sparks123

To be fair, they probably need to do something with the averages (remove loopholes for a start). Robert Lambert has a 9.6 average from 6 meetings and he is guesting for a rider on 8.6 (Tai 8.47 from 8 meetings). You also have Tarasenko on a 6.9 average for Peterborough joining the championship on a 5 average. These 2 moves could win the leagues in both divisions. Back to the meeting and looking good for Scunthorpe to progress.

Last time I looked there was 0.083 between Bartosz and Emil (wouldn't say that is a spectacular fail) in the extraliga averages? What I would add is that Emil was above 14 GP riders in the averages. Think Bartosz won 3-2 in their head to heads in the regular season and I think it was 3-3 in the playoffs (possibly with an exclusion for Emil).

Jake Allan said where they are probably racing at on Wednesday and Friday before the start. Home match on Sunday.

Should the winners of league matches have received 3 points instead of 2 points? When there is a superheat the match has 3 points available whereas when there is no superheat there is only 2 points available. This won't make a difference to the Championship table but could make a difference to the Premiership table. As an example. If you take 2 points of Wolverhampton and 1 point of Leicester it would make the meetings on Thursday night more intense (Belle Vue also have a couple of points but wouldn't affect the play-offs).

Polish play-offs weren't taking place at the start of the season when scheduled. Been rearranged due to rain offs (in the Speedway Star this week).

I thought Rory was number 1 also but he is number 9. He meets Scott Nicholls, Ben Basso and Craig Cook in his first race (Berwick website). https://www.berwickspeedway.com/news/rory-to-roar-in-redcar/

The rules seem to change every day (so easy to get mixed up). This also goes for Boxall's average because its been said that his average is to high to guest at reserve. If you apply the same ruling for Pearson and Hook at the start of the season when their 4 point averages (Championship) were doubled to 8 (National). You also take into account Jorgensen's last Championship average was discounted (used his Premiership average converted) at the start of the season. Therefore Boxall's average used for the Championship should be half his National League average (which would be under 4 so he could guest at reserve). As I say its open to how you read the rules (and the team involved probably).

NEG is riders that cannot guest as an additional rider in the Championship. Connor will have NEG against his name also (I suspect) but he seems to be able to guest in the Championship.

https://speedwayekstraliga.pl/statystyki/lista-klasyfikacyjna/ 4th in the averages after the first half of the season is good.

Probably but you never know with speedway. Think its going back to 20 matches for an average this season and as it stands I think Berwick and Oxford don't have another league match before the end of the month (Oxford have Plymouth in the BSN cup I think).

If Jorgensen's average is classed as an assessed average then he will get a new average after 8 matches (is it assessed or converted)? https://britishspeedway.co.uk/2023-rider-statistics/

People have their own opinions (that's what its all about). To me Blair would have beat Ablitt in heat 2, Connor was in 3rd (behind Mountain in 2nd) in heat 4 and Leon had problems on the first lap when well ahead of Lambert (he would have easily passed Jye if he didn't have any problems).

Everyone sees it for their own team when saying you are unlucky (or lucky). I look at it that Berwick lost points in heat 2 with Greg's engine failure, heat 4 with Connor avoiding Mountain in front of him and heat 5 with Leon's engine problems. I also say Ryan should have been of 15 metres in the race he had a problem in as he moved again and he was already on a warning. To me both teams had an equal amount of bad luck in the meeting so probably the end result was fair.

No nonsense from me. I have seen Berwick get beat by more points than they did on Friday so no problem for me. There is no attack on anyone (you are the one having an attack on the Berwick riders for falling off if anything). With regard to attending Archie, Ask Hayley next time you see her why she announced twice for Archie to be attended to, when as you say the medical team was already there (attended Connor quickly but not Archie). It was during the delay (when Archie was being attended to in the pits) that a rider was out on the track. He was not on his bike so I am not confused as I seen it happen right in front of me so you must be the one who is confused. We will agree on a speedy recovery for Archie.

There is no problem from me with them treating Archie for 45-50 minutes either. Since Berwick must have set some kind of record for riders sliding off at the NSS it might be worthwhile giving the first aid team a refresher to get them to respond to riders who have fallen off or are lying on the track (1st bend first aiders attended to Coles and 3rd bend first aiders ignored Freeman). It shouldn't take the centre green presenter asking for Archie to be attended to TWICE (by the first aid team) before any action was taken. It is also good to see that riders can be on the start line digging when the tractors are going past for five laps (Belle Vue number 7 before the re-run of heat one). I thought that was stopped with someone getting killed at a stockcar meeting (thought you weren't allowed on track when the tractors are out).

Some better calls tonight from his mate? Riders pulling back and delaying the start and getting away with it (when the 2 minute light has went out). Letting Pickering off with a serious delay when on a tactical (2 minutes light at Berwick cancels after 2mins and 3 seconds) where the 2 minute light was off for good couple of minutes. The green light was flashing in the second half but not the first meeting? Shame when riders are taking the mickey the race cannot be started with the rider not ready (digging away). It would make them learn for later on (instead of letting them continuing to take the mickey).

Things just not going Berwick's way at the moment (get 3 of potentially, the 4 strongest teams when missing riders). I thought the some of the starts were quite bad last night (warn Nick in heat 1 and he has his back wheel spinning in all his races). It was good that the ref caught out Kyle Howarth once when he was going backwards (the race he finished last in). Thought Chris was in front of Nick in heat he was excluded (there was a couple of instances where the Berwick riders had to shut off or they would have ended in the fence so surely the same applies to Nick). In heat 12 one of the Berwick riders had to shut of due to Jason being on one wheel and possibly not being in full control entering the first bend so could have been a restart if you are excluding Chris Harris. The most baffling thing was what the Leicester riders were doing to the tapes? They were releasing the tapes, playing about with the kickers and magnet etc. Why is a team allowed to interfere with equipment not relevant to them?

Not just BSN stream playing up. Lost Redcar stream as well.

There was a TV aerial cable and a cat 5E (possibly 6) network cable run from the sponsors box to the old video gantry (I run them in for Bob Tasker so the hospitality box could watch replays of the races). They were still there when I was down after the storms to repair the speakers but have since disappeared from the turnstile side (cut out?). Maybe they are still on the Tea Bar roof? It's a possibility that they could be reconnected if they are still on the roof and the other end is at the hospitality entrance.

See the race is now on the Berwick facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/BanditsSpeedway

Think Kyle had the 11th highest average from the under 21's. Top 10 seeded to the final (possibly at Birmingham) on averages from last year.

I think it is better to show teams that are further apart (geographically). If you had Glasgow v Edinburgh (as an example) then some fans could watch the stream instead of gong to the meeting. I have no idea who the other Berwick meetings are but I would like to think they wouldn't include Redcar, Newcastle, Edinburgh or Glasgow for the same reason as the example above. If all teams are being shown twice at home and twice away from home, there will be some meetings that are more appealing to the neutral fans than other meetings.

Get the Berwick home meetings on demand (once you are back home from the meeting) if they are good meetings. I think it's worthwhile buying a season pass. I will probably watch most of the meetings as a highlights package. I need to find out if you can start watching half way through the meeting (say at heat 8) and you can scan back to heat 1 and watch the races before watching the last 2 or 3 races live. Take it you mean the interviews? Will get round to watching them at some point.

That's one of the cases I was using. I thought that David had raced 10 or 11 meetings for Glasgow and that's how he didn't become an asset due to not racing in 12 official meetings.

Wonder if Luke Harrison will be on a 500cc next season? Could he fit into the wemoves**t Bullets?