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You could argue that any successful sport needs to attract people it didn't before. Look at football, they have huge ethnic followings for what in the 60s and 70s was very much a white working class sport.

It hardly promotes itself in general

Yep. Can only go one way

Very sad to hear this. Terry along with Ivan Henry were great at Arena for the years they were there. I know he was part of the consortium trying to bring Speedway back to Swindon so this must have been sudden. All the best to his family and friends at this time.

TERRY RUSSELL 1950-2026 – British Speedway Official Website Condolences to his friends and family.

Who would have thought! bit of a no brainer getting Tate back, his average is so low now.

vowel, consonant, consonant, vowel and a consonant please 😁

and now we have riders like Mulford who were ruled out of NDL because of averages being allowed back in ( not his fault by the way as he doesn’t appear to have a premiership slot anymore ). How many more championship second strings are going to be taking the place of newbies ?

The European Championship in Varkaus Finland on Saturday 21st February starts at 2pm UK time( 4pm local). Federation allocations for the meeting are Czech Rep 2 GB 1 Austria 2 Germany 2 Italy 1 Holland 2 Norway 1 Finland 2 Sweden 3

Meeting starts 11am UK time on Saturday.

It made no point of persevering with Zischke last year and not using him on a 3.00 average this year, because I'm sure another team would have at some point.

How do we know they have no interest if we never ask them? ( given that British Speedway doesn't promote its self to any parts of it's local communities)

Tate signs for Belle vue

Line up for Saturday:

One of the biggest (non self inflicted), reasons for the demise of the sport for me.... As an example, I ran a supermarket in Bradford with over 30,000 customers, with an 80% "Asian" customer base.. Many major cities and towns have changed demographically, hugely, since the halcyon days of the 60's... And also became filled with commercial and apartment buildings, rather than the replaced traditional terraced residential properties which used to hold "working class" families, who made up a huge portion of the fanbase for many tracks...

Welcome back tate. Big learning curve last year. Needs to use that experience. Perfect points left for kurtz

Tate Zischke announced for Belle Vue.

Viv Muddle will be 16 in February but does he qualify to come in on a 2point average through parentage? . There was a competitor in the Aussie Champs who Dick Barrie mentioned had parentage, not 100% sure but think it was Ben Whalley who I believe is from New Zealand, unfortunately he didn't impress. I thought Max Perry had lots of potential in 2023 when riding for Leicester Lion Cubs but he hasn't really kicked on so far. I did think our final two may have been Danyon Hume and Max but turns out I was way off 😃.

Looks like Cordell Rogerson ? has he got UK parentage rights ?

You cant bring the bends in at Northampton, physically impossible

plenty of diversity in the places mentioned that have no interest in speedway

I saw both the Roccios Ernie and Johnny plus fellow American Nick Nicoliades (spelling?) racing for Wimbledon in a challenge match at Bristol on 23/3/1951 when each team tracked 10 riders. This match replaced a Festival Of Britain Trophy match against the same team the series of which was cancelled at a late hour in a dispute over financial terms.

I'm a bit muddled up 😜

... in tears 😢

I think I, and countless others, can ultimately see it ending....