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11 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Had no idea this was on until I saw a post on Twitter congratulating Bewley. I just watched it on catchup and Bewley was head and shoulders above everyone else. Congrats to him. With a Polish bike he is so fast compared to the rest. Just goes to show the level that British youngsters have to get to, to compete at the top level. 

A shame the top three were all “Belle Vue” riders. Home advantage helping them get there. Not that Bewley needed it. Well done to Danny King making the final on what were clearly slower bikes than anyone else. 

A decent meeting. Not great not bad. A shame the crowd was not great. Lots of empty seats in the grandstand when the weather is dry and OK on a Sunday afternoon.

Where was Lambert? where was Woffinden? 

Where was you? :D

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10 minutes ago, keepturningleft said:

Confirmation once again that there is no track in the UK that comes close to the NSS. The sheer speed of it with so many racing lines make it the most thrilling track to watch speedway

Just never let the SGP track prep team anywhere near it.. :D

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44 minutes ago, keepturningleft said:

Confirmation once again that there is no track in the UK that comes close to the NSS. The sheer speed of it with so many racing lines make it the most thrilling track to watch speedway

NSS served up a very good meeting but imo I have seen plenty of better meetings at Scunny this year.

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4 hours ago, Racin Jason 72 said:

Does anyone know if Tai and Robert were asked to take part in the British final. 
im sure I read last year that Robert wasn’t even asked if he wished to ride in his national championship 

As has been mentioned Damien Bates on the podcast has suggested they were, but logistics were a problem.  I know that since Brexit riders basically need a set of gear for Europe, and another set purely for the UK, otherwise the admin and import taxes for bringing non road legal bikes and machinery in and back out can be ridiculous, especially for 1 meeting.
Which leaves riding borrowed machinery as the other option, which is never ideal as whilst the bikes might look the same things like seats, handlebars, clutches and footpegs can all be set up different. Dan obviously has gear over here good enough to  win it..!

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On Facebook there are well over 100 comments about this meeting and all of them are joyous and positive  as reflects a meeting that produced spectacular racing on a brilliant track. But on this forum it's all about Kelvin's commentary and "I've seen better racing elsewhere" etc etc.

Facebook has replaced these forums now as far as I'm concerned where the level of debate seems to be generally more civilised.

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11 hours ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Had no idea this was on until I saw a post on Twitter congratulating Bewley. I just watched it on catchup and Bewley was head and shoulders above everyone else. Congrats to him. With a Polish bike he is so fast compared to the rest. Just goes to show the level that British youngsters have to get to, to compete at the top level. 

A shame the top three were all “Belle Vue” riders. Home advantage helping them get there. Not that Bewley needed it. Well done to Danny King making the final on what were clearly slower bikes than anyone else. 

A decent meeting. Not great not bad. A shame the crowd was not great. Lots of empty seats in the grandstand when the weather is dry and OK on a Sunday afternoon.

Where was Lambert? where was Woffinden? 

I was there , great racing, decent crowd, really enjoyed it a really entertaining  afternoon of racing....more in depth review to follow.

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Can say anything about the meeting, as i didn't watch. What i will say about Facebook, at least a couple of pieces i saw, was the poor choice of rostrum photo. Looks terrible so far away and showing the 3 riders on a rostrum in what basically looks like an empty stadium !!! How not to show the sport as having atmosphere and meaning.......honestly 

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5 minutes ago, iris123 said:

Can say anything about the meeting, as i didn't watch. What i will say about Facebook, at least a couple of pieces i saw, was the poor choice of rostrum photo. Looks terrible so far away and showing the 3 riders on a rostrum in what basically looks like an empty stadium !!! How not to show the sport as having atmosphere and meaning.......honestly 

Quite a few people left after the last race.

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9 minutes ago, topaz325 said:

Quite a few people left after the last race.

Yes, i can well imagine. And it is only a minor point, because i guess they have given up the illusion that this is a big meeting, and they can actually market the sport. But surely the photographer gets in closer and blurs the background to make the pic better. Having a rostrum photo in an empty stadium looks very amateurish imo. And they probably did, so it is down to the editor who chose to release that pic. And i saw it on the Star page !!!

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11 hours ago, keepturningleft said:

Confirmation once again that there is no track in the UK that comes close to the NSS. The sheer speed of it with so many racing lines make it the most thrilling track to watch speedway

Think you may find another one next year when northside/Workington opens up, Dan Bewley has already said its one of the best track he has ridden, watch this space as they say 

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11 hours ago, IanBrannan said:

As has been mentioned Damien Bates on the podcast has suggested they were, but logistics were a problem.  I know that since Brexit riders basically need a set of gear for Europe, and another set purely for the UK, otherwise the admin and import taxes for bringing non road legal bikes and machinery in and back out can be ridiculous, especially for 1 meeting.
Which leaves riding borrowed machinery as the other option, which is never ideal as whilst the bikes might look the same things like seats, handlebars, clutches and footpegs can all be set up different. Dan obviously has gear over here good enough to  win it..!

If they wanted to be in the meeting they would be in it. Lambert had no problem getting over for the GP qualifier at Glasgow. 

If you want to be in it you would be . Once it's on the CV, job done. Will we see Bewley in it next year? 

It's got nothing to do with Brexit or logistics, it has everything to do with DESIRE

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14 hours ago, keepturningleft said:

Confirmation once again that there is no track in the UK that comes close to the NSS. The sheer speed of it with so many racing lines make it the most thrilling track to watch speedway

Glasgow and Redcar get better racing in my opinion. 

Belle Vue does seem to have some home track advantage, even good teams have been hammered there this season.

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Congrats to Dan Bewley the guy was a different gravy and winning races easily.  Fair play to Tom Brennan being the "Top of the Brits" racing in the UK didn't look quite as quick but rode some excellent 1st +2nd corners to get himself in good scoring positions. Enjoyed the meeting. 

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