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‘Get rid of’ as in remove from the Championship. Thought that was obvious. Your story about the grass tracker you raced against- isn’t that basically the same as the Thompsons? The atmosphere at the youth champs is so good for all riders that there is very little pressure on any of the riders other that which they put on themselves, which is the way it should be even for the top riders (all of whom has been through some sort of learning curve in the championships). Yes there are a number of tracks that provide practice opportunities but I think you’ll find that the majority of them do not provide many youth racing opportunities - Scunthorpe are good as are Iwade/Lydd but not many others. A few tracks do demo races before and after meetings but tend to have a select few riders who take part. That the British Championship should be a different level - as I said before, where is the cut off point for this level? Same lap, within half a lap, same part of the track? The youth champs is growing in size every season and is now producing riders who are progressing through the ranks in bigger numbers, having kept the same philosophy as it has now. Give it a very few years and we will have your winners.

The Thompson boys who took first and third in the 500 class, if you speak to them and their family, started exactly as riders who you are trying to get rid of - as riders getting lapped in the 125 class. It's not exactly done them any harm! Also, where do you make the cut off for these riders of appropriate ability? Do they have to be on the same lap? Within half a lap? The same straight/corner? Would that make it a better spectacle? Not really. Yes it's a British Championship but it's also for these kids to be learning to race competitively. It's easier to look good in practice on your own than being with 3 others at the tapes. There really aren't enough opportunities for youth riders to experience this competitive racing and all that goes with it. At Belle Vue last night, one of the riders who has been getting lapped, achieved something big for himself - he did his 4 laps without getting lapped and was rightly congratulated when he got back to the pits. A small step to others maybe but I'm sure it gave him that confidence and desire to get the next stage in his development.

3 times in 3 days seeing cookie race and he has impressed each time. Had a poor first race each time and then was fantastic. Last night he was generating so much speed and was involved in some great racing. Im turning into a Craig cook fan! Hope he can keep this up in the GP series and the challenge.

Yes it is true. He’s done it to me and others.

Will do Steve. Met Office looks ok atm. Depends on the state of the track already.

My lad and me are travelling down for this one. Fingers crossed the weather is kind to us. Will probably get comfortably beaten by the pirates though. Any other Wolves fans making the journey?

Arran has great style and speed on the grass. Hope he can transfer it successfully to the shale. Big, big step up though.

I love my yearbooks - just to read through not even for reference! And there is do much that could be done, particularly now we can get instant access via the internet.

In my opinion speedway is a perfect sport to use statistics to generate extra interest/something to talk about/ listen to on tv. Team make up is decided by statistics so why not include more? Programmes/club websites could include much more in match previews. E.g Lindgren vs Doyle head to head results this season home and away, heat 15 performances overall and head to head. It’s something else for supporters to talk about in the time between each race, can be highlighted by centre green presenters to build tension and atmosphere - much better that than crap music from the 70s and 80s. It’s not about carrying around a log book to record every little thing at a meeting that your traditional statto may have done, it’s about trying to give supporters more - if they’re talking about something to do with the match, they won’t be moaning about the length of time between heats etc.

Definitely speedway should make more of its statistics. Watching sports on TV the majority have done so. Football, for example, each player has distance run, passes completed(% and number of), shots on and off target, activity zones to name just a few. NFL commentary is packed with stats too. Same for rugby, cricket, F1.... There are so many stats that speedway could work with. We only scrape the surface with averages and gate position scores. Head to head results for each rider, performance at each track, performance in each team position, number of each heat result(5-1, 4-2 etc) overall and against each team, rider partnerships performance, heat 15 performance etc. Stats are commonplace in sport now. Why not speedway? At the very least, it would give Nigel and Kelvin something different to talk about between races.

This is my understanding from what was said last night.

Which was pointed out by CVS. Looks like other teams also took the opportunity to stick the knife in too.

Ford the instigator of last season's gp riders being given 9 point averages according to CVS. Looks like it was directly aimed at wolves and belle Vue - pawlicki, woffy, Zafar all on sub 8 average or would have been...

According to CVS at the wolves talk in, no deal has been reached yet. 3 year deal on the table but some clubs are reluctant to sign up.

Front wheel was already over the white line then the back wheel followed up and onto it.

It's on the bv fans fb page. Cheering lindgrens withdrawal? That must be the hundreds of idiots then

Yep every track has them. Just pointing it out after certain bv fans pointing out things that happened at Wolves last week. Apparently some bv fans cheering the announcement of Lindgren's withdrawal as well...

Beer can thrown at masters/Schlein after heat 15. Classy.

Thorsell is the pointing in right direction to get down the straight. Tungate is the coming across the corner which is why he hit him. No malice just different racing lines resulting in the accident.

'she' had got a very deep voice then!!

Because the riders didn't ride the conditions combined with the pressure of a play off semi final. Fricke rode it well...

Loving the holier than thou BV fans. Don't mention the shouting out when thorsell is still being treated on track...

I'll leave that to you chap thanks all the same

Hahaha. Just having a little 'banter' Fred...unlike your incessant boring trolling of every wolves thread with your repetitive of the word horror when mentioning the wolves track. Even your own aces fans are telling you to give it a rest but no, on and on and on you go. We get it. You don't like wolves, you don't like the track. Each to their own and all that.

Self portrait?? Is that your head we can see?