Midland Red

It's a pity we don't have the speedway equivalent of Sky's Monday Night Football, where a team of "experts" with a load of gizmos could go through all the contentious starts - recalled and not recalled - from last night, and see just who, if any, actually moved before the tapes moved, and who, if any, made perfectly good, legal, starts I think the results would surprise a few on here, also Kelvin Tatum!

. . . . in years! Coventry Telegraph reports . . . . The wet weather is causing problems on the roads of Coventry and Warwickshire today. One lane of the M6 near Rugby had to be closed this morning due to flooding, just minutes before a crash on the same stretch of the motorway. The collision happened on the northbound side between junction 1 for Rugby and junction 2 for Walsgrave at around 9.30am.Highways Agency crews are at the scene having just coned off the inside lane of the motorway near J1 due to the flooding. Drivers are being urged to take care on the roads across the region as the rain continues. The Met Office says that there will be no let-up from the rain until this afternoon when we may see a few hours grace from around 3pm, before the heavens open once more. There are likely to be some showers throughout the night, although forecasters are predicting some clear spells which could see the temperatures drop down to around 9C. Tuesday is set to see some improvement with sunny intervals breaking through the cloud cover, with a handful of scattered heavy showers thrown in during the latter part of the day.

The one thing that worries me is the apparent power of the bikes today Watching Bomber "take off" at Kings Lynn showed clearly that the machines have become monsters to handle We've seen Tai, one of the smoothest riders in the world, find his machine leap up underneath him I seem to recall reading recently that riders couldn't ride other riders' bikes the way they are now set up and the way they handle And now we have Darcy's crash, caused, by the look of the video, by his bike lifting and carrying him into the back of Laguta In the "good old days" - yes, I know there have always been bad injuries and fatalities - I remember riders regularly swapping bikes and racing their hardest in the "final of the night " in second halves at Brandon You wouldn't be able to have that these days So, something has to be done to "de-power" the bikes so that they are more manageable and safer to ride

And the team is . . . . 1. Chris Harris 2. ?? 3. ?? 4. Grzegorz Walasek 5. Joonas Kylmakorpi 6. ?? 7. James Sarjeant at 6.15pm

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/13600464.Hopes_rise_for_dog_racing_revival_at_Oxford_Stadium/

Restaging meetings was so much easier when the furthest the Bees had to travel was Ron and Rick from Bloxwich

John Boulger Malcolm Brown John Hart DeWayne Keeter Graham Plant Norman Storer Ray Wilson

Let's all go! To 1965 It worked very, very well then Let's do it all again I see no other way

Robert, exciting! Give over, pal! Potentially a very good rider, but not in the exciting class, may never be

So? That's just why the one-off finals were, in the main, so dramatic and unforgettable - who could tell what might happen? Who might make the rostrum? Good and bad drama - like when Nigel Boocock had 8 from 3, and looked a possible champion, then it all fell away Now it's fairly clear from a distance who will be in medal positions And of course, the Empire Stadium, even aged 50+, had a magic of its own, even on what became a temporary track

Let's be clear on this - that is just your opinion Others, myself included, have different opinions Having been at Wroclaw in 1970 and Goteburg in 1977 - both dramatic in their own way - and seen some memorable finals at Wembley, I have to say that the circus of the GPs will never compare favourably They are a series of international individual events, where, strangely, the top scorer on the night may not be the winner, and the overall winner of the series may not even have won one of them

Never ever a team man - only rode for himselfBoocock, Harris - they're the excellent Brandon team men - Olsen never was

Does it give any mention of the damage he and his circus has caused to British speedway - probably for ever?

Already plenty on the Shared Events thread

From Bees website: JOHNNIE REASON (England) 1949-1955 PETER REASON (England) 1954

Wouldn't the "podium" in the middle have been safe enough? Did I see / hear that Gary Snooks was there last night?

I have (packed away somewhere!) a programme from a qualifying round of the Internationale in 1961 at Brandon How many qualifying rounds were held and for how many seasons?

Johnnie Reason was "The Cream Bun Kid" at BrandonHe formed a transport company whose vehicles are a very common sight these days on the roads of the UK

So, what does all this mean in terms of a new stadium?

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Oh no he isn't - and he gave Nicki a run for his money Bomber never gives up And never will

Eurosport now saying 18.45 on air

Is it true that SS has already declared NKI the winner of the Swedish GP?

A Muddlo one too!

Oh dear - Phil's left his capital letters at home