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Lakeside Hammers v Berwick Bandits 15/6 8pm


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21 minutes ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

Any news on Kyle?

The news last night was a suspected broken collar bone but he was taken for X-rays . From what I heard it sounds like it’s broken though.Tyrpical type of injury when a rider gets high sided in that way. He was desperately unlucky for this to come at a time he was really coming into form . He ride from last to second to join Adam for a 5-1 in his previous ride was superb.

I didn’t think Berwick were a bad side, they just couldn’t find consistency in their gating. NBJ impressed me.

This is the best Lakeside team for years, not just on the track, but off track they seem to all get on well, and this translates to the way they ride together. A lot of team riding and looking out for each other last night. 

 

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39 minutes ago, liam said:

It just seemed to be one of them meetings where everything went wrong. The bad crash with Kyle, the air fence breaking when Lawson hit it then with R/R and Kyle being withdrawn it just seemed like a rider was always having back to back rides and it felt like a delay after every race. With all the talk and jokes about the track lately I have to say the racing was poor last night with only the inside line working I remember one heat when Morris was going out wide he just went backwards. Unfortunately if you was new to the sport you wouldn’t be going back again. Some things you can’t control but their is no excuse for not setting the track up to have more than one racing line. 

I don’t think there was much going backwards to score 14 points ! He came round the outside to take the lead on bends 3&4 in heat 13, and if you notice he almost always takes the outer gate in heat 15 to give that run round the out side run in bends 1&2 which is weher a lot of his points come from.

i am very impressed with Nick. Very professional and very focussed. They all seem to be improving though, especially Adam who was in line for a full max last night if his bike hadn’t died on the line in hear 15.

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38 minutes ago, Daytripper said:

The news last night was a suspected broken collar bone but he was taken for X-rays . From what I heard it sounds like it’s broken though.Tyrpical type of injury when a rider gets high sided in that way. He was desperately unlucky for this to come at a time he was really coming into form . He ride from last to second to join Adam for a 5-1 in his previous ride was superb.

I didn’t think Berwick were a bad side, they just couldn’t find consistency in their gating. NBJ impressed me.

This is the best Lakeside team for years, not just on the track, but off track they seem to all get on well, and this translates to the way they ride together. A lot of team riding and looking out for each other last night. 

 

Hope it is just a simple collarbone - although that would be a bit boring for Kyle! He doesnt usually do straightforward injuries!

All the best fella - be back soon :t:

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33 minutes ago, Daytripper said:

I don’t think there was much going backwards to score 14 points ! He came round the outside to take the lead on bends 3&4 in heat 13, and if you notice he almost always takes the outer gate in heat 15 to give that run round the out side run in bends 1&2 which is weher a lot of his points come from.

i am very impressed with Nick. Very professional and very focussed. They all seem to be improving though, especially Adam who was in line for a full max last night if his bike hadn’t died on the line in hear 15.

Morris is class all I was saying was in his heat when he came 2nd to NBJ he tried the outside and went backwards so switched back to the inside and got closer. Was only using that race as an example of only the inside line working. 

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If ever a meeting showed the need for more medical cover then this was it...unfortunatly the paramedics cost about 500 pounds a time,,But if you do not have the cover needed to keep a meeting moving at a reasonable pace the result will be more fans lost to the sport,,,,Last night s delays had people having to leave before the end ,,and will cost them more than an extra paramedic  in the long run...This was a rare event at Lakeside but there is no doubt it will have  an effect on attendences...

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Lots of people were leaving after 8 heats, I made it to heat 10 I think when Ben missed the two minutes and that was enough for me and I never leave early but unfortunately I have kids to pick up. Like I said earlier if that was your first time at speedway I would be amazed if you went back. Such a shame.

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I heard they were waiting for another ambulance? I thought the rules were you needed two ambulances in attendance at speedway meetings? 

Also I am not aware of the full rules but how was Berwick allowed to have Jakobsen at five with an average that was 5th overall in their team?

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10 minutes ago, marko said:

I heard they were waiting for another ambulance? I thought the rules were you needed two ambulances in attendance at speedway meetings? 

Also I am not aware of the full rules but how was Berwick allowed to have Jakobsen at five with an average that was 5th overall in their team?

Only three positions in any team is fixed, the top rider in the averages must ride at No1 with the bottom two average riders at six and seven without preference. After that its up to the team manager and riders to sort out positions 2,3,4 and 5.

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12 minutes ago, marko said:

I heard they were waiting for another ambulance? I thought the rules were you needed two ambulances in attendance at speedway meetings? 

Also I am not aware of the full rules but how was Berwick allowed to have Jakobsen at five with an average that was 5th overall in their team?

Only the No1 has to ride in that position,the rest of the top 5 can ride in any position in top 5

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Likewise. I sighed with resignation when heat 15 had to be re-run twice. Then Ellis has an EF at the tapes. It summed up a dissapointing meeting for me.

On the plus side, at least Alfie got some rides and a decent points total.

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i think fans should take a step back and put human life before a time schedule . life can and does end at any given time , where as time never changes . it just keeps carrying on .. 

wake up and smell the coffee, a lot of people dont !

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cannot spell never ..
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The injuries to riders account for part of the overrun and no one begrudges the time dedicated to that, its the rest that upsets us, Lakeside never start at the time they promise, they clearly state parade at 19:45 tapes up 20:00, more likely its Parade at 20:00 then another heat or two of the juniors and then finally getting underway.

There track grading takes an age because whilst they have two tractors for grading and watering, one man it seems wants to do both so we all have to wait whilst he does a few laps on one before switching tractors and then does a few laps on that, if you had both out at the same time you could get double done in the time, or the same amount done in half the time.

After the big delay in heat seven with having to take Kyle away and get him properly checked over, the announcer (can't recall his name) mentioned that we will now try and get on with the meeting, we didn't, it was allowed to continue to drag, with more delays for track grading and not even done when there was a natural gap for when riders had two on the trot, the announcer seemed to think so long as music was playing (the same music we have every week) everyone would just hang around till the end of time.

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5 hours ago, liam said:

Morris is class all I was saying was in his heat when he came 2nd to NBJ he tried the outside and went backwards so switched back to the inside and got closer. Was only using that race as an example of only the inside line working. 

Morris was class last year when he rode for us great rider

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