hyderd Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 With all this good dry weather we are experiencing some dust can be expected, but there is never an excuse for having a track with more bumps on it, than the combined maternity wards of the UK 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bald Bloke Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 Most tracks could do what Buster did. Start putting the water into the track from 3.45 am for the Poole meeting. Surely most must have access to the track in the early hours? Is it lack of willing staff or just being lazy and not giving a fig? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontforgetthefueltapsbruv Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 Given the proximity now of housing at Swindon Id imagine any work involving heavy plant and/or possible noise couldnt start til a more reasonable hour than 3.45..... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bald Bloke Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 1 minute ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said: Given the proximity now of housing at Swindon Id imagine any work involving heavy plant and/or possible noise couldnt start til a more reasonable hour than 3.45..... You may well have a point there. Maybe some other dust bowls then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWC Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 55 minutes ago, Baldyman said: Maybe it's time to move away from the shale tracks and try something else, for example what's used at show jumping or all weather horse tracks. Has anything like this ever been trialled? Tarmac! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner85 Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 (edited) If you deduct points from Swindon...then Stoke would end up on Minus 40 at least. They should however be fined Edited July 24, 2018 by Gunner85 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 2 hours ago, marko said: The track looked more like a bigger version of Kent's, and with the same Len Silver preparation which is tarmac covered in a light dusting of shale, Dusting being the operative word. Last night at Kent, they did a much better job at keeping the dust down than at Swindon. The water bowser is excellent at Kent, and was out virtually every heat. It chucks out a fair amount of water at speed, although the track itself still needs improving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semion Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 2 hours ago, Halifaxtiger said: Rob Godfrey doesn't have a magic wand - I'm not sure his wife will agree with that statement 2 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 (edited) 13 minutes ago, cityrebel said: Last night at Kent, they did a much better job at keeping the dust down than at Swindon. The water bowser is excellent at Kent, and was out virtually every heat. It chucks out a fair amount of water at speed, although the track itself still needs improving. But they didn’t manage to get the meeting run till the end again!!!12 heats raced and you pay the full whack for the pleasure?Rip off speedway whatever way you look at it Edited July 24, 2018 by iris123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmauger Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 2 hours ago, Sidney the robin said: Last night was the dustiest meeting i have been to since the Wembley 1975 World Final ( Collins unlucky conditions changed).Last night it was so dusty people were laughing about it it was like being outside the Swindon Crematorium terrible.I notice now and even Doyley did it last week entering bend 1 people are shutting off the track is so unpredictable Morris has fell off twice in a week in the same place something is not right is it just the track or are bikes just to quick now I don't know the answer. That is exactly what I thought, was waiting for the guy in white shirt and tie to appear with a hose pipe on turn 1. Not a good impression with plans for the new stadium still apparently not 100% finalised and the need to demonstrate to the new local residents that speedway won't cause any problems.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 1 minute ago, iris123 said: But they didn’t manage to get the meeting run till the end again!!!12 heats raced and you pay the full whack for the pleasure?Rip off speedway whatever way you look at it That's the risk I take when I go to Kent. No curfew, no speedway at central park, it's as simple as that. Last night was the first time it has happened this season. A rider receiving medical treatment for a serious injury has to take priority over running three races. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 2 minutes ago, cityrebel said: That's the risk I take when I go to Kent. No curfew, no speedway at central park, it's as simple as that. Last night was the first time it has happened this season. A rider receiving medical treatment for a serious injury has to take priority over running three races. That is right.Your choice,but I would never attend a track where the likelihood is that I pay my money and not get my money’s worth.For me a rip off just as much as a badly prepared track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldyman Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 Gotta love speedway fans....instead of taking their tracks shame, played out on TV, they choose to have a pop at someone else's track. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehone Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 no dust at Kings Lynn last night, and it was hot and sunny there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecoombdog Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 22 minutes ago, Baldyman said: Gotta love speedway fans....instead of taking their tracks shame, played out on TV, they choose to have a pop at someone else's track. I think you will find that us Swindon fans have been slating the track and standard of racing long before last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A ORLOV Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 This thread is a load of rubbish and only a way of getting Poole into 4th place in the play offs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grachan Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 34 minutes ago, Baldyman said: Gotta love speedway fans....instead of taking their tracks shame, played out on TV, they choose to have a pop at someone else's track. Adam Ellis has joined in the criticism now, and has also named other tracks - specifically Wolves and Somerset. This is not a one-track issue it seems. So, if Swindon should be deducted points, should Wolves and Somerset also be deducted points? Who decides when the track is bad enough to merit that? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReadingRacer2017 Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 Club Statement THE following relates to Monday night v Leicester: The management of Swindon Speedway recognise that track conditions for Monday’s meeting against Leicester were far from perfect. A number of factors came together to create a perfect storm of problems. We are working hard on the issues and expect to have them resolved by next Monday’s meeting against Wolverhampton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A ORLOV Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 34 minutes ago, Grachan said: Adam Ellis has joined in the criticism now, and has also named other tracks - specifically Wolves and Somerset. This is not a one-track issue it seems. So, if Swindon should be deducted points, should Wolves and Somerset also be deducted points? Who decides when the track is bad enough to merit that? When riders of both teams complain about it. The present state is due to many factors but what seems really bad is when the track people seem to ignore the riders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foamfence Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 12 minutes ago, ReadingRacer2017 said: Club Statement THE following relates to Monday night v Leicester: The management of Swindon Speedway recognise that track conditions for Monday’s meeting against Leicester were far from perfect. A number of factors came together to create a perfect storm of problems. We are working hard on the issues and expect to have them resolved by next Monday’s meeting against Wolverhampton. And what about the state of the rest of the place, the new stadium and whether they'll run next year? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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