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4 hours ago, Fortythirtyeight said:

Whilst you two have your disagreements , the current regulations do allow for mixed cubic capacity teams although not in the same races. 
The current Northern Junior league runs separate classes in the same team and in previous years at amateur level, different classes have competed within the same team, so it is not a new idea, although one I believe should be encouraged to give clubs incentive to find new youngsters to bring into the sport.

i understand the Njl run 500s and 125s in same meeting having been part of it for the last 4 seasons and their totals are added together to gain a result . however my point was the juniors in this meeting which is a 19 heat format and not 6 like Njl meetings count towards the whole meeting total. i dont believe there was a disagreement i was just searching for the facts to educate myself. most people who have a healthy knowledge of junior speedway know me and i can confirm i wasnt one of the parents asked if we had a 500 :)

 

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With the teams, almost, fully announced we have

Stags - 1 rider with a 5.16 Championship average, 4 riders with a combined 24+ NDL average, 1 rider(to give the Cubs a chance) riding an upright & still doing 4 laps in 60 seconds, 1 rider 1 year on a 500cc plus 2 decent 250cc riders in the Youth Series.

Cubs - 1 rider with a 4.73 Championship average, 4 riders with a combined 29 NDL average plus 3 riders that have, I think, raced at NDL level plus 1 rider doing well in the 250cc Youth Series.

So, all in all, 17 lads, sorry, riders wanting to have a competitive spin out on a decent track & put on a spectacle for some fans on Bank Holiday Monday.

Enjoy.

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10 minutes ago, Moranboys said:

its actually looking a quite a bit more appealing now, think i might attend.

Personally think it’s two fairly evenly matched teams with plenty of young talent on show . Think the meeting deserves supporting by all who can get I know I shall be there 

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On 8/27/2020 at 5:35 PM, phillwhitewasmad said:

Personally think it’s two fairly evenly matched teams with plenty of young talent on show . Think the meeting deserves supporting by all who can get I know I shall be there 

Agreed.  Can't make it myself can't believe I'm about to say this but 'I have more important things to attend to than to watch 4 riders racing around a track 4 times' :o.  Sacrilegious statements apart, no raging mobs armed with flaming torches please ;), I'd be there if I possibly could and hope it's a good & enjoyable meeting for all and helps to ensure other speedway can be safely staged in this severely affected season :D....

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corrected apparent blasphemy the spelling
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5 hours ago, geoff100 said:

Gen question for mr godfrey, when u marked out the track was it to a specific plan or did it just happen to produce good racing ?

The track has changed fairly significantly since its inception straights and bends both widened and if memory serves me right it has more banking now without the slightly adverse camber that was there when built.

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1 hour ago, phillwhitewasmad said:

The track has changed fairly significantly since its inception straights and bends both widened and if memory serves me right it has more banking now without the slightly adverse camber that was there when built.

Yes. The 3rd and 4th bends were much lower in the early days, to the point riders virtually slid across the track because of the adverse camber. You can see from the earth banking outside the fence there,  how much it had to be built up. I believe Rob bought up the contents of a quarry over the hill ages ago, and the 'shale' was built up in the middle of the car park for sometime. I believe he has used a different shale for a while now, and with the heavy watering seeped in, it made for a great surface, which only needed a short topup mid meeting to keep it like that. Great to see the lack of dust in the air. Thoroughly good combative meeting from two committed sides, but I wondered why Archie wasn't in heat 15 instead of Simon. 

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This weeks guest on Talk Speedway Podcast’s My Life In Speedway series is former Scorpions number 1 David Howe 

Hear about his move to the Scorpions, the debt he felt he owed Rob Godfrey and his delight at them winning the league as he watched on frustrated.

Listen at talkspeedway.co.uk or by searching for talk speedway on Spotify, iTunes or your podcast app

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17 minutes ago, phillwhitewasmad said:

Anyone got any thoughts on next season’s team or are we all assuming it’s the same 7 who didn’t ride this year. 

Surely where ever possible teams will remain the same as las season, we have already seen clubs announce that.

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