Final” individual meeting at the Olympic Stadium, Speedway needs to get back into London.

 

 

If the GP riders are lost then so be it, Speedway needs to fix itself before it can sustain the big names, maybe in a few years there can be a Super-Six league put together in the summer featuring speedways biggest stars (bit like Indian cricket). But lets first fix the product.