Poole 2025

[STEVEHOLS54]

1 hour ago, SteveLyric2 said:

I was told today - from a very reliable source- that Sonny Springer's father did not want him to do Championship this year!!

Thanks for that info Clive.

I noticed in various videos on Youtube incl a lot of practice meetings/practices  up and down the Country his dad was prominent in guiding him on the track.

Maybe he doesn't want too much pressure piled on him this early bearing in mind he only turned 16 in November.

If he does start to show the class & form I saw early signs of riding at 15 he could have a good future in the sport.

He possibly  hasn't had the kind of finance piled on him like Will Cairns has in equip and all the overseas trips to POL etc plus all the private tuition staying at Greg Hancock in Sweden and USA from his I assume affluent parents, but that is neither Cairns or Springers faults. However Sonny's dad certainly seems to have invested plenty of time in getting & guiding him around the UK for practice and other matches.

Will be interesting to see how both riders progress but if Springer does I would love it if Matt/Danny could tie up both of them on multiple year deals. Time will  tell 🙂

[mac101]

Or maybe he just does not want his son to travel to Poole for 3 rides and maybe be at the back every other race and the fans start giving him grief and loose confidence a bit like they did to Max Perry 

[lewy]

2 hours ago, SteveLyric2 said:

I was told today - from a very reliable source- that Sonny Springer's father did not want him to do Championship this year!!

Almost correct, did not want him to do championship at Poole And be the fall guy.

[Catalan]

5 minutes ago, mac101 said:

Or maybe he just does not want his son to travel to Poole for 3 rides and maybe be at the back every other race and the fans start giving him grief and loose confidence a bit like they did to Max Perry 

If I remember correctly fans never got on Max's back.

They were very encouraging

[Arthur54]

1 hour ago, mac101 said:

Or maybe he just does not want his son to travel to Poole for 3 rides and maybe be at the back every other race and the fans start giving him grief and loose confidence a bit like they did to Max Perry 

I never heard fans get on his back, far from it

[SteveLyric2]

3 hours ago, lewy said:

Almost correct, did not want him to do championship at Poole And be the fall guy.

Let's see if he gets any Championship guest (injury) bookings elsewhere? He'll likely be at Poole for one meeting this season anyway.

[lewy]

Just now, SteveLyric2 said:

Let's see if he gets any Championship guest (injury) bookings elsewhere? He'll likely be at Poole for one meeting this season anyway.

When is that it will be the rich pirates contribution to the development of British youth lol.

[szkocjasid]

4 hours ago, mac101 said:

Or maybe he just does not want his son to travel to Poole for 3 rides and maybe be at the back every other race and the fans start giving him grief and loose confidence a bit like they did to Max Perry 

This would probably happen at Poole more than any other team. Poole can be 20 points up, but still take their weakest rider out of his 4th ride. Certainly happened to Sam Hagon at Oxford in the play-offs despite Poole being comfortably on front.

I won't blame the likes of Berwick for doing the same thing to Freddie Hodder, because they were always losing, so needed to give the stronger reserve more rides.

Poole's mentality is simply to win by as much as possible, which is there prerogative, but this could be a situation where it could hinder them, with a promising 2.00 rider decoding he'll get more rides elsewhere?

No such worries for Cairns, he'll be expecting to be the stronger reserve & get extra rides.