scaramanga Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 dry where I'm at but hearing reports its raining closer to track no reports of rain off yet mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topaz325 Posted April 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 It's off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comet Dan Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 Unfortunately the light shower turned into a prolonged heavy downpour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idanthyrsus Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 Now back. Seemed a hasty decision to call it off with 70 minutes to go and blue skies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comet Dan Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 The ref and riders were all in agreement, turn 1 was bad, it wouldn't have made for good racing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idanthyrsus Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 I suspect had this meeting been at the end of the season it would have gone ahead. Albeit with hard work and maybe starting a bit late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 I suspect many fane will be just giving speedway a miss if there is rain on the day of a meeting giving the riders attitude nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagpuss Posted April 2, 2017 Report Share Posted April 2, 2017 I certainly don't bother on a wet evening any more. At least this was called off early so people could do something else rather than standing around watching dross, or tractors going round, or riders and referee deliberating and ending up not riding anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soupy Posted April 2, 2017 Report Share Posted April 2, 2017 It was only called off at 17-40 roughly so most away fans would of been travelling and some further afield.I never made the trip as decided to give it a pass with the heavy showers forecast over the west.i ended going up to Berwick and when I was at Seaton burn the heavens opened at 4-30 pm but yet when I was at Blyth for a tea stop it was beautiful sunshine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idanthyrsus Posted April 2, 2017 Report Share Posted April 2, 2017 It's a tough call this early in the season. You would _hope_ most promoters would expect larger crowds at the early meetings as they will have been promoting the sport for the last couple of months. That being the case you don't want a load of people new to speedway to arrive and watch poor racing because you inevitably end up with a slick track if you've had to carry out emergency work on the track. I arrived just as it was called of at around 17:45, it had just chucked it down, but I was hoping that the time to the start of the meeting would be enough to turn the track around. It was fairly obvious it wasn't going to rain again with the blue skies, but the decision was made and that was that. Sadly, it's part and parcel of travelling to away matches. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leander Posted April 2, 2017 Report Share Posted April 2, 2017 I suspect most damage was done with the rain during the week. They apparently spent Saturday morning pumping water off the track. Whilst it was dry and sunny for the afternoon a rugby match meant' that they were unable to do any more work on the track until after 17:00, which is when the rain started again. And it was heavy rain for at least 45 minutes. It stopped just a I was leaving at 17:55. If they'd had a decent week then maybe they could have done something with it. but on an already soft track they was no chance. Bend 1 was apparently underwater again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaramanga Posted April 2, 2017 Report Share Posted April 2, 2017 (edited) It's a tough call this early in the season. You would _hope_ most promoters would expect larger crowds at the early meetings as they will have been promoting the sport for the last couple of months. That being the case you don't want a load of people new to speedway to arrive and watch poor racing because you inevitably end up with a slick track if you've had to carry out emergency work on the track. I arrived just as it was called of at around 17:45, it had just chucked it down, but I was hoping that the time to the start of the meeting would be enough to turn the track around. It was fairly obvious it wasn't going to rain again with the blue skies, but the decision was made and that was that. Sadly, it's part and parcel of travelling to away matches. nothing is obvious where I was around 10 miles away it hadn't even looked like rain was coming 100% dry and bright all day so to have a heavy downpour so close anything could have happened I did see photos from Friday mind and it was very wet they done well to get it back to being in with a chance of running Saturday morning Edited April 2, 2017 by scarra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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