THE DEAN MACHINE

I won't be looking for any money back , yes the meeting was a dissapointment but we still had a great weekend in Poland and I don't believe in this compensation culture

I heard last night that one of the former owners and still part owner wants to make leszno home grown riders only and they don't need the likes of pedersen , sayfutinov , kilderman etc , well that's all well and good in theory but isn't that what old man Gollob has tried to do at Bydgoszcz ? And everyone can see how that's working out

Come off the throttle

Excelent atmosphere inside the stadium, decent racing with an Excelent final , wish we had speedway stadiums like this , their design is so basic but they look so good , thought Jim Laurence was going to need a police escort out of the stadium for what was a shocking decision to exclude zarmarlik , the poles were not happy don't know what they were chanting but it's wasn't well done Jim

that washer even in the modified version of the King silencer makes a total difference in the bikes power/ performance What all this does show is the wider issue that speedway is hurtling down an exclusive tuning based only sport road like F1 where the riders don't matter and it's all about the engine , speedway has never been that type of sport and it will kill it off completely if it continues on this path

yes his food is garbage But you don't go to belle vue to eat you go to watch speedway and you don't go to Gordon Ramsey's rant to watch speedway ,if I booked a table in his restaurant and he tried to charge me to watch speedway on a tv screen there I would kick off and yes we do take our own popcorn to the cinema, it's not the food that's puts me off bv , it's anything with health and safety strapped to it , it's just not for me

and it business is to entertain the public , without them it has no business

What a strange decision to award pawlicki the nod over vaculick , ??

And right there is everything that is wrong with speedway , stupid rules

Fan of Nicki but he is acting like a big kid

Stuart Robson has one , I did hear he is not to impressed with his purchase

if I'm honest i'm fed up with him , he is what he is and he does get headlines for the sport good or bad but quite frankly I couldn't care less if he rides for team GB or not , he has his views rightly or wrongly but he isn't my cup of tea and yes british speedway does need him but we will carry on if he is a part of it or not

he hit Ellis perks after he knocked him off

Personally I would bring in milik for kylmakorpi , it may not make up for losing out in the playoffs but he is exciting / wild to watch and has been banging some big scores abroad lately

next season there is talk of the FIM introducing a minimum bike and rider weight instead of just bike to address that exact issue

while all these ideas have a valid point they all have the same end result , the rider spends money on parts with the tuner to get round this , it has to be regulated parts/engine only then the tuner can only play with settings

while i agree about the principle of tyres the reality is it won't achieve anything cause tuners will just try to get the best out of their engines to suit the tyre so riders will be buying new softer cams ,flywheels etc and paying for experimenting with the tuners so basically winner winner for the tuner , the sport needs to eliminate the tuner , regulated parts in a regulated engine ,find a set of springs , valves , piston ,rod , cam that works and lasts and everybody has to use them , is that so hard ?

on the subject of engine tuning ,it is become obvious that peter johns engine tuning has got a big edge over any of his rivals this season and riders not using his service are struggling,now that's great business for him but it is doing speedway no favours at all and now more than ever this issue of tuners needs to be addressed, the tuner is not what fans care about,they care about the rider, the need for the tuner has got to be reduced to just a servicer , it can be done with good leadership and strict rules ,has anybody in the current set up got the balls to take the challenge on, they will need balls to because riders and tuners will kick and scream before they agree to any change

I do wonder though if their is more to this than riders form or talent

I agree but even so they are getting battered on the road and for the quality that they were/are that shouldn't be happening , yesterday their reserves were their best riders and sayfutinov was awful for the quality that he is

A team with pedersen sayfutinov zengota pawlicki and kildermand in the wings and the money they get paid should not be being beat by so many points ,for the quality of the riders they have got to be one of the most unperfoming team in the history of speedway , they are uncompetitive away and scraping wins at home

Bizarre thing to say I know but I don't think Hancock spends enough time on his backside , when it happens like yesterday he gets really wound up and over reacts like his reaction to pedersen in Sweden last season , kk was rightly excluded but was more a crossing of paths than a deliberate move to have Hancock off and Hancock's mechanic was looking for a fight too ,

while I agree a lot of the rules are stupid ,complicated, confusing and often unnecessary and do need addressing they are not the priority , because you have to get the fans into the stadiums first for them to find the rules are crap , that's where the priority should lie , you have to make people want to attend and be apart of that club, make it attractive both as a place to be and a price to pay, the whole pay structure has to be addressed, with the end result being the fan gets a good deal , if you sat in a crowd of 10,000 fans and watched the most boring sport ever but your team won you would still attend again cause the feel good factor generated by the people around you , that's what speedway needs to get back but we have to start at the bottom and price accordingly cause at the moment we are trying to start half way up but pricing it at the top and its not working, its not an attractive proposition for any potential fan , the product can still be the greatest sport in the world (SWC FINAL) and can still be a drab affair (SWC RACE OFF) but infront of small attendances the product becomes less attractive, its the fans that make the difference ,they are speedway ,they are the important ones ,we have to start running the sport for them and not for the riders as it is at the moment , does any of this makes sense?

The bond between teams and their fans , for various reasons like doubling up/down , over use of guests and the mercenary attitude of some rides the bond has been lost and without it team speedway is pointless Strict regulations of engines with the ultimate goal of a stock engine and the elimination of the tuner dictating the sport. The reduction of admission for fans , make any excuse you like about the reason you can't drop the price but the fact is it's too expensive and there are some folk who can't afford it every week and there are some newbies who are put off by the price , it can happen and it must happen to move forward but it won't

the issue of machinery can be dealt with by the ACU or a committee made up of ex riders like for instance Jan staechmann who can see the wood for the trees and has nothing to gain by it , there are plenty of ex riders who can see where it's all heading , it wouldn't be hard to get them in a room and come up with a plan