Birmingham vs Oxford 20/7/22 (CJL)

[uk_martin 1,606]

Thank you to the three guest riders who racked up 33 out of Birmingham's 46 points.

So, Oxford added Jack Thomas to their team mid-season?  Kind of goes to show what can be done. And yet the Brummies still insist on preferring to hire guest riders rather than fielding their "own" team.   The number of times that Tom Brennan has appeared for the Brummies this year, it must seem like he's the nearest there is to a rider that is "trippling-up". 

[Gazc 7,098]

6 minutes ago, uk_martin said:

Thank you to the three guest riders who racked up 33 out of Birmingham's 46 points.

So, Oxford added Jack Thomas to their team mid-season?  Kind of goes to show what can be done. And yet the Brummies still insist on preferring to hire guest riders rather than fielding their "own" team.   The number of times that Tom Brennan has appeared for the Brummies this year, it must seem like he's the nearest there is to a rider that is "trippling-up". 

You do realise Jack Thomas has been with Oxford since the season started.

He has been injured but now fit again.

[lisa-colette 6,035]

1 hour ago, auntie doris said:

Told you so

Haha, yeah Oxford better than I thought! Was expecting Sedgman it get more in my defence 

[Sings4Speedway 3,247]

Ive heard awful reports about the Brum track tonight, bald, big holes and largely in a very poor condition.  Meeting dragged out so long that 2nd half abandoned and another nail in the ever inevitable Birmingham coffin.

[lisa-colette 6,035]

4 minutes ago, Sings4Speedway said:

Ive heard awful reports about the Brum track tonight, bald, big holes and largely in a very poor condition.  Meeting dragged out so long that 2nd half abandoned and another nail in the ever inevitable Birmingham coffin.

Shame that, as hasn't the track been good recently. Sure the hot weather hasn't helped. A lot of dust as well according to an Oxford fan. 

[Hilly 172]

Plenty of dust and water seemed non existent until making an appearance heat 10/11. Could barely see the riders from bend 1 at some points it was so dusty.

Slipped through our fingers really. 

[OGT 612]

8 hours ago, uk_martin said:

The number of times that Tom Brennan has appeared for the Brummies this year, it must seem like he's the nearest there is to a rider that is "trippling-up". 

He's a latter day Richard Greer. 

[Petecc 352]

After the 2 hottest days for a very long time the track surface was baked so hard that water was running straight off . Dust, not sure what else could be expected. 

[HGould 2,213]

1 hour ago, Petecc said:

After the 2 hottest days for a very long time the track surface was baked so hard that water was running straight off . Dust, not sure what else could be expected. 

100%

40 DEGREE baking for 2 days!

They had 2 opitions

(a) call it off and incur the wrath of keyboard warriors 

(b) run it with a baked surface and incur the wrath of keyboard warrios as they would have said lovely weather conditions perfect.

Sometimes you CANT win - in fact in this troll fest social media age can you ever win!

Nigel and the Directors and Laurence and his Staff have delivered an excellent surface almost all season, light years better than last. They deserve to be cut some slack under the kind of conditions NEVER seen before in the UK.  Some places had markedly cooler weather in high 20's - but 40 degrees in central England (it was 51 in my car Tuesday afternoon on the drive) is off the scale. 

[Historian 39]

8 hours ago, Sings4Speedway said:

Ive heard awful reports about the Brum track tonight, bald, big holes and largely in a very poor condition.  Meeting dragged out so long that 2nd half abandoned and another nail in the ever inevitable Birmingham coffin.

What a load of absolute Tosh

[Sings4Speedway 3,247]

Just now, Historian said:

What a load of absolute Tosh

Thank you for your insightful reply. Fortunately i dont get to Brum much these days but was told a couple of weeks agao that the track is down to the base and after last night was told it was bald and plenty of craters on both bends. Oxford clearly not happy with it and took forever to get the 15 heats run tells something. Dust was always likely an issue and given the recent heatbits forgivable but when there is so little shale to water its even worse.

[lucifer sam 3,953]

2 hours ago, Petecc said:

After the 2 hottest days for a very long time the track surface was baked so hard that water was running straight off . Dust, not sure what else could be expected. 

No excuse.

No dust at Oxford at Tuesday - which was actually held ON the hottest day of the year, not the day after - until around Heat 13.

[lucifer sam 3,953]

9 hours ago, Hilly said:

Plenty of dust and water seemed non existent until making an appearance heat 10/11. Could barely see the riders from bend 1 at some points it was so dusty.

Slipped through our fingers really. 

You should have come to Oxford mate. Cracking NL meeting last night!  

[baiden 90]

1 minute ago, lucifer sam said:

No excuse.

No dust at Oxford at Tuesday - which was actually held ON the hottest day of the year, not the day after - until around Heat 13.

Manageable amounts of dust and a good racing surface at Oxford on Wednesday as well. Back-to-back meetings held without any issues.

[Historian 39]

1 hour ago, Sings4Speedway said:

Thank you for your insightful reply. Fortunately i dont get to Brum much these days but was told a couple of weeks agao that the track is down to the base and after last night was told it was bald and plenty of craters on both bends. Oxford clearly not happy with it and took forever to get the 15 heats run tells something. Dust was always likely an issue and given the recent heatbits forgivable but when there is so little shale to water its even worse.

You're welcome. repeating gossip from the uninformed is not a good Idea. I was there last night, track as smooth as a babys botty the only issue was a groove going into turn 3 which filled with soft material it only bothered the oxford riders when the Summer went down and the brummies got a 5-1. there was plenty of dirt on it , John Priest was watering from the early hrs of wed morning ,was watering prior to the start and during the meeting dust did get worse towards the latter part of the meeting. many riders have commented that the track gets better each week, additional shale and clay binder has been added each week. our track man can only prepare the track on race days, he  is there till after midnight. you can only put so much water on a bone hard track or it becomes a skating rink. Its a shame that posters can only moan and  be negative and cant find anything good to say about yet another exciting meeting with plenty of passing much by the Oxford riders ,  Troy Batchelor had no probs.