racers and royals

The late Tommy Jansson and Bo Jansson

Martin and David Ashby

Neil and Paul Evitts

Jamie and Darren Smith

Some stats issued by the Extraleague- Google translation Over 48 million video plays in media cooperation with WP Sportowe Fakty, 12 million TV viewership of all events related to PGE Ekstraliga in nSport + and ELEVEN SPORTS, as well as the aggregate attendance at stadiums amounting to almost 700 thousand. viewers. These are PGE Ekstraliga records from the recently completed season 2019. Although before the season there was a lot of voices that playing matches on Friday dates, and above all TV broadcasts on two channels from all 64 matches, will not cause development, it turned out that the best speedway league in the world flourished and reached a very wide spectrum of fans. On nSport + and ELEVEN SPORTS TV, not only LIVE broadcasts from matches were watched, but also other programs preceding the league queues and summaries. Together, this gave an impressive result to over 12,288,270 viewers LIVE broadcast records at nSport + in the 2019 season: WROZIE (14/04/2019) 206,772 ZIEGOR (28/07/2019) 203,859 POLISH (02/06/2019) 203,488 LIVE broadcast records at ELEVEN SPORTS in the 2019 season: WROLUB (31/05/2019) 188,475 ZIEGRU (26/04/2019) 136,790 GRULUB (23/08/2019) 131,775 The best viewed PGE Ekstraliga Magazine (LIVE on nSport +) was the issue of 11/08/2019 with a viewership rate of nearly 90 thousand. viewers. Viewership of PGE Individual International Extraleague Championships 2019, played in Gdansk, amounted to 172,188 spectators. Average LIVE TV viewership in the club ranking (nSport + and ELEVEN SPORTS) in the 2019 season: BETARD Sparta Wroclaw 152.296 STELMET Falubaz Zielona Góra 140.643 GET WELL Toruń 136,295 FOGO Unia Leszno 133,421 SPEED CAR Motor Lublin 129.897 MRGARDEN GKM Grudziadz 120.520 TRULY.WORK Stal Gorzów 117.588 forBET Włókniarz Częstochowa 112,683 For the first time in history, PGE Ekstraliga had its own online magazine. In cooperation with Wirtualna Polska Sportowe Fakty, the "Without Brake" program, run by Dariusz Ostafiński and Jarosław Galewski, recorded 8,161,147 plays (21 LIVE magazines) on the internet. The great added value of "Without Brakes" was the fact that it could be viewed directly on the homepage of Wirtualna Polska (wp.pl). In total, until October 1, 2019, in cooperation with PGE Ekstraliga and Wirtualna Polska, 389 video materials were broadcast regarding the games of the best speedway league in the world. Invariably, PGE Ekstraliga games were very popular directly at stadiums. A total of 692,129 spectators watched 64 matches of the last season. This gave an average of 10,815 spectators. Considering Friday's matches, 283,895 spectators watched them (9,789 on average). On Sunday, in turn, it was even better: 408,234 spectators (in total) and 11,663 (on average) In the ranking of the percentage filling stadiums at PGE Ekstralig matches, SPEED CAR Motor Lublin turned out to be the clear leader, which had a set of spectators at all matches. Percentage filling of PGE Ekstraliga 2019 stadiums: Lublin 100% Wroclaw 98.72% Zielona Góra 87.30% Grudziadz 85.71% Częstochowa 82.10% Leszno 67.04% Gorzów 59.37% Toruń 49.71% PGE Ekstraliga has seen considerable development on social media. The official mobile application for games has been downloaded 89 thousand. times. During the season, its screens were displayed almost 28 million times. The speedwayekstraliga.pl website gained 1.23 million views, counting only from April to October 2019. In social media, the Facebook profile has been invariably the most popular (96,000 likes, almost 97,000 fans' involvement), in front of an Instagram account (31,000 followers) and Twitter (13,000 followers). The official YouTube channel of PGE Ekstraliga gathered 11 thousand. subscribers, and the time of watching all productions measured in minutes closed with the sum of 1.592.717.

Not sure that i can agree that Clive Feltham was any friend to Speedway at all !!

This competition features riders from Central European countries with rounds in 2019 staged in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Czech Rep. It looks as if riders also ride from Bulgaria, Slovakia and Ukraine. I know several British fans have an extensive list of tracks visited on their CV, so was wondering if Braila Romania has been crossed off any lists

Pretty sure you have suggested the Tele 2 arena also in Stockholm as an alternative to the Friends arena in the past https://www.tele2arena.se/

Think that might be frution- if it was tuition then he should have taught them

Can`t agree- Stewart Dickson for me

Heat 1 Tilehurst stadium Reading Monday June 17th 1968 Reading v Nelson - race won by by the Admiral`s Fred Powell* the Racers Dene Davies was also in the race but demolished the fence and was ruled out of the meeting * This was the 1st home match for the Reading Racers. * courtesy of Arnie Gibbons " tears and glory"

That`s why in my post i said Nice Polska league.

As i already said last week

NKI is riding for Eskilstuna Smederna next season.

Wikipedia report that Alan was a big Speedway fan and he and the BBC covered the Wembley finals from 55 to 69

Yes you are correct- Alan Weeks was pretty versatile- winter sports, football and Speedway occasionally.

They were the last two currently operating.

Just as well then that Arena leisure are a big Horse racing/Greyhound racing company

Sorry Mike but can’t agree with you at all -Dave Rowe in my opinion is a top commentator, who knows Speedway inside out and never misses anything happening on track and because he uses Kandysoft software is always on top of permutations,qualification etc. I have to say that Nigel Pearson and Kelvin Tatum along with Dave Goddard all do a great job- we only have to think back to Jack Burnicle to realise that !!!

Nothing confirmed, but i would say almost certainly and interestingly now that it’s back on Swedish TV( C More) they are now having a Tuesday and Thursday main match( 4 camera production) so we could get both matches shown here.

Yes 2020 and 2021

This refers to watching the GP`s- you can only if you have a VPN from a country which hasn`t a TV contract for the GP`s.

Sorry if this is boring some but 47000 now reached.

You could be right, however having the rights and all that goes with that, and showing a ready made 3 hour programme with commentators included are 2 very separate things.

Not sure that is correct- If BSI retain the contract and Eurosport( and i would think it would have to be Eurosport UK only because of the Polish/Swedish / Danish contracts( have to be renewed) came up with mega bucks they wouldn`t worry to much about BT sport