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Championship Fours 06/08 Peterborough

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Your telling me the BSPA didn't speak to the riders before announcing 5 man heats? What absolute morons!

 

Feel for Scunny and Berwick fans/riders and management, they would of been annoyed to miss out but would of been more understanding than announcing that both teams will take place, so fans book hotels and days off work and then a couple days later, change there mind.

 

Pathetic

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but surely if it's the riders forcing them to change their mind the blame should not be with the BSPA?

we've had 5 rider races at the Showground before

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Your telling me the BSPA didn't speak to the riders before announcing 5 man heats? What absolute morons!

 

Feel for Scunny and Berwick fans/riders and management, they would of been annoyed to miss out but would of been more understanding than announcing that both teams will take place, so fans book hotels and days off work and then a couple days later, change there mind.

 

Pathetic

If it was said at the start of the season that 8 clubs would be involved then I don't think there would be much said. Berwick had a supporters bus at Leicester when we weren't in the competition but it was known when the tour was set up that Berwick might not qualify.

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Five rider races works elsewhere in Europe so can someone explain the issue or is this another case of the tail wagging the dog. Another nail in the coffin for British Speedway may be how some view this and it is time that someone with some balls stated to take control of the sport.

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but surely if it's the riders forcing them to change their mind the blame should not be with the BSPA?

we've had 5 rider races at the Showground before

 

Yes there was, but before the width was reduced with an air fence!

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but surely if it's the riders forcing them to change their mind the blame should not be with the BSPA?

we've had 5 rider races at the Showground before

I was thinking 5 rider races would be rather good.. And something different

Works OK elsewhere.. Why not here?

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but surely if it's the riders forcing them to change their mind the blame should not be with the BSPA?

we've had 5 rider races at the Showground before

Yep the SWC. Wouldve been sensible of the BSPA to get riders thoughts beforehand though.

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Just a thought and I appreciate that starting positions are taken into account but the 16 Lapper at Ipswich has eight riders in the final. Therefore with some thought, five rider races involve the two lowest scoring teams starting on a front grid and the remaing three starting on a grid ten yards behind. Surely some constructive solution can be found rather than cave in to the few. If this carries on where will it end and frankly if those protesting find it too dangerous then perhaps they ought to think again about riding a 500 cc machine with no brakes. If those riders are concerned then perhaps speedway is not for them and they should find another career but stop taking the p... out of the paying punter. It is a dangerous sport with high risks, if you cannot handle it then step aside. Turn it into an NL meeting and each NL team can have a rider from the next tier and possibly a number two. It might work but stop pandering to the few.

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Five rider races was never going to work, it was very unpopular with the riders in the World Cup, so why did they think it would have changed since then? Five rider race are only possible on huge, wide tracks, none of them in Britain.

An easy solution is 5 team, 4 rider, 10 heat semi-finals and final, each team takes a turn to sit out, each rides in 8 races and sits out 2. That way all 10 teams, as advertised, get to compete.

The BSPA have made a fool of themselves (shock) by announcing one thing then a few days later changing their minds and excluding teams. But then again.....

Hot on the heels of the Pairs being cancelled, when covers weren't used properly.

Fair enough to say right from the start only 8 teams will compete, but to change the rules so close to the day?

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I can't see why 5 rider races should be too much of a problem at Peterborough. At the motorcycle show earlier in the season they ran shorttrack racing on the afternoon (with the air-fence in place) and I don't think times over 4 laps were that more slower than the speedway. And there was a lot more than 5 riders in each race. It's not like it's Rye House or Plymouth. They've had shorttrack at Scunthorpe in the past with about 10 riders in each race. Riders just need to use their head more.

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I would have thought getting insurance cover for this would have been difficult due to an increase in risk by 25%.

 

It would be interesting to know if it was approved or if not then was it the REAL reason for the change back to 4 riders? #justasking

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It's really hard to believe how farcical the running of the sport is becoming.Its not rocket science to work out a formula for a10 Team event.There were far more Teams in the event years ago,even if it meant riding the number of rides each riders had at least every Team was represented which was the general idea of a National Competion .Unbelievable!!

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From reading the press release are the BSPA saying some of the riders of Berwick and Scunthorpe protested and refused to ride, or is it riders of other clubs protesting and so get their way the BSPA needed to boot out Berwick and Scunthorpe being the two bottom clubs. If its the latter I think the BSPA are duty bound to name these weasels.

 

If you want facts, clarity and sensible decisions then you're following the wrong sport. Surely part of the fun of being a modern day British Speedway supporter is only being 24 hours away from the next contrived, illogical and poorly communicated cock up!

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Hoping they turn back on their decision, really not happy about it, f***ing fuming actually. They should be able to see that there is a way to get all 10 teams in with 4 riders per race, whether it be bottom 4 averaged teams in a quarter final with top 2 going into semis or 2 10 heat semis.

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