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    1 hour ago, steve roberts said:

    Personally I never just base the "greatest ever' on World Championships won but a rider's overal contribution and racing awareness...don't recall Tony Rickardsson doing much team riding on the occasions that I saw him which is why I don't rate him above Ivan Mauger (another great team man who cajoled his team mates) despite equalling Ivan's World Championships win or above the likes of Nielsen, aforementioned Moore and dare I suggest Ole Olsen!

    This^^, a tad biased, perhaps, but Moore (& Briggs), Mauger, Olsen & Nielsen (& Gundersen) all team rode, I know as I saw them all do it with the exception of Moore, & they turned their teams into succsessful ones.  TRick was a very good rider, granted, you don't get 6 World Championships just handed to you, but was more for himself than his teams....

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    11 hours ago, Diamonds85 said:

    Sorry if this is the wrong section to post this in. But is anyone else having issues accessing the Speedway GB website. My browser gets stuck on the 'checking if the site connection is secure' screen and never loads?

    Cheers

    Yes often, whether using AOL, Bing, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Google, Yahoo, etc, etc, seems slow quite randomly at times.....

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    On 11/14/2022 at 9:14 AM, Deano said:

    I agree Trees, but John Prescott single handedly closed Cradley Speedway for good. Even after the council refused houses several times. It shouldn't be allowed as these ministers aren't voted in by local people who are impacted by their decisions. It's a disgrace.

    Ah 'Two Jags' Prescott, locally known to be a huge fan of Hull Kingston Rovers rugby club who over the last few years have added very nice developments to the Craven Park stadium.  A fan of speedway, probably not so much....

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    1 hour ago, Bruiser said:

    Now finished it and it is highly recommended…I still 100% don’t agree with his stance on Belle Vue passes but that’s his opinion but it’s a fine book and well worth ordering

    Indeed.  Shame neither PC nor Mort involved at Belle Vue, one day perhaps....

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    spelling x2, sigh.

    2 hours ago, Paulco said:

    Who cares , they're back . They can have another farewell meeting next year if they want 

    Quite.  Speaking generally on the subject of farewell meetings, we never had one at Hull. In 1981 when speedway ended at the Boulevard; huge shock years of 2 hours enjoyment once a week - gone, don't think anyone saw it coming, was reported the very next nite in local paper, Hull Daily Mail.  Similar with speedway ending at Craven Park in 2005 with 2 matches outstanding, though thinking back and reading between the lines, prob less of a massive though unpleasant surprise, still upsetting.  Same as happeend at Worky; following a very successful season + massive wage bill due to the many pastings handed out, financial issues affecting the next season.  Least if fans see a farewell meeting they get to say 'goodbye' to their team & track (though hopefully not forever) they have some kind of closure.  Makes a difference.  My advice, as always 'enjoy your speedway while you can, wherever & however you get to enjoy it'.  But good news for Monarchs fans, Scottish speedway and speedway in general....

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    1 hour ago, Col said:

    I really do wish they'd stop the your #1 in the averages must ride at #1 rule.  It removes some of the "skill" required to be a team manager, as long as the reserves have to be 6 & 7 a team manager should be able to put the other riders in any order they wish. 

     

    This ^ :)....

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    2 hours ago, Trevor said:

    Congratulations to Belle Vue.

    It's been sad to see so many moaning about the ref, she was consistent. The incidents in heat one and two, were more or less in the same place, I would have prefered all four back in both, however she choose to exclude, fair enough. She got Heat 11 right too, tough but correct. It was ungracious to see some at Sheffield in their disappointment, lash out at the official.

    The issue that should be considered for the future was, the one fron the first leg. Wright was injured and BV had to go with only one rider. Surely a team down to five riders should be able to bring in a replacement on a lower average? The five one Sheffield got in Heat 14 brought it closer than it would have been. If a team went down to five in the first few heats, it would ruin it as a match with only three riders in a race.

    Speaking as neutral this was also my take.  Not surprised at the score, expected it would go right to heat 15 & would be in Sheffield's favour, expected them to score better at Belle Vue then be a lot stronger at home.  Still kind 'a good result' either way I guess: Sheffield's 1st ever top league win or Belle Vue's 1st since 1993....

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    On 10/2/2022 at 10:44 AM, Bavarian said:

    Bit shaky camerawork, but the ten minutes of this 8mm silent home movie of a USA v WORLD Speedway test match in 1974 at Costa Mesa, California, is nevertheless worth watching.

     

    Fully get the historical importance of this footage with so many quality riders; wow, just wow !....

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    hopefully clarification

    9 hours ago, George Dodds said:

    Rugby League season runs from February to September ... not sure when you are suggesting that a meeting should take place - October in West Yorkshire would be quite a gamble  

    Just thinking out loud, don't and have never followed rugby league so no idea of their season, my only reason to visit rugby grounds has been when speedway has been staged within....

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    Odasl would probably be good GP venue if the track could be widened quite a bit, say after the rugby league season when pitches are usually completely dug up and relaid anyway, sadly think it's too big to be economical for a league speedway venue.  As others have said, we have the very excellent NSS at Belle Vue so best to concentrate on increasing the crowd capacity there....

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    Good to see so many riders do a lap of honour and wave to the crowd and enjoy doing it.  A couple of times at Scunny I've seen teams where their fans, including children - hopefully the fans of the future, will have travelled 100's of miles in support, yet their riders couldn't manage an extra 300m or so to them a wave....

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    When Hull Vikings won the treble in 2004, the attendances hardly went up at all, staying at circa 1,100 - 1,200,.  Like with the Comets I'm sure the amount paid out for higher points in 2004, as all those hugely enjoyable home & away pastings with trophys won almost for fun had to paid for, had a huge & similar impact on the club the following season.  Think the final speedway crowd at Craven Park in 2005, when the Vikings closed with 2 matches outstanding, was around 650 :(....

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    sloppy spelling x2

    On 9/11/2022 at 9:42 PM, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

    Poland are as concerned as we are about the bikes getting more expensive, more specialised, it’s just not needed, as with 95% of bike mods in speedway over the last 30years we have multiplied the cost x5 to achieve absolutely nothing, same speed same racing if not worse, it’s not worth it, the cost is ultimately passed on to the fans and we don’t care about what bike it is, i am the biggest speedway bike geek out there, I have many of them, all ages and love messing with engines but it’s a def no no from me 

    What Dean says is true; in the old Weslake days speedway bikes revved to around 9,000RPM, now they often rev to 12,000 or more (!), which is too much for a 4-stroke single cylinder engine.  A bit like riding a regular i.e. not sporty, bike on the road or driving your car in 1st or 2nd gear all the time.  There was an excellent 'lockdown interview', could been by Lee Ashby ?, with Shawn Tacey and one of the posted questions was if 'speedway bikes rev more and produce more power, why aren't more track records being broken ?'.  Tacey said due to the higher revs and modern tyres the back wheel is spinning so many more RPMs faster, I forget the actual figures quoted, & tracks are slicker to cope so not producing hardly any more speed, if any.  I recall a series of Speedway Star articles on the Czech Golden Helmet meeting in Pardbuce (sp?), the 'Star' interviewing winners like Jeremy Doncaster & Jason Doyle.  I forget which it was but one said he was amazed that the winner's times in the older 2valve JAWA days with spindly telepscopic forks and lower power outputs were not that different from more the modern machinery of higher revvimg GMs with leading link forks, better frames etc. Think this was when Ole Olsen semi-seriously suggested changing back to 2 v JAWAs, I don't think the Pardubice (sp?) track has changed since it was built, possibly a bit slicker surface ?.  So, yeah, as Dean said; spend more to stay the same....

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    On 8/28/2022 at 8:56 AM, Daniel Smith said:

    That's not really the case is it. Wroclaw is home from home for Bewley :lol:

    That's probably why I respect Lambert's 3rd a higher achievement to be honest. 

    Saying that, it really is nice seeing a changing of the guard in front of our eyes, watching the youngsters pushing Woffinden behind them & giving themselves a good showing against the world's best. 

    Unfortunately, I just don't see any true English quality following these 2 to challenge in the next 5/10yrs.

    We as English, must saver these 2 while they're here 

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    Jumping in very late; Bewley still won though admittedly only just made the final.  Still not a huge fan of the format as riders really just need to pace themselves to score  ideally 9 or more to make the semis, finish top 2 to transfer to the final itself then go flat out, Smarzlik does this and makes it work so gotta say good luck to him.....

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    1 hour ago, chunky said:

    I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes! From what I've seen of him this year, he is absolutely incredible! That was something special!

    Just proves what can be done when you go out and ATTACK the track; Bewley and Holder have shown that...

    Me too :D, loved that, if the Poles gated on him they may have made it, difficult, either way Dan IS The Man of Cardiff 2022.  Get in !...

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