THE DEAN MACHINE

Where was scott Nicholls, is he injured ?

Just caught up with today’s meetings, Bartoz is a class act and I can’t see how gorzow will stay in the extraleague without him

I actually find it quite disrespectful how pretty much all ex riders are treated by British speedway, unless a rider stays in the sport in another capacity they are quickly cast aside and that goes for former world or even national champions

Łódź is such an impressive stadium, surprised it doesn’t get big meetings

Yes

Little side note there, in the final madsen was 5kmh faster than the other 3 and came last

I’ve been thinking about doing something up there, maybe upright meeting but the very little feelers I’ve put out didn’t fill me with hope

That Hartel is a bit wild, 1st to last in 1 lap

Had a skid up there 2 weeks ago, such a waste,

First 3 meetings

Although it’s a bit better now Leicester was just awful to ride when it was made, it was one line into the corners at the end of a long straight which was disproportionate to the tightish bends , it just made for dreadful racing, which was baffling when they had a blank paper to start with

And Iwade

I like this track, it rides like a circle but you do get good racing here and proves you don’t need a track to be big to get good racing

This rawicz v poznan looks like a bit of a bad tempered affair, saw my old mate skornicki involved in some handbags at 5 paces after heat 7

How much roughly was admission for the Vojens SON both semi and final ? In £

Maybe one day the bspa or l or whatever they call themselves these days will wonder where all the riders have gone and wonder if they had any part in it, if they solve that they can then start on finding the missing fans and wonder if they had any part in their disappearance

Don’t think it’s too long now till members of the crowd are asked to ride

But for 2 crashes in heat 2 and 15 they could of had their first points

correct decision but heartbreak for ostrow

And then he runs a last

This Jakub krawczyk is something else tonight after his 2nd heat fall

If ostrow are going to get a win this year then this Match is it

Yes could also of been a disaster too on a serious note I have this belief that it takes a certain type of personality to get the best out of a certain job, like I know I am a very good competent quick spanner man but that doesn’t mean I’m the right mechanic for certain riders to be better riders ,I’ve been a spanner man for a few but turned down others because either I can’t stand them or I don’t think I’m what they need to be a better rider ,i know some TMs and spanner men (current and in past)that are just not right for that team or rider but do it anyway and I fit into that, I don’t think I’m a TM person , former riders don’t necessarily make good managers either ,it comes down to personality, I also turned down buxton for TM job too, I like Phil morris and get on with him, had a chat with him in a club in Toruń a couple of years back about the GP riders and the series in general and I understand how hard his job is and listening to him thinking this GP thing isn’t for me either

This is great news, have they agreed a deal with the landlords for 2023 ?As a little side note regards the TM job, I was offered the team managers job at Birmingham by Graham Dury a few years ago now, I turned it down as it’s not something that interests me and he then got Phil morris in

Last night was another heartbreaking nail in the coffin in my 52 year old love affair with British speedway, we had some rain and the headless chicken came out live on tv, I don’t know what I feel for the sport anymore, it has wore me down, maybe I’m living in the backtrack era looking through my rose tinted specs but what are we doing ? Where are we going as a sport ?