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Gerry Facenna in the Star this week talks about how the racing is paramount to the sports future success... As it brings the punters back... Preparing tracks just to win, and not to provide entertainment, is something he simply doesn't agree with... He mist come on here looking at the ideas he has to improve his business.......

I don't think they have a choice now...

what for racing..

Excellent piece in the Speedway Star about the Brum closure... Nigel Tolley has put in two thirds of a million during his tenure... An incredible amount and he deserves great thanks from everyone who were able to keep attending... Crowds of 500 were the main issue and he said it costs £12-13k a match to run a home meeting... And then had the away costs in top! He said that having more UK based riders was vital for the sport, given the cost of flights, hotels, etc... Exactly what's been written in the letters pages of the Star for about three decades, and on here for 15 years or so...!!! If only promoters had realised that...! BZ wanted £7.5k a meeting so didn't get signed... A good interview with Brian Buck too, another who deserves great thanks for playing a huge part in the resurrection of the sport in Birmingham.. Another excellent publication this week from the Star team...

As Coventry was mentioned, I remember the Grand Prix at Brandon. The rider I loved to watch who rode for Coventry was Andreas Jonsson.

Another thing i always remember is travelling to away matches by coach, i can remember 6 coaches leaving the Belle Vue complex going down to Swindon covered in scarves pictures of the riders/team in the windows. What was great going down to Wembley when we got down to the Midlands we would be travelling along with coaches from Wolves, Cradley, Coventry all decked out had some great banter at the services.

I always look back on the 1978 World Final at Wembley with great fondness.. Heat 4... Ivan Mauger... did he fall or was he pushed... Ole Olsen... my favourite rider at the time winning... Gordon Kennett... the captain of my team, White City, finishing 2nd... and on his birthday! The GP's will never be as good as those one-offs...

And that was just the women.

He certainly has cost the Cheetahs a few wins due to not using inform reserves adequately

Cami has lost a lot of Weight, always knew those special Slim fast drinks you got down at Abduls cash & carry on Mayhill Road were potent. Only £1 for 200 sachets bargain, cant read the instructions of use though its in a language i don't recognize.

similar to the Golden Helmet in Pardubice

You obviously never went to a Wolves v Cradley match in the day.Was always a very highly charged and nasty atmosphere which lot of times ended up with fights on the terraces.

The Live Updates team is still looking for someone who can text tonight?! If you can, please let them know - thanks: https://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/23552/ipswich-kings-lynn-premiership-2025

Ellis does score big at Foxhall on occasions,you make it sound he does it all the time.Was it a 6 and a 5 against Lynn this season.Shouldn’t Ipswich be able to cover that? He is 5th best at home this season,just where he is in the overall averages.

I thought it was Lucy,,,, Lucy in disguise with diamonds

The absence of Ellis will make a difference. Definitely need King to be on it, and hopefully Harris will be in a huff because the track isn't exactly how he wants it.

As mentioned kings Lynn have a 1-5 that ride Foxhall better than most other 1-5’s in the league irrelevant of how good these riders are … for example Kvech and Lawson ride Foxhall better than Kurtz and Bewley even though they aren’t as good riders Dan T has scored 2 in three of the last 4 home matches Ellis who scores big at Foxhall missing means this is open for Kings Lynn for sure

Let's not forget that (somehow) Schroek was manager of the year last season... the ultimate example of quantity over quality...

Cook ain't keen on your place. So we don't have a big scoring reserve for this one. 50-40

I say ...

Completely disagree, Jenkins had a bad crash last night and he was not riding well before the crash, definitely stick with Jason Edwards.

On the same subject I have just purchased a pile of old speedway stars from an antique shop ranging from 1967 - 1969 and the memories they bought back are brilliant. I found the the report for the very first speedway meeting I went too. Wimbledon v Swindon, where a Swindon side with Briggs, Broadbanks, Ashby and Kilby won. From that moment I was hooked. After that meeting we went to Wimbledon regularly until 1968 when Canterbury started. There is report of a meeting at Canterbury against the best of the league with 9,000 watching. The reports of all the meetings make good reading with all the star names of the era riding every week,(all for one team) Briggs,Mauger,Boocock,Ashby,Wilson, Betts, and a couple of promising new comers, Olsen and Michanek (I wonder what happened to them?) the list goes on and on with all the new riders in the new second division. If only we could return to those days.....

Are you Shovvy in disguise? Are you Shovvy in disguise?

He was just as bad when he was at Rye House. Half the fans went bald pulling their hair out at his mismanagement.

What they should do is write this as a response: The local council acknowledges the thoughts from our locals and would like to counter the proposal of a speedway stadium, if the locals would prefer a different type of community feel we are much for this and to reduce the count in traffic volumes we would like to announce that the speedway stadium will not be built in this location and instead, a new hotel will be built in its place to house migrates. The hotel will bring more jobs to the local area and we very much back this idea. Goodbye!