It'd be a shorter topic to name the ones that weren't 🤔 

No need for an explanation, I just didn't expect to see your name on there... as a sports journalist though... what's going on at Northampton Speedway with their "owners" and why the big cover up with people sworn to secrecy?

Past: Gert Handberg & Jarek Hampel Present: Nikolai Klindt.  Can think of many more of course but it all depends at what stage of their career as well.

There are many reasons but for me, it's the constant search for speed, more speed, even greater speed than the last. Speedway globally should go for an engine reset & go down the standardised 'sealed units' route. Get rid of expensive 3rd party parts tuners.

The riders?

I was a Director at Birmingham for a brief period as part of the new consortium which took over for the 2022 season, and my involvement was mainly centred around helping ensure they were in a position to run that year, because there was a huge amount of work to be done that winter for them to get to that stage. My resignation was due to a significant change in work circumstances in April 2022 which, in my view, meant there could have been a perceived conflict of interest had I remained directly associated with one club at a Director level, although there was no pressure applied from any direction before I took that decision.