IainB Posted March 31, 2019 Report Share Posted March 31, 2019 50 minutes ago, Gemini said: It didn't look down by a great deal. Understandable though as the previous week was the first match of the season and against Ipswich who are in the higher league.....also Chris Harris riding seems to pull a few extra fans in. (Fliss loves him so she was there) But to be serious I'm pretty sure there will be even less each week if the racing doesn't improve so hopefully it will. Agree about the lighting as it's always been awful and it's now worse by the stupid change to Yellow helmet colours which are difficult to tell apart from White. I don't know what colour Scott was wearing either because it certainly wasn't Blue. It used to be the case that fans stayed away for challenges and then turned up for the real competitions, there were certainly a lot less where I was standing than last week. Agree, I really struggled with the yellow helmet colour... I thought they recently went back to yellow and black? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEEDY69 Posted March 31, 2019 Report Share Posted March 31, 2019 9 hours ago, Gemini said: It didn't look down by a great deal. Understandable though as the previous week was the first match of the season and against Ipswich who are in the higher league.....also Chris Harris riding seems to pull a few extra fans in. (Fliss loves him so she was there) But to be serious I'm pretty sure there will be even less each week if the racing doesn't improve so hopefully it will. Agree about the lighting as it's always been awful and it's now worse by the stupid change to Yellow helmet colours which are difficult to tell apart from White. I don't know what colour Scott was wearing either because it certainly wasn't Blue. It was the same at Foxhall on Thursday, white and yellow both looked the same to me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adonis Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 10 hours ago, SPEEDY69 said: It was the same at Foxhall on Thursday, white and yellow both looked the same to me. My moiney is on Vardy to be the first ref to make the same mistake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman123 Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 Did any of those of you commenting on the racing actually go? And if you did were you watching?? Obviously not I’d say by your comments on the racing, there was plenty of passing.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 (edited) 58 minutes ago, peckover said: Did any of those of you commenting on the racing actually go? And if you did were you watching?? Obviously not I’d say by your comments on the racing, there was plenty of passing.... yep, I was there, the only 2 moments of comment were Bates beating Stewart on the line and a cracking ride by Connor Mountain. Everything else was a total procession with riders strung out with 30 yards between each of them. Oh and seemingly hours of tractor racing. What did you see? Edited April 1, 2019 by iainb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac101 Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 53 minutes ago, adonis said: My moiney is on Vardy to be the first ref to make the same mistake She is no more gone and not coming back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adonis Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 (edited) 3 minutes ago, mac101 said: She is no more gone and not coming back Good news for speedway that good job I'm not a gambler Edited April 1, 2019 by adonis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrow Boy 2 Posted April 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 1 hour ago, iainb said: yep, I was there, the only 2 moments of comment were Bates beating Stewart on the line and a cracking ride by Connor Mountain. Everything else was a total procession with riders strung out with 30 yards between each of them. Oh and seemingly hours of tractor racing. What did you see? I agree that too many times races are too strung out but there does not have to be passing to have an interesting race. Close racing is what is require which we won't often get until teams have riders of similar qualities and abilities. I've been to many meetings up and down the country where the fare has been just the same. Passing is good but you can still see a good race when the riders keep closer together and seem to be making an effort to get or keep better race positions. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambo Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 40 minutes ago, Barrow Boy 2 said: I agree that too many times races are too strung out but there does not have to be passing to have an interesting race. Close racing is what is require which we won't often get until teams have riders of similar qualities and abilities. I've been to many meetings up and down the country where the fare has been just the same. Passing is good but you can still see a good race when the riders keep closer together and seem to be making an effort to get or keep better race positions. It also doesn't help when visiting Heat Leaders are un-competitive, for whatever reason, scoring just 7 points from 8 rides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortythirtyeight Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 As a first time visitor to Leicester I will say it was one of the worst presented meetings I have been too in many a year. The ' Racing ' was none existent, who ever came out of the second turn infront won except for the Bates ' overtake' on the line. Track preparation was awful hence the tractor spending more time on the track than the riders, ( a rider did post a video of the track condition before the meeting showing the problem hours before the meeting) and led to two riders crashing. Control of the starts was terrible, why did the ref call the riders back from the start line when they were ready to race to do a twenty minute track grade? One overtake all night, speakers on back straight were poor ( terrible echo) and the centre green needs cutting. No second half racing? Yes, the opposition were poor but that was not a good advert for speedway on a cold night and there were many comments from home supporters on the way out who were not impressed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cross Roads Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 Have to agree ref the lighting feel for the riders in those conditions. I know there is limited budgets but surely safety is paramount and will be sorted hope so. Ref the racing as many have said over many years the fundermental issue is the shape of the track long straights tight bends unless widen will never really change its ok the odd guy being able to ride but as an entertainment sport you need the majority to...Hemsley and his team got it so wrong from a clean field unless amend (very unlikely it will always be at best average racing) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norfolk Bear Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 15 minutes ago, Cross Roads said: Have to agree ref the lighting feel for the riders in those conditions. I know there is limited budgets but surely safety is paramount and will be sorted hope so. Ref the racing as many have said over many years the fundermental issue is the shape of the track long straights tight bends unless widen will never really change its ok the odd guy being able to ride but as an entertainment sport you need the majority to...Hemsley and his team got it so wrong from a clean field unless amend (very unlikely it will always be at best average racing) Strange that the tr@ck builder was Glyn Taylor who also did Redcar. Leicester is very like Newcastle, same result, tractors racing more than bikes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40-38 Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 2 hours ago, Norfolk Bear said: Strange that the tr@ck builder was Glyn Taylor who also did Redcar. Leicester is very like Newcastle, same result, tractors racing more than bikes Glyn Taylor didn't built it, David Hemsley did. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*JJ Posted April 2, 2019 Report Share Posted April 2, 2019 15 hours ago, Cross Roads said: .Hemsley and his team got it so wrong from a clean field unless amend (very unlikely it will always be at best average racing) I once spoke to David Hemsley; he said that he wanted a fast speedway, which is why the track had such long staights. (It seems that he wouldn't listen to Sam Ermolenko). The track has been altered three times to try to correct this error ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flagrag Posted April 2, 2019 Report Share Posted April 2, 2019 I have to agree the track lighting at Leicester is in need of an upgrade and was always one of the most difficult tracks to broadcast from for both Sky & BT. The lights have lost some of their lumen which is to be expected as coming up to 10 years old they also need to be taken in on the bends as following the track alterations they do cover the inside line very well especially on bend 3&4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40-38 Posted April 4, 2019 Report Share Posted April 4, 2019 On 4/2/2019 at 4:49 PM, flagrag said: I have to agree the track lighting at Leicester is in need of an upgrade and was always one of the most difficult tracks to broadcast from for both Sky & BT. The lights have lost some of their lumen which is to be expected as coming up to 10 years old they also need to be taken in on the bends as following the track alterations they do cover the inside line very well especially on bend 3&4 I'm not sure, but I seem to remember the lighting was re-used from the football pitches that were near the club house so they may be older than that, 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bornagainlion Posted April 5, 2019 Report Share Posted April 5, 2019 10 hours ago, 40-38 said: I'm not sure, but I seem to remember the lighting was re-used from the football pitches that were near the club house so they may be older than that, If that's right they are possibly over 25 years old in some cases. I worked at the leisure centre in the mid 90's and those lights were defo there for the all weather pitches in 1995!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Eye Posted April 5, 2019 Report Share Posted April 5, 2019 The lamps were new for 2011, only the poles were used from the tennis courts. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Hunter Posted April 5, 2019 Report Share Posted April 5, 2019 I agree that the light is not good enough but I think that the brightness was set by one of the planning conditions imposed by the City Council when the track was built. As far as the helmet colours are concerned why can't we have luminous yellow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted April 5, 2019 Report Share Posted April 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Happy Hunter said: I agree that the light is not good enough but I think that the brightness was set by one of the planning conditions imposed by the City Council when the track was built. As far as the helmet colours are concerned why can't we have luminous yellow? Or yellow and black? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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