Belle Vue V Swindon 11 May, 2016.

[Aces51]

First EL meeting at the NSS. Difficult to predict as Aces will have virtually no home track advantage apart from a few practice laps. I'm going for 49-41 but will be happy regardless of the result if the weather is kind and the racing as good or, better than last night's NL meeting.

[orion]

Coming down for this one ...should be a big crowd a great event ...impossible to predict the score as this match is on a neutral track .

[stevebrum]

Aces by 10.

[Aces51]

This video from heat 13 last night shows what the track is like. Brilliant ride from Jon Armstrong.

 

http://www.speedwaygb.co/news.php?extend.30426

[waiheke1]

Track looks good. And those riders looked a hell of a lot better than the standard I recall from the British league juniors back in the 80s.

[Notenoughnerve]

Forecast is minging again, rain expected all day.

I can see a postponement before dinner time.

[Steve Shovlar]

Great to see a proper race on the track. Looks great.

[Starman2006]

Great to see a proper race on the track. Looks great.

Couldn't agree more, looks very good. Notice the the chap comentating said it was the best race of the night. Again, all looks good to go, but sadly you will never change this crappy british weather.. I know it was only a colts meeting but i would have thought there would have been a bigger crowd, just out of curiosity..

[Aces51]

Very difficult to estimate but I thought there was about 800 there. Difficult to say how good that is. It was after all a third division match but against that, the first meeting at the NSS but people also knew the Aces would be at home less than a week later.

 

Crowds were extremely poor the last time we were in the NL so overall, I think it was a very good turnout.

 

That was the best race but the overall standard of racing was good. In any event I think we need to have a few more meetings and let the track settle down before we see how good it is.

Edited May 8, 2016 by Aces51

[Starman2006]

Very difficult to estimate but I thought there was about 800 there. Difficult to say how good that is. It was after all a third division match but against that, the first meeting at the NSS but people also knew the Aces would be at home less than a week later.

 

Crowds were extremely poor the last time we were in the NL so overall, I think it was a very good turnout.

 

That was the best race but the overall standard of racing was good. In any event I think we need to have a few more meetings and let the track settle down before we see how good it is.

Agreed, but you would expect a reasonable crowd for that first meeting as i say just out of curiosity, looks very good decent shape, ok it did look a little slick but hey ho you have racing.

Yes its going to take a while for the track to settle down and it be turned over a few times, then you can evaluate it. But what you do need is a settled period of weather.

[Daniel Smith]

Looks an excellent race track. Super fast Poles & Danes will murder us round there in the SWC

[ouch]

Over 750 tickets were sold online by early afternoon so add in the pay on arrival folk, I'd say there was over 1000 maybe 1200.

[waiheke1]

Looks an excellent race track. Super fast Poles & Danes will murder us round there in the SWC

It to put it another way: will b perfect for tai. Cook and Nicholls will have ridden it more than anyone. And will suit racers like lambert and Harris.

Maybe tai needs to lend them his bikes like Ivan did in 79

[Aces51]

Forecast now looking a bit better. No longer heavy rain all day but now light rain during the early hours and during the day possibly until 7pm. Obviously, still not promising but plenty of time for it to change for the better. Fingers crossed.

[FAST GATER]

Really pleased for all concerned we now have a track that befits a team like the Aces and there long heritage looking forward to visiting many times in the future .

 

Armstrong should be plying his trade in the PL IMO

Edited May 8, 2016 by FAST GATER

[hyderd]

Couldn't agree more, looks very good. Notice the the chap comentating said it was the best race of the night. Again, all looks good to go, but sadly you will never change this crappy british weather.. I know it was only a colts meeting but i would have thought there would have been a bigger crowd, just out of curiosity..

Only the grandstand was open for this match, the grandstand seats 2000 people, and from the camera angle it was impossible to see the Grandstand, I was there and would estimate between 1100 and 1200. As it was now our opening fixture then a tad smaller than I would of thought, but still more than some now El matches elsewhere and most if not all NL fixtures.

Ours thanks go to Mildenhall for accepting this earlier match.

[hagonshocker]

Looks superb! Very smooth pretty flowing type of track....NL riders looked good round it imagine how good a standard of rider higher will? Quite excited by that track

Edited May 8, 2016 by hagonshocker

[Starman2006]

Only the grandstand was open for this match, the grandstand seats 2000 people, and from the camera angle it was impossible to see the Grandstand, I was there and would estimate between 1100 and 1200. As it was now our opening fixture then a tad smaller than I would of thought, but still more than some now El matches elsewhere and most if not all NL fixtures.

Ours thanks go to Mildenhall for accepting this earlier match.

Don't get carried away, your running before you can walk, wait untill you get the honeymoon period out the way then re assess it....

[Trevor]

I was there and was disappointed by the gate, but there is an awful lot of confidence to be rebuilt in the club, after the last two months. However the quality of racing, plus the closeness you are to the action(You can almost feel the speed) will in time bring people to a great spectacle.

[Aces51]

Apparently, r/r for Max Fricke. This is a recently arranged fixture so his Danish club have preference. I think that definitely helps the Robins.