THE DEAN MACHINE

Last night I bumped into a couple of polish friends that I haven’t seen since wolves last meeting, I asked them if they had been to Birmingham this year , they said no they hasn’t been to any speedway since wolves closed, still watched the polish extraleague on tv but said they were thinking about going to Cardiff this year, they didn’t even know the British GP had been moved to belle vue, I think that pretty much tells you how much British speedway is removed from the public conscience and until discovery and the bspl come up with a plan the fantastic spectacle that was Monday night will remain a closely guarded secret

I’ve just seen a post where mildenhall stock cars apologised to local residents for the traffic congestion caused by the crowd that turned up to their stock car meeting, apparently a lot bigger than they were expecting and they were expecting a big crowd,2 sports relatively similar and often sharing venues and in some cases fans so my question is what are they doing right and we are doing wrong ? Is it pricing ? Is it stockcars understand what they are and understand their fan demographic ? For some time I felt like we are trying to be something we are not, like a F1 without the money and that’s not what speedway is or will ever be, last night was the perfect package watched by nobody in relative terms, the stocks run a run of the mill meeting and get 1000s

Gutted for bomber

After this they should all be locked in a room and ask each other the questions of why a poor crowd, pricing? Promoting? Race night ? Tv ? Combination of all, something different but for the future of the sport do something

Breaks my heart that the sport can be so good but just not reaching the general public

To be fair both the pawlicki’s were great value for money over the weekend and they were really good meetings too infront of really good noisey crowds on really well prepared tracks but I’m sure there is a point to your post somewhere

I don’t consider the line up poor, it’s a representation of the current level of British speedway, the problem is he pond of riders is so small that if you have a bike, a licence and can string 4 laps together you have a good chance of being in it,,the further the decade you go back the bigger the pond the less chance of being in the BF

As mad as that sounds a share of some events would of generated money that could of kept tracks like Buxton alive but there is no collective thinking when it comes to British speedway and just as a side note I consider it a stain on British speedway that Buxton was allowed to close

Only problem I see holding it over multiple rounds is I don’t think the fans would support it enough to make it viable which is a shame, as strange as this may sound, we should do what Poland does and stage it at lower league tracks, I see someone mentioned iwade, ridiculous yes but crowd wise I can’t see why that it couldnt pull in well over 1500 folks, there still is a big fan base in Kent/essex/sussex so why not ? But maybe not lol

I just don’t understand the riders attitude like Lawson of not wanting to ride, firstly it’s the British championship, then you have the carrot of a GP outing of which 95% of riders will never get that opportunity again and they may not think it or even care but they are contributing to the downfall of speedway in this country, I would of jumped at the chance to ride even if that chance was no chance of getting anywhere, I honestly believe some of the modern riders are just oblivious to the privilege of earning a living from something they are supposed to love doing and are showing absolute disrespect and contempt to the fans of our great sport

Częstochowa riders seem to be giving drabik a really hard time, I know he used to ride for them but is there bad blood towards him?

Nicki is becoming WWF, you can’t say it’s not entertaining though

Tungate riding against 3 riders there

That Knudsen guy is some gator

Pedersen nearly getting his arse handed to him by a reserve was only going to end one way by someone in the pits getting blamed

I don’t understand rybnik’s decision to leave Chris holder out of the squad for today, yes not riding that well but not like they are spoilt with superstar replacements

Brilliant team performance from falubaz even with madsen nowhere near the rider we know he is

If discovery carry on with the trajectory they are on the British GP will be held at Buxton in 2027

Think he benifits from the lack of decent over 21 but under 24 riders

About time the dirt deflector was sent to the history books, it was never needed

Love the passion of the falubaz fans, flares and all

We drove to Germany, stayed in a village 8 miles away from track in moosburg, as there was no parking at the stadium we caught the train into landshut and then got the bus to the stadium, everything went smoothly, after the meeting we joined the other fans waiting for the bus back to landshut, when it turned up only about half the fans could get on so we decided to book an uber back to hotel, we booked and paid for it and it said it will be there in 25 mins, the next bus came and nearly all got on, after 30 mins we got a message saying our Uber had been cancelled and we were refunded the money, at that point it bucketed it down, we waited under a shelter with 3 belle vue fans and a German lad, the police came and said there is no more buses, they told us to wait there and they went and diverted a bus just for the 5 of us and took us to landshut where we found out the train to our hotel had been cancelled, we had to find a bus going our way which eventually we did, we got into our hotel around 1pm, all part of the fun but for the want of a car park

It’s in his programme notes

Yes they do but even tonight zagar’s rides were adequately covered by paco, was an improved performance from Edward’s, Rew started amazing but went missing in his last 2, only really jeppersen and Hume struggled but overall results don’t lie they are not good enough, changes ? Who ? Anyway next week tolley has some big news he has to tell us and I don’t think it going to be a miracle signing

Really disappointed with huckenbeck last night, thought being home rider he would be in the mix, Kvech was Kvech but i agree laguta and sayfutinow should be there but who let the FIM do there virtue signaling?