GregoryM

My brother is a Belle Vue Season Ticket Holder and has received an email from them saying they cannot offer their season ticket holders to book their own seats for the Speedway of Nations as it is a FIM event. Is this a new 'rule'? He told me he was able to buy his season-ticket seat for the 2021 Speedway of Nations at Belle Vue, and a friend of mine in Wroclaw has been able to buy his season-ticket seat there for the GPs before tickets went on general sale.

Rollers aided by the fact he was often a mile behind the tapes - which the starting marshal completely ignored. And, obviously, the referee wasn't bothered either.

As a friend of mine once remarked 'Wonder if he smiled on his wedding photos?'

Mark Lemon actually alluded to this scenario in the post-match press conference after yesterday's match at the NSS.

6 of the 7 Redcar Bears race in the top tier. Are you interested in watching them this season in the second tier? If so, and Redcar moved up and used these 6 riders in the top tier, why would you not be interested in watching them? And, with the addition of one heat leader, those 6 would pretty much be a top tier team anyway. Certainly, my having seen Charles Wright for example at both Redcar and Belle Vue this season, I'd hardly describe watching him at the NSS as a rubbish show.

Probably Norick hadn't been injured at the time the Facebook preview was posted?

The website is often very slow to be updated. Usually, the social media sites get updated quickly, but nothing on Twitter yet either re: Blodorn's injury / Lambert guesting. Without Phil The Ace, we'd be in the dark about a lot of the news.

Indeed!! I suppose it is still the situation, but Poland doesn't award bonus points in '3 rider 3 alls' and '2 rider 5-0s'. Certainly that seems to motivate riders to finish a race, rather than simply pull-up and retire from the race when well at the back. I remember talking to a rider on one particular visit to Poland a few years ago, he remarked 'They wouldn't dare not to finish otherwise they'd be robbing a fellow professional of income.'

Let's hope Brady's ankle injury wasn't aggravated again whilst scoring a 15 point maximum yesterday.

Indeed, not riding for the Aces on Thursday night at King's Lynn, obviously did wonders!! Seems he's scored a 15 point maximum for Rybnik today. So was he injured, or did Rybnik use their 'Polish influence' and prevented him from riding at Saddlebow Road?? Certainly has a whiff of fish or a rat.

Add this, and with Blodorn's absence as was mentioned earlier, then you could say that Belle Vue had quite a bit of 'bad luck' with today's match.

Yep, see what you mean about your calculation.

Aces were on 5-1s in heat 2 and 6 that eventually ended as 3-3s due to the rerun and engine failure respectively. So Aces 'lost ' 4 points and Wolves 'gained ' 4 points in those heats. As it was 26-34 when Bewley came in as tac sub, the scores would have been level at 30-30.

Think that might be referring to heats 2 and 6 when the Aces looked to be heading for comfortable 5-1s, but ended up as 3-3s. After Cook's fall and exclusion in heat 2 (whilst third) with Flint at the back, the rerun was won by Flint. Heat 6 saw Bewley pull up whilst leading by a considerable distance with Brennan second. Think anyone would think that was 'bad luck' on their team, but it is all part and parcel of speedway.

The Colts are going to be without Paul Bowen tomorrow night, but is this a first for a rider's absence? "There is one change to the home heroes’ line-up, with Paul Bowen absent because of being summoned for jury service. Royton racer Jack Shimelt will guest for him at No.6."