Benevolent Fund 2024 Sat March 16th

[SteelShoe 500]

Hardly stopped raining in Worky for the last 2 days, real shame but least it is has been rescheduled for next weekend .

[Neila 1,162]

More like hasn't stopped raining all week !!! Apparently car park and surrounding areas were under water yesterday,  and if meeting struggled to be on, the car park area would have been damaged and taken a few weeks to repair, so a sensible decision to postpone the event. Heard the track stood up well but extremely wet 

Edited March 15 by Neila

[old bob at herne bay 828]

1 hour ago, Neila said:

car park area would have been damaged and taken a few weeks to repair,

Assume the car park is a grass field ?

[topaz325 1,859]

Just now, old bob at herne bay said:

Assume the car park is a grass field ?

Yes , mostly grass and some gravel.

Hopefully the rearranged date will go ahead and still attract a good crowd.

Sunday 24th March at 2pm.

[crescent girl 1,905]

3 hours ago, topaz325 said:

Yes , mostly grass and some gravel.

Hopefully the rearranged date will go ahead and still attract a good crowd.

Sunday 24th March at 2pm.

Sadly not.  The 24th would have caused some riders having to withdraw, and to maintain the standard of the event, it will be restaged later in the season. 

[Marksman 536]

4 minutes ago, crescent girl said:

Sadly not.  The 24th would have caused some riders having to withdraw, and to maintain the standard of the event, it will be restaged later in the season. 

Yeah it’s a big shame, still get to see some action next weekend with the P&P day on Sat 23rd at 12pm 

[geoff100 1,426]

6 comets would have gladly took part,plus others who wernt included in line up!

[Chris116 756]

Just now, geoff100 said:

6 comets would have gladly took part,plus others who wernt included in line up!

Totally agree with that but can you imagine the howls of indignation at how the field was not the standard that had been put together for the first try at running? Another case of whatever a speedway promotion does, it is wrong in some people's view.

[Al Stewart 398]

11 hours ago, SteelShoe said:

Hardly stopped raining in Worky for the last 2 days, real shame but least it is has been rescheduled for next weekend .

Unfortunately it has now had to be postponed until later in the season due to rider availablility.

[SteelShoe 500]

seems rider Polish commitments have done for this 

[szkocjasid 3,029]

Why not race it the Sunday of the Polish Final (there's 3 of them to choose from). Don't think there'll be any Polish League fixtures these days, so apart from the top Poles, everyone else should be available.

Should run the British Final the same day as one of the Polish finals for the same reason.

Edited March 15 by szkocjasid

[Midget 162]

Beautiful day in workington today. Think the decision to call this off was a huge mistake. 

What a farce speedway is at times, certainly doesn't do itself any favours at times 

[IanBrannan 147]

41 minutes ago, Midget said:

Beautiful day in workington today. Think the decision to call this off was a huge mistake. 

What a farce speedway is at times, certainly doesn't do itself any favours at times 

Because the damage has been done to the track. It takes days to prepare a track properly and if it rains as much as it has done this week it will need more than an afternoon to dry out unfortunately.

There is no way this was called off lightly, it was going to be the biggest Ben Fund for 10 years, it contributes over 40% of the annual funds. 
In addition the car park was also flooded.  If they went ahead today the track at best would be very heavy, and you’d have people saying this is a farce / dangerous. Promoters can’t win, just trust that the people making this call do actually know what they’re talking about, and the last thing the Ben Fund want is more riders to look after from their own event..! 

[Marksman 536]

50 minutes ago, Midget said:

Beautiful day in workington today. Think the decision to call this off was a huge mistake. 

What a farce speedway is at times, certainly doesn't do itself any favours at times 

Certainly not a farce, if you’ve been down there you would know that.

The place is flooded, it would have been a farce had it gone ahead. One bright blue cold morning does not dry out a months worth of rain. 
Maybe some work to level out the affected areas like the pits gate will take place, but they can’t do anything at once.

 

[StevePark 2,781]

1 hour ago, Midget said:

Beautiful day in workington today. Think the decision to call this off was a huge mistake. 

What a farce speedway is at times, certainly doesn't do itself any favours at times 

It beggars belief how some "fans" think that, just because it's sunny today, they think the meeting should go ahead, despite the fact it's been raining "all week" and "speedway is a farce" because they can't control the weather.  Give yourself a shake, man.