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Would say he's about 85% at the moment no issues on the bike but feels it when the adrenaline stops. As a family we are happy with his recovery so far

The minimum ride rule (three rides, not four) doesn’t apply if a rider is withdrawn through injury, which is presumably the case here. IRR doesn’t apply to reserves. Updates, while a valuable resource, are not an official record of a meeting.

Yes, and we even do have a few more, who are not that far behind Celina. Best of the up-and-coming German speedway ladies after Celina is Hannah Grunwald, and another who is going quite good on a 500cc bike is our Nepalese-born Patricia Erhart. There's about half a dozen of them girls in German speedway racing now, plus several more in the youth competitions.

100% true sadly our sport looks for the next bright prospect promises so much and fails so often. I don't understand why we don't have under 21 British riders at both reserve positions until they're 20 or 21 regardless of the averages. Also would like to see top three average riders in a team at 1,3,5 and the 4th and fifth at 2 the 4 . Reserves should only ride against each other twice then the oppositions 2 and 4 once as this is where the next step out of reserve is . Having young reserves race against heat leaders is a frankly ridiculous state of affairs.

I paid £60 for the year to watch Discovery+, already I have received my monies worth….. 3 GP’s, and 1 GP2. Plus just today I watched a World Superbikes race, championship bmx racing, and mountain bike down hill championship. Tuesday evening I watched Mondays Wolves v BV match. And there is so much more to come. That’s hard to beat.

Lindgren often doesn't turn up in the league, he saves himself for the GPs.

If that had been a GP in Poland, Max would have gone...

This part I agree with most, nothing against the guy, but Sam Masters racing as a number one in the Prem, doubling up in the Champ & racing in Poland, while 5 point Brits can't get a Champ spot doesn't sit well with me! We can't trust the promoter's to use Brits first, so will have to put in rules to ensure they are

Let's hope as he develops that he (and all the other young riders coming through), get looked after with ring fenced team places in the middle tier.. Which should be their key development ground as they organically bridge the gap between 3rd Div and the top league...

I just feel his time in the GP's is possible over seems to be on the deck all the time now and involved in most of the incidents that happen .

They don’t alternate every heat though, heats 7,8,9 & 10 and 13 a team gets a run of the opposite gates to the ones they picked. So thanks to the gate choices it meant Scunny had 1 & 3, 5 times out of 7 heats, at the part of the night when the outside went off and the inside gates worked better. With the exception of heat 11 (where Redcar were on a 5-1 and blew it), every winner / heat advantage from heat 7 to heat 15 came from gate 1 & 3, and gates 2 & 4 did the business heats 1-6.

Just another perfect storm

This is a crazy rerun of heat 2?

VK for Leszno v Gorzow: https://vk.com/video-53550004_456241324 https://vk.com/wall-53550004_91145

I agree. Higher ups want Krosno relegated anyway so I wouldn't be surprised if Lublin accepted a pre-meeting bribe to hand Grudziadz a win today. No way can anyone convince me that this crap Grudziadz side can batter the champions from pillow to post out of the blue.

And Jacobsen seems to remember how to ride a Speedway bike in Poland...

I’m glad the others are finally standing up to him, he’s had too long being able to ride through people rather than pass them. Robert Lambert didn’t get the memo last night however

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In what sense? it’s about time he got excluded for making that move. the other exclusion for Banbor bang on too

VK links for Grudziadz v Lublin: https://vk.com/video-53550004_456241323 https://vk.com/wall-53550004_90508 https://vk.com/video-81427162_456239511

Yes, it's sad to see such a great respect as Harry having such a bad time. He had a big off once in I think a Czech meeting a few years, and had to be nursed back from that. He had a mixed year last year with the Colts with some poor rides in a fairly decent year hence his start average this year. Last year it was Sam that had some 0 meetings and look how well he is flying now. Both seem to be prone to have the odd bad meetings but Harry this year is a different matter. Worky really need to replace him quickly while he takes time to get it back. Worky being such a great investment needs to be winning everything at home and performing well away. A second heat leader getting under 2 points per meeting is not good for their future.

That the point Naylor should have been at reserve & King in the team.

The Elite League fast track format did exactly that. I thought it was the perfect race format. Surely heat leaders racing each other more often, ditto the reserves is good for the fans (closer racing), for the riders (improve more when racing similar standard riders) and the promoter's (high paying heat leaders will naturally score less). I particularly dislike the weakest Champ reserve racing at 6, after heat 2 he meets the 1+2 then 3+4 pairing then most likely dropped from his 4th ride. How can they expect to improve under those circumstances. I certainly much prefer the RS having to race at 7 & not able to be replaced in heat 8 in the Prem, wish they'd at least do the same in the Champ with the lowest averaged reserve.

I hope Harry will rediscover his love for the sport. The Sam Norris crash, a few years back, must have affected both brothers and others close to that age group, although fantastic to see how Sam recovers as time goes by. The spell at Plymouth in CL is a perfect example of how the sport uses young lads not yet ready and then spits them out with shot confidence and dissilusion. Hopefully Harry can regroup stronger

Woffy is just hanging around with “big boys” these days.Doesn’t really want to get stuck in.He’s been there ,got the Tee Shirt and the money.Will still be earning plenty in the League Matches in Poland and Sweden without really taxing himself though.

Not sure it was Lewi that got stale

Another enjoyable meeting today obviously not the score we wanted but plenty of good signs especially from Luke Harrison great stuff . Hope Elliot is ok that was a nasty one need him ok for the 18th away at Mildenhall Still very happy to see speedway back at Workington such a great set up too!

This theory needs challenging. There seems to be a running theme that rider's come here & become worse, rider's leave here & become better. There's something about this club that just isn't working.

I hope that people aren't having FA Cup Final or SGP parties , wouldn't want them to impact on tonight's attendance

Plymouth fans must be bored of seeing Poole are my thoughts.

Bickley said in his Instagram post that he planned on retiring before last night’s match, but didn’t want to leave Edinburgh without a rider. Doesn’t sound like somebody out for revenge - he could have just not bothered turning up if that’s the case. More likely he had already retired in his mind and was just going through the motions, trying to get the meeting done without any issues.

Not really for Workington though is it.As he didn’t ride for them in recent seasons.

Lynn fan here, but I would genuinely say that Musielak has to be up there.

No issue if Pedersen had gone down with 1st contact... but his delayed fall was a bit over dramatic. He was last anyways worth the risk, which paid off

until people stop moving out of his way he will always try it on.

Zmarzlik is racing too hard recently.

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The knockout Cup was drawn and Plymouth against Poole was the outcome.

Guess they are needed as the male riders aren't doing much these days...

I agree he did. But from a 5 pointer, he looked like he had a 650 out there. He's never been like that in all his years at Lynn. Some of that must be down to how poor Lynn was.

He should have done a doyle and put the bike down their was contact

Tai hit his foot then the front wheel… get your specs out

And vice versa. Ridiculous meeting the same club so many times in the first part of the season. At least the weather is set fair and no chance of a rainoff for either legs.

He told the club during the day he was retiring. Not going to exactly go out and put himself in risky places knowing he’s done after this or exactly put in full effort is he. Some riders wouldn’t of bothered Turning up and I respect him even more for actually doing so.

That is a real shame, and I would think he will return at some point. He looked so promising as a youngster, and that ability is still within him. He needs to get his head in the right (positive) place, and carry on practising wherever he can, and return to the sport next season, better for it. Only he can do that, nobody else. So good luck Kyle as you try to reinvent yourself. You've got talent, so please don't throw it away, and return in 2024 with a different mindset, you can do it.

To be honest whilst the actions were despisably petty it has only had a positive effect on the Nora operations and gained a lot of support and interest from across the sport. Ultimately all publicity is good publicity and i hope it has not only strengthened the resolve of those involved but also tempted more to join the ranks.

Think KL need those points transferred over to them!

In the days when I reported on speedway, I recall Paul Bentley ticking me off for referring, in conversation, to his 'second bike'. They're both the same, he told me. There isn't any point, he added, having two bikes, if you think one is inferior.

I’m afraid the numbers game is killing the sport in GB.IMO

I doubt that any speedway enthusiast will see this development as anything but spiteful vindictiveness on the part of the SCB and the BSPL (if the latter has had any input into it - and we don't seem to know for certainty that they have.) This could surely be challenged in a court of law, and a serious threat to do this would surely produce a backtracking of the decision? We are all entitled to our views, but if there is a single poster who comes on to this site and says that they support the SCB's stand, I will be very surprised indeed!