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As Jamie has stated speedway is very , very different now and with only nine teams, four of which run on a Friday then there are bound to be gaps in Friday night fixtures. The NDL fixtures would have been the gap fillers but it seems they only want to run on weekends now so Middlesbrough have become a Saturday night fixture. I agree about strange decisions but thats the state speedway has got itself in, we all yern for the good old days but thats gone and we just have to accept it. Better occasional, inconsistent speedway than non at all.

It’s definitely off then

Just how do you think that should happen ? They can’t magic up riders , the MDL is only just viable now and constantly fails to fill the teams with four riders. The ‘Powers that be’ need to look at grass routes and get kids on 125’s so that we have a future rider base.

Exactly - As quoted in the Speedway Star stated costs could vary between £130,000 - £200,000. So before the SCB could even issue a license it would need work on a pits area, changing rooms for riders, removing obstructions and acquiring a foam safety fence. Would be throwing £200k down the drain before the actual losses of a speedway season.

There must be a few riders retiring if the sixth team doesn't manifest itself.....

I'd take more teams in any league to be honest. Wholly agree that the gap between Development and Championship has narrowed. More riders should be rising up from Development not coming down for what seems like easier rides. Been very poorly managed

I’ve got my doubts it will be Northampton. Can’t see a club whose not been around before, make a bold venture.

I think the only way a 6th club would work is to revive a defunct track, like Eastbourne, but of course that track is not possible.

Complin & Boxall

I was told it’s the same company as taking over Ipswich, could it be a case of they are putting the money up and getting someone else in to run it and maybe the money on offer to run it isn’t a good enough deal to attract a potential management team, with his MotoGP team the GPs and 1 or potentially 2 teams there is no way they could run it themselves, they have been in the GP series 5 minutes and have already cut the riders salaries, it has got to be a case of finances somewhere as both Northampton and the potential buyers both want it, I can’t see anything but failure written all over this, it was going to be a tough sell to the public if it was done back in November but a month before the season and not even the location has been announced, this whole thing smacks of desperation because imo they know they should of tried to make one big league but they dug their heels in for their own self reasons and have now gone too far to back down, I just hope this doesn’t have ramifications for speedway itself if it does backfire

Dark horses

I hope we keep being ignored, prefer it that way!

Or make the track smaller.

I think it was more times than not

Yes i am aware of them, they also have them at Leicester I was just saying its alot of work needed, with various things, in a short space of time. Track wise it would need someone like Buster to go in and do the initial setting up of the track, I'm sure whoever is thinking about going in there as a speedway promoter has already thought about it all.

I can't see that working tbh. Im not sure PB would get enough fans to make it pay. Plus if PB was to be the better team, Buster would only have to loose 100 fans, who would rather watch the Panthers, to loose any money he would make by charging rent. To risky imho.

As Carl Johnson had stated on 360 that Peterborough had been approached. Could it be that Peterborough could run out of Lynn? After all there are minimal restrictions and presumably Buster would earn extra revenue from it. Surely it's far more likely than other options.

Surely if a small supermarket could draw 30,000 visits per week from the 33% Asian population of Bradford, then A Speedway team could draw a 60,000 gate from the 60% of white people in Bradford?

When you consider that this topic was started on July the 15th 2025 and that the track that Phil Morris mentioned at the Coventry hearing a number of years ago was thought to be Northampton... you have to wonder what they're faffing about at? 🤔

No chance especially when the Ruben brothers own the stadium and contributed to the speedway woes

I got this e- mail from Sky, as a TNT subscriber

Hull 1949.

Ringwood was a speedway track which operated in the Southern Area League in 1954 and then partly in 1955 before closure.

Thank you for responding, nice to know that a promoter does read the comments. I fully understand your explanation but it doesn’t change the fact that regular racing on the set race night is traditionally what most fans prefer. I see the Tigers recently released fixtures show all the home meetings will be on a Saturday evening which just emphasises my point. I attend Redcar with three friends and as we are speedway addicts we also attend Workington and Berwick depending on the opposition ,this will obviously now rule out attending Tigers home fixtures if we decide to keep following championship fixtures as our preferred viewing. We do enjoy NDL meetings but championship is our preference so we now have a dilemma of what Saturday speedway we follow. As you have stated , speedway is no longer the same as the ‘old days’ much to my regret and I don’t follow the NFL so don’t care what they do but, for once , a season ticket doesn’t work me for me as Fridays are my ‘ home ‘ meetings ( although I live 35 miles away ) and Saturdays are Workington or Berwick as we like the variation. I know this is are personal choice and nothing to do with Redcar but it’s worked so well in the recent past for us. I do hope Redcar thrive this season but I do shake my head at some of the strange decisions made by the sport in the last few years. Good luck for the season , I will be attending most Friday evenings 😉

Thought Ringwood Aces was a cycle speedway team track off eastfield lane.