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But if they didn't run a Premiership then every Speedway rider in the world would retire... Or something like that....

Have we got a forum full of kids in here or something? Embarrassing reading all this. Wouldn't think you are all grown adults

So some positive news last night at the NSSC event with Jason Edwards. He has met the new owners who have experience in lots of other motorsport classes, the new team manager and said that he thinks with the team that they have they will be challanging for Silverwear again this season. So all sounds positive for Ipswich.

It's funny how Leicester were at least breaking even in the championship and are now running at a loss in the promised land premiership.

I expect them all to be retiring from Speedway then as, some say, they can't afford to ride in just one league.

I use the ignore facility

I'm a realist, I don't see why your creaming your pants over a totally unproven, unknown organisation entering our sport. Your only argument seems to be name calling... I'll add you to the roll of honour 👍🏻

The joys of being old self employed & semi retired. I had a long lunch on Monday with a client on who has been going to Foxhall since the 70s, Anyway from what they had to say the deal is done between Louis & the buyer but there is a minor 3rd party hold up. Which should be resolved in the next couple of days & that the team is signed up. We’ll see

very similar to when you left the forum recently no?

So the Academy have Announced their 7 for the new season, with 4 new faces and 3 old ones. 3 brits and 4 fake ones, with one being the sister of Jordy Loftus Jordy Loftus Dayle Wood Connor Coles Vinnie Ford Jamie Halder Ben Whalley Anika Loftus Interesting looking line up that should do well. Slightly disappointing the lack of actual brits but it can be a bit challenging to get them to travel this far.

Christina did well as the Leicester number 8 in 2024 😂

The NDL is a great ideal in principle, but in practice looking at some of the riders named by teams it could become financial suicide for some! If you have a promoter with deep pockets who is/are happy to fund things great, but is this a sustainable business model for any longevity of the product? At Birmingham in 2025, the average crowd for the 4 NDT meetings was around 150, less than 30% of the average PL crowd. Deducting riders pay (no Championship riders involved), insurance, referee, medical, track prep etc costs saw a loss for every meeting despite some generous sponsorship! if you factor in stadium hire costs and security every meeting drained strained resources even further. Now some clubs might not have the stadium hire or security costs that the landlords at Perry Barr asked, but assume they do have rental obligations, unless they own their track. As a stand alone venture, I wish Buxton every success as I know the guys financing it have put some serious funds in, but when you hear of the crowd levels in the past at the venue they are going to have get a lot more people through the door!

I doubt you would find any takers or support for freeing the 4,5 or 6. Lock them throw the key away and start again. Buxton to lead the way with real genuine individuals who want to ride without doubling up and know how to entertain. All riders to pay to compete and standardised bikes, track spare and second halves. Racing at weekends and the sport in the UK taking back control of its destiny and starting over without feeling the need to compete with other European leagues.

Just reading this thread . How is this laughable . My family are not a rich family myself partner and son all work and pay for his riding what cost a lot . At times it really hard to get time of work especially for rearnaged meetings when we have took leave for the first meeting thats been cancelled .i would guess this is the same for most parents or hopfull riders. If the sport was perfect then NDL and NJL would take place over a weekend of bank holidays to allow familys to earn and pay. As they say its ment to be a devepoment league

So you think it’s funny do you, parents spending £1000/s of pounds from when there kids are 8/9 years of age to maybe make a good fist of it around the age of 15, and a slim chance of getting a team spot, then after maybe 6/7/8 years of those parents losing money travelling everywhere to say a NJL fixture and the club says sorry curfew is happened or something else not tonight guys, and you still stick at it and then you get overlooked by clubs who bring in riders who just fancy coming over here and trying their luck and who as you say will turn up?(bit difficult not when you are 12,000 miles from home) ahead of you it’s no surprise when the cupboard is increasingly empty. I’m telling you that not one parent of the youth section believes that they are entitled to anything, what they want is a fair crack at it for the countless hours they have done keeping their kids racing when the easiest thing was to pack up, and without doubt attitudes like yours more parents will gradually do the latter.

Personally I would have thought having someone who hasn’t any speedway experience is a real bonus. We always moan about the same cartel with the same old ideas running things into the ground. Then when we get some one new to speedway coming along some moan about lack of experience. In terms of the prize pot if that’s been reduced to a level that makes the go series viable then that’s something that is always demanded on here.

A sad state of affairs that sums up the state of the sport. Whilst I admire the academy set up the club have the National League ( it’s no longer a development league ) is just becoming a watered down championship with second strings ( Simon Lambert ??? ) and non Brits being brought over to fill team places .

Of course they will. They've just had some bad news that the PREM has been strengthened when they were hoping for a total collapse. Credit to everyone involved when it comes to Northampton, I hope they have a competitive 1-7 and healthy attendances to go with it.

You've probably joined the rest of us on their ignore list 😂

I think every speedway fan has a right to moan given the fact that in the last 10 years we've lost Birmingham, Wolves, Lakeside, Peterborough, Newcastle, Swindon, Somerset, Rye House, Somerset. Not to mention we nearly lost Ipswich and Sheffield this year and most clubs run at a loss every season. But don't worry il stay really positive and won't moan and pretend everythings great! All jokes aside i wish Northampton the very best. I shall visiting next season hopefully.

That is taking doubling up to the extreme. Possible though, she could always get back to the refs box and take a look a video of the race and then decide where she finished. Not such a bad idea after all.

Did someone not ask him when the season is starting.

That all but confirms Mayfield Sports are the new owners. That’s pretty huge and Louis has played a blinder there to be fair. I get you’re frustrated, everyone on here has been. But they released their AGM statement confirming five clubs, and talks were ongoing to grab a 6th. They’ve clearly been waiting on both Ipswich, and getting Northampton up and running. But until those two get completed, what can the BSPL say in the meantime? I get it. We all want regular updates, but if there’s nothing further to report then it’s pointless them coming out with a weekly “update”, that the update is there’s no further update!

Being the parent of a rider we have no sense of entitlement as a family we have worked hard to get the boy to the level he at .

Pathetic isn’t it. Those giving it back are just as bad, ignore it and it’ll soon get bored. 99% of people come on here to talk speedway and have a debate. If it bothers them that much then dm instead of airing it all clogging feeds up.

This is why the NJL needs to keep going giving local riders the chance to race in a team

And these riders, in the PL, literally don't put a single bum on a seat, they just make the numbers up, which is no bad thing, but there's a long queue of riders behind them that would happily take their place... the tail is well and truly wagging the dog.

Cya later Charley. Basically hes saying I love doubling up because Im making plenty of money . Such an inspiring thing to say. Imagine being a young rider reading that statement.

At this late stage Speedway has nothing to lose. They come in do well give the sport a future. They fail & go bust in a couple of years we’ll the way the sport sits today it can’t much more that 2 or 3 years left in it’s current pro semi pro guise anyway.

It’s a absolute disgrace that Edinburgh has a bspa member in control of the club and has always ran a youth meeting but see fit to unveil a development team that has 5 members that are lets be honest not British youth riders and never have been, are they really saying that this is the best way forward to developing British speedway in the long term, if so god help us or have they just been just taking the micky out of every parent who’s spending hard earned money to try and get their kids through the system, they ain’t the only ones but this many is scandalous

I'd have him at Leicester ahead of Drew Kemp 👍🏻

Research....Yes Steve, maybe you should Why are some British speedway fans suddenly treating Mayfield Sports Events like the saviour of Ipswich Speedway and the entire SGP series when, on paper, they barely exist as a company? According to Companies House, Mayfield Sports Events Limited was only incorporated on 5 August 2025, as a private limited company with a SIC code of “Other sports activities.” MAYFIELD SPORTS EVENTS LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK First accounts are not due until May 2027, and there is no visible track record of having ever run a speedway event, let alone a world championship series. Yet people are talking as if they’re the proven, long‑term guardians of the sport, rather than a brand‑new outfit with the minimum share capital and everything still to prove. Then look at what’s actually happening with the 2026 Speedway Grand Prix under this new era. The FIM’s regulations for this year’s SGP, as reported in Poland, highlight two key changes: the reintroduction of race jackets (plastrons) and, far more importantly for riders, a reduction in prize money for each SGP round. The Polish report notes that the prize fund per round drops from 125,000 euro in 2025 to around 90,325 euro in 2026, meaning riders are collectively losing roughly 25–30 percent of the pot per event. Over a 10‑round season that’s a seven‑figure saving for organisers, not exactly the move of a “saviour” investing heavily in riders and the product. On top of that, the same piece stresses that “one of the two most important” changes is bringing back race jackets after they disappeared from the world championship a few years ago, with “the second, much more significant for the riders themselves, [being] the reduction in the prize money for each SGP round.” So not only are we seeing a cut to riders’ earnings, we’re also seeing a step away from full race suits to jackets, which hardly screams modern, premium world championship presentation. A shocking decision by the organizers of the World Cup. Competitors will lose nearly PLN 1.5 million And yet there’s another elephant in the room that almost nobody seems willing to talk about: Richard Coleman of Mayfield Sports Events is also going to be acting as Team Principal for the Tech3 MotoGP team, based in the south of France, with over 20 race weekends plus testing and all the other commitments that come with a senior MotoGP role. That’s a massive, year‑round job in itself, involving constant travel, factory work, commercial duties and media. How exactly is that supposed to sit alongside being the driving force behind the SGP series and supposedly “saving” Ipswich Speedway? Are fans assuming Tech3 owner Günther Steiner is just going to wave Coleman off for SGP commitments whenever there’s a clash, or that both world‑level programmes can be run at full tilt without any conflict of time, focus or accountability? If people want to hail Mayfield as the future, fine—but at least be honest about what we’re actually looking at: a company incorporated in August 2025 with no public track record in speedway promotion, a significantly reduced prize fund for the 2026 SGP series, cosmetic changes like race jackets being spun as “innovation,” and a key figure who is simultaneously committed to a top‑tier MotoGP role. Maybe the real question isn’t “why don’t you trust Mayfield?” but “why are so many people willing to suspend basic scrutiny the moment a new logo turns up and tells them everything will be alright?”

I was having an OK sort of day and you go and show me that!!

The knob needs addressing and I’m up for the job. Skip the chat if it bothers you.

I'd rather put them in a bowl of Piranhas than have any dealings with that vampire

Great news...better than we thought it was going to be a few months back...and still people moan! Just appreciate what we're going to get. 🤦‍♂️

I'd pay 20k for her NOT to suck my toes...

God I hope it works out. But even if it's six teams, we are still at least two teams shorts of a proper league.

Probably. But I've got most of them on Ignore!

Things are looking up. I wish Northampton all the very best and I hope it works out well for them.

FINALLY, things are drawing to a conclusion on both Ipswich, and Northampton. Now they can release fixtures, and get season tickets on sale.

Everything wrong in English speedway in a nutshell. How can Simon Lambert be in a development league, taking a team spot off other young riders? Im pretty sure there will be some young riders, who would massively benefit from track time, over Lambert. "King's Lynn Young Stars featuring 37 year old Simon Lambert"

Depends what they want, as they've no Speedway experience on board they might want someone to look after the whole show for them and Adams could do that whereas Allen couldn't

It’s got to be a positive with Mayfield getting involved. As the GP rights holder they know for that to work league speedway has to be more than just Poland. Hopefully in a year or two British speedway will be in a far better position

Is he going to retire because he has no PL team?🤔😁

And if you do that engine yourself which isn’t difficult it costs you just the service parts

As its the Premiership surely it can be on a Monday or Thursday only

Most of the Forum also do the same.No wonder he got haemorrhoids he talks out his a*se most of time .

No it isn’t sensible, the control board should set out a pay structure and enforce it and riders either take it or leave it, if an amateur rider can’t make it pay that’s tough, it’s amatuer, until we get away from entitlement for riders we will never move forward, nobody wanted to listen when I tried to cut costs for riders, well fine you made your bed don’t complain when the springs stick in your back . I don’t care how any promotion make their money or how much money they haven’t got all I care is the future of the sport and at the moment it doesn’t have one