erimus11 Posted October 28, 2019 Report Share Posted October 28, 2019 17 minutes ago, Dandelion said: Got the Wright/Ostergaard incident right... Wright clearly wiped Ostergaard out going into the first bend because he was jealous of how well he was gating all night... However the Phillips/Barker incident was a bit dodgy... Danny locked up, and Barker couldn't do much other than hit Danny... Awkward looking fall in the end, but at the end of the day, not Danny fault... In no conceivable universe should Danny Phillips be expected to race against Ben Barker and Jordan Stewart... It's just wrong... He probably panicked when he looked behind and saw who he was in front of... It was embarrassing watching the races that had the likes of Erik Riss and Max Clegg in and Tom Woolley and Danny Phillips wobbling around at the back... Nearly a lap behind... To add: Not to mention the referee let Jordan Stewart ride in his white helmet colour all night Never seen that before... And there's no way you can tell me that it was yellow... Because it just wasn't Not a bad post but to suggest that Charles Wright would ever be jealous of Ostergaard is probably the daftest statement of the year! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandelion Posted October 28, 2019 Report Share Posted October 28, 2019 1 minute ago, erimus11 said: Not a bad post but to suggest that Charles Wright would ever be jealous of Ostergaard is probably the daftest statement of the year! Jealous last night It was more a compliment of how great Ulrich was gating last night... Charles and Erik were by far and away the best riders on the night and I take absolutely nothing away from them, top quality from both of them... Been a big fan of Erik for a while now and Charles is always entertaining to watch... Would have loved to have been at the British Final to watch him 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erimus11 Posted October 28, 2019 Report Share Posted October 28, 2019 1 minute ago, Dandelion said: Jealous last night It was more a compliment of how great Ulrich was gating last night... Charles and Erik were by far and away the best riders on the night and I take absolutely nothing away from them, top quality from both of them... Been a big fan of Erik for a while now and Charles is always entertaining to watch... Would have loved to have been at the British Final to watch him To say we were getting a touch nervous after heat 12 is an understatement! We were confident that heats 13 and 15 would see us through given, as you mentioned, Charles and Erik, are top drawer riders and rode those heats to almost perfection , Riss hitting the front and Charles team riding behind him, albeit he did it the hard way in heat 13! For me, the biggest plus on the night was Jordan Stewart. To come back to a track were he got a duck egg last time and pick up 9 points was a massive bonus for him and the team. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandelion Posted October 28, 2019 Report Share Posted October 28, 2019 2 minutes ago, erimus11 said: To say we were getting a touch nervous after heat 12 is an understatement! We were confident that heats 13 and 15 would see us through given, as you mentioned, Charles and Erik, are top drawer riders and rode those heats to almost perfection , Riss hitting the front and Charles team riding behind him, albeit he did it the hard way in heat 13! For me, the biggest plus on the night was Jordan Stewart. To come back to a track were he got a duck egg last time and pick up 9 points was a massive bonus for him and the team. I was pretending to be confident... But after we went all square into heat 13 I knew we had been beaten because of heats 13 and 15... Even if we managed a 5-1 in heat 14... Got to admit... I don't keep track of the scores and didn't really notice Jordan as a stand out rider on the night, was surprised when I got home and found he scored 9... Good on the lad, hope he enjoys home over the winter and enjoys being a Bear in 2020 Even if he is at the wrong side of the Tyne Tees derbies 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ch958 Posted October 28, 2019 Report Share Posted October 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Tsunami said: We(George and I ) took the 1st and 2nd bends in 2 metres in about 1998, as it was too tight and it opened the corners up. It's now 12 metres wide with the 3rd and 4th bends 14 metres. The danger with taking the bends in is, that while the bends get wider and therefore the straights slightly shorter, it does damage the drains on the kerbs and takes something off the banking which we have constantly dished in around the inside line, as the stadium owners have never let us increase the height of the outside track and the fence, as they believe the doggy punters have to see the doggies legs during the race. I calculated that even an increase of 18inches still allows this to happen, but they won't budge and of course it could be costly. I think it would improve racing, making it a bit more like a big track than a very small track. Redcar has decent banking at both ends. This is what has happened at Glasgow, and that has improved the racing very much so this year. yes George told me that one day (I think he was a bit offended haha) As always with dog tracks you have limitations and as you say £££ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted October 28, 2019 Report Share Posted October 28, 2019 2 hours ago, Dandelion said: Instead of raising the outside, can we not dig down on the inside? Obviously a slow decrease as you get closer to the centre green, to stop pools of water forming? You'd think the dogs would want the corners moved further inside, to lessen the amount of shale that gets thrown onto the dog track? I did say we have regularly dished out the inside line, but there is only so far you can go and as can be seen we already have severe flooding when it rains. Any shale that does breach the track sheets is all taken off by hand after the sheets are removed after the meeting. We are in trouble if we don’t. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leander Posted October 28, 2019 Report Share Posted October 28, 2019 3 hours ago, Dandelion said: Jealous last night It was more a compliment of how great Ulrich was gating last night... Charles and Erik were by far and away the best riders on the night and I take absolutely nothing away from them, top quality from both of them... Been a big fan of Erik for a while now and Charles is always entertaining to watch... Would have loved to have been at the British Final to watch him Sorry, but my vote for rider of the night was Max Clegg by a country mile. He rode far above the standard he is currently at, and inflicted the only defeat of the night on Erik Riss. FROM THE BACK! Gating tart he ain't. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruffdiamond Posted October 28, 2019 Report Share Posted October 28, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Tsunami said: Any shale that does breach the track sheets is all taken off by hand after the sheets are removed after the meeting. We are in trouble if we don’t. Av heard that there is a plan in place to lessen the 'shale breach' for next season. Whether or not it is implicated is another matter tho. Hope your feeling ok/better btw. Edited October 28, 2019 by ruffdiamond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted October 28, 2019 Report Share Posted October 28, 2019 3 hours ago, ruffdiamond said: Av heard that there is a plan in place to lessen the 'shale breach' for next season. Whether or not it is implicated is another matter tho. Hope your feeling ok/better btw. Yes thanks. Bloody annoyed that the Chronicle didn't carry a full report and pictures tonight about the classic race off last night at Brough. Plenty of TOON and Mackem fillers, and other minor sports, but nothing about our meeting final which was a national final after all. Could be we didn't send things in to them, but that would be so unusual for us. We should and need to publicise big events like this regardless of who won. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedway4ever Posted October 28, 2019 Report Share Posted October 28, 2019 12 hours ago, Tsunami said: George in his programme notes last night said :- "As for 2020, well at this present time it's too early to say however I would just like to say that it has been a total pleasure to oversee Newcastle Speedway in the longest period of continued operation in it's history, these past 23 years have flown over, we have had many successes in that time but the actual 23 years is the important thing to me. And my sincere wish is that period extends to 24 years even if someone else is at the helm the club." Hope that helps. It will be sad if George isn't there next season in some capacity as I have always found him pleasant saying hello when at Redcar and when we came up to Brough Park to support Jacob Bukhave. Whatever happens at Brough next season though the main thing is I hope the fans will be happy otherwise some will walk away and the die hards will be left. I was chatting to a Diamonds fan last night and he said "We just weren't good enough. Some don't like the track there, but I don't mind watching the racing there because if all tracks were the same it would be boring. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevePark Posted October 29, 2019 Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 11 hours ago, Tsunami said: Yes thanks. Bloody annoyed that the Chronicle didn't carry a full report and pictures tonight about the classic race off last night at Brough. Plenty of TOON and Mackem fillers, and other minor sports, but nothing about our meeting final which was a national final after all. Could be we didn't send things in to them, but that would be so unusual for us. We should and need to publicise big events like this regardless of who won. Barry told me that he sent a big preview for Saturday's Chronicle and they butchered it and left about 20% of what he actually sent. The preview I did for the Sunday Sun, was published and left intact, though I didn't look to see if Saturday's Journal included my preview. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justgotmecpc Posted October 29, 2019 Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 19 hours ago, Dandelion said: Got the Wright/Ostergaard incident right... Wright clearly wiped Ostergaard out going into the first bend because he was jealous of how well he was gating all night... However the Phillips/Barker incident was a bit dodgy... Danny locked up, and Barker couldn't do much other than hit Danny... Awkward looking fall in the end, but at the end of the day, not Danny fault... In no conceivable universe should Danny Phillips be expected to race against Ben Barker and Jordan Stewart... It's just wrong... He probably panicked when he looked behind and saw who he was in front of... It was embarrassing watching the races that had the likes of Erik Riss and Max Clegg in and Tom Woolley and Danny Phillips wobbling around at the back... Nearly a lap behind... To add: Not to mention the referee let Jordan Stewart ride in his white helmet colour all night Never seen that before... And there's no way you can tell me that it was yellow... Because it just wasn't Charles Only got ex'd as his back wheel was over the line !! He told me after the meeting otherwise it would've been all 4 back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justgotmecpc Posted October 29, 2019 Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 23 hours ago, RedcarRacer said: Justice was done, tracks like Rough Park should never be rewarded for the state of them! The better team and promotion won! How many are sounding like a stuck record on here ( rough park ) if you only understood what limited time the track lads have to get the track sorted for a meeting you may think yeah they have done a GREAT job on getting the meeting on 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justgotmecpc Posted October 29, 2019 Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 12 hours ago, Tsunami said: Yes thanks. Bloody annoyed that the Chronicle didn't carry a full report and pictures tonight about the classic race off last night at Brough. Plenty of TOON and Mackem fillers, and other minor sports, but nothing about our meeting final which was a national final after all. Could be we didn't send things in to them, but that would be so unusual for us. We should and need to publicise big events like this regardless of who won. The chronicle is just an updated version on the journal now Dave as it used to be delivered to newsagents after 12am back in the day but now it's well early in the morning.. a bet now if parsons was still going the workers could've bought both the journal & chronicle at the same time & might've got 2 for 1 ha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted October 29, 2019 Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 29 minutes ago, pienpeesman said: The chronicle is just an updated version on the journal now Dave as it used to be delivered to newsagents after 12am back in the day but now it's well early in the morning.. a bet now if parsons was still going the workers could've bought both the journal & chronicle at the same time & might've got 2 for 1 ha So was anything about the meeting in the Journal on Monday. I'm an ex Parsons worker BTW. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soupy Posted October 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 The Pink used to be good and had good articles in about speedway on a Saturday, remember buying it after the match had finished and if not it did not get to Hexham until well after 6 pm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted October 29, 2019 Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 18 minutes ago, soupy said: The Pink used to be good and had good articles in about speedway on a Saturday, remember buying it after the match had finished and if not it did not get to Hexham until well after 6 pm. Quite agree and I bought it every Saturday. I see now that there is a thin column about our meeting on Sunday in tonights Chronicle. No photo but. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scampispeedway Posted October 29, 2019 Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 Earlier Tsunami stated that they opened up the bends as they were tight, I first went to Brough Park in 1964 and that it's the way it was for many years but because of the bikes having only two valves, racing was slower and this meant passing was possible if you didn't make the gate. I know for a fact that Wolverhampton was a straight copy of Brough Park i.e long straights and tight bends, we both had a distinct home advantage as against more open layout tracks. The progression to Four Valve and later the Lay down engines have meant that some tracks have been altered to be easier to ride and with less shale on the due to altered exhaust pipe layout, this has resulted in track lap times dropping a lot as the years have gone by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickie Head Posted October 29, 2019 Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 Anyone know anything about Wright and Mudgway being fined for comments made over the PA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erimus11 Posted October 29, 2019 Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 3 minutes ago, Dickie Head said: Anyone know anything about Wright and Mudgway being fined for comments made over the PA? I haven't heard anything , nor did I hear any "untoward" comments made over the PA. That said, if I was a betting man, my money would be on the possibility that the performance of a certain Mr Dishington was mentioned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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