To be fair to the stock cars, there wouldn't even be a speedway track without them. 😉 What you have to bear in mind is that the 3 day meeting was planned before speedway was even confirmed for this season, and was a major championship meeting for 2 different formulas with many competitors from overseas. It couldn't just be rearranged to accommodate a speedway event a days later.  The stock car promoter worked very hard on the track over the weekend. After the Saturday event finished at around 7.30pm he was working on the track until the early hours of Sunday morning. The rain on Sunday certainly didn't help matters. Funnily enough, several people commented to me over the weekend about the 'speedway dip' on the home straight, so the damage works both ways. 

Riders running the sport as usual.

So how come the track was fit enough for juniors to race on, but the seniors couldn't handle it.

So Bears already missing two riders and isn’t Wright due in Poland on Sunday ? Let’s hope he’s got travel arrangements nailed down.

Northampton will 100 percent be back next season and for seasons beyond, if anything then Sheffield are least likely to return next year.    as for the track. The Damage from 3 days worth of stock cars and wet weather made it a massive task for the speedway staff to get the track suitable. The stock car track staff are supposed to relay the surface after their racing I believe, and they didn’t do a very good job of it, rather than fill all the holes and pack it they just covered the holes with shale and left it,  unfortunately that’s just the way it goes sometimes. Northampton have done well to get this far without having to call off a meeting due to the track ! 

Does it matter given they are the best available and Joe Public ha not got a clue as to the standard and hierarchy in the sport in the UK. Speedway in the UK does not and cannot compete with any other league in Europe but those viewers who tuned in and looked at the event found something different but they have not got a clue as to who the riders were and at this stage it is all about attracting punters. You could have conference league riders but it is all about four riders on bikes with no brakes going head to head on powerful machines that would scare the sh.t. From the average bike rider. if packaged in the right format viewers will follow. Trouble is the presentation needs honing to sell it as a great form of entertainment and not chase the idea that it should be shown live as spectacle. Live televised meetings are the achilles heal of speedway and no sensible promoter would suggest that the live meeting are the answer. Any punter who attends a live meeting recognises that t v transmissions are a disaster and the armchair audience simply accept what is served up which compared to the Polish t v offering is in the UK rubbish