Bagpuss

Nooooooooooooooo

To be fair I was chatting quite a bit between heats so didn't notice the delays but I guess there was some farting about when the men in black and the youngsters had their races, plus the men in black heats take far longer than a minute and we had various interviews and bits and pieces related to the Ben Fund going on on the centre grey too. I general though I agree with you, speedway meetings take far too long (especially at Lynn) but I thought that what was essentially two and a half hours between first race and last was OK for a hefty programme like that, I certainly didn't expect it to be finished any quicker. In fact seeing as I had my young daughter with me I was prepared and half expecting to leave before the final so I was surprised it was all done with by 7:45.

Until KK comes to town of course.

In fairness we had 27 heats, a parade and a sun delay in two and three quarter hours, is that really that bad? Were the gaps between races really that long? I'm not so sure. I think around ninety minutes for a standard 15 heat meeting is about right personally so that wasn't too bad last night IMO.

Didn't he get injured either before appearing or very soon after the season started and was never seen again? Remember seeing him beat Darcy Ward at Lynn when they were both 15/16 in a second half race I think.

Gordon Bennett!

On that basis it doesn't look like they need to worry about Basso though

True, possibly better for folk to pay to watch it and moan & groan rather than not bother at all!

I'm not sure being called Victor Meldrew or a 'clown' is particularly abusive, in fact the worst word on the entire thread is 'crap', and you used that yourself. Would be nice if you could acually have a discussion rather than slagging something off (as you normally do) and then disappearing when people disagree. Other than the delays which to be honest I didn't really notice as I was chatting to lots of people I hadn't seen for months, why did you think it was 'crap'? There was passing and close racing from the first heat to the last on a good surface between a well matched field and it raised money for a good cause. As somebody has said perhaps speedway is no longer for you.

The lad in orange on the 250cc looked an excellent prospect, can't remember his name. Apparently he competes in multiple motorcycle sports and is good at them all, makes you sick

Bike problems all night unfortunately.

Really enjoyed that, some good racing as there often is when Lynn is much slicker than normal. Freddie was great value as he gated last in most of his heats. King a deserved winner. One or two good prospects in the youth races too. And not cold

They could probably bring that date forward by two or three months to be fair

It's one of those days unfortunately, the Met Office forecast seems to be changing hourly and at the moment its essentially showers that may or may not appear and could either blow through quickly on the strong wind or like yesterday last five minutes and saturate everywhere in the blink of an eye, we even had some hail here yesterday which momentarily made my grass white! It's Pot Luck, I hope PE34 gets lucky today.

That's the spirit!

This thread is far too friendly and pleasant

And shredded tyres!

Mulford definitely has something about him.

Forecast much more encouraging for Saturday, hope it stays that way.

If Lidsey rides in a warm up meeting in Poland rather than a league meeting in the UK on one of our race nights we might as well all give up and go home.

Yeah I didn't structure my post particularly well, my point assumes that the track will be fine before any rain on Saturday when there's a good chance the rain this week means it won't be. Obviously if the track is under water on Friday then an early call might be needed. But you can't call it off before Saturday's showers if the track is ok IMO.

The (usually reliable) forecast I've seen is no more than a 40% chance of showers all day Saturday, if that remains the case it can't be called off in advance, its a bit different if that changes though of course. In the mean time the amounts if rain we have between now and then are quite important.

Wet from 00:00 until 08:00 and then dry thereafter with a a stiff breeze on mine! (Met Office app) Take your pick

Also sounds like the stock cars made a mess on Saturday night

What forecast is that? The Met Office is the most reliable one and its filthy on there from 6pm onwards. As others have said if you shell out money when the weather is unsettled thats the risk you take unfortunately.