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I went to Thursday nights meeting with my son and I would estimate the attendance at around 2,000. There were quite a few Leicester fans there but we were pleased to see a large Northampton support. The noise and enthusiasm of the home fans on gaining their first win was impressive and infectious! We were very impressed with the facilities and the general organisation at the stadium. After many years in the Speedway wilderness, I have finally found a local team that I can support. We can’t wait for the next meeting. At last, is there a chink of light for the future of our great sport🤞🤞

Links for Gorzów v Lublin: https://vkvideo.ru/video-234681448_456239214 https://vk.com/video-81427162_456239789 Note: due to the late start of the Ostrów v Rybnik meeting, it may be that the first one won't start on time. The second link should, as this guy isn't streaming the Ostrów meeting, but the downside is this is Shestakov, who likes to comment in Russian as the match progresses.... There is a third VK link, SpeedwayRus, but they are also covering the Ostrów match, so I don't have a link from them for this as yet.

Iainb cannot be with us tonight, so instead we have Whitelinehugger.

That’s the spirit, good on yah! Judging by the negativity on this thread the pre meeting parade could consist of you and a few others being introduced to the riders!

Im going at the expense of my mental health 🤣

Yeah whatever 🤡

10 years in the GPs and he never finished lower than 5th that is ridiculous consistency and astonishingly he is only 31

Zmarzlik is extremely good their is no getting away from it, he is a very good at all aspects of riding, good control, balance, trapping in fact it’s hard to find fault with anything, which is why he has won 6 world titles. But it’s his consistency and the fact that he rarely gets himself into any trouble through falls or injuries, that makes him stand out, despite riding sometimes on the edge. The only riders that appear to give him some trouble are Laguta and Kurtz and Laguta was stopped by the authorities governing the sport. As some have said he has years left at the top if he wants it

how many guests involved in this meeting..😁

At least your Farmer's Markets are only once a month...

Yet another thing to do in Manchester! The list just goes on and on! 😁

Hope Kurtz doesn’t read this Mike, gingers don’t do sun 😞

What about Lemo's Hotpot in the Peter Craven suite? Followed by Pie & Mushy Peas in the Panaroomaram in the evening? Opportunity missed 🤷‍♂️

Kurtz passes riders on the outside, time and time again... Hence he stalked Madsen for four laps riding the dirt, inches from the fence. . Greg would have kerb crawled perfrctly to see if he could under pass him....

Always a fantastic nights racing at Sheffield... Even more so after a hot day.... 60-30....

Well, I'm going, it's going to be a beautiful day, so why not 😎

If you knew your speedway history you would know thumping teams doesn’t necessarily mean an increase in the attendance but does mean a very large increase in your wage bill.

Didnt Glasgow nearly years ago?

Workington went bust winning the league.

All of them... That's 150 off the crowd...

Would agree.No can replicate Bartosz’s dive bomb passes though how he manages to get the bike turned and keep up the momentum is brilliantly executed.

The problem is and always will be the consistency and that is why Zmarzlik is the best. Even when he doesn’t win he gets damage limitation. You have Dudek and Lambert performing for Torun but didn’t show up yesterday. And same for a lot of the others, even bewley who I like can disappear of any meeting. Zmarzlik is always there or there about. Last night showed me that Kurtz is really ready to bring this battle. He started OK but then had a mechanical issue but still when required in the last two races (one to get into the LCQ and the other to win it) he found what he needed and made it happen. So he is showing to me he can still make a poor start to a meeting turn around into damage limitation just like Zmarzlik.

I would assume they did try to sign any suitable riders that were available but obviously unsuccessful.

I think the best thing to do for now is just to ignore this sad act. It will take time but if we don't react and take the bait he will hopefully get bored and realise nobody is giving him any attention. In the event that there are no moderators to remove him I don't know what else we can do.

Tim I seriously doubt that the vast majority (me included) haven’t got a bloody clue how it all works out and it’s just bloody ridiculous when you consider they changed it from an easy formula that everyone pretty much understood to what they currently use. 20 qualifying races, 2 semis and final was used for years and it worked okay, the scoring system, 3,2,1,0 was easy and Falls, Retirements, Tapes and Disqualifications is pretty straight forward. I am not sure who does the race card spreadsheet for the referees (like Kandysoft in the UK) but apart from them, you and the odd official I bet not many, with most relying on you and them to sort it out. I would bet Tatum and the rest of the commentators are as much in the dark as 98% of the spectators. They even now go through the rigmarole of warning riders time after time who try and guess the tapes going up, again it’s bloody nonsense just disqualify them, they would soon learn to sit still and not try to anticipate the start. OK the point about a rider winning a GP getting less points than someone else could easily be avoided by just awarding the winner 25 points, with the rest getting what they earned from the heats. Yesterday was the very first time I enjoyed a Prague Grand Prix, the second half of the meeting had some very good racing, after the usual processional start and it was refreshing to see.

Really it’s not difficult to understand - there are not more points in LCQ 1 than LCQ 2. Various people have explained that finishing positions after 20 heats determine everything for LCQ 1 and 2 and final. both semi’s are in theory equal as the 8 riders appearing positions add up to 26 in each. i have said for a long time that this format does mean every race counts. both 4ths in the LCQ’s get 8 and 7 GP points. The points awarded do depend on both riders finishing the race. That was why even finishing 8th Fricke finished lower than Doyle ( 10th ) both 3rd’s get 10 and 9 - Kubera(5th) got 10 Lebedevs(9th) got 9 both 2nd’s get 12 and 11- Holder (3rd) got 12 and Woryna( 7th) got 11

I think that Bailey will be a great capture for some team - however, the facts do not stack up for an instant 8 - 9 point average. In SON, he scored 14 + 1 from 5 races (average 3.00 per race). People seem to be concerned about Mario not adapting to British tracks after a couple of meetings but he scored 17 + 4 from 7 rides (average 3.00 per race) - Tate Zischke 0.00, Mitch McDiarmid 2.71, Bartosz Bańbor 3.11, Nazar Parnitskyi 3.00 average. I am not suggesting that Mario is going to suddenly hit a golden patch but it would be unfair not to give him a few more meetings to settle in.

I think some clubs saw it as a battle of the haves and have nots... but here we are some 30 years later in the same position only with half the tracks still running!

Due to the sunny weather down south 😎🌞 I predict a dust bowl and a blue groove 😜

At this rate it will be dusty by heat 3

Because if wins, 2nds 3rds etc can’t split them it’s done on their respective fastest time in the GP.

23.05.2026: SGP R2, Prague: https://vksport.vkvideo.ru/video-53550004_456242644 23.05.2026: Piła v Rzeszów: https://vkvideo.ru/video-234681448_456239208 24.05.2026: Krosno v Poznań: https://vkvideo.ru/video-234681448_456239212 24.05.2026: Kraków v Świętochłowice: https://www.youtube.com/live/Labd_vusO78?si=xo_8Gke3aExMIGsS

The clock on the screen must have been wrong then I'm sure it said he had 15 or so seconds left 🤷‍♂️

Can only see a pirates win, not sure if Mario will be there as had an accident , did not come out for his last 2 rides and reports are that Blodorn kicked him whilst he was lying on the track

Much to the home fans disgust the ref made the correct decision, birkenmose lifted before Douglas touched him

will be going.

Back in the 90s I was determined to master Exeter, I was only going there once a season with stoke or whoever and when ever I went I was crap, knowing Bruce cribb I asked for his advice about how to ride it, his advice was clip the kerb going into 3rd bend and then go straight up to fence, seeing as their fence was steel this was the last thing I wanted to hear but his thinking was if your already on the fence and lose control you will just skim off the fence, if your on the inside and lose control you will travel across the track hit the fence full on, now I understand what he was saying but unfortunately I didn’t have the balls to try it, I can’t say a rider will take a bigger risk if there is an air fence, that’s not how a rider thinks

Links for Krosno v Poznań: https://vkvideo.ru/video-234681448_456239212 https://vksport.vkvideo.ru/video-53550004_456242648

That's the Rob Godfrey business model to a t Mike at least until Harry has got that deal for some Arabs based in Dubai to take over the operating model of the sport.

I wish they'd replicate MotoGP/F1 to an extent and group some of the further afield ones together. Start the season with Australia & NZ and then back to Europe. Probably easier said than done admittedly.

Once a witch always a witch…..Foxhall doesn’t seem the same

Shame he did not teach Morris also! Might have provided the basis of a good GP year. I'm going to the Belle Vue GPs and worry more about the damage Morris can do than the high risk Manchester weather conditions.

You're better finishing 3rd than 4th; 5th than 6th; 7th than 8th and 9th than 10th. It's not that difficult to understand.

Classic GP that... it's been a long time coming! 👍🏻

Most people that are late to Football matches is because they leave the pub with just five minutes to KO!! Agree its really scraping the barrel of finding something to moan about - I think every speedway match i have attended has had a parade of the riders first unless the prospect of rain has mean't it's been cancelled. Nowadays football matches often end until just before 5pm - in the old days they were done and dusted by 4.45 with perhaps no more than 1-2 minutes extra.

What you drinking these days.🤔

Last night's meeting at Northampton started at exactly 7.30. The show began with a parade of competing riders, introductions and the like. This over, racing commenced with the first heat going to the tapes at 7.45. Northampton is currently the best-attended speedway in Britain, so why shouldn't they show off their wares with a parade, etc? They advertise starting at 7.30, that's what they did .......

Sadly another example tonight with Bewley Fingers crossed for Dan

I don't care. I want to read about and comment on Speedway, that is the raison d'etre of this Forum. What I don't want to read is the pathetic ramblings of our scammer and all his other aliases on here. Sorry, that is just how I feel. I'm sure I'm not alone. If I want such childish remarks, I will watch children's TV.

I hope that they got themselves a fish supper before heading back home