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You’ll be asking for Jimmy saville next… or Rolf Harris 

Witches new number 1 if there’s any justice in the world… in the words of Lemar 

Of course they will. They've just had some bad news that the PREM has been strengthened when they were hoping for a total collapse. Credit to everyone involved when it comes to Northampton, I hope they have a competitive 1-7 and healthy attendances to go with it.

I’d suggest her going on the game but seeing as Mountbatten Windsor has been chucking one up it for the last 30 years , with his track record, she won’t have many takers . A bit too crusty I would imagine 

Research....Yes Steve, maybe you should Why are some British speedway fans suddenly treating Mayfield Sports Events like the saviour of Ipswich Speedway and the entire SGP series when, on paper, they barely exist as a company? According to Companies House, Mayfield Sports Events Limited was only incorporated on 5 August 2025, as a private limited company with a SIC code of “Other sports activities.” MAYFIELD SPORTS EVENTS LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK  First accounts are not due until May 2027, and there is no visible track record of having ever run a speedway event, let alone a world championship series.  Yet people are talking as if they’re the proven, long‑term guardians of the sport, rather than a brand‑new outfit with the minimum share capital and everything still to prove. Then look at what’s actually happening with the 2026 Speedway Grand Prix under this new era. The FIM’s regulations for this year’s SGP, as reported in Poland, highlight two key changes: the reintroduction of race jackets (plastrons) and, far more importantly for riders, a reduction in prize money for each SGP round.  The Polish report notes that the prize fund per round drops from 125,000 euro in 2025 to around 90,325 euro in 2026, meaning riders are collectively losing roughly 25–30 percent of the pot per event.  Over a 10‑round season that’s a seven‑figure saving for organisers, not exactly the move of a “saviour” investing heavily in riders and the product. On top of that, the same piece stresses that “one of the two most important” changes is bringing back race jackets after they disappeared from the world championship a few years ago, with “the second, much more significant for the riders themselves, [being] the reduction in the prize money for each SGP round.”  So not only are we seeing a cut to riders’ earnings, we’re also seeing a step away from full race suits to jackets, which hardly screams modern, premium world championship presentation. A shocking decision by the organizers of the World Cup. Competitors will lose nearly PLN 1.5 million And yet there’s another elephant in the room that almost nobody seems willing to talk about: Richard Coleman of Mayfield Sports Events is also going to be acting as Team Principal for the Tech3 MotoGP team, based in the south of France, with over 20 race weekends plus testing and all the other commitments that come with a senior MotoGP role. That’s a massive, year‑round job in itself, involving constant travel, factory work, commercial duties and media. How exactly is that supposed to sit alongside being the driving force behind the SGP series and supposedly “saving” Ipswich Speedway? Are fans assuming Tech3 owner Günther Steiner is just going to wave Coleman off for SGP commitments whenever there’s a clash, or that both world‑level programmes can be run at full tilt without any conflict of time, focus or accountability? If people want to hail Mayfield as the future, fine—but at least be honest about what we’re actually looking at: a company incorporated in August 2025 with no public track record in speedway promotion, a significantly reduced prize fund for the 2026 SGP series, cosmetic changes like race jackets being spun as “innovation,” and a key figure who is simultaneously committed to a top‑tier MotoGP role.  Maybe the real question isn’t “why don’t you trust Mayfield?” but “why are so many people willing to suspend basic scrutiny the moment a new logo turns up and tells them everything will be alright?”

I really hope not! Northampton maybe