Workington Comets V Newcastle Diamonds (koc) 1/4/17 7pm.

[idanthyrsus 96]

weather is much better than forcast

ive not had anyword from my friend who will be at derwent park for the rugby so I'm taking that as good news

if it was bad this morning he was gonna let me know so I could switch to plan b for todays plans so far I'm still on plan a which is speedway tonight

 

Was going to go to this match, but don't want to do a 300 mile round trip to watch droplets gather on some mud An update at around 3pm would be much appreciated.

 

What's the weather like now please?

[topaz325 1,859]

Looking good at the moment bright and sunny

[idanthyrsus 96]

Looking good at the moment bright and sunny

 

Thanks. I'll be setting of around 15:30 - could you update me just about then please?

[Comet Dan 111]

The meeting is on. Any standing water was sucked off the track this morning and it's had a nice, drying breeze and sunshine on it this afternoon. There is a chance of a small shower but the meeting will go ahead.

[idanthyrsus 96]

The meeting is on. Any standing water was sucked off the track this morning and it's had a nice, drying breeze and sunshine on it this afternoon. There is a chance of a small shower but the meeting will go ahead.

 

Awesome. On my way

[scaramanga 907]

dry where I'm at but hearing reports its raining closer to track

no reports of rain off yet mind

[topaz325 1,859]

It's off

[Comet Dan 111]

Unfortunately the light shower turned into a prolonged heavy downpour.

[idanthyrsus 96]

Now back. Seemed a hasty decision to call it off with 70 minutes to go and blue skies.

[Comet Dan 111]

The ref and riders were all in agreement, turn 1 was bad, it wouldn't have made for good racing.

[idanthyrsus 96]

I suspect had this meeting been at the end of the season it would have gone ahead. Albeit with hard work and maybe starting a bit late.

[Fromafar 10,375]

I suspect many fane will be just giving speedway a miss if there is rain on the day of a meeting giving the riders attitude nowadays.

[Bagpuss 10,784]

I certainly don't bother on a wet evening any more. At least this was called off early so people could do something else rather than standing around watching dross, or tractors going round, or riders and referee deliberating and ending up not riding anyway.

[soupy 556]

It was only called off at 17-40 roughly so most away fans would of been travelling and some further afield.I never made the trip as decided to give it a pass with the heavy showers forecast over the west.i ended going up to Berwick and when I was at Seaton burn the heavens opened at 4-30 pm but yet when I was at Blyth for a tea stop it was beautiful sunshine.

[idanthyrsus 96]

It's a tough call this early in the season. You would _hope_ most promoters would expect larger crowds at the early meetings as they will have been promoting the sport for the last couple of months. That being the case you don't want a load of people new to speedway to arrive and watch poor racing because you inevitably end up with a slick track if you've had to carry out emergency work on the track.

 

I arrived just as it was called of at around 17:45, it had just chucked it down, but I was hoping that the time to the start of the meeting would be enough to turn the track around. It was fairly obvious it wasn't going to rain again with the blue skies, but the decision was made and that was that.

 

Sadly, it's part and parcel of travelling to away matches.