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Just wanted to throw my two penn'orth out there after last night's meeting at Scunthorpe. Honestly, forget the score line for a moment, some of that racing was absolutely brilliant. Pure, unadulterated speedway action. The track, I thought, really came into its own after the first few heats. It offered up some fantastic lines and close battles. I admit, at the interval, I was wondering why they'd put some water down, but credit where it's due – it really didn't impact the quality of racing in the latter half. Having moved to Lincolnshire early this year, King's Lynn is technically my closest track, but I've made it to every Scunthorpe home meeting in 2025, and I've enjoyed every single one for the sheer racing spectacle. While my heart will always belong to Coventry if they ever get back on track (fingers crossed!), for now, I consider myself a solid Scunny fan. And honestly, it's a real disappointment that there's only one home meeting left this year! You've got to admire Rob and his team there. They clearly operate within a budget, but they manage to put on a really enjoyable night of speedway. There's a proper grassroots feel to it – good banter between the fans and the announcers, and it just feels like a genuinely honest, friendly, and affordable place to spend an evening. I think that's something to be proud of regardless of what might happen with results. Of course, it's not perfect – the social media output, advertising, and website could all do with a boost, and sometimes hearing the announcers can be a challenge, Oh, and they could definitely do with some merchandise being sold! – but when it comes down to what happens on the shale, Scunthorpe consistently delivers some excellent racing. Went to King's Lynn once this year, and that was quite enough for me! One more home meeting to go, I'd like to watch them away as I used to go everywhere with the Bees....maybe next year.

They have specialist machines to deal with the wet conditions according to kelvin, 5 mins later a few men with some brushes take to the track 🙄

Tatum's mathematical prowess is fully matched by his knowledge of geography. Apparently Cumbria's weather comes off the North Sea.

As the captain of the Titanic said about the iceberg. [There was no drone at Cardiff in 2023 because it crashed in practice]

Luke was the quickest scorpion all night clocking 2 fastest times .

Ahh... Now you've said it the third time I completely agree...

Awesome win Brady. !!! & great to see Lebedevs on the podium.

Top stuff from Kurtz!

Was that Nicolai Klindt in the crowd wearing a Plymouth shirt? 😂

No room on Plymouth Centre Green, can't get much inside a polo mint 😁

Are you sure you didn't sh!t yourself??

Another disappointing night, totally outgated, didn't seem a big crowd, special mention to Sam Masters heat 13 was an awesome ride from him, but the best thing of the night was seeing Ricky Ashworth

Havelock and Muller were 9.00 men in a very strong league. If Kurtz had been around then he'd have barely been a 4.00 in the second division imo

Give your head a wobble.... Without Kurtz this season would have been a write off already.... Possibly the GOAT has so far only managed three points more.... No one wins a world title without being a special talent... And that includes the likes of Szczakiel, Muller and Havelock, amongst others, who won one offs...

Terrible racing and the prospect of the worst rider ever to win the world championship now a depressing possibility.

Great salvage job from Brady Kurtz 👏

Brady. Fabulous Nerve. 👍

Just been talking to @lewy he can't make the reserve position as he's pulled a muscle 😁

According to the met office it’s unbroken sunshine all night 😂

Viewed the heat 15 footage of the tapes fiasco and i don't think any other club would get away with that . Definitely the refs fault for not stopping it but the start Marshall should know better to do what he did.

Exactly so that actually makes it worse. 😂

More he’s choosing not to ride than not being able to use him, should just give him a ban for withholding his services as that’s what he’s really doing.

I hope they all took the day off work yesterday to make the journey 👍

Kye Thompson replacing Klindt! What a joke Plymouth are. They sign a top rider and can't use him.

Ivan didn't think so !!!

WTF are those trophies? Have they been knocked up by the local primary school!!

Someone on here this week referred to Fricke and Kurtz as modern day Adams and Crump and it’s one of the best comparisons I’ve seen on here in years. Brady’s got that killer instinct, what a ride from gate 2

Just a Throttle Jockey....

Who said plymouth track was rubbish excellent meeting

Absolutely dire meeting.

Well, Bartosz doesn't seem to mind either.

and i thought it was hard to polish a turd, but they are having a go..

Not going to be anything like a great GP now gate and go !

But he apparently knows a lot about the level of the water table in Riga 😂

cant wait now for the Plymouth Workington meeting now,, the kids race will be better than this.

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First time seeing Vilads Nagel live last night, very impressive, looked fast all night, great style to go with it too

50/50 Draw prize:- over £850!!

I don't think Cairns would take lightly (is that the correct term) to being told to "take it easy" to lower his average. Especially as he obviously went to Poole as they were the best club to help him progress in his career, right? After all look at how much effort Poole put into development league speedway 🫢

Regardless of who was winning or losing the deciding race, to allow anyone at all to stand inside the exclusion zone while a race continued is inexplicable. As there has been considerable photographic evidence of this (and, l presume, video coverage) the SCB will have to take action. Not regarding the end result, but because of the blatant disregard of the H&S aspect. Heads must roll.

There are plenty of fans and contributors to this forum that would like nothing more than for Swindon Speedway to return, myself included, but like you and many others that have been around this whole sorry saga from the start, know deep down that it is unlikely to ever happen, and as Swindon Council have always complied fully with Osborne, then have no doubt that the Abbey is sadly history once the formalities have been completed.One thing for sure the next few months are going to be very interesting following the the process.

Sounds like you have an itch to prove people wrong, I know what that is a trait of and it all matches up now, which is why people probably just ignore you. The reason I said what I did is because you can’t go on a single thread on this whole forum without you chirping up and doing the exact thing I mentioned. Or quite often it’s telling everyone what team changes the team manager should have made during a meeting. The mute button is good advice Captain Hindsight.

Very enjoyable meeting.

get the saw dust out.

On the SCB website under Officials Listing, start marshal’s have no specific classification other than Track Official unlike other roles (e.g. clerk of the course, machine examiner) where attendance on an SCB course is a requirement of holding the job.

Well done to Glasgow, a great result and performance.

I think you are confusing Zaine with Luke..Ht 3 Luke won by a mile

I hate to think what could of happened if he had tripped or not got through the gap in time

Annoyingly Todd was just very good! You raised a point about Arena - seeing as it was my old home track and I saw NL and top tier speedway there. There were lots of top riders who used to slag the place off (plenty of fans too) - often they didn't do that well there - mainly cos they were mentally defeated by the place before they even rode a lap. But it was always worth noting that top riders would turn up and often do very well. Leigh Adams was classic example - i was at his first ever visit to Arena in 1989 for Poole - first race he came a cropper - track probably too tight given it was his first UK season and he was used to Poole and Aussie tracks - a few years later he was our no 1 and almost unbeatable there! Riders like Loram were a pleasure to watch wherever they rode, but also at Arena, cos they attacked the track and never knew when they were beaten. PK was another great rider who rode pretty much any track in front of him, seem to recall they even named part of track after him at Monmore, he would do the same at Arena inside pass master as was Leigh Lanham. A good race is a good race no matter what track you are at. That said that british final heat at the NSS is the type of race we all crave seeing! No argument from me there!