Fourentee Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 Dave Goddard, whose work will be familiar to many through Premier Sport, Free Sport, match DVDs and a number of live commentaries at various forms of four-wheel racing, has just been named Commentator of the Year — from a shortlist of 10 — at the inaugural Motorsport Awards. I am beyond chuffed! King’s Lynn won an award (I think it was racetrack of the year) ahead of the likes of Silverstone, so it seems that speedway fans have been making their votes count! Congrats again, Dave, richly deserved. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screm Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 Congratulations to Dave Goddard and Kings Lynn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dave Goddard Posted December 9, 2018 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 11 minutes ago, Richard Weston said: And who Dave Goddard? Me! Thankyou so much to all who voted, genuinely shocked to have won. 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fourentee Posted December 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 (edited) Dave Goddard’s work will be familiar to many through Premier Sport, Free Sport, match DVDs and — no, actually, I think I may have mentioned that already. Edit: In answer to Richard Weston. Edited December 9, 2018 by Fourentee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandonmole Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 Badly flawed indeed ... where were the other speedway commentators placed?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dave Goddard Posted December 9, 2018 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 How about maybe just being pleased that someone involved in your sport has been recognised by the wider motorsport world? 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 Well done Dave, well deserved Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fourentee Posted December 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 18 minutes ago, Richard Weston said: Never heard of him. Total mystery. What's Premier Sport What's Free Sport? They are not on any TV channels I get. Do you have Freeview? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Snackette Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 31 minutes ago, Fourentee said: Do you have Freeview? ....or indeed a television? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fourentee Posted December 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 3 minutes ago, Richard Weston said: Yes - no sign of those channels FreeSports is on ch95 for me; its website also suggests ch64. It is, as the name suggests, free to air and broadcasts a lot of live Polish and Swedish speedway with Mr Goddard commentating. It would, IMHO, be well worth a retune to pick it up. Premier Sports requires a subscription. Don’t know if you take Speedway Star; there was a feature during the season on Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris116 Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 Freeview needs to be the HD version to get channel 95 as I understand it. I can't get channel 95 sadly as I am in an area that doesn't seem to work, South West London being the middle of nowhere according to Freeview! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sotonian Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 I have Freeview HD but lost Freesports when the last re-tune occurred. Apparently I need a new aerial. Thanks Freeview! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fourentee Posted December 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 14 minutes ago, Richard Weston said: Missed the Speedway Star feature in the summer. Probably appeared when I was on holiday and didn’t get the magazine. It’s not unlikely that Dave will have several spares should you feel the need! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Shovlar Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 (edited) Congratulations to Dave Goddard. Clear speaker and his interaction wit the fans on live tv with twitter is excellent. as for King Lynn, you must be joking! Terrible track nowdays. Edited December 9, 2018 by Steve Shovlar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fourentee Posted December 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 7 minutes ago, Chris116 said: Freeview needs to be the HD version to get channel 95 as I understand it. I can't get channel 95 sadly as I am in an area that doesn't seem to work, South West London being the middle of nowhere according to Freeview! Certainly the middle of nowhere as far as having a speedway track, sadly. Let’s hope for better times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HertsRacer Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 25 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said: Congratulations to Dave Goddard. Clear speaker and his interaction wit the fans on live tv with twitter is excellent. as for King Lynn, you must be joking! Terrible track nowdays. Well done Dave, well deserved. A different type of commentating. Agree with you Steve re his interaction with the fans during meetings. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris116 Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Fourentee said: Certainly the middle of nowhere as far as having a speedway track, sadly. Let’s hope for better times. During my lifetime I have gone to Speedway meetings by public transport at Wimbledon, Hackney, West Ham, New Cross, Crayford, Wembley, Rye House and Poole. Only the last one of them is still open and costs over £40 even with a Senior Railcard plus admission and I don't get home until nearly 2am so I have given that up as a bad job. A few years ago it was possible to get cheap rail tickets on the Waterloo to Poole line and I usually included a trip to the Swanage Railway during the day which at least meant a rain-off was not a complete waste of money! The others I went to while at school/work even midweek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aces51 Posted December 10, 2018 Report Share Posted December 10, 2018 The award to King's Lynn seems odd but well done and well deserved, Dave Goddard. Perhaps next year the awards could be better publicised and we could get a big speedway vote organised in all of the relevant categories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_Jones Posted December 10, 2018 Report Share Posted December 10, 2018 1 hour ago, Aces51 said: The award to King's Lynn seems odd but well done and well deserved, Dave Goddard. Perhaps next year the awards could be better publicised and we could get a big speedway vote organised in all of the relevant categories. From the make up of the shortlists it looks like the King's Lynn nomination was for its stock car presence. With Mount Panorama on the list it's hard to believe that any other track got a look in but it only came 8th of 10. The only speedway relevance I could see was Drew Kemp in the Young Rider category who was 10th. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted December 10, 2018 Report Share Posted December 10, 2018 8 hours ago, Chris116 said: Freeview needs to be the HD version to get channel 95 as I understand it. I can't get channel 95 sadly as I am in an area that doesn't seem to work, South West London being the middle of nowhere according to Freeview! I get it just down the road from you in sunny Surrey. Maybe it's a postcode thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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