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A great evening which brought make memories of 1998. One thing stood out tonight and that was how all the riders were constantly looking for each other and team riding when possible. the team spirit and camaraderie looks the best it’s been for many years.

You lot will never believe me... but there's been some fantastic action tonight!

16th of July 1969: Humanity puts the first man on the moon. 🚀👩‍🚀🌜 27th of March 2025: Leicester Speedway unable to put a 2 minute clock on the centre green ⏰️

By signing the World Champion for the play offs ... 😖

Glad Birmingham put up a good show tonight, Management have worked hard over the winter and it wouldn't be nice to see a repeat of 2024 every week.

I wasn’t well enough to attend tonight, so watched the stream. I can’t recall seeing a better meeting than that at BP. Every race had something! Hats off to Brum for having a real go and probably would have nicked it on the night if not for Zagar’s misfortune in heat 13.

You've just described @mikebv 😂

turned into an embarrassing threat this

Morally, if everybody knows the rules at the start of the season, then I think it's fine, when the play offs are fiddled at the end of the season that's where things start to get iffy... but don't get me started on all that again!

@LagutaRacingFan to make outlandish excuses for MJJ's poor performance

He wouldn’t know… he never gets invited.

Dan Gilkes would do a good job.

Schroeck did(n't) say: “It was the Iversen show. We had this meeting in the bag, we were by far & away the best side over these 2 legs. When you take him away, it wouldn't of even been close.”

Furr Kin El

I thought Birmingham were a tad unlucky tonight. Heat 13 changed the tie. Some bloody good racing though.

Actually, you are right. I still don't agree with them (Play Offs). I never will.

Leszno v Rybnik, sparring, 26.03.2025: https://youtu.be/3Kof3xkqVK4?si=_agVVUem5EEa5D9R

The sad reality is playoffs or no playoffs the eventual champions is almost always decided by injuries

Not just Brummies fans, quite a few predicted a poor season for Leicester. But I will agree some Birmingham fans clearly overestimated their team too.

It's a fair point @AFCB Wildcat makes, there were no end of floaters that went to Cardiff, just for the experience. I've taken friends in the past and I was going to meet up with a couple from Cardiff this year and we were all going in. My mum's hairdresser's husband and his mates used to go down from Leicester... even though they don't normally go to Speedway! And that's just me Billy no mates! How anybody can paint a reduction in crowd from 20,000 minimum to 6,500 as a positive is completely beyond me smh.

So now the events are selling out, the whinging has got down to the level of moaning about the cost of a cap, some sunglasses and a blob of AmbreSolaire? There's some sad case about

Lions will still progress even if they get thrashed on the night!

With all the crap that comes out, i can see why

Making the trip down this evening. Looking forward to seeing the setup at Oxford. Will be my first visit since 2001. Hoping for a good evening's racing.

I've just read that Leicester will meet Sheffield IF they can manage to beat Birmingham tonight.

Bewley possibly only won at Cardiff because of Laguta and Sayfutdinov. Bewley and Holder got into the GP's when the Russians were kicked out. Who knows who would be in the GP's if that didn't happen.😁

Darkhorse for the GP's imo.

Me too, and the same design flaw still exists with the air fence to this very day.

You still have riders picking and choosing even with it being at the start of the season. Nicolai Klindt not riding in this meeting? Richard Lawson not riding in the pairs?

Kurtz seems to have continued his great form from the end of last season and agree that he is the main threat for BV... I wouldn't be surprised if he beats Doyle a couple of times, which is saying something at Foxhall. Overall though expect the Witches to hit at least 50.

Can we go back to the one-off World Final, Saturday night top league racing in the UK, more teams in the Leagues and no doubling up plz. Bugger' I've just woken up from a lovely dream!

Thought you would be first in the queue for your merch and season ticket

Worst post ever LOL. 12K tickets on sale across the 2 days and 10.1k sold, with just 563 of those left for the Saturday, its already proved they priced it right. With 3 months to go I may add. King of straw clutching, the fact you will go so far to try and prove there is an issue tells me your motivation for it to fail is foremost in your thoughts.

Jesus! That could have been written by me! The guy needs to stop complaining, get a life, post something positive etc. 😂 Whereabouts on Facebook was this copied from?

And outscore MJJ ! 😀

Can't be arsed frankly!

I see no chance for Oxford progressing, Lynn could even win on the night. I suppose Oxford's best chance would be if you remove the points scored by Lynn's top scorer lol!

Anyone with no knowledge to Speedway would simply say "oh, right, OK." and walk away or say "what the fook are you talking about." If someone tried to explain baseball or NASCAR to me, it's going over my head. Absolutely no chance of understanding or assuming someone's in decline from a nonsense conversation. That's far to much credit to the average Joe on the street.

Częstochowa v Wrocław, sparring, 26.03.2025: https://www.youtube.com/live/LUz6oXTP_iQ?si=BiVbU2DwibysEp91

I see the level of debate is really high in the Prem section!! 😂 2 times in 29 years is quite poor tbh. Plus even if you do 2 in 3 years, not as good as 3 in a row. I remember Birmingham finishing top in 2013 and Poole 4th and we won play offs.

Not sure about the 16/20 point win shouts myself. I think Belle Vue will be smarting after Monday and determined to show that it was just early season gremlins and that there isn’t actually much between the two sides. Not sure they realistically believe they can go through, but they’ll want a fighting performance to prove a point.

Are they really the Champions though? As all teams know the rules they could easily run at 58% effort all year and sneak into the play offs, assuming they don't care where they finish and then put 100% effort in to the "title"

Yeah Kemp is a gater but isn't all that hot if he doesn't make the gate, watched him to many times when he rode for the Witches and when things got a bit nip and tuck with other riders he'd back off to easily rather then mix it.

Toruń v Zielona Góra, sparring, 23.03.2025: https://youtu.be/sRwSSg2am0s?si=Vq0PXiRIu525Tq63

Got to hold them before Poland starts up I would have thought.

Over the years the powers that be have made some weird decisions but this one tops the lot ! Holding a major riders championship before many clubs will have even started their season Words fail me

Shut up Jock (strap)

This is why I work in the City of London.

I know someone on a bike forum who has disc+ subscription but the bike racing is being moved to a higher tariff so his subscription is useless Sign of the times in rip off Britain im afraid

Birmingham are certainly doing their bit to give youngsters a chance and give them track time . They have had British Youth rounds, staged the British u 19 and 21 meetings. The club are forerunners in getting kids out on track on REVVI bikes, have 125cc and 250cc chances and demo rides, now putting three sides in the MDL plus putting out a side in the NDT in 2025 .