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I was thinking of more travelling fans who might be tempted to travel to an away track on a weekend race night. I know Ipswich get very good support and I use to go regularly and would normally go to Mildenhall because they ran on a Sunday. When it was a different set up in years gone by, it was Hackney on Friday, Rayleigh on Saturday and Eastbourne on a Sunday and the occasional trip to Canterbury and whenever Rayleigh were away from home at another weekend track I would normally go. It is all different now with fewer teams spread across the country making supporters think hard before bothering to travel to an away match. Stocks and bangers probably get more support for many reasons and it just does not compare from a business model perspective. Anyway each to their own.

Where do you get that from?

Same every season……all the prime fixtures are run on muddy tracks in dodgy weather with p. Poor racing. record breaking low rainfall throughout the summer and we have spasmodic fixtures due to British gp, swc, bournemouth playing football, England playing tiddlywinks, and any number of random excuses. last Thursdays FTG at Ippo due to wet track conditions was an example. …

I would like to think Morris will be back more so as a way of thanking Berwick for getting him back into British speedway. The crack going around last night was that both the danes are happy to come back for 2026.

Clubs and riders tend to have their own web sites to sell their own merchandise

Surely having your fixture blown off can't be all bad.....

Redcar are at home on Sept 20 and 26 so undoubtedly wouldn't want another home meeting the following day, nor the 27th. Sept 30 may be embargoed due to SON in Poland ( Sept 30 to October 4) crazy but would also explain why Sunday October 5 is the first available date.

Spring races were introduced at the beginning of this season... why ? ... to stop Zmarzlik winning the 6th. Also, everyone knew them as part of the new scoring system. Zmarzlik proved to be faster there than Kurtz. You better ask yourself by what kind of "rule" Kurtz got direct place in the final instead of Lebedev who beat him in heat 17

Also 2 factors stock cars have in their favour are: don't think events are rained off (happy to be proven wrong) & almost guarranteed on-track entertainment, esp 'demolition derby'-style races. Never been to watch stox either, keep meaning to pop along to Scunny one time I'm told by those in the know I'd love it, but like with speedway much of this year, the trick is / was finding the time. Life does tend to get in the way of such things a wee bit....

Well here goes the way forward for Speedways Future if anyone their is listening or interested. Yes this has been posted everywhere but will it make a blind bit of difference for the future or will it be the same old.💩 1. Leagues to be run on the Danish system of 5 rider teams with maximum of 1 GP rider per team. 2. Each team to name a squad of 6/7 riders. 3. Teams to run on their preferred night and if rider/riders are unavailable, National League riders to be drafted in. 3a. No guests under any circumstances, redeclarations allowed once per month. 4. North League; Belle Vue, Sheffield, Berwick, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Redcar and Workington. South League: Poole, Ipswich, Kings Lynn, Leicester, Oxford, Plymouth and Scunthorpe. 5. Teams having National League teams to stage meetings after main meeting with same format as Danish system. 6. Teams not having National League teams to stage second half with minimum of 6 heats. 7. North and South winners and second places to meet in semi finals and final. 8. League cup to consist of all teams and drawn in first round with 1 from North and 1 from South. Overall winners of each match through to quarter final with team losing with highest aggregate score to go through also. This is all fantasy, but something needs to be done now. Everyone to look at the big brighter future and get over themselves.

All in all a total of 34 shareholders in this venture.

They did say they were having the SWC in May at Warsaw, which sounds like the biggest 'I'll believe it when I see it' yet.

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That may be true but it's also true that the speedway generates far less income for the promoters than stocks. When you hanged less money it's much more difficult to spend on increasing the entertainment. I don't think better racing is the answer at all.

Well, that GP had a flat finish! For me Kurtz deserved the title by beating Zmarlik on so many occasions, 5 GP wins in a row was awesome. That one piece of bad luck in Prague may play on his mind but it didn't seem so. You could argue it was poor preparation or that the bike got into on a position to cause the chain failure but I consider it bad luck. Who knows, if that hasn't happened he may not have won all those GP's but he couldn't have done any more.

I don’t get all this if there was more speedway at weekends more would attend. If you make the product & the competition’s something that appeals to the public then they would attend whatever night it was on. Ipswich have always ran on Thursday nights & have always historically & currently attract some if not the best uk crowds for speedway. The product & value for money is the biggest driver.

He seemed to gate better in the gp!

GB Gold medal !

In the ideal world nationality should not come into it when qualifying for the GP series, if you are good enough then the rider lines up but then it would mean having to qualify every year without the need for Wildcards.

One thing that seems to be very quiet is discovery over next year, venues, dates, have they announced anything regarding next year ?

It's interesting this year (or should be) because you'd expect Fricke, Vaculik, Doyle, or Thomsen/Michelsen to get them, but I'm not sure they will. Fricke is nailed on obviously, but will Doyle be when there are 3 other Aussies. Same as Thomsen/Michelsen when you already have Madsen/MJJ. I think Vaculik just about deserves one more season. That then leaves a nice Emil/Artem shaped gap...alas...

Only rider who deserves a wild card is laguta who was robbed of defending his title by the woke tossers that are the FIM

After the complaints about Kurtz and Bewley on Thursday night, it was good to see Fricke and Holder on Saturday prioritising their Prem SF commitments 😉

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