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No thanks. No offence to Connor, a talented young man and one who hopefully has a good future in the sport, but we've already got one of those who is, IMHO, a better prospect, four years younger and lives round the corner!

Grand Prix preview on mainstream tv this morning. Action from Kings Lynn with ruthless Lambert interview, and Mike on a bike!

Following on from a post I made in another thread I thought this was quite interesting... if you find this kind of thing interesting https://britainfromabove.org.uk/cy/groups/speedway-tracks-uk

What the idiot doesn't get is that Cardiff is declining YOY. You can literally see it. Speedway needs to turn over its fan base. I'm getting sick and tired of the same old school posters posting the same old tripe post after post. They live in the past. Whatever happened to the sport, whatever it did, it doesn't matter TODAY. It doesn't matter in the future.

Blimey. Five minute feature on speedway on BBC Breakfast this morning!!!! And it was good!

The sports taken a battering in the U.K. this year, we could do with a really good GP to try and reignite some interest. A British winner would be brilliant.

I only went as I'm on holiday in the area and it was a chance to catch up with my good buddy Paulco and other folk I haven't seen for close on 5 years! It's been beach weather everyday this week until this evening!You just couldn't make it up!! Congratulations to Sheffield Tigers(the last time I went the OTA Sheffield won the Pairs event too v Brummies). Talking with a long established rider(someone I used to sponsor)who was telling me how really knackered British speedway has become.He actually is thinking of throwing it all in!!How has speedway in the UK reached this level?

Some nice pictures sitting on the bike would be good, maybe a team one. If you are the Jason I think you are, then you are very well known at the club.

What, the 70s, when you could leave your house and car unlocked and no one burgled you? When you knew your neighbours? When you had to dial your TV like cracking a safe to change channel? When petrol cost 30p a gallon, not £6? Ah, the seventies .....

Its exactly the problem. Stop basing your argument on the foundations that have propped speedway up for the last 50 years. It's no longer relevant. If I was to canvas new potential fan bases, in local areas across the UK with a general age group of 18 to 30, the answer will be the same. It's boring. That is the new audience speeedway needs. Your making the classic mistake that all current speedway fans make. Your stuck in the f&&&&&&g past.

Lets hope they feel it worthwhile to report the result.....

Thats 2 days running on BBC Breakfast Sport!! Someone seems to have got to grips with it.

Good bit of publicity for Robert Lambert too...

I agree and as a adult I find that reaction reasonable to a degree. But a ten year old doesn’t see it that way.

This post maybe shows me you COULD????? be a genuine guy.I have been a Swindon supporter since 1968 but from 1983 until 1989 went to Reading most weeks.Loved the Monday night out and when the track was good Smallmead was decent night out some real good racing.Reading in that time had a couple of years where they were really challenging for the title i remember one year they were there right there to the end in the title race with Belle Vue and Ipswich.To see Per Jonsson develope the way he did was terrific he was worth going to Reading everyweek to see him a real class act Per and Gustafson at Kings Lynn both were classy.

I would say generally the last three years it has been poor and i have said endless times forget the teams forget the averages forget the rules.The sport needs to concentrate on making it a decent night out entertainment comes way before winning or losing at the moment that is not happening.

So did Chris Holder have any problems getting into the uk,or did he arrive via calais by lorry!!!!?

My first meeting in 90 was Reading v Swindon oddly, when Per arrived on the centre green in a helicopter after winning WC, I would of been 7 or 8. Burghfield Bullet as in Andrew Appleton, possibly it sounds familiar, would of been years ago.

well done guys . a great result for workington and yourselves . thanks for keeping up the tradition of good results in this event . ty and nicolai , the most underperforming riders in the league .. NOT .

The whole package is poor value for money. At swindon last night I handed over £20 inc prog, to stand in a dump of a stadium, to watch 15 processional races on a dust bowl of a track. It's not rocket science is it.

Do us all a favour and don't turn up!!!!!!

An excellent piece A paid promotional time slot such as that would cost many thousands - well done to whoever brokered that

Usually mixing them up I think, to give the engines a bit of cooling time.

I think that's definitely part of the problem at King's Lynn. I believe they switched shale suppliers around five/six years ago to a more clay-based/stock-car friendly material - which does roughly coincide with the downfall in the racing. As an example, take a look at the racing in Heat 18 and 19 of the SWC meeting in 2012: You can clearly see the number of different lines through the corners, the entry/exit options for overtaking and the slingshot off the dirt on the outside out of turns 2 and 4. Now compare that to the same meeting from last year where there were about three overtakes over the entire night (resulting from rider mistakes mostly) because the track was so one-lined - it's like night and day! Presumably the newer clay-based shale just doesn't produce the same number of lines?

Ok i know I said I'd stop but..If Emil was concerned enough about Lambert to slow down to block the inside. Is it not possible that if Woffy had slowed on the inside it would have forced Emil wide? Worst case Emil passes Woffy and Russia still win. Best case tgat inside run from Lambert thst had worried Emil sees him through? They did have a 50/50 head to head record over the two days. And 14+4 vs 11+2 from 12 And 11regulation heats respectively arent miles apart. It's a bit like the England football team - surpassing expectations, but will there be a better chsnce of a world title? (Actually in fairness, Woffy and Lambert could be in contention for the next 10 years in this format)