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Significant reduction in prize money for each squad in 2026, courtesy of Sportowefakty:

Well if it all comes off at Northampton I wish them luck .

more music like this 😎

stop hating on British speedway 🤣

Sorry to be a part pooper. Anyone who thinks that you could drive from anywhere west of Coventry (e.g Greater Birmingham, Black Country, Staffordshire, Worcestershire or further west) in anything under 2 hours to remote Northamptonshire is living in cloud cuckoo land. It can take an hour to get from Wolverhampton to Birmingham or Birmingham to Coventry. The only way a Track in Braefield can attract any fans further west than Coventry would be to run on Saturday night or Sunday. Fans would literally have to take a day off work / school and fork out £40 / £50 in fuel. They may do it once or twice for novelty value but that is all. Its a financial disaster on the Perry Barr scale waiting to happen.

Various roads surrounding the stadium may get parked, but may upset the locals, track is only a few minutes walk from the main A57 road with lots of buses, maybe able to park a few mile away and get the bus. Think the road outside the stadium gets closed for the GP, for league meetings plenty of parking on here.

Mulford averaged 4.37 for Redcar. So doubled equates to 8.74 🤷‍♂️

We’ve had Pjiper’s and Harrison in the Bullits but somehow not persuaded them to stick around for Bandits.Tell you something.IMO

I think you are getting a few crossed wires here. The first meeting back at Odsal was under covid restrictions with a crowd limit of 4,000. This sold out as we had been waiting nearly 25 years to get back there. Later that year the F1 World Final was held with a crowd of possibly 10k, but that was not the norm. As I said in my other post, F1 meetings would pull crowds of 3-5k on average. The other meetings that don't involve F1s have much smaller attendances. F1 drivers do not pay to enter, they actually receive start money and also each driver gets 3 additional mechanics/family in free. The other formulas 'pay to race' but these are the meetings with the smaller crowds.

We generally book parking at the school next door for the big meetings. You can book this on the ticketing website. The access looks tight but we've never had problems getting away quite quickly after the meeting.

At last three, and probably more, riders get to "Double Up"... The key reason for two leagues...

I just cannot, and will not be able to square away the fact that a track can be opened where nobody is calling for it, yet there have been multiple clubs that it would have been much easier to save but weren't rescued over the last let's call it a decade or so. It's compounding years of bad business with some more bad business.

Must be cheap 🤪 been about for years and got no better, yet still gets signed up, where others show promise but don't get signed 🤔 my conclusion is less £ than someone else

Free exit before the end of a painfully boring meeting or no charge for sugar with a hot drink unless it is soup. Alternatively, how about a second half with NDL riders to give both punters and riders some optimism that the sport has a future.

Good idea.... If that doesn't pack 'em in, I really don't know what will...

extra sweets from chase the ace

New format in 2026. Challenge is in Pardubice on Saturday 18th April - which is actually a fancy name for the 2 semi’s at the track in 1 day. Meetings are over 22 heats and teams have 4 riders plus an U 21 rider who ride in heats 9 and 18. Last four heats are nominated( heat 19 lowest scorers, heat 20 3rd highest etc etc The final is on Saturday 9th May at a venue TBC. 2 winning teams in the Semi’s and highest 2nd qualify for the final.

Take your point. If they start charging it is not going to go down well. I would rather watch Mildenhall if that charge is introduced. I use to avoid speedway meetings when the tendency was for six man teams with that guy using the pseudonym of R/R. Now they want to charge you to park, an exorbitant amount to get through the gate for which you get just fifteen minutes of entertainment, a programme that no longer fits the board bought twenty years ago and the current cost of a cup of tea use to buy you three pints of Watneys Red Barrel or two and a half pints of Double Diamond back in the early seventies. What is the world coming to, I need to get me coat and get back on the trolley bus to New Cross.

Basic life economics and totally relevant.

Only benefit for those that park at the Stadium is saving £3 per meeting for parking so that’s £30 for the 10 meetings

Good call in the 80's & early 90's you had bills like the mortgage, utilities and food but in the modern world you can add on as you say Sky, Streaming, Wifi, mobiles, subsidising kids mobiles ,easily another £150- £200 a month going out the door on things now viewed as essentials that speedway didn't have to compete against thirty years ago.

Change for 2026 6 qualify from Challenge final 3 Wild card picks for the final rounds In 2025 it was 5 and 4

Absolutely.... Then add in a less than authentic operating model which means that so important emotional attachment to "Your Team" becomes a tenuous one at best, (you almost have to collude along with a promoter that a UK Speedway meeting has relevance given the lack of any major tangible rewards), and you do have some serious obstacles to overcome... A big challenge, but hopefully those involved have the skill set to deliver a successful venture..

Or maybe a card telling you when the fixtures are... or even just whether your club is running or not 🤷‍♂️

Parking at speedway has been free...