THE DEAN MACHINE

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it has been different , there has always been tuners but pretty much any tuner could make a world championship engine but now it's pretty much a closed shop , top 2 or your nowhere , woffinden was a different rider last night and that's because of his new tuner , his talent was the same on his last tuner , I used 90% to be conservative , it's more , there is a select few who understand the engines being used , you say baby offset to any given crowd they wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about and neither would they care , you could ask to name some GM engines , they couldn't , ask a stadium full of fans to name the top 2 tuners in speedway right now , they couldn't and don't care ,speedway isn't a motor sport

, he is an ex rider that has all but killed his reputation in the speedway world with his views on some national league tracks and the bspa

nobody is questioning pawlicki's or any riders bravery but pawlicki did exactly the same thing in the last GP and he does it quite a lot in polish league too , he is falling way to easy , kildermand was doing before but seems to have stoped now , the refs will eventually get wise to it and then when he gets knocked off genuinely the decision won't go his way , he is playing the ref at the moment and winning , on a different note the refound performance of tai is everything that is wrong with the sport , not knocking tai he has a huge talent but has looked fairly uncompetitive in the GPs up till now then change of tuner to the flavour of the moment and he is back on top , the sport is becoming/has become a tuners game and that is wrong and 90% of speedway fans couldn't care less about the engine or who tunes it and it shouldn't be important

Upright engines wouldn't make any difference , you can bring back throttle control in laydowns , the ship has sailed on uprights and I am a fan of them I own 7 , 15 heat formula is good , double up down has got to go

Mark Robinson , he calls himself willie benidorm

phillip did pjr have any riders using his engines tonight ?

Anybody know what that national anthem was at the end , it's not heard very often at sporting events

Every GP pawlicki plays the ref and wins, smolinski not holding his words back but he is 100% correct

https://www.facebook.com/dean.felton.39/posts/1532428323444545 It matters to these who ride for their team

I do agree with a lot of this post but where I do disagree is it does matter who rides for who , look at the following that polish teams have , same product as us but they get the team concept , we went to leszno a few weeks ago for a league match , from the moment you step in the place you know your at leszno , all the fans wear the same colour leszno clothes and the bond between the fans and riders is there for all to see , we sat right by the start gate and when a leszno rider was off gate 4 the fans were all but jumping on his bike to get behind him , the only doubling up allowed is under 21 polish reserves and that's for a purpose to bring young poles on , they don't allow guests and quite frankly would riot if one were used , they are their riders and it does matter by a long stretch just like it does in football , a team following will cover up a lot of short comings that may be happen in the rest of the sport but for me it is the basic principle of any team sport and without it I just follow the GP and polish league even though I have a track 3 miles from my house and was brought up with that team I don't go

while this is a setback , some of the words going round about Mr Benidorm and his antics are doing more damage to the seriousness of the trust

yes

The meet the residents night didn't go very well

brilliant lets just carry on ignoring the team sport concept and think about the riders pockets , that's going to end one way and we are already 3/4 of the way there the sport has got to find itself again , takes 2 steps back to take a step forward , currently we a wondering from calamity to calamity and we don't know where we are heading or what we are but the I am alright jack attitude of some in the sport has to come to an end ,even those people can see we are in trouble , we have to find a sound footing as a sport and build from there , it may not sit well with some but the bottom is where we are and until we acknowledge that and address the basics we will never recover, you can use gimmicks and name changes all you like it will never change a thing ,get the basics right ,get the team ethic going again like it is in all other team sports and people will given time get behind their teams and as proven with a lot of sports the product on show doesn't need to be thrilling as the fans are happy as their team is winning and will happily return because they feel like it theirs

count me out then and many others cause I want team speedway with teams not the select sides made up of other teams , it's a joke and quite frankly an embarrassment to a once sensible sport

yes it is , identity, credibility , it's a team sport ,I don't support my local team anymore because they are not my team they are someone else's

and you will still get some on here trying to justify doubling up

not a fan of falubaz but love the passion of their fans for their team

seems Mr Benidorm has been creating his own headlines again ,surely the trust can see the damage he is doing to their cause ?

yes sorry totally confused by the sport these days

i was a championship fan but I not attending meetings at all cause I can't identify with the "team " that's being served up , 2 ride for Ipswich , 2 ride for Edinburgh and I rides for Sheffield , that's not a team that's a swingers club

it was shown on magazine programme , nasty crash for iversen

We are at the point where we have got to stop finding reasons why we can't get rid of doubling up and work at solutions to get rid of it and for anybody who doesn't think doubling up is a problem ask you partner/wife is it's alright to spend a couple of days with another woman who lives up the road , see how that goes

I think it quite a decent meeting although I do struggle to get into the team format of it Good final