Al Stewart

It's only one day so far but I wondered what happened to the Speedway Updates site yesterday - three matches and no updates. My fear is that because there is a new updates facility for referees to transmit results to the BSPL website, someone has decided that the old unofficial one should drop out. I think that would be a great pity because: 1) The official referees' version isn't always reliable, some of them don't use it, and... 2) It's easier to comment on the old Speedway Updates site. I realise officialdom does not like fans commenting. One thing I did discover - it's not easy to see where I could have asked this question on the old Speedway Updates site!

That's a bit extreme, Ablitt and Harrison are good at Scunthorpe.

Managed to get in now with some difficulty.

I am trying to buy the stream but can't get past these stupid screens when you are asked to tick all the squares that have eg a bicycle in. I've done about ten so far and I am ready to give up.

From anywhere I suppose. Temporarily based in Edinburgh for the last 78 years.

Does anyone know how accessible this track is? Can you get there by public transport?

Will this be streamed?

"The gates are pretty even at Oxford" says Peter Schroek. Not any time I've been watching they are not. It's a bit of an obsession of mine. I'm surprised it isn't more of a topic of conversation, it has a great deal to do with how the match unfolds. Tonight over the first 14 heats (I count them at this point as every rider should have ridden on every gate by then, apart from changes): Gates 1 and 3 54, Gates 2 and 4 30. That is not even! It's the way it usually is at Oxford as far as I can see. It SHOULD mean that matches are pretty close but the Oxford team are not good enough to take advantage as much as they should when on the better gates.

Presumably from now on everyone will go for the 'family emergency' option.

It happened so late on in the match that no-one realised what was happening. I spoke to him in passing in the car park afterwards and I did notice him wearing a bandage or plaster but didn't think anything of it at the time. He was excellent at Armadale.

Zischke would presumably have been available to guest in place of Riss (as that absence would have been known earlier) so it looks like the Bears made a rash choice.

Surely it is pretty obvious that Harrison should have been used in white in heat 13? I'm surprised an experienced team manager like Lyon didn't make that move.

Can't say I buy all this injury stuff for the Witches (apart from Jenkins). They just are not good enough on a track like Belle Vue but will probably win on aggregate when it matters. Kurtz and Bewley are virtually unbeatable at the NSS and if Lidsey is on song as well, no-one will win. After 13 heats, 2 race winners for Ipswich.

I think that's a good reminder for any travellers, TICKETS NEED TO BE BOUGHT IN ADVANCE, NO PAYMENT ON THE DAY. Buy them via the Oxford or SRBF websites.

I had a feeling that Alex Raby once did a Craven Memorial from BV with David Rowe commentating but I might be dreaming.