No he was shocking on his visits to Foxhall with Oxford.  

Tbf he only missed out in the GP challenge because of an engine failure in his last race and he was only 1 point off winning the European championship competing with established GP riders. They are the determining factors for SGP it shouldn't really matter what you do in other leagues.

Hence a 6 point average. He’s better than that. 

Spot on.. Each club has more than enough punters in total to be far more successful financially... The problem is not enough of them see Speedway in the UK as something that is worth attending regularly... Richard Coleman said that if every track has just 300 more each meeting it would be a totally different landscape.. Each track I would suggest has far, far more than 300 punters who attend on a Bank Holiday, or a Play Off, or a Cup Final.. Tens of thousands of fans still take a keen interest in the sport, it's just that what UK Speedway provides doesn't engage them enough to pay circa £25 a time to watch it.. They just need to (finally), listen to the reasons why these people don't attend, and fix them.. You don't need huge marketing to try and encourage thousands of "newbies" just get those who follow the sport to attend more regularly by just turning it into a proper sport worth winning .

No he was shocking on his visits to Foxhall with Oxford.  

Racing is only a small part of it though. The racing in the 70's was no better than now and if it was just what happens on track then Workington, Scunthorpe, Glasgow and BV would be bursting at the seams for every meeting. It's a jigsaw puzzle with loads of bits missing - irregular meetings, doubling up, guests, flimsy call offs, lack of variety, poor presentation, no atmosphere. Most people will want a professionally presented, VFM, enjoyable night out and that really shouldn't be difficult to deliver.