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As with most decisions and agreements in speedway its more than likely not worth the paper its written on, what happens if a club is sold and the new owners do not wish to run premiership? What if the present owners have decided that they have lost enough money already and don't fancy another season of it? Remember this is British Speedway and its made up of what ifs and maybe's, nothing can be taken as gospel or a certainty.

Scoreline kept me interested but unlike last week the racing didn't. Funny how a big scoreline last week can be much more better racing than a scoreline close like tonight.

It's called promoting! Fans more likely to attend when there is opposition riders they like as well as the home riders. For example a lot of Poole fans like King and Nicholls so bigger crowd when Plymouth come, than when Oxford are here.

Don't panic, it's not for Poole

Contrived teams being just put together, with minimal affinity being felt by many who closely follow the sport.. It doesn't engender that emotional loyalty that a team sport needs to be successful.... Crowds are better at the weekends than when they have played during the week though.. And heading to the knockout stage the interest and crowds are expected to grow... Sounds strangely familiar....

Another boring walk in the park for Belle Vue.

It seems it’s break. If next season is the exact same as this season I’m not sure if I can be bothered. Its a shame as some teams are being held back by others who would rather slowly kill everything than let teams who want to make something of the sport just get on with it.

BVTV have by the best screen display as in regards to the info they show on the screen but they have too many camera angles and changes so many times in one lap you can’t focus on the actual racing which is a shame, if they limited it to the large ‘broadcast’ view of the whole track with just a few times zooming into when two riders are racing close then they would be smashing their live stream.

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Absolutely, a great race track might not get more fans through the gate but a bad one will see you struggle to keep what you have. A promoters greatest asset isnt the riders or the stadium, its the track itself, your whole business is about what happens on that oval, get that wrong and your toast, sooner or later.

Who really cares the Sport is a shambles. Just look at the line up at Berwick last Sat. Just enjoy the racing while you have still got it.

Regarding stock cars. Back in the day when Brandon was alive & kicking they held F1 stock car meetings once per month. As did (and still do) Brafield. Should Brandon have new life breathed into it, you can be sure that the F1 promoters will bring Stoxs back to Brandon with no ill effects to attendance given the way they spread meetings over the month using both Saturday & Sundays. As for speedway, if promoted well, rather than suffer due to the existence of Northampton, the close proximity will be good for both clubs (and Leicester) due to local Derbies/rivalry.

Here you are with your usual BS. Buxton and Northampton burst your bubble didn't they?! Clown.

I will tell you why most of the Speedway/Greyhound Stadia raced midweek, it was where Greyhounds owned the stadiums, Friday & Saturday were the nights where they would get most spectators through the gate, nowadays it's the live streaming to shops where the money is they aint bothered about spectators because it costs money to run stadiums for spectators, streaming a meeting costs very little by comparison and the income is greater.

Why he was beaten far and square as he has done to BZ in previous GP's !

1 Anders Rowe 2 Cooper Rushen 3 Craig Cook 4 Robert Lambert 5 Adam Ellis 6 Drew Kemp 7 William Cairns 8 Dan Thompson 9 Jason Edwards 10 Danny King 11 Charles Wright 12 Dan Bewley 13 Jody Scott 14 Leon Flint 15 Chris Harris 16 Tom Brennan 17 Jake Mulford 18 Dan Gilkes

Where you can watch it will be announced tomorrow morning. Line up was drawn with bewley in it. But I have my doubts he will race

It’s not often Moto 2 is the best race but that was a cracker on Sunday

He's battered. He has put a statement out on socials.

Couldn't have said it better. The camera on the grandstand is perfectly located to film the whole race. It worked perfectly for clean cut sports

Josh had a very heavy spill in Ht15 last Thursday at Owlerton,so might not be fit.

Pickering and Dougie very very unlikely imo. Tom maybe tempted back in Champ, depends if he has got anything lined up in Poland next season. He would be the most likely imo.

Good listen, seems a great bloke.

Must be in place if Pickering and using 1.5 his current Prem average

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit 🤣

As a Lynn fan. That would be great, but none of them have been great this season. We can always hope though. 54-36 ish for me.

Spot on.... Strange the GP's in Manchester ran on Friday and Saturday... Monday and Tuesday surely would have been better?..

to coin a famous song - better than all the rest!

Coventry introduced Greyhounds (1990's I think), rather than it being a Greyhound stadium.

Given that Riga is a purpose built permanent speedway track, there is no reason for the quality of racing resemble the temporary track that was built at Ratina, Tampere for the two stagings of the Finnish GP in 2014-15.

Don't know about the others, but Hackney greyhounds ran on Thursday and Saturday nights, so there was no problem with "Make it a Date, Friday at Eight" for speedway.

As much as I agree, and I work in new build Construction, the council will not build on that side of the A22, its rural with lots of stables and no infrastructure in place for the area. Bob Dugard tried many years ago to sell the land for development, it just wont happen IMHO

Lots of praise from the ACU / FIM representatives of the set up at worky a bit thanks for Andrew Bain and team for getting the comets facilities to where they are now. Hopefully it's onwards and upwards till the next major meeting. Well done to the kids for trying their best on Sunday, but the Cumbrian weather unfortunately beat them rain all afternoon until 20.00 😲

They can still reach the play-offs.From 2nd to 5th it’s just 1 point difference. No one will beat Bydgoszcz but avoiding the play-downs is important as i’m not sure who is favourite to go down to National league from the play-downs. Pila perhaps ?

Looks like Tom Brennan guesting for Scunthorpe on Wednesday

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Appears no time recorded for super heat by ref:- https://britishspeedway.co.uk/26results/edinburgh_07.08.26_res.pdf Re heat 9, it did appear Sedgy it came off unaided, & I spoke to a pal watching the live stream & he thought the same. Maybe something mechanical or a rut on the track?

Doubt having the SWC Semi-final on the Friday followed by a SGP meeting on the Sat helped the track. Even with the track improvements with banking + the kerb moved to make an inside line possible the meeting was a procession on the most part. Always seem to remember Riga being pretty dire racing at the best of times. SGP came down to two gates and as the meeting came to its conclusion whoever had the inside gate. Gate three was an absolute graveyard.

All premiership clubs this year have signed up to a 3 year premiership deal.

Godfrey's in charge he can do as he likes 🤣

If you listen Tatum and Allen really just have a conversation amongst themselves most of the night.Allen just agrees with Tatum about everything.Tatum “sell out crowd and fantastic meeting” don’t really know what he is seeing or watching.🤔

The racing not improving till the later heats happens everywhere, yes even Ashfield. I have made this point elsewhere, every rider should get two fast laps before the real racing commences. At least just to settle any nerves. It was the best meeting I have seen at Armadale for a long time, even with the high number of fallers. Agree with most of your opinions on riders. Your promotion will give Grahn time the way they done with Kye. Don’t think he’ll ever be that good but there is something there. I also don’t think the promotion are as ruthless as they once were. Cluff is coming on, he has a good guy in the pits with him so that will help. Unfortunately, a lot of riders are looking at their averages for next year. Sam hasn’t come on much this year. Mario has shown in glimpses but there are too few fixtures for any consistency to be gained.

Leon's back wheel was over a foot away from Sedgmen in heat 9 and no contact between Mitch and Reid in Heat 14, videos/pics from bends 1&2 show no contact in both incidents.

I know this doesn't fit in with Blobby's usual 'Everyone is so mean to my beloved Edinburgh. They're all cheats' ranting. But to those interested in the truth. Mario Hausl posted this on Facebook " 🏁 A tough time – now it's time to be patient Unfortunately, I have a 6-week forced break starting from yesterday. After an injury and a heart muscle strain, I now need to give my body the necessary time to recover. Additionally, I am currently dealing with a kidney stone. The examinations also revealed that my lumbar vertebrae L4 and L5 are misaligned or not optimally aligned, which in turn causes discomfort in the lower back. For me as a speedway driver, it is of course extremely bitter, not being able to stand on the bike right now. Nevertheless, my health comes first. Now it's time to consistently push through the next 6 weeks, rebuild my body, and do everything to come back stronger. 💪🏼 Now it's time to: stay patient, get healthy, and then go full throttle again. Thanks to everyone who supports me and stands behind me during this time. ❤️🏁 The comeback will start. 🔥 "

Big mistake, maybe he doesnt want to but matt ford should be top of anybodys list for people to be involved in the running of british speedway.

Yesterdays racing had just about everything with some very tough hard riding with no one was letting up and you could see the frustration on the faces of some of the riders in the pits. Interesting comments from the English speaking riders when being interviewed and well done to Tom who obviously came into what was going to be a tough meeting for his opener. Onwards and upwards to the next group of matches from Poland.

I cant listen to the pair of tools. Non stop relentless gibberish, I watched most of the meeting with sound off.

You could have just used the one word, Nothing!.

Find all these opinions on Lawson quite odd. I have found he is one of the easiest riders to deal with, very team based and so helpful to the younger riders at Poole

Tyres must be on the Homologation list & will be ordered prior to the event by the rider/team & fitted on race day at the allocated time, For practice any tyres can be used. As long as an engine meets the requirements within the current regulations there is no reason why a proto-type could not be used. Silencers as with tyres must be homologated, & the frame again if it conforms it can be used. Each rider can present 3 machines for race day but can only have two in their pit bay at any time, a third (spare) machine would need to be kept in the Parc Ferme area under the supervision of the Machine Examiner & can only be removed if replaced by another machine.