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So @lewy you have kept your hands in your pocket for another year 🤪 good news for Plymouth after no main sponsor last season

Think Jaimon Lidsey is worth a shot

I make that team fit totalling 36.90 1) Brennan 7.05 2) Nicholls 5.39 (CHAMP 8.08 /1.50) 3) King 6.50 4) Musielak 6.63 5) Lawson 6.83 6) Thorsell 4.50 7) Edwards R/S

As you were: FIVE TEAMS BACK FOR NJL – British Speedway Official Website

More chance of speedway returning to the Shay than that happening.

Well worth a visit. Fixtures look attractive, especially if the provisional ones come to fruition.

Wondering why there no enthusiasm to build a purpose built track for cars and bikes at Bradford. Always seems to be no objection to the noise and would get away from the bulls who's recent financial history is poor they are in and out of odsal more than a guest at a speedway meeting

When is the sliding roof going to be in place? Maybe Speedway will relaunch there then?

Supplementary Reg 31. (as of Feb 01/26).... Any Swedish rider, who hasnt ridden in either of fhe UK two top leagues for a "few" years, (let's keep it ambiguous), and whose surname has two lots of consecutive consonants in it, comes in at an average of 4.50...

A spearhead of Brennan, Lawson and Musielak is very good in a weakend League imo. Musielak although coming off a bad season, Is still a much better rider than his GSA imo. Riding for Birmingham must have been a nightmare considering Perry Barr's dust bowl. Lawson will score points almost everywhere and is a Track specialist around KL & LEI as well as Ipswich. Brennan although not a No.1 (Yet) is only going to get better year on year.

The executive stand at Odsal is situated where the old 1980's/90's speedway pits used to be on the 3rd and 4th bend. It is still possible to run speedway at Bradford but extra safety fencing and slight bend realignment would likely be required on that 3rd and 4th bend. The main reason speedway hasn't returned to Odsal is the very high costs involved in making the track suitable for speedway, building new speedway pits and signing a team plus weekly running costs. This is when one considers that in Bradfords last season in 1997 they won the inaugural Elite League with an excellent, exciting team that included Havelock, Loram and Screen yet often struggled to attract crowds of 4 figures which resulted in a big loss. The closure was probably heavily influenced by these losses although the Ham promotion at the time claimed it was pending stadium redevelopment that made them end the speedway.

We defo need more clarification on the conversion rates for PREM and CHAMP.

I've heard this too via a source I would trust but the source of my source could be throwing out bait to see who blabs!! It has been a very tight lipped ship this year I understand that the meetings raced after the cut off will not be included in the rolling averages for team building purposes This is in direct contradtion to the regulations as written So anything could happen depends on who it suits and if their face fits.....

As long as Ipswich were interested in Richard, It made no sense for him to line-up for Northampton imo. Just like any British Rider, You'd want to maximise earnings. Option A - Ride a track that you know you can score big points on. Option B - Ride a track that you've never ridden before and may not like it.

Come the end of May, we will all be pining, and reminiscing, for "the good old days" of November 25 to March 26...

As a rider out of the top drawer !

Who needs the actual season? 😃

Only saw him on tv but Ward was different gravy when he had all his ducks in a row. Had 360 vision and knew what was going to happen several seconds ahead of his opponents, and team riding ability par excellence.

Taken from Facebook, provisional home fixtures for 2026. The Mildenhall Speedway Supporters Community Trust (MSSCT) has held its first AGM where it was reported that the Trust now has 75 paid up members. Many thanks go to DLL members for their support and to those who attended the AGM. The list of dates and fixtures ratified by the Trust at their AGM is as follows: 25th. April Spring Triangle [3TT] Mildenhall vs. Rye House vs. Peterborough 2nd. May Mildenhall Grand Prix (individual/open) 16th. May vs. Anglian Select 30th. May vs. Cradley Heath 13th. June England vs. Scotland (NORA Home Nations Championship) [provisional] 4th. July vs. Rye House 11th. July vs. Thurrock 25th. July vs. Isle of Wight (NORA League Cup) 1st. August vs. Peterborough (Simon Barton Memorial) 15th. August England vs. Australia (NORA International) [provisional] 22nd. August Tourists [provisional] 12th. September Reserved 19th. September Reserved 10th. October Reserved NB All fixtures subject to change

All I know is various riders have been approached and, as far as I know, all are ex-Diamonds riders.

Yes its like they have an F1 mentality to something that in real terms is more like Banger racing. It feeds down from the GP level, which has become ridiculous as its competitors seek out ever more technological and mechanical enhancements to gain a fractional improvement. Needs a radical change but cant see it happening, sadly

I wasn't going in the early 80's but did see him when he returned to link up with Shawn at Sheffield in the Maurice Ducker years. From videos I have watched I would agree you probably had the best version of him when he was very young and the bad living didn't have so much of an effect due to his youth, when he came back he was still brilliant but probably 10-15% down on what he could have been due to a poor lifestyle. I was fortunate to see lots of brilliant riders but for me my top five natural talents in no particular order have to be Cowboy Cook, Kelly Moran, Mark Loram, Henka Gustaffson and Darcy Ward.

Njl is still going

maybe a stroke can be pulled similar to ablitt

That would go unbeaten at Ipswich. Some Foxhall specialists packed in there and Thorssell at reserve is ridiculous. Perhaps he was, but didn’t want to wait any longer on Northampton so has taken a guaranteed ride at Ipswich to get his season sorted?