Brummies v Leicester KO Cup 2nd leg Wed 6th April

[LisaColette]

With the strength at Birmingham's bottom end they should be getting at least 40 imo. 

[szkocjasid]

4 hours ago, phillipsr said:

Leicester to push 60 

Now you're just being silly!

[GiveusaB]

We need the track to be grippy coz we can't gate... New tracks are never grippy.  It's only a practice match, so no drama.

[LisaColette]

45 minutes ago, GiveusaB said:

We need the track to be grippy coz we can't gate... New tracks are never grippy.  It's only a practice match, so no drama.

Be good to get a win against Leicester though for confidence even if it is only 2 points, so they are ready for next home meeting.

Who is that against again??

 

[Col]

Hope good turnout for new promoters & the track isn't dusty. 46-44.

[MattB]

51 minutes ago, Col said:

Hope good turnout for new promoters & the track isn't dusty. 46-44.

Not much chance of dust.  Absolutely throwing it down at Perry Barr right now.

UPDATE now stopped and sun peeping out, but track looks very wet

Edited April 6, 2022 by MattB

[GiveusaB]

Comeback is on

[GiveusaB]

First heat... 6 seconds slower than track record

[Racin Jason 72]

What was the size of the crowd tonight ? 

[uk_martin]

1 hour ago, GiveusaB said:

First heat... 6 seconds slower than track record

Average race time then about 65 seconds?

£18 for 10 races = £1.80 per race.  Divided by 65 = 2.77 pence per second of track "action". Alternatively, for the 4 overtakes that were not attributable to bike failures, that's £4.50 per overtake. Bargain!

So, who's eating their words now? Who'd want to be a weather forecaster? Yep, it certainly was a night like no other...no getting away from that.

It's almost a good thing that the crowd was "unspectacular" as at least if someone does come for their first time in weeks to come, they have a chance of picking up a better impression of the sport than tonight would have given, and may come again.

[EIS002]

13 hours ago, GiveusaB said:

Until the new track beds in, we're going to need our gating gloves on if we're going to win this one. Hoping Auty has managed to sort a decent engine out and I'm looking forward to seeing Pearson......a star in the making!

Josh has driven hundreds of miles to an engine tuner over the past 7 days and I hope picked up a freshie this afternoon.

three engine blow ups haven’t helped, you can imagine the cost.

[MattB]

Considering the rain, the rebuilt track held up very well tonight.  

[uk_martin]

14 hours ago, GiveusaB said:

I'm looking forward to seeing Pearson......a star in the making!

Any more references to the second coming of Darcy Ward are vastly premature. So how about we leave the kid alone to develop at his own pace and not put him under any more pressure? Maybe that way he will develop into a decent rider rather than just burning out too soon.

[Steve Shovlar]

Wasn’t there another rider hailed as the second Darcy Ward who rode for Sheffield a few seasons ago? Turned out to be a duffer.

[LisaColette]

8 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Wasn’t there another rider hailed as the second Darcy Ward who rode for Sheffield a few seasons ago? Turned out to be a duffer.

It was also said about Brady Kurtz when first in the Poole team and seemed to affect him. Tbh there is only one Darcy Ward, hard to copy or replicate. 

[Steve Shovlar]

Kurtz has stagnated in the last two seasons. Hope he can kick on this year and get his career back on track. 

[flagrag]

23 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Wasn’t there another rider hailed as the second Darcy Ward who rode for Sheffield a few seasons ago? Turned out to be a duffer.

Arthur Sissis was the rider that Sheffield had and like Darcy he is a natural on a motorcycle and could have been very good at Speedway if he had been more focused.

Both him and his family knew he was good but he always has road racing as well as Speedway and at one point was tipped to be a Moto GP rider but is now racing in the Aussie Superbike series.

His Speedway equipment was never that good quality and having Sheffield as a home track shows his lack of speed and then he was a bit unlucky picking up few injuries 

[Justgotmecpc]

1 hour ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Wasn’t there another rider hailed as the second Darcy Ward who rode for Sheffield a few seasons ago? Turned out to be a duffer.

Could never call any rider to put there leg over 1 of them powerful machines a duffer

[OGT]

7 hours ago, flagrag said:

Arthur Sissis was the rider that Sheffield had and like Darcy he is a natural on a motorcycle and could have been very good at Speedway if he had been more focused.

Both him and his family knew he was good but he always has road racing as well as Speedway and at one point was tipped to be a Moto GP rider but is now racing in the Aussie Superbike series.

His Speedway equipment was never that good quality and having Sheffield as a home track shows his lack of speed and then he was a bit unlucky picking up few injuries 

He admitted he made a mistake returning to speedway. It was a knee jerk reaction to his Moto3 dreams being shattered by Mahindra. He's certainly no duffer having podiumed in his first season in the class. 

[Gerbat1875]

10 hours ago, uk_martin said:

Any more references to the second coming of Darcy Ward are vastly premature. So how about we leave the kid alone to develop at his own pace and not put him under any more pressure? Maybe that way he will develop into a decent rider rather than just burning out too soon.

Darcy Ward was an exception, he was doing things that others could only dream about 16 years old, the injury that finished him robbed speedway of the greatest talent ever seen on a bike, I am pretty sure Ward would have had at least 4 world titles by now, trust me no one will ever compare to Darcy Ward, he was one special talent