Benevolent Fund 2024 Sat March 16th

[Neila 1,159]

2 hours 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 

Just after 1pm clouds building up, weather radar shows rain coming over Irish sea from IOM towards Cumbria, will probably rain by 15.00 . Must have been 8-10 inch of rain in the last week in worky, track access roads and parking under water on Thursday, no drying this early in the year, so virtually impossible to prepare the track, and parking area could turn into a bog, how would spectators feel about that. And the damage would take weeks to repair . A hard but sensible decision made IMO 

[Bunters 2]

Raining in Workington. Excellent call by all involved. I wouldn't have enjoyed standing in the rain with my Comets lager like. 

[Marksman 536]

Yep, absolutely chucking it down here!
We have a full season ahead of us to look forward to! On a positive note, it may just mean a bigger crowd on opening day for the Border Trophy.

[bigbird 33]

What's the dates for the polish finals.sounds like a possibility to run it on one of the dates there taking place if there's no other fixtures to get in the way that day 

[martinmauger 584]

On 3/16/2024 at 12:23 PM, Neila said:

Just after 1pm clouds building up, weather radar shows rain coming over Irish sea from IOM towards Cumbria, will probably rain by 15.00 . Must have been 8-10 inch of rain in the last week in worky, track access roads and parking under water on Thursday, no drying this early in the year, so virtually impossible to prepare the track, and parking area could turn into a bog, how would spectators feel about that. And the damage would take weeks to repair . A hard but sensible decision made IMO 

In that case: good call.  I recall a British F1GP at Silverstone, 1994 / 95? can't be bothered to check, was held at Easter instead of July - and it rained, a lot.  Spectators spent all day having cars towed out of quagmire car park, didn't sound fun, Worky don't need that for 1st 'Division 2' level meeting....

Edited March 17 by martinmauger
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